How the NYC suburb of Sands Point, Long Island, became a village

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In 1910, on a peninsula F. Scott Fitzgerald called East Egg, there were two neighborhoods: Port Washington and Sands Point. Port Washington was a middle-class neighborhood populated by well-to-do commuters who worked in New York City. Sands Point was filled with enormous estates built by Gilded Age millionaires. When those millionaires realized that they could break away from the rest of Port Washington by incorporating as a village, they decided to seize the moment...

An Eyesore and a Plague is a podcast about the creation of the New York City suburbs. This is a clip from Episode 2: Sands Point. Listen to the whole episode here: https://www.aneyesoreandaplague.com/l...

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