In today's Newsday, John M Gonzales, who should know better, found himself lost as he wrote about the Salvadoran Consulate that opened at 1100B Stewart Avenue in Garden City. Imagine that, when he was actually a half mile away from Garden City. That was in Garden City. But Garden City ends a couple of hundred yards east of that. Garden City Bowling, the City Cafe , Endo Laboratories, Nassau Community College, North Fork Bank and the Immigration and Naturalization Services office are all in the unincorporated areas of the Town of Hempstead.
None are in Garden City.
It's a nice name. If you accomplish it you will become famous. Then your reporters can have a new name for their datelines. After the numerous pool closings at the end of last season, my family seriously considered not joining the pool this year. However, being optimists, we assumed the problems the pool encountered last year were a fluke, so we signed up again for this year.