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'Great Neck' is a village located in Nassau County, New York in the USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 9,538. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ...
Location in the state of New York Formed 1899 Seat Mineola Area - Total - Water 1,173 km² (453 mi²) 431 km² (166 mi²) 36. ...
State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th) - Land 122,409 km² - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
The Village of Great Neck is in the Town of North Hempstead. North Hempstead is a town located in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 222,611. ...
People associated with Great Neck - Oscar Brand, resident
- Sid Caesar, former resident
- Maurice Chevalier, former resident
- Walter P. Chrysler, former resident
- Mary L. Cleave, attended high school in Great Neck
- George M. Cohan, former resident
- Kenneth Cole, attended school in Great Neck
- Francis Ford Coppola, former resident
- W.C. Fields, former resident
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, former resident
- David Friedman, former resident
- Whitey Ford, former resident
- Jamie Gorelick, former resident
- Morton Gould, former resident
- Oscar Hammerstein II, former resident
- Sarah Hughes, resident
- Andy Kaufman, attended school in Great Neck
- Alan King, former resident
- Christopher Lambert, born in Great Neck
- The Marx Brothers, former residents
- Louise Nevelson, former resident
- Paul Newman, former resident
- Eugene O'Neill, former resident
- George Segal, resident
- Alfred P. Sloan, resident
- Norma Talmadge, former resident
- William Kissam Vanderbilt, Jr., former resident
- Sam Warner, former resident
- P.G. Wodehouse, former resident
- Matilde Krim, former resident
Sid Caesar (born Isaac Sidney Caesar on September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows. ...
Maurice Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor and popular entertainer. ...
Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 - August 18, 1940) was an American automobile pioneer. ...
Astronaut Mary L. Cleave Mary L. Cleave (Ph. ...
George M. Cohan George Michael Cohan (July 1878–November 5, 1942) was a United States entertainer, songwriter, actor, singer, and dancer. ...
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Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American film director, screenwriter, vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. ...
W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946) was an American comedian and actor. ...
F.Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896–December 21, 1940) was an Irish-American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. ...
Edward Charles Whitey Ford (born October 21, 1928) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. ...
Jamie S. Gorelick (born May 6, 1950) was the number two official in the U.S. Department of Justice during the Clinton administration. ...
Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 – February 21, 1996) was an American pianist and composer. ...
(For work done with Richard Rodgers, see Rodgers and Hammerstein) Oscar Hammerstein II ( July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer and producer of musical comedies for almost forty years. ...
at the 2002 Olympics Sarah Elizabeth Hughes (born May 2, 1985 in Great Neck, New York) is the Olympic gold medalist in womens figure skating in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. ...
Andy Kaufman Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was a New York-born American self-described song and dance man. ...
Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004), born Irwin Alan Kniberg, was an American comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. ...
Christophe Lambert (born March 29, French actor. ...
The brothers in Hollywood: (left to right) Chico, Zeppo, Groucho, Harpo The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that played in vaudeville, stage plays, film and television. ...
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (1900 Kiev - 1988) was a U.S. (Russian-born) sculptor. ...
Paul Newman Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an American actor and film director. ...
Eugene ONeill Eugene Gladstone ONeill (New York City, October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953 in Boston) was an American playwright. ...
George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is a well-known American film and stage actor who was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. ...
Cover of Time Magazine (December 27, 1926) Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. ...
Norma Talmadge Norma Talmadge (May 26, 1893 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress. ...
William Kissam Vanderbilt II (March 2, 1878 – January 8, 1944) was a motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family. ...
Sam Warner (August 10, 1887 - October 5, 1927) can be credited as the brother who brought sound to Warner Brothers theaters, after tricking his brother Harry to attend a convention on the matter. ...
Called English literatures performing flea, P. G. Wodehouse, pictured in 1904, became famous for his complex plots, ingenious wordplay, and prolific output. ...
Geography Great Neck is located at 40°48'10" North, 73°43'53" West (40.802671, -73.731255)1. The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Wikipedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.5 km² (1.4 mi²). 3.5 km² (1.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.46% water. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ...
Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
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Demographics As of the census2 of 2000, there are 9,538 people, 3,346 households, and 2,552 families residing in the village. The population density is 2,727.9/km² (7,062.3/mi²). There are 3,441 housing units at an average density of 984.1/km² (2,547.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 85.33% White, 2.82% African American, 0.10% Native American, 4.94% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 3.28% from other races, and 3.48% from two or more races. 9.17% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ...
The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Wikipedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
There are 3,346 households out of which 36.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.9% are married couples living together, 8.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 23.7% are non-families. 20.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.85 and the average family size is 3.30. Marriage is a relationship and bond between individuals (termed spouses -- a male spouse is a husband and a female spouse, a wife) that plays a key role in the definition of many families. ...
In the village the population is spread out with 26.4% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 25.3% from 25 to 44, 24.7% from 45 to 64, and 17.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 90.0 males.
The median income for a household in the village is $76,645, and the median income for a family is $89,733. Males have a median income of $52,445 versus $37,476 for females. The per capita income for the village is $38,790. 7.8% of the population and 5.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 9.5% of those under the age of 18 and 8.1% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the number of people. ...
The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...
History Great Neck, originally called "Madnan's Neck", was settled in the late 17th century, not long after settlers landed on Plymouth Rock. The area had previously been inhabited by the Mattinecock Indians, who were pushed back by the colonists' expansion.
In more recent days, Great Neck -- in particular the incorporated village of Kings Point -- provided a backdrop to F. Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby. Thinly disguised as "West Egg," in counterpoint to Port Washington's more posh "East Egg," the next peninsula over on the Long Island Sound, Great Neck symbolized the decadence of the Roaring Twenties as it extended out from New York City into the then-remote suburbs. The Great Gatsby's themes and characters reflected the real-world transformation that Great Neck was experiencing at the time, as show-business personalities like Sid Caesar and the Marx Brothers bought homes in the hamlet and eventually established it as a haven for newly rich Jews, formerly of Brooklyn and the Bronx. Kings Point is a village located on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. ...
F.Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896–December 21, 1940) was an Irish-American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. ...
The cover of the Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition, 1995. ...
Port Washington is a town located in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 15,215. ...
Long Island Sound near Guilford, Connecticut Long Island Sound is an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean and various rivers in the United States. ...
The Roaring Twenties refers to the North American historical period of the 1920s, which has been described as one of the most colorful decades in American history. ...
Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...
Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ...
Sid Caesar (born Isaac Sidney Caesar on September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows. ...
The brothers in Hollywood: (left to right) Chico, Zeppo, Groucho, Harpo The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that played in vaudeville, stage plays, film and television. ...
The Brooklyn Bridge in 1890, seven years after its opening Kings County in New York State Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. ...
The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ...
The end of World War II saw a tremendous migration of Ashkenazi Jews from the cramped quarters and frequent discrimination of the city to the burgeoning suburb. They founded many synagogues and community groups and pushed for stringent educational policies in the town's public schools. Jay Cantor's novel, Great Neck, portrays the eponymous town of this era, with recently installed residents of various stripes all trying to secure the brightest futures for their children. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ...
Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (×ַש×Ö°×›Ö¼Ö²× Ö¸×–Ö´×™ ×ַש×Ö°×›Ö¼Ö²× Ö¸×–Ö´×™× Standard Hebrew, AÅ¡kanazi,AÅ¡kanazim, Tiberian Hebrew, ʾAÅ¡kănÄzî, ʾAÅ¡kănÄzîm, pronounced sing. ...
But even during the 1960s, many residents frequented the local pool and ice skating complex, Parkwood, but in the past fifteen years attendance at Parkwood has declined as homeowners built their own inground pools. (After the events of September 11, 2001 the ice skating rink was renamed in honor of Andrew Stergiopoulos, a local resident who was killed in the attack).
Things have changed in Great Neck since the baby boom era. In the 1980s, an influx of affluent Iranian Jews who were expelled from that country following the 1979 Islamic Revolution settled in Great Neck. Though the majority of their children attended Great Neck schools, they did not integrate into the existing Ashekenasi temples, instead starting their own Iranian temples, where they could follow Sephardic traditions. The Persian community also established their own grocery shops. While they continued their religious tradition, a great many of the Iranian Jews were tolerant of Great Neck's secular nature.
However, from the late 1990s up until the present day the Great Neck peninsula has been home to another Jewish shift. During this time, more observant, Orthodox Jews have moved to the area, and sought to impose their religious values on the community. This is similar to what has also happened in the Five Towns area on the south shore of Long Island. In Great Neck, the Orthodox have threatened to boycott local shops unless the stores close on the Sabbath. In addition, many of the Orthodox send their children to private Jewish day schools, and vote against public school funding in local elections. (This is in contrast to the Iranian Jews who send their children to public school). The Orthodox have also built their own synagogue and have expansion plans for it. It should be noted that the general trend is that the 'North' part of Great Neck (those students who are sent to Great Neck North Middle and High) are overwhelmingly Iranian and Persian, however the Great Neck South School has a greater number of reform jews. As well Great Neck South also has a greater asian population, who along with the traditional jews are looking for a good education for their children.
Culture and tourism Currently, Great Neck, connected to New York City by the Long Island Rail Road, serves primarily as a bedroom community for New York City. As such, it contains few "touristy" attractions. Notable exceptions include: Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...
The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR is a railroad that serves the length of Long Island, New York. ...
There are two major high schools: Great Neck North High School (website) Great Neck South High School (website) Seal of the US Merchant Marine Academy The United States Merchant Marine Academy is one of the five United States service academies. ...
plus an alternative school Great Neck Village School(website) and numerous elementary and nursery schools.
Great Neck's two major high schools are rated among the top in the country. Its students frequently are finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search. Newsweek's list of top 1000 High Schools in the U.S lists that Great Neck Schools rank: 22 | Great Neck South and 43 | Great Neck North
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