With 22,000 residents, 1,100 businesses and over 3 million square feet of commercial real estate, the Village of Garden City covers almost five square miles in the center of Nassau County. Founded in 1869 by Alexander T. Stewart, “The Merchant Prince of Broadway,” and one of the first planned communities in the United States, this charming community, with its tree-lined streets, gracious homes, and business district, has become one of Long Island’s most desirable municipalities in which to live and work, with property values exceeding the Long Island average.

The gateway to Garden City’s residential and business community is Franklin Avenue. This dynamic boulevard is Long Island’s headquarters for international financial service companies, leading law firms and major national retailers. These businesses, the specialty shops and fine restaurants located on both Franklin Avenue and intersecting Seventh Street, as well as the many extra municipal services available to residents and visitors alike, including ample free parking, a village police force, and public landscaping maintained by the village’s Department of Public Works, are what make Garden City a prosperous, beautiful and safe place for business, leisure and living.

Business and recreational travelers from around the world can relax in comfort at the four-star, five-diamond 280-room Garden City Hotel, a cornerstone of the vitality and prosperity of the community. Conveniently located 1.5 miles from the Meadowbrook Parkway and only a half hour’s drive from Manhattan, Garden City is served by a total of seven LIRR railroad stations. Garden City is just a half-hour’s drive to JFK and LaGuardia airports, and a 45-minute drive to Long Island’s Islip-MacArthur Airport. Renowned for its top-ranked public school system (first out of 649 in a study conducted at State University at Albany), Garden City is home to Adelphi University, three private schools and nine nursery schools and day care centers. It also has a modern, internet-connected public library, playgrounds, tennis courts, a resident’s swimming pool complex, three private golf courses and twelve houses of worship.