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Garden City
New York, United States
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Rain doesn't dampen spirits at annual Garden City Turkey Trot
• Nov. 28, 2024, 10:31 PM ET (CBS)
Garden City, residential village, town (township) of Hempstead, Nassau county, New York, U.S. It is located on western Long Island. One of the nation’s first planned communities, it was the aspiration of textile merchant Alexander Turney Stewart, who bought a 7,000-acre (2,800-hectare) tract of land there in 1869. His heirs founded the Garden City Company, which developed and guided the community until its incorporation as a village in 1919. Distinguished for its handsome residential areas and garden atmosphere, it is the site of the English Gothic Cathedral of the Incarnation (seat of the Episcopal diocese of Long Island) and the ...(100 of 165 words)