Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, United States.

Glen Cove was considered part of the affluent, early 20th-century Gold Coast of Long Island, as the properties located along the area's waterfront were initially developed as large country estates by wealthy entrepreneurs and businessmen (such as J.P. Morgan, Phipps, Pratt, and Prybil).

[3] Historically, with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Glen Cove blossomed in the areas of manufacturing, agriculture and local retail, all of which were operated and staffed by a diverse workforce.

Since the 20th century, Glen Cove has also become the home for new waves of immigrants seeking opportunities from Central and South America, as well as parts of Asia.

On May 24, 1668, Joseph Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island, purchased about 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of land to the northwest of the Town of Oyster Bay from the Matinecock.

Later that year, he admitted four male residents of Oyster Bay as co-partners in the project—the brothers Nathaniel, Daniel, and Robert Coles along with Nicholas Simkins.

The five young men named the settlement 'Musketa Cove Plantation', musketa meaning "place of rushes" in the Lenape language.

[4] In the 1830s, steamboats started regular service on Long Island Sound, between New York City and Musketa Cove, arriving at a point still called The Landing.

[5][6] Glen Cove added to its population as workers arrived for jobs at the Duryea Corn Starch factory, which operated until 1900.

The Long Island Rail Road was extended to Glen Cove in 1867, providing quicker, more frequent services to New York City.

The availability of the train, and the town's location on Long Island Sound, made it attractive to year-round residents, thus the population increased.

John Teele Pratt's estate (The Manor, designed by Charles A. Platt) is operated as the Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center.

[10] George DuPont Pratt's estate, Killenworth, was purchased by the Soviet Union in 1951, for use by its United Nations (UN) delegation.

In 1960, while visiting New York for UN meetings, Nikita Khrushchev (former premier of the Soviet Union) and Fidel Castro (then president of Cuba), both stayed at Killenworth.

Like many other suburbs, Glen Cove grew rapidly in population after World War II when new residential developments were completed on former pastureland and farms.

Many new residents, at the time, were the second- or third-generation children of Eastern and Southern European immigrants, relocating from their family homes in Queens or Brooklyn.

Many African Americans were direct descendants of slaves from the colonial period, as colonists had imported West African slaves for domestic work and farm labor; still others were descendants of migrants from the South who had moved to New York City and the surrounding areas during the Great Migration of the first half of the 20th century.

A Sikh gurdwara established in Glen Cove draws members from the ethnic Indian population in the area.

[11] Glen Cove is bordered on three sides by the Town of Oyster Bay, and on the fourth by the Long Island Sound.

One site was occupied until 1999, the other until 1971, when the building was sold to August Thomsen Corp.[24] Photocircuits Corporation began manufacturing circuit boards in 1951, and employed 740 workers when it closed in 2007.

As of January 2024, the members of the Glen Cove City Council are Grady Farnan, Kevin Maccarone, Danielle Fugazy Scagiola, Marsha Silverman, John Zozzaro, and Michael Ktistakis.

Nassau Inter-County Express provides service on two routes: N21 (to Great Neck, except Sundays to Roslyn) and N27 (to Hempstead).

[38][39][40] North Fork Express offers weekday commuter service between Glen Cove and Manhattan with stops in Midtown and the Wall Street area.

[43] The United States Post Office at Glen Cove, built in 1932 during the Great Depression, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.