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Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island, purchased about 2,000 acres northwest of the Town of Oyster Bay from the Matinecock.[1] He soon admitted four partners — brothers Nathaniel, Daniel and Robert Coles, and Nicholas Simkins — and the five proprietors named their settlement \"Musketa Cove,\" which the city's own history describes as Matinecock for \"this place of rushes.\"[1] The proprietors built a sawmill and gristmill on Glen Cove Creek, and by 1679, two years after the colonial government ratified Carpenter's purchase, the mill was producing nine grades of lumber for the New York City market.[1] In 1699 the colony's governor, Lord Bellomont, described the settlement to London's Board of Trade as one of the top four smuggling ports on Long Island.[1]", "By the early 1800s the waterfront economy shifted from lumber to clay mining after physician Thomas Garvie found deposits suitable for pottery around 1810 on land later called Garvie's Point.[1] Garvie arranged with Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1827 to begin steamboat service, which became a daily run to New York City by 1829, and Glen Cove developed into a resort community with hotels including the Pavilion, used as a Civil War convalescent home.[1] Confusion between the Matinecock-derived \"Musketa\" and \"mosquito\" led residents at an 1834 public meeting to rename the community Glen Cove.[1] The Industrial Revolution arrived in the 1850s when the Duryea Corn Starch Manufacturing Company relocated its plant to Glen Cove, eventually employing nearly 600 people in a company town with its own store and newspaper.[1]", "By the turn of the 20th century, wealthy industrialists built Gold Coast estates in Glen Cove, including J.P. Morgan Jr.'s estate on East Island and Charles Pratt of Standard Oil, who built homes for himself and seven of his eight children.[1] As the city's population passed 10,000, the Governor signed a bill on June 8, 1917, making Glen Cove a city after 250 years as part of the Town of Oyster Bay.[1]" ] }, { "id": "roads", "heading": "How the roads got here", "paragraphs": [ "New York's official touring-route description routes NY 107 south from Massapequa through Hicksville, Jericho and Brookville to end at Pulaski Street in Glen Cove.[7] NYSDOT separately designates that same NY 107 segment \"between the southern city line and Pulaski Street\" the Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph Daly Memorial Highway.[7] Glen Cove Road itself carries a state touring-route number, NY 900B, described in the DOT's route book as running \"from the Oyster Bay Town line to NY 107.\"[7]", "The LIRR's Oyster Bay Branch, built by the LIRR from Mineola to Locust Valley in 1865 and extended from Locust Valley to Oyster Bay by the Oyster Bay Extension Railroad in 1889, passes through the Glen Cove area; double track between Roslyn and Glen Cove was completed in 1908.[8] Before the railroad, Glen Cove's transportation was maritime: the city's own history dates the start of regular steamboat service to New York City to 1829, from a landing at the foot of Landing Road within present-day Morgan's Park.[1]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "Glen Cove is one of only two incorporated cities in Nassau County and, unlike the surrounding hamlets of the Town of Oyster Bay, maintains its own police department rather than relying on the Nassau County Police Department; NCPD's own Second Precinct page lists the City of Glen Cove among the municipalities inside its boundary that \"maintain their own police departments.\"[2][3] Glen Cove City Hall, which houses the Mayor's Office, City Council, City Clerk, City Attorney and Finance Department, is at 9 Glen Street.[1]" ] } ], "legalCases": [], "landmarks": [ { "name": "Garvie's Point", "designation": "Site of early-19th-century clay mining discovered by physician Thomas Garvie, circa 1810", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "name": "Morgan's Park", "designation": "Present-day park at the site of the historic Glen Cove Landing steamboat dock (foot of Landing Road)", "src": [ 1 ] } ], "notableFacts": [ { "text": "Glen Cove was originally named Musketa Cove after its 1668 purchase; confusion between \"mus-kee-tah\" and \"mosquito\" led residents to rename it Glen Cove at an 1834 public meeting.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "In 1699, the colonial governor of New York described Musketa Cove (now Glen Cove) to London's Board of Trade as one of Long Island's top four smuggling ports.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Glen Cove spent 250 years as part of the Town of Oyster Bay before the Governor signed a bill making it a city on June 8, 1917.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "The Duryea Corn Starch Works, which relocated to Glen Cove in the 1850s, employed nearly 600 people and printed the local Glen Cove Gazette on its own press.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "J.P. 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No personal identifiers. Placed by reported coordinates into 2020 Census boundaries." }, "nys": { "name": "New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicle Crashes — Case Information: Four Year Window", "url": "https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/Motor-Vehicle-Crashes-Case-Information-Four-Year-W/e8ky-4vqe", "period": "2021–2024", "retrieved": "2026-09-17", "note": "Police-reported crashes coded to a town, city or village by the reporting agency. Hamlets are not coded; hamlet pages show the parent town." } } }