Port Washington (New York)

Nassau County

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Port Washington is a Hamlet and census-designated place (CDP ) in Nassau County on Long Iceland in the U.S. state of New York.

History

For CDP, which lies within the control of North Hempstead Town in the north of Long Island, includes the villages of Sands Point, Port Washington North, Manorhaven and Baxter Estates. Sands Point is home to the Guggenheim Gould Estate. Port Washington was in the 1930s, a base station of the Yankee Clipper, a flying boat, which was used for the transport of passengers.

Economy

Port Washington is the seat of the computer hardware manufacturer Systemax and to market research firm NPD Group.

Personalities

  • Bob Carroll (1918-1994), Swing singer
  • K. C. Cole ( born 1946 ), science journalist
  • Marcel Freeman ( born 1960 ), tennis player
  • Daniel Guggenheim (1856-1930), industrialist
  • Jimmy McPartland (1907-1991), jazz musician
  • Richard W. Sun Feldt (1923-2009), engineer, U.S. chief interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials
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