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Kings Point| Community in North Hempstead town, southeastern New York State, at the tip of the Great Neck peninsula on Long Island's northern shore; population (1990) 4,800. It is an affluent suburb with a number of large estates. |
| The US Merchant Marine Academy (1942) is located here, on the former estate of industrialist Walter Chrysler. The peninsula was the model for ‘West Egg’ in F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby (1925). |
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