Great Neck (New York)
| Great Neck | |||
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| Nickname : The Old Village | |||
Location in New York
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | around 1644 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | new York | ||
| County : | Nassau County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 48 ′ N , 73 ° 44 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 9,989 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 2,854 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 3.5 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 3.5 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 33 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 11020-11027 | ||
| Area code : | +1 516 | ||
| FIPS : | 36-30169 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0951636 | ||
| Website : | www.greatneckvillage.org | ||
Great Neck is a village in the town of North Hempstead in the US state of New York with 9,989 inhabitants (2010). It is in an area of summer residences along the Great Neck Cape on the north coast of Long Island . Due to its early settlement around 1644, it is also known as the Old Village ("Old Village"), in 1922 it was incorporated .
The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in Great Neck for some time and used it together with neighboring towns as the setting for his novel The Great Gatsby .
The US Merchant Marine Academy founded in 1943 at Kings Point and the high tide Saddle Rock Grist Mill from the early 18th century are nearby .
Sons and daughters of the place
- Carol Bruce (1919–2007), singer, stage and film actress
- Robert B. Radnitz (1924–2010), film producer
- George Segal (born 1934), actor
- Burt Shavitz (1935–2015), dropout, beekeeper and entrepreneur
- Gail Dolgin (1945-2010), documentary filmmaker
- Joel Greenblatt (* 1957), fund manager and university lecturer
- Randy Coven (1960-2014), bassist
- Gina Mastrogiacomo (1961-2001), actress
- Robert Varkonyi (born 1961), poker player
- Mimi Michaels (* 1983), actress
- Nikki Blonsky (* 1988), actress
- Emily Hughes (* 1989), figure skater
Web links
Commons : Great Neck, New York - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Great Neck. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved December 20, 2017 .