Macy's

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  D Dutton (guest)

  Federated Department Stores leased the property for 99 years from the Whitney family. The property had formerly been the location of the family apple orchard at it's northeast section, and the family corn fields in the southeast section. Adjacent to the property on which Macy's sits, immediately to the west is Whitney Pond Park on land donated by John Hay (Jock) Whitney to the County of Nassau. Whitney Pond is fondly remembered by those who grew up in the area as a place to go ice skating (actually unsupervised trespassing) and sitting around 55 gallon drums of burning wood to warm up. It was the one place on the Whitney Estate one would not get chased from. An access road that runs east off of Community Drive, appropriately called East Community Drive, holds Company #2 of the Manhasset-Lakeville Volunteer F.D. on land also donated by Jock Whitney. At the southeast corner of Community Drive and East Community Drive sits the 6th Precinct of the Nassau County Police Department, also on land donated by Jock Whitney. But, by far, the largest area donation of property by Jock Whitney contains the North Shore University Hospital complex. Another notable spot on the Whitney Estate contained the home of Joan Whitney Payson, former owner of the New York Metropolitans (NY Mets) baseball team. Her home is now used as a church as per her will. The North Shore Universalist Society calls it home now. The Whitney property had once run, roughly, from Northern Boulevard and Community Drive eastward to Shelter Rock Road, then southward to the Long Island Expressway (before there was an expressway) then west to Community Drive, then north to Northern Boulevard.

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