Kings Point is a village and a part of Great Neck in Nassau County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the village population was 5,005.
The Village of Kings Point is located in the Town of North Hempstead, on the Great Neck Peninsula, and is often grouped together with the other hamlets and villages referred to collectively as "Great Neck". This occurs likely because the village is served by Great Neck School District, with resident high school students attending Great Neck North High School, and it receives postal service from the US Post Office in Great Neck and uses that city's Zip Code (11024).
The Great Neck North Middle School is located on the border of Great Neck Village and Kings Point.
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Notable landmarks
Kings Point is the home of the United States Merchant Marine Academy and its maritime museum, the American Merchant Marine Museum.
The founder of W. R. Grace and Company and former New York City mayor, W.R. Grace, lived in Kings Point, at which time he accepted the Statue of Liberty from the people of France. "Grace Mansion", a custom home built for Grace in 1880, features 11 fireplaces and a five-car garage, on a nearly two acre property. It is located on Blue Sea Lane.
There is also a lighthouse known as Kings Point Light. This is a private building which is owned and operated by the United States Merchant Marine Academy. It is the lighthouse on top of the chapel that shines as a way to bring wayfaring sailors back home from at sea and students back from Long Island Sound, also known as the Play Pen.
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Geography
Kings Point is located at 40°48?56?N 73°44?16?W.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10.3 km2), of which 3.3 square miles (8.7 km2) is land and 0.6 square mile (1.7 km2) (16.08%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,076 people, 1,401 households, and 1,203 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,519.0 people per square mile (586.8/km2). There were 1,455 housing units at an average density of 435.4 per square mile (168.2/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 91.67% White, 0.87% African American, 0.08% Native American, 3.55% Asian, 0.65% from other races, and 3.19% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.95% of the population.
As of 2000 Kings Point was the most Iranian conurbation in the United States with 29.7% of its population reporting Iranian Jewish ancestry.
There were 1,401 households out of which 38.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 79.7% were married couples living together, 4.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 14.1% were non-families. 11.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.14 and the average family size was 3.38.
In the village, the population was spread out with 24.1% under the age of 18, 17.8% from 18 to 24, 17.4% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 122.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 125.7 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $116,957, and the median income for a family was $122,692. Males had a median income of $100,714 versus $50,595 for females. The per capita income for the village was $57,965. About 0.8% of families and 2.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.3% of those under age 18 and 2.6% of those age 65 or over.
The Great Gatsby
In the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in Great Neck, at 6 Gateway Drive in Great Neck Estates, which is probably Great Neck's greatest claim to fame. It was a modest house, not dissimilar to that of Nick, the protagonist of his novel, The Great Gatsby. It is said that Fitzgerald modeled West Egg, the fictional town in which Nick lived, next to the mansion of Jay Gatsby, after Great Neck (specifically Kings Point), for its epitome of nouveau riche gaudiness, atmosphere, and lifestyle. He modeled East Egg, the town where Daisy and Tom lived, after Great Neck's eastern neighbor Sands Point, which is part of Port Washington.
Notable people
- Sid Caesar (1922-2014), comic actor and writer, lived in Kings Point from the 1950s to the late 1970s in a home on the water
- Barrie Chase (born 1933), actress and dancer, born in Kings Point
- Walter Chrysler (1875-1940), automobile pioneer, died in Kings Point
- George M. Cohan (1878-1942), entertainer, playwright, composer, actor, lyricist, singer, dancer and producer, lived in Kings Point 1914-1920
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, as noted above.
- Vitas Gerulaitis (1954-1994), professional tennis player, former Kings Point resident
- W.R. Grace, as noted above.
- Emily Hughes (born 1989), member of the U.S. figure skating team at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Sarah Hughes (born 1985), gold medalist in figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Andy Kaufman (1949-1984), comedian and actor
- Alan King (1927-2004), comedian and actor
- Morris S. Levy, film and television producer
- Fred Ohebshalom (born 1952), New York City real estate developer
- Tamir Sapir (1946/1947-2014), businessman and investor
- Stanley Silverstein (1924-2016), entrepreneur who was co-founder of Nina Footwear
External links
- American Merchant Marine Museum
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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