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Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the city population was 26,964.
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1. Shore Thing Rentals
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5.0 based on 2 reviews
2. Glen Cove Cruises
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5.0 based on 22 reviews
2 and 3-hour sunset or day tours of the Long Island's North Shore Gold Coast. See pretty bays, Gatsby-era mansions and large estates with starting prices similar to a ballpark ticket. 4-hour Statue of Liberty cruises from your personal yacht has amazing views of the New York City skyline and New York Harbor. Destination lunch and dinner cruises available and you can bring your own picnic.
3. Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County
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5.0 based on 24 reviews
The Holocaust museum has multimedia exhibits, artifacts, archival footage, and testimony from local Survivors. The museum presents a detailed chronicle of the Holocaust appropriate for 5th grade students through adult. The final gallery provides a bridge from the past to today's issues of intolerance, bullying and genocide. In addition to our permanent displays, there is a gallery dedicated to temporary exhibits. See our website for upcoming exhibits.We are also home to the Louis Posner Memorial Library which has over 7,000 volumes relating to the Holocaust,Tolerance and Anti-Bullying.The library is a lending library containing memoirs, diaries, journals, maps, artwork, DVDs, CDs and artifacts.
Reviewed By gaharris10 - Yonkers, United States
The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center Of Nassau County is undisputedly the crown jewel attraction of Glen Cove, New York and an extraordinary institution that honors the memory and experience of the Jewish people during the Holocaust, one of the darkest and most troubling chapter in human history. The museum and tolerance center is located in the beautiful Welwyn Preserve County Park. It is specifically situated in “Welwyn” a historic Gold Coast Mansion that was designed by Delano & Aldrich, a prominent 20th Century NY based architectural firm. Welwyn was built in 1913, and was once the residence of Harold Irving Pratt, an American oil industrialist, philanthropist, and a member of the prominent and wealthy Pratt Family. In April Of 2021, I brought and treated my wife and myself for a visit and tour of the museum and tolerance center and we both enjoyed every moment of our visit. During our self guided tour of the museum, my wife and I came across extensive images and video footage that showcased the unsanitary conditions of ghettos and the immense suffering, torture and death that the Jews experienced in the multiple concentration camps spread throughout Europe. We watched the museum’s brief video clips of Holocaust survivors who gave first hand accounts of their experience in Nazi Germany and detailed how the country’s extreme antisemitic and extermination policies impacted their lives. In addition to touring the museum, my wife and I also took part in a wonderful guided tour of the Children’s Memorial Garden. Susan, our superb tour guide, did an excellent job in explaining the origin and development of the garden, and highlighted that the garden’s purpose was to honor the memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children that were murdered during the Holocaust. Susan took the time to discuss amazing inspirational figures ranging from Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic activist, and Suzanne Spaak, a French resistance operative and the efforts they each made to protect and rescue Jewish children from extermination. What I personally found amazing about these notable individuals and which I shared with Susan is that they often occupied fairly modest positions in society, they were not blessed with immense wealth and connections, or armed with considerable political, financial or military backing. Despite those disadvantages, they still took the time and effort to actively and courageously resist oppression and protect Jewish children against an enormously powerful regime at great risk to their own well-being and that of their families. My wife and I would love to acknowledge and personally thank Susan for her exemplary professionalism, her impeccable kindness, and for providing us with a rich, highly engaging and thought provoking tour experience!!! The center also features the subsequent exterminations that have occurred and impacted other ethnic groups ranging from the Rwanda based genocide that targeted the Tutsi people or the Darfur Genocide which was carried out against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa tribes in Sudan. The fact that these incidents and other hate crimes have occurred and in many cases, still occurring, sadly demonstrate that the world community has utterly failed to put an end to mass killings and senseless hate crimes. These tragic occurrences should motivate all of us to act as courageously as Irene Sendler or Suzanna Spaak did in their time and to do our part to safeguard human dignity, to protect the liberties and rights of all men, women and children, and to do our very best to resist all acts of targeted violence and oppression. “Doing the best we can” as Albert Einstein noted is our “sacred human responsibility.” Both my wife and I highly recommend that all visitors to Glen Cove take the time to stop by and tour the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center in Welwyn Preserve. You will definitely find your visit and tour of the Center to be an illuminating experience , just as it was for me and my wife.
4. Glen Cove Salt Cave
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
Come experience the many benefits of Halo Therapy has to offer and begin to take a positive step towards a healthier, happier you.
5. Morgan Memorial Park
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4.5 based on 71 reviews
Reviewed By Lisa43050 - Freeport, United States
I thought it was a beautiful parks in the area. We enjoyed the sunsets as well as the beautiful beach. We were there to the wonderful concerts and was surprised to seeing the terrific surroundings.
6. Garvies Point Museum and Preserve
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4.5 based on 23 reviews
Reviewed By jtpcarroll5212 - Brooklyn, United States
It’s a great afternoon museum and preserve. The staff was so friendly and informative. The exhibits are great and really educational. The trails are not hard and have great views and peaceful atmosphere to them.
7. Garvies Point Craft Brewery
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4.5 based on 11 reviews
Reviewed By jtpcarroll5212 - Brooklyn, United States
Great beers and the bartenders were hilarious. They had a pizza place do pies on location and inside and outside were awesome.
8. Prybil Beach
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4.0 based on 20 reviews
Reviewed By kennyge - Glen Cove, United States
Beautiful setting on the Long island sound. Have to going down those long winding road you get to this gorgeous Beach overlooking doesn't look Long island sound and Connecticut. You must be a residents of Glen cove to use it which keeps it from getting too crowded
9. Glen Cove Taxi and Airport Service
Glen Cove Taxi and Airport Service is the official taxi service of Glen Cove NY, Glen Head, Sea Cliff, Locust Valley and Mill Neck. We provide local taxi services to the Glen Cove, Glen Head, Sea Cliff and Locust Valley train stations as well as airport shuttles, long distance rides and out of state transportation. Airport shuttles is another specialty, servicing JFK, LaGuardia, Long Island MacArthur and Newark Liberty Airports. Our services are either on demand for shorter trips or reserved in advance for airport transportation services and larger. Our drivers are all licensed by Nassau County TLC and the City of Glen Cove. Established in 1942 and started as the local cab for Glen Cove LIRR and among the first taxi services on Long Island. Has grown to a 5 car fleet of yellow cabs, town cars, minivans, crossovers and SUV's to service all your transportation needs in the Glen Cove NY area.
10. Glen Cove Cinema
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4.0 based on 6 reviews
