A place in Sands Point
East Egg
The real place behind the one in the story.
1922East EggThe fashionable side, where the Buchanans live and the green light burns at the end of their dock. Generally identified with Sands Point, on the Manhasset Neck across the bay from Great Neck.
She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’
Visiting today
Sands Point is private homes, but the Sands Point Preserve, an old Gold Coast estate, is open to visitors, and its shore looks across the bay to Kings Point. From Manhattan: the Long Island Rail Road to Port Washington, then a taxi.
