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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 ...
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 ...
The points at right angles to the North and South points are the East and West points. Going around the disk clockwise from the North point, one encounters in order the West point, the South point, and then the East point. This is opposite to the order on a terrestrial map because one is looking up instead of down.
U.S. Census map of Kings Point. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10.3 km 2), of which 3.3 square miles (8.7 km 2) is land and 0.6 square miles (1.7 km 2) (16.08%) is water. [3] Kings Point is surrounded on three sides by water. [4]
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.
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1698 map showing West Jersey and Pennsylvania. West Jersey and East Jersey were two distinct parts of the Province of New Jersey. The political division existed for 28 years, between 1674 and 1702. Determination of an exact location for a border between West Jersey and East Jersey was often a matter of dispute.