Glen Cove, city, Nassau County, southeastern New York, on the northern shore of Long Island, at the entrance to Hempstead Harbor; incorporated 1918. A residential community popular for recreational boating, it is the site of the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture (1889) and a Friends meeting house (1725). Settled in 1668, it was called Muskuito Cove until 1834. Population 24,618 (1980); 24,149 (1990); 26,622 (2000).
