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"formerNames": [], "nameOrigin": null, "founded": { "text": "The Village's own hamlet history calls it one of Great Neck's earliest settlements and says it is still called by many \"the old village,\" without giving a founding year.", "src": [ 1 ] }, "incorporated": null, "gnisId": null, "wikidataId": null }, "quickFacts": [ { "label": "Legal status", "value": "One of nine incorporated villages on the Great Neck peninsula, in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "label": "Village Hall", "value": "767 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck, NY 11021; (516) 482-2000", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "label": "Police", "value": "Nassau County Police Department, 6th Precinct (100 Community Drive, Manhasset) — the Village has no police department of its own", "src": [ 3, 5 ] }, { "label": "Court", "value": "Village of Great Neck Justice Court, 767 Middle Neck Road", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "label": "Main roads", "value": "Northern Boulevard (NY 25A, state) and Middle Neck Road (part of NY 101, 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peninsula's earliest settlements and says it is \"still called by many 'the old village,'\" though it does not give a founding or incorporation year.[1]", "The Long Island Rail Road reached Great Neck in 1866.[8] In 1898 the railroad extended its tracks north from Great Neck to Manhasset and Port Washington, a project that required building the Manhasset Viaduct; after the extension opened, business activity on the peninsula began shifting toward the rail stations.[8]" ] }, { "id": "roads", "heading": "How the roads got here", "paragraphs": [ "Northern Boulevard through the village is New York State Route 25A; NYSDOT's official route description runs NY 25A from the Queens–Nassau line, via Roslyn, to Port Jefferson and beyond.[9] Middle Neck Road, the village's principal internal artery, carries the state's NY 101 reference route, which NYSDOT describes as running from NY 25A in Flower Hill \"on Port Washington Boulevard and Middle Neck Road\" north to Sands Point — the same route number that also names Port Washington's main north–south street.[10]" ] }, { "id": "law", "heading": "Law and legal history", "paragraphs": [ "A full scan of the Village of Great Neck's own code of ordinances, as published on eCode360, turns up no chapter creating a police department and no chapter on \"notice of defect\" or prior written notice of highway or sidewalk hazards — unlike the neighboring Town of North Hempstead, which adopted its own notice-of-defect law in 1978, and the Village of Roslyn, which adopted one in 2000.[5][6] In the absence of a local supersession, the default rule for New York villages, Village Law § 6-628, governs: \"No civil action shall be maintained against the village for damages or injuries to person or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective, out of repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed\" unless written notice was first given to the village clerk and the village failed to act on it within a reasonable time.[7]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "The Village of Great Neck is governed by an elected Board of Trustees from Village Hall at 767 Middle Neck Road.[1] Traffic, parking and village-ordinance violations are heard by the Village of Great Neck Justice Court at the same address.[2] The Nassau County Police Department's 6th Precinct, headquartered at 100 Community Drive in Manhasset, lists \"Great Neck\" among the communities it serves, alongside Manhasset, Roslyn, Great Neck Plaza, Munsey Park, Thomaston, Saddle Rock, Russell Gardens and others; the Village's own website carries no police department page, consistent with county rather than village policing.[3] By contrast, NCPD's 3rd Precinct, in Williston Park, serves a distinct set of more central Nassau communities (Mineola, Garden City, New Hyde Park, Williston Park and others) and does not list Great Neck, Manhasset, Port Washington or the Village of Roslyn among the places it covers.[4]" ] }, { "id": "transit", "heading": "Railroad and transit", "paragraphs": [ "Great Neck's Long Island Rail Road station opened with the line's arrival in 1866, well before the 1898 extension that carried the railroad on to Manhasset and Port Washington.[8]" ] } ], "legalCases": [], "landmarks": [], "notableFacts": [ { "text": "The Village of Great Neck is only one of nine separately incorporated villages that make up the area commonly called \"Great Neck.\"", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "The Village's own history page calls it one of the peninsula's earliest settlements, still known by many as \"the old village.\"", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "The Long Island Rail Road reached Great Neck in 1866, more than three decades before the line was extended to Manhasset and Port Washington in 1898.", "src": [ 8 ] }, { "text": "Middle Neck Road in Great Neck and Port Washington Boulevard four miles north are, officially, the same state route: NY 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"2026-09-17" }, "acs": { "name": "U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-Year Estimates, tables B08303, B08013, B08301, B08302, B08201, B19013, B01002", "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/", "period": "2020–2024", "retrieved": "2026-09-17", "note": "Survey estimates with 90% margins of error. lowReliability = coefficient of variation above 30%." }, "fars": { "name": "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2010–2024 national files", "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/", "retrieved": "2026-09-17", "preliminaryYears": [ 2024 ], "note": "Crashes on public trafficways in which a person died within 30 days. 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