Garden City, New York Garden City, New York Incorporated Village of Garden City Garden City is positioned in New York Garden City - Garden City Garden City is a village in the town of Hempstead in central Nassau County, New York, in the United States.
It was established by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869, and is on Long Island, to the east of New York City, 18.5 miles (29.8 km) from midtown Manhattan.
The Garden City name is applied to a several other unincorporated, close-by jurisdictions.
In the region, hamlets such as Garden City South, Garden City Park and East Garden City are next to the incorporated village of Garden City, but are not themselves part of it.
Roosevelt Field, the shopping center assembled on the former airfield from which Charles Lindbergh took off on his landmark 1927 transatlantic flight, is in East Garden City.
Adelphi University's chief campus is in Garden City.
2.1 Greater Garden City region In a letter, Stewart described his intentions for Garden City: Parenthetically, the name "Garden City" pre-dates that of the Garden City Movement which was established some years later near the end of the nineteenth century. The central attraction of the new improve was the Garden City Hotel, designed by the acclaimed firm of Mc - Kim, Mead & White.
Access to Garden City was provided by the Central Railroad of Long Island, another Stewart universal which he undertook at the same time.
Voters chose Mineola (in the town of North Hempstead) to be the governmental center of county for the new county of Nassau in November 1898 (before Mineola incorporated as a village in 1906 and set its boundaries), winning out over Hicksville and Hempstead. The Garden City Company (founded in 1893 by the heirs of Alexander Turney Stewart) donated four acres of territory for the county buildings just south of the Mineola train station and the present-day village of Mineola, in the town of Hempstead. The territory and the buildings have a Mineola postal address, but are inside the present-day village of Garden City, which did not incorporate, nor set its boundaries, until 1919.
In time, thanks both to the barns and automobiles, Garden City's populace increased.
In 1910, Doubleday, Page, and Co., one of the most world's meaningful publishers, moved its operations to Garden City, which include its own train station. The Doubleday business purchased much of the territory on the west site of Franklin Avenue, and assembled estate homes for many of its executives on Fourth Street.
In 1916, business co-founder and Garden City resident Walter Hines Page was titled Ambassador to Great Britain.
In 1915, the village of Garden City consolidated with the village of Garden City Estates to its west. It became an incorporated village in 1919.
Garden City's expansion promoted the evolution of many close-by towns, including Stewart Manor, Garden City Park, Garden City South and East Garden City.
In the 1920s, the improve continued to grow, with homes assembled in Garden City Estates as well as the easterly section of Garden City.
Doubleday's headquarters, known as Country Life Press, remained in Garden City until Bertelsmann took over the firm in the mid-1980s.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh departed on his famous solo transatlantic flight from Roosevelt Field in East Garden City.
But in the 1930s, hundreds of homes were assembled to accommodate a populace boom, though Garden City used a strict zoning code to preserve Stewart's vision.
Mitchel Air Force Base, on the far east side of Garden City, served as a United States Air Force base from 1918 through 1961.
After World War II, following a trend of urban inhabitants moving to the suburbs, Garden City continued to grow.
Post-war assembly filled out the present borders of Garden City with many split-level and ranch-style homes, with assembly occurring in the town's far eastern, northern and sections.
The Waldorf School of Garden City was established in 1947 (one of the first Waldorf schools in the United States), originally as a part of Adelphi University.
In the 1970s, the old Garden City Hotel declared bankruptcy, and later closed.
The hotel was later demolished, and Garden City lost one of its grandest and most historical landmarks.
A new Garden City Hotel was constructed on the site of the old Garden City Hotel.
Paul's School also closed and in 1993 was purchased by the Village of Garden City.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the village's downtown areas (New Hyde Park Road, Seventh Street and Franklin Avenue) benefited from a renewal campaign and new construction.
Enumeration Map showing boundaries of Garden City Greater Garden City region In addition to the Village of Garden City, the Garden City 11530 zip code includes another incorporated village, Stewart Manor and two unincorporated areas of the Town of Hempstead, Garden City South and East Garden City.
As of 2010, approximately 40% of Garden City inhabitants identified themselves of being of Irish descent. As of the census of 2010, 21,811 citizens lived in Garden City.
Garden City encompassed 7,386 homeholds out of which 36.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 69.8% were married couples living together, 7.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 20.7% were non-families.
The stops on the LIRR Hempstead line are Stewart Manor, Nassau Boulevard, Garden City and Country Life Press.
There are additional stops on the LIRR Main Line at Merillon Avenue and just over the Garden City border at New Hyde Park and Mineola.
Garden City is served by its own school district.
There are seven schools in the Garden City School District: three major schools (Hemlock School, Homestead School and Locust School), two elementary schools (Stewart School and Stratford School), the Garden City Middle School (grades 6 8), and finally, the Garden City High School (grades 9 12).
Garden City Middle School 6 8 Garden City High School 9 12 One autonomous school, the Waldorf School of Garden City (grades pre-K 12), and two Roman Catholic elementary schools (K 8), St.
Anne's School, are in Garden City.
In 1929, Adelphi College, which later became a university, moved from Brooklyn to its present 76-acre (310,000 m2) ground in Garden City, becoming the first four-year college in Nassau or Suffolk counties.
Garden City is the namesake of Garden Village, Kentucky. Susan Lucci, actress; interval up in Garden City, worked at the Garden City Hotel, and in 1978 moved back to Garden City Kathleen Rice 4th District of New York Representative, Grew up in Garden City on Nassau Boulevard.
Louis (1957), starring Jimmy Stewart, features Charles Lindbergh's historical flight to Paris from Roosevelt Field in Garden City in 1927.
Its first several scenes occur at the Garden City Hotel, where Lindbergh had a room reserved (but did not use, contrary to the film's portrayal), and the press corps stayed who were covering the event spent the evening before to his flight; Lindbergh was up all evening working on his plane the evening before the flight, although he did have dinner and take a nap at the Garden City home of his friend, Gregory J.
Musician John Tesh's fourth album, released in 1989, is titled Garden City (Cyprus Records), an homage to his hometown, and includes a song with the same title. The record business he created in 1995 and presently owns is Garden City Records.
In episode 7 of season 8 of the tv comedy series All in the Family (titled "Beverly Rides Again"), originally broadcast on 11/6/76, Archie Bunker tries to impress a fellow Queens resident by falsely introducing the "blind date" he chose for him as a Garden City resident.
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