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Russell Gardens is a village on the Great Neck Peninsula in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 978 at the 2020 census.
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 ...
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The Great Neck Park District was established on August 14, 1916, by Great Neck resident Roswell Eldridge. [1] It was created only a few months after a law was passed by lawmakers in Albany allowing towns to establish park districts; the Great Neck Park District was the first such district of its type to be established anywhere in the State of New York.
The name of the University Gardens CDP is taken from a planned community of the same name, which was constructed within the hamlet in the 1920s. [4] The name reflects the fact that the land which that subdivision is located on was purchased from (and built atop) the short-lived University Golf Club – and because Russell Gardens, located across Northern Boulevard, was being developed around ...
English: Russell Gardens Village Hall, Russell Gardens, Long Island, New York. This photo was taken on May 21, 2021. ... Usage on sw.wikipedia.org Russell Gardens ...
William Russell (born Glasgow, Scotland, 28 April 1798; died Lancaster, Massachusetts, 17 May 1873) was an educator and elocutionist.He was formally educated in the Latin school and in the university of Glasgow; and, he came to the US in 1819, wherein that year, he took charge of Chatham Academy in Savannah, Georgia.
The name Thomaston has been used to describe the area since the middle part of the 19th Century. [3] William R. Grace, a prominent local who would eventually become the Mayor of New York City, acquired a large area of land around the Long Island Rail Road's Great Neck station; the land he acquired included all of present-day Great Neck Plaza.