[2] Today, the estate belongs to the Friends of the Sands Point Preserve, which is a non-profit organization that maintains the property.

[7] Sands Point is bordered on three sides by water – the Long Island Sound to the north, Manhasset Bay to the west and Hempstead Harbor on the east.

[3] There are no areas zoned for business, commercial, or industrial uses located anywhere within the Village of Sands Point.

[8][21] Sands Point is located in New York's 3rd congressional district, which as of July 2024 is represented by Thomas R. Suozzi (D–Glen Cove).

[8][22] Like the rest of New York, Sands Point is represented in the United States Senate by Charles E. Schumer (D) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D).

[23] In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the majority of Port Washington North voters voted for Joe Biden (D).

[8] Sands Point is located entirely in the Port Washington Union Free School District.

[8][29] Additionally, the Port Washington UFSD's Guggenheim Elementary School is located within the village.

[8] Sands Point is located entirely within the boundaries of the Port Washington Library District.

[8] As of July 2024, no Nassau Inter-County Express bus routes operate within Sands Point.

[31][32] PSEG Long Island provides power to all homes and businesses within Sands Point.

[31][33][34] Sands Point is not connected to any sanitary sewers, and as such, the entire village relies on cesspools and septic systems.

[8][37] The Village of Sands Point, in its entirety, is located within the boundaries of (and is thus served by) the Port Washington Fire District.

[8][39] In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Sands Point (Port Washington/Manhasset/Cow Neck) was referred to as "East Egg".

Reports incorrectly suggest that Fitzgerald – while he was a guest at the mansion of Herbert Bayard Swope on Hoffstot Lane, at Prospect Point in Sands Point – used the site and its parties as his inspiration for the fictional Buchanan home in East Egg.

[66] The home may have served as one of the many inspirations, as Fitzgerald did likely visit it during his time living in Great Neck (1922–24), but not as a guest of Swope's.