Situated on a deep water channel across from Bar Beach in Hempstead Harbor, the hamlet of Glenwood Landing has at different times supported a tourist trade with two hotels, an electric power plant, an Exxon Mobil facility and the world-renowned Fyfe Shipyard.
Though boats were built at the shipyard before World War II, Fyfe was best known as the “Tiffany of boatyards,” where yachts belonging to J.P. Morgan, Marjorie Merriweather Post and others and were maintained and stored and where the Vim, a racer commissioned by Harold S. Vanderbilt, was readied for the 1958 America’s Cup.
A fixture on Shore Road for more than 60 years, the Fyfe property was taken over by the Long Island Lighting Company in 1970.
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