Garden City is a village located in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. It is within the Town of Hempstead. Garden City is an upper middle-class, predominantly Catholic and Protestant community. The village of Garden City lost the largest number of people in the attacks of 9/11. Garden City is served by a total of five LIRR railroad stations. It is just a half-hour drive to JFK and LaGuardia airports and a 45-minute drive to Long Island’s Islip-MacArthur Airport. The Garden City name is also applied to unincorporated areas in the region such as Garden City South, Garden City Park, and East Garden City. In 1869, a Scottish-born Alexander Turney Stewart purchased a portion of the relatively unpopulated Hempstead Plains and founded the Village of Garden City. Stewart's wife Cornelia had also founded several establishments in the area like the St. Paul’s School for boys, St. Mary's School for girls, a Bishop's Residence, and the Gothic Cathedral of the Incarnation which is now known as the center of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. In the 1920s, the community continued to grow and their economy had boomed with many houses built in Garden City Estates as well as the Eastern Section of Garden City.
There are a total of seven schools in the Garden City School District consisting of three primary schools, two elementary schools, one middle school, and a high school. It is renowned for its top-ranked public school systems. In fact, Garden City was designated a "Gold Medal School District" ranking in the top 16% of all school districts nationally. Garden City is home to Adelphi University, the oldest institution of higher learning on Long Island. The school is listed as one of the nation's best universities in Princeton Review. With 1,100 businesses and over 3 million square feet of commercial real estate, it is one of the most desirable municipalities in which a perfect place to work and to have a living. Visitors can relax and enjoy at the four-star, five-diamond, 280-room Garden City Hotel. It has luxurious accommodations with a classic elegance and world-class amenities. The hotel is considered one of the grandest and most historical landmarks in the area. Shopping and dining in Garden City is very much enjoyable with plenty of fine restaurants and shopping boutiques like DiSalvo Interiors, Viking Culinary Arts Center, H.L. Gross & Brothers Jewelers, Barbatsuly Furs and many more. The local Chamber of Commerce is helps to preserve the quality, character, and vitality of Garden City.
North Shore Eye Care serves the residents of Garden City with a variety of concerns including cataract surgery. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and our newest associate, Dr. John Mauro all use state of the art cataract surgery and laser vision correction procedures.Today, North Shore Eye Care is a modern eye care practice that specializes in advanced cataract surgery and laser vision correction. Technology has revolutionized cataract surgery making it a safer, more successful surgery. In cataract surgery, the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract is removed using phacoemulsification or computer controlled high speed ultrasound through a small incision that seals without stitches. No eye patch is necessary in most cases and needles around the eye are also not necessary. Our patients return home the very same day and experience no pain in most cases. Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Zweibel, Dr. Martin, and Dr. Mauro all specialize in intraocular implant technology including accommodating lenses like the Crystalens and the Crystalens HD. We also use multifocal implants like the Restor and the Tecnis multifocal lens. The Acrysof Toric implant reduces or eliminates astigmatism in most cases and our patients with these premium implants are able to see well without the need of glasses or contact lenses.
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