This is the current conditions weather report for Great Neck. The report was made 65 minutes ago, at 03:51 UTC. The wind was blowing at a speed of 8 miles per hour / 13 kilometers per hour from the south (180°). The temperature was 77°F / 25°C, with a dew-point at 77°F / 25°C. The temperature felt like 79°F / 26°C. The atmospheric pressure was 30 inHg / 1017 hPa. The relative humidity was 79%. The skies were partly cloudy.
Great Neck is a village in Nassau County, New York, in the USA, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the village population was 9,538.
The Village of Great Neck is in the Town of North Hempstead. The term Great Neck is also commonly applied to the entire peninsula on the north shore, comprising a residential community of some 40,000 people made up of nine villages as well as unincorporated areas of North Hempstead (and a few hamlets). There is no governing entity which encompasses this larger Great Neck, but it is unified as a postal zone, a water district or two, a school district, and a park district.
Great Neck is within easy commuting distance of Manhattan's Penn Station on the Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road via the Great Neck station, which is one of the most frequent served in the entire system. Indeed, it is the only station on the Port Washington Branch (except for Penn Station) served by all trains, both local and express.
Tourism:
Saddle Rock Grist Mill, a historical grain-mill; known to have been in operation as early as the 1700s.
United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point
Steppingstone Park