Garden City

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...