A place in Kings Point

West Egg

The real place behind the one in the story.

Middle Neck Road, the peninsula's main street, signed as Great Gatsby Way.2022 · D. Benjamin Miller / Wikimedia Commons

Gatsby's side of the bay, and Nick's. Fitzgerald's West Egg is generally taken to be Kings Point, on the Great Neck peninsula of Long Island, where he was living when he began the novel.

Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.

From The Great Gatsby — New YorkRead this stop

Visiting today

Kings Point is mostly private houses along the water, with little to see from the road. From Manhattan, the Long Island Rail Road runs to Great Neck.

Where to find it

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West Egg

The stories that come here

The Great Gatsby — New York