Garden City

Garden City, the Episcopal cathedral town of Long Island, in the barren Hempstead Plains, 19 miles E. of Brooklyn by rail, was laid out as a town of model villas by the New York millionaire, A. T. Stewart, who laid down 27 miles of boulevards, and planted some 50,000 trees. His widow erected here a Gothic cathedral (1877-85), a cruciform building, small, but profuse in detail and ornament, with western spire and circular apse. Close by are the bishop's residence and the cathedral schools, besides other seminaries. Pop. 574.