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Glen Cove, New York City of Glen Cove View from Welwyn Preserve in Glen Cove View from Welwyn Preserve in Glen Cove Glen Cove is a town/city in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island.
Part of the early 20th century Gold Coast of the North Shore, Glen Cove has a diverse population.
Of Nassau County's five municipalities, Glen Cove is one of the two municipalities that is a city, clean water a town, the other being Long Beach on the South Shore.
The town/city is on the north shore of Long Island, on Long Island Sound.
Glen Cove sits at 40 52 2 N 73 37 40 W (40.867326, 73.627738). The town/city of Glen Cove is bordered on three sides by the town of Oyster Bay, and on the fourth by the sound.
As of the 2010 census, Glen Cove is 74.2% White (59.4% non-Hispanic white), 7.2% African American, 4.6% Asian, 10.1% some other race, 3.2% two or more competitions, 0.4% Native American, and 0.1% Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 60.28% White, 26.40% African American, 0.29% Native American, 4.11% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 5.72% from other competitions, and 23.15% from two or more competitions.
The town of Oyster Bay had jurisdiction over the region from the 1680s until 1917, when Glen Cove became an autonomous city. Glen Cove has its own police, fire protection, and emergency medical services.
The Office of Emergency Management is responsible for the planning, coordination and response to natural and man-made emergencies that occur inside the town/city of Glen Cove.
At the time of European contact, bands of the Lenape (Delaware) country inhabited Long Island, the areas of New York and New Jersey around the harbor, and along the coast through present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware, as well as along the Delaware River.
Glen Cove was used as a port by English migrants from New England and titled "Moscheto" before 1668.
In the 1830s, steamboats started regular service on Long Island Sound between New York City and Musketa Cove, arriving at a point still called "The Landing." As "Musketa" was negatively associated with mosquito, in 1834 village inhabitants changed the name to Glen Cove; this was said to be taken from the misheard suggestion of "Glencoe," meaning Glencoe, Scotland. The village added populace as workers appeared for jobs at the Duryea Corn Starch factory, which directed until 1900.
By 1850 the village of Glen Cove had turn into a prominent summer resort improve for New York City residents.
The Long Island Rail Road was extended to Glen Cove in 1867, providing quicker, more incessant service to New York City.
The availability of the train and the town's locale on Long Island Sound made it attractive to year-round residents, and the populace increased. On June 8, 1917, Glen Cove became an autonomous city, separating from the Town of Oyster Bay after 250 years. Platt) is now directed as the Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center.
Like many other suburbs, Glen Cove interval quickly in populace after World War II, when new residentiary developments were instead of that replaced pastureland and farms with subdivisions.
Some African Americans were descendants of slaves from the colonial period, as colonists had used slaves for domestic help and farm labor; the rest were descendants of migrants from the South who came to New York City and the region during the Great Migration of the first half of the 20th century.
A Sikh gurdwara established in Glen Cove draws members from the ethnic Indian populace in the area.
Old Glen Cove Post Office on 51 Glen Street, listed on the NRHP in 2010, now used as an architect's office Post Office at Glen Cove, assembled in 1932 amid the Great Depression, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The Justice Court Building, the former town/city court and later town/city hall and police headquarters, was added to the NRHP in 1990. It has been renovated and adapted for use as the North Shore Historical Museum.
The Old Glen Cove Post Office on Glen Street was listed on the NRHP in 2010; it is now used as an architect's office. Glen Clove Creek was channelized in the early 20th century by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Columbia Ribbon and Carbon Manufacturing Company opened a Glen Cove research lab in 1932 and produced blue printing inks, carbon paper and typing ribbon until 1980. The business closed its Glen Cove factory in 2006 and moved to Michigan. Former Gladsky Marine directed a marina and marine repair facility along Glen Cove Creek from the early 1970s until 1999.
Acclaim Entertainment had its command posts in One Acclaim Plaza, positioned in Glen Cove.
The town/city of Glen Cove and its inhabitants are served by the Glen Cove City School District.
Finley Middle School for grades 6 8, and Glen Cove High School for grades 9 12.
The Glen Cove City School District's "Paired Plan" for elementary schools has the Gribbin and Connolly schools paired, as well as the Deasy and Landing schools.
Friends Academy (pre - K 12) is a Quaker-founded private school that is positioned inside the corporation boundaries of Glen Cove but has a Locust Valley mailing address.
Congregation Tifereth Israel (Glen Cove, New York) Glen Cove Gurdwara The town/city of Glen Cove is served by the following mass transit services: Rail: The Oyster Bay Branch of Long Island Rail Road has three stations inside the boundaries of the city: Sea Cliff, Glen Street and Glen Cove.
Express bus: Long Island Transit offers weekday commuter service between Glen Cove and Manhattan with stops in Midtown and the Wall Street area. Glen Cove is the command posts of the American Stamp Dealers Association.
Post Center of Long Island University, Nassau County Museum of Art; Old Westbury Gardens and Mansion, which holds regular concerts; Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Theodore Roosevelt's summer White House; the Planting Fields Arboretum and Coe Mansion, which also holds concerts; and other live music venues. Its sister town/city is Sturno, Italy, from where many immigrants came in the early 20th century and settled in Glen Cove.
The town/city of Glen Cove has an extensive waterfront region on Hempstead Harbor and Long Island Sound.
Hempstead Harbour Yacht Club, Glen Cove City Yacht Club, and the Garvies Point Boating Association are the three primary sailing clubs in the City.
Sailboat racing in the Glen Cove region can be watched from a cliff-top park in the neighboring village of Sea Cliff and from various points on the hills of Garvies Point Preserve.
The annual "Around Long Island Sailboat Race" finishes at the end of the breakwater at Morgan Park.
Sabrina (1954), starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden - scenes filmed at the Glen Cove train station The police station was the actual Glen Cove Police Station, now the North Shore Historical Museum.
Hello Again (1987), starring Shelley Long and Corbin Bernsen scenes filmed at Glen Cove train station Still of the Night (1982), Brooke's mother's home where dream occurs, and also the climax of the film, is in Glen Cove.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999), home where the orgy takes place is in Glen Cove.
Fringe in Season 3 Episode 7, it was revealed that Agent Broyles lives in Glen Cove Josh Alan Friedman, a resident as a child, set his "autobiographical novel", Black Cracker (2010), in Glen Cove.
In 2010, a tv commercial for Hunt's tomato sauce was filmed at the Glen Cove Volunteer Fire Department, featuring GCVFD firefighters.
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"Glen Cove Community Profile", Podunk Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860 1940, Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities.
"US EPA Approval of the Remedial Action Report for Operable Unit 1, Li Tungsten Superfund Site, Glen Cove, NY" (PDF).
"Glen Cove Circuit-Board Maker Will Close".
"GLEN COVE WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION".
"Acclaim buys Glen Cove site." "The First Presbyterian Church of Glen Cove - The First Presbyterian Church of Glen Cove".
"Ken Ellens, Destination Guide, Glen Cove Mansion" (PDF).
Glen Cove: 1954 movie "Sabrina" starring Audrey Hepburn with her dog; David Archive: Dave Morrison (Trains - Are - Fun) "Hollywood Comes to Glen Cove Glen Cove, NY Patch".
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Glen Cove.
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