Mineola and Garden City strike me as a perfect representation of the kind of built environment you can find out on Long Island, especially Garden City with its history as one of the first fully planned villages and a town layout that has lots of charm.
I just moved out of Brooklyn and became fascinated with the area and its history a few months back and made it in Sim City 4 because I still play that game. Obviously I took liberty with Mineola since I had to squeeze some density in somewhere
And here's the civic center that can be seen in the first half of boden's photos