Glen Cove, New York

Nassau County

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Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York, on the north shore of Long Iceland in the United States and part of the New York Metropolitan Area.

In 2000, Glen Cove had 26,622 inhabitants; until the official 2009 estimate, the population increased slightly to 26,936.

Geography and transport

Glen Cove is located at 40 ° 52'2 " north latitude and 73 ° 37'40 " west longitude and extending over 49.73 km ², spread over 17.32 km ² of land and 32.41 km ² water surface.

Glen Cove is located on the north shore of Long Iceland. The here around 10 km wide Long Iceland Sound forms the border to the opposite state of Connecticut. The center of the city of New York is located 48.5 km south west of Glen Cove.

By Glen Cove run a number of minor roads. Through the city also runs an electrified line of Long Iceland Rail Road ( LIRR ), which dealt with the majority of commuting from New York in the eastern suburbs on Long Iceland.

History

The area was settled thousands of years ago by Native Americans. Upon arrival of the first Europeans lived here a subset of the Lenni Lenape.

1668 bought John Carpenter 8 km ² of land from the Indians. In the same year he took four other partners in the project to establish a new settlement here. The place got the name " Musketa ," meaning place of rush in the local language of the indigenous people.

In the 1830s, steamboats started regular services in the Long Iceland record sound. The inhabitants of the city of New York, the more often now came into the area, estimated the name " Musketa " because of the similarity with " mosquito " not very. Therefore, the residents decided in 1834 to rename the place in Glen Cove, which recalled the name of Glencoe in Scotland.

In the mid-19th century, Glen Cove became a popular destination for New Yorkers. In 1867 the town was connected to the railway network, which made the connection with the city even faster. Thus, the population of the town grew, because now more and more people were able to live here all year, working in the city.

End of the 19th century, wealthy industrialists increasingly settled here, including Charles Pratt, J. P. Morgan and Winfield Woolworth counted and tilled the bank with expensive villas. In the 1920s, the area referred to part of the Gold Coast region of the northern shore of Long Iceland was. A part of the estate of J. P. Morgan is now the municipal Morgan Park and Beach.

The villas changed since the mid-1920s usually the owner. From John T. Pratt's estate was today Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center, George DuPont Pratt's land was purchased by the United Nations Embassy of the Soviet Union. Winfield Hall, the former estate of F. W. Woolworth, is still privately owned, the villa of Herbert L. Pratt now belongs to the Webb Institute.

Like many other suburbs of New York grew Glen Gove very strong after the Second World War. Formerly agricultural land has been cultivated since increasingly attracted many families primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe from Queens and Brooklyn to Glen Cove. At the end of the 20th century, mainly people immigrated from Latin America and Asia.

The post office of Glen Cove was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, the courthouse was made in 1990 to do so.

Demography

At the time of the census in 2000 ( U.S. Census 2000), the city had 26,622 inhabitants on a land area of ​​17.32 km ². The median age was 38.6 years ( national U.S. average: 35.3 years ). The per capita income ( the national average of the United States: 21,587 U.S. dollars) at 26,627 U.S. dollars. 9.1 % of residents were with their income below the poverty line ( national U.S. average: 12.4 %). Approximately 26.7 % of the population is of Italian descent, and about 7.4 % are German Americans.

Sons and daughters of the town

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