Great Neck, New York
Great Neck Great Neck, Nassau County, viewed from intersection of Elm Street and Middle Neck Road.
Great Neck, Nassau County, viewed from intersection of Elm Street and Middle Neck Road.
Great Neck is positioned in New York Great Neck - Great Neck Great Neck is a region on Long Island, New York, that covers a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, which includes the villages of Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, and others, as well as an region south of the peninsula near Lake Success and the border territory of Queens.
The incorporated village of Great Neck had a populace of 9,989 at the 2010 census, while the larger Great Neck region comprises a residentiary improve of some 40,000 citizens in nine villages and hamlets in the town of North Hempstead, of which Great Neck is the northwestern quadrant.
Great Neck has five ZIP Codes (11020 11024), and one school district.
The Manhasset neighborhood (in ZIP Code 11030) is not considered part of Great Neck.
The part of the Hamlet of Manhasset that is considered part of Great Neck includes the Great Neck Manor neighborhood.
Great Neck Gardens is featured on many maps as a name of one such hamlet, even as the name is used rarely if ever by small-town residents.
As of 2000 Great Neck was the second-most ethnic Iranian populated place in the United States, with 21.1% of its populace reporting Iranian ancestry. The general trend has been that the northern part of Great Neck (north of the LIRR tracks) has a greater number of Iranian families, while the southern part (south of the LIRR tracks) has a larger East Asian population.
The black population is low in all of Great Neck.
Village of Great Neck Great Neck Estates Great Neck Gardens The westernmost portion of the Hamlet of Manhasset lies between the villages of Thomaston and Lake Success and has Great Neck postal codes (1102x).
Before the Dutch and English pioneer appeared on the peninsula of Great Neck in the 17th century, the Mattinecock Native Americans originally inhabited the shorelines of the peninsula.
By 1670, Madnan's Neck had further evolved into the current name Great Neck.
On November 18, 1643, the Hempstead Plains, which encompassed the peninsula of Great Neck, was sold to the Reverend Robert Fordham and John Carman.
The very first European to look upon the Long Island peninsula of Great Neck was Captain Adrian Block of the Great Dutch West India Company in 1614, when his men were stranded on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, because their ship, the Tiger, sank shortly after its landing.
Later, the Reverend Robert Fordham and John Carman first came to Great Neck from New Haven by use of Long Island Sound.
The first constable of Madnan's Neck was a man titled Edward Hare, who helped aid in the boss for Madnan's Neck's independence.
Few communities of Madnan's Neck's size had their own highway, grist mill, minister, constable, and marshal, yet Madnan's Neck, emerged from Hempstead as a fully functioning town.
During the late 19th century, Great Neck was the rail head of the New York and Flushing Railroad, and began the process of converting from a farm village into a commuter town.
In more recent days,[when?] Great Neck in particular the Village of Kings Point provided a backdrop to F.
It was thinly disguised as "West Egg," in counterpoint to Manor Haven/Sands Point, which was the inspiration for the more posh "East Egg" (the next peninsula over on Long Island Sound), Great Neck symbolized the decadence of the Roaring Twenties as it extended out from New York City to then-remote suburbs.
The Great Gatsby's themes and characters reflected the real-world transformation that Great Neck was experiencing at the time, as show-business personalities like Sid Caesar and the Marx Brothers bought homes in the hamlet and eventually established it as a haven for Jews, formerly of Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Chrysler's palatial estate in Kings Point, as the only college studies institution in Great Neck.
They established many Jewish churchs and improve groups and pushed for stringent[clarification needed] educational policies in the town's enhance schools; it is portrayed in Jay Cantor's 2003 novel Great Neck, with recently installed inhabitants of all stripes trying to secure the brightest futures for their children.
During the assembly of the current command posts of the United Nations from 1947 through 1952, the United Nations was temporarily headquartered at the Sperry Corporation facility in the Great Neck improve of Lake Success due to its adjacency to Manhattan.
Although the majority of their kids attended Great Neck schools, they did not integrate into the existing Ashkenazi Jewish churchs, instead starting their own Iranian Jewish churchs, where they could follow Mizrahi traditions and establishing its own grocery shops.
Since the late 1990s, more observant, Orthodox Jews have moved to the area, similar to what happened in the Five Towns region on the South Shore of Long Island, although Reform and Conservative Jews appear to remain dominant in Great Neck.
On Old Mill Road, three Jewish churchs represent the three chief chapters of American Judaism: Temple Beth-El (Reform), Great Neck Synagogue (Orthodox), and Temple Israel of Great Neck (Conservative); Old Mill Road also has aco-naming, "Waxman Way", in memory of Temple Israel's rabbi, Mordechai Waxman, who led the congregation for 50 years.
Great Neck's adjacency to ethnic enclaves such as Flushing and Bayside makes it ideal for East Asians.[according to whom?] Community Church of Great Neck Great Neck is a 25- to 35-minute commute from Manhattan's Penn Station on the Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road via the Great Neck station, which is one of the most incessantly served in the entire system; as a result, many LIRR trains terminate at the station to serve the large number of riders. Nassau Inter-County Express joins the villages to the train station and offers service to a several destinations in Nassau County and Queens from the station, while the southern part of the Great Neck region can also directly access the Q46 New York City Bus on Union Turnpike at the border with Glen Oaks and the Q12 bus on Northern Boulevard at the border with Little Neck.
The Village of Great Neck is protected by the Nassau County Police Department's Third Precinct, as is the rest of Great Neck except for the villages of Great Neck Estates, Kings Point, Kensington and Lake Success.
Great Neck is served by three all-volunteer fire departments.
The Great Neck Alert Fire Company was established in 1901.
The Great Neck Vigilant Fire Company was established in 1904.
Alert covers the northern part of the peninsula, including the Village of Great Neck, providing fire and heavy rescue response.
Alert responds to certain medical emergencies with its heavy rescue truck and provides care before the arrival of an ambulance. Vigilant serves the middle portion of Great Neck with fire and heavy rescue response.
3 and 4 serve the southern part of Great Neck, including the villages of Thomaston and Lake Success.
Zion Church and Community Church of Great Neck, as well as the non-denominational chapel at the U.S.
The Parkwood pool and skating rink complex, the Village Green and sections of Kings Point Park are managed by the Great Neck Park District.
The park precinct serves all of Great Neck except the villages of Saddle Rock, Great Neck Estates, and Lake Success, and the neighborhoods (not hamlets) of Harbor Hills and University Gardens.
The areas not served by the Great Neck Park District each have their own facilities for their residents, run by the villages or civic associations.
During the summer it is a part of the Great Neck day camp program, where young campers use the swimming pool facilities. At one time Servisair had its Americas offices in Great Neck.
Great Neck is also one of the most well-to-do suburbs in the country. Great Neck serves primarily as a "bedroom" improve for New York City.
Great Neck Arts Center Great Neck Plaza Shopping District Great Neck Plaza Promenade Nights Several summer evenings in Great Neck's downtown area, the streets are closed off and small-town restaurants bring all of their seating outdoors for a festival evening of dining, live music, and entertainment.
Great Neck Library is the enhance library fitness serving the improve of Great Neck.
There are four chapters, positioned throughout the Great Neck peninsula: Main, Station, Parkville, and Lakeville.
The Great Neck Union Free School District is the school precinct of most of Great Neck.
A small part of easterly Great Neck around Northern Boulevard is part of the Manhasset Union Free School District, whose students attend Manhasset High School.
About 6,200 students, grades K-12, attend the Great Neck Public Schools.
Great Neck North High School Great Neck South High School Great Neck North Middle School Great Neck South Middle School Great Neck's two primary high schools are rated among the top in the country.
Its students have been incessant finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search, and Great Neck has produced a several Intel STS winners since 1999.
In the 2008 Newsweek magazine's annual list of the top 1,300 American high schools, Great Neck South was ranked 49th, and Great Neck North was ranked 68th. Nikki Blonsky (born 1988), actress who starred as Tracy Turnblad in the 2007 version of Hairspray and in Harold, filmed in Great Neck North High School and Middle School. Kenneth Cole, designer (attended school in Great Neck) Francis Ford Coppola, film director (graduated from Great Neck High School North) Quinn Early, football player drafted by San Diego Chargers (graduated from Great Neck South High School) Scott Fitzgerald, author (former resident), lived in Great Neck in the 1920s, at 6 Gateway Drive in Great Neck Estates.
It is said that Fitzgerald modeled West Egg the fictional town in which Nick lives after his own Great Neck (specifically Kings Point) and the atmosphere and lifestyle there; and he modeled East Egg after Great Neck's easterly neighbor, Port Washington, or, more specifically, Sands Point.
The park is positioned at the top of the Great Neck Peninsula.
Christopher Howes, Yale professor in Cardiology and head of Greenwich Hospital Cardiology (grew up in Great Neck) Christopher Lambert, actor (born in Great Neck) Brian Maller, visual artist (graduated from Great Neck South High School) Edna Luby (1884-1928), entertainer, lived in Great Neck Bobby Muller, Vietnam War veteran and anti-war activist (grew up in Great Neck) Ted Nierenberg (1923 2009), founder of Dansk International Designs, created in the garage of his Great Neck home. Larry Poons, abstract painter (graduated from Great Neck High School [North]) Jordan Rudess, keyboard player for the band Dream Theater (grew up in Great Neck) David Seidler, screenwriter of "The King's Speech," 2011 Oscar winner; Great Neck H.S.
Charlie Williams, interchanged by the New York Mets along with cash for Willie Mays; did not make the Great Neck South Senior baseball team as a senior Harris Wulfson (1974 2008), composer, instrumentalist and software engineer (graduated from Great Neck South High School) Chic Young (1901 1973) created Blondie in his Great Neck studio in summer of 1930 "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Great Neck village, New York".
"LIRR Great Neck Timetable" (PDF).
"Americas Penauille Servisair 111 Great Neck Road Suite 600 P O Box 355 Great Neck NY 11022-0355 U S A" Great Neck Arts Center "When the regular school week ends, Yuko Ota attends the Japanese Weekend School in Great Neck - a reminder that, despite the American habits she's learning, she's still Japanese" "I interval up in Great Neck, N.Y., which is actually a hotbed of Iranian Jewry, so I didn't really know that I was very different until I went to college." Great Neck Village website Great Neck Public Schools Great Neck Park District Great Neck Alert Fire Company Great Neck Vigilant Fire Company Baxter Estates East Hills East Williston Floral Park Flower Hill Garden City Great Neck Great Neck Estates Great Neck Plaza Kensington Kings Point Lake Success Manorhaven Mineola Munsey Park New Hyde Park North Hills Old Westbury Plandome Plandome Heights Plandome Manor Port Washington North Roslyn Roslyn Estates Roslyn Harbor Russell Gardens Saddle Rock Sands Point Thomaston Westbury Williston Park Albertson Carle Place Garden City Park Glenwood Landing Great Neck Gardens Greenvale Harbor Hills Herricks Manhasset Manhasset Hills New Cassel North New Hyde Park Port Washington Roslyn Heights Saddle Rock Estates Searingtown University Gardens
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Great Neck Peninsula - Iranian-American culture in New York - Iranian-Jewish culture in the United States - Town of North Hempstead, New York - Populated places in Nassau County, New York - Populated coastal places in New York
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