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The Great Neck peninsula, bordering Manhasset Bay and the Long Island Sound, as seen on a map from 1917. Great Neck is a region contained primarily within Nassau County, New York, on Long Island, which covers a peninsula on the North Shore and includes nine villages, among them Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, Kings Point, and Russell Gardens, and a number of unincorporated ...
The novel's "West Egg" and "East Egg" were fictionalized versions of the real North Shore villages of Kings Point and Sands Point, respectively. In 1990, the novel Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille is set on the North Shore. The distinctive upper class speech pattern known as "Locust Valley lockjaw" takes its name from the North Shore's Locust ...
The Village of Kings Point incorporated in November 1924. [2] It is named for the King family, which owned large portions of land in the area. [2]The entire region was once known as Hewlett's Point after the Hewlett family, who also owned land in the area; this name is still used sometimes in reference to the village's northern point.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Sands Point (Port Washington/Manhasset/Cow Neck) was referred to as "East Egg". East Egg (Port Washington/Manhasset/Cow Neck) residents inherited their fortunes and were more highly respected than the nouveau riche in newer "West Egg" (Great Neck/Kings Point), because Sands Point had "old money ...
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U.S. Census map of Great Neck Estates. According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2 ), of which 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2 ), or 4.94%, is water.
Egg Harbor Township is a township in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 47,842, [9] [10] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 4,519 (+10.4%) from the 2010 census count of 43,323, [19] [20] which in turn reflected an increase of 12,597 (+41.0%) from the 30,726 counted in the 2000 census.
[1] [2] Upon crossing Egg Harbor City Lake, CR 563 becomes Park Avenue West, Buffalo Avenue, and Egg Harbor-Green Bank Road. The road makes a turn to the north and crosses into Mullica Township. [1] In Mullica Township, the route enters the residential community of Weekstown, where it curves west before heading north at the CR 643 junction.