Manhasset Facts and Figures

Manhasset is 8.5 miles square, broken down as follows:

• Manhasset unincorporated areas: (2.4 square miles)
• Munsey Park (.5 square miles)
  
• Plandome Village (.5 square miles)
  
• Plandome Heights Village (.5 square miles)
  
• Plandome Manor Village (.2 square miles)
  
• Flower Hill* (1.6 square miles)
  
• North Hills (2.8 square miles)
  

Manhasset:

• Has 13 Houses of Worship
• Has 3 Public Schools
• Has 6 Private Schools
• Is approximately 28 “express minutes” to Manhattan by Railroad
• Has one of the lowest student/teacher ratios in Nassau County Public Schools – 12:1
• Ranks in the top 5 of “spending per child” levels in the Nassau County Public Schools
• Has 80% of its students going on to four-year colleges
• Is in the 3rd Congressional District; 7th Senatorial District; 16th Assembly District
• Is actually the home of “Shelter Rock”, a 1,800-ton boulder which arrived during the Ice Age, and is now one of the largest boulders on Long Island and is a Landmark.
• Is an Indian term which translates to “The Island Neighborhood”
• First welcomed the Long Island Rail Road in June 1898, bringing with it the start of the modernization we know today.
  

*These figures also include small parts of other towns, as there are no definitive town boundaries within these villages.