Hidden in Merrick, Long Island, there’s a tiny home neighborhood with one of the strangest backstories in New York. Known by locals as “The Camp Grounds,” this quiet circle of cottages actually began as a Methodist camp-meeting site in the 1860s, where people once gathered in tents arranged around a central tabernacle. Over time, those tents were replaced by small cottages, many no larger than a garage, forming what became one of Long Island’s first tiny home communities. The curved roads still