Little Neck Bay

The political boundary between Nassau County and the borough of Queens runs through the bay, bordering the neighborhood of Douglaston–Little Neck.

[2] Originally, on the western and southern sides of the bay there were extensive salt marshes.

Saddle Rock is located on the eastern side of the bay about half-way in.

[1] Traditionally, the Algonquin who lived around Little Neck Bay when Europeans came were considered to be from a tribe known as the Matinecock.

[3][1] Later, from the 1860s through the 1890s, small hard clams (quahogs) from Little Neck Bay were served in the best restaurants of New York and several European capitals.