In Long Island Hamlet, Home Buyers’ Rule Is a Relic of Its Nazi Past - The New York Times

In Long Island Hamlet, Home Buyers’ Rule Is a Relic of Its Nazi Past - The New York Times

YAPHANK, N.Y. — Here in this rural Long Island community, a Nazi summer camp once held parades before American flags and banners bearing swastikas. Nearby streets were named after Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and other leaders of Nazi-era Germany.

While the parades are gone and the streets have been renamed, one thing has not changed: The original owners of this tract of land kept a clause in its bylaws requiring the homeowners to be primarily “of German extraction.” That has kept this community of 45 families almost entirely white.