"It casts a shadow over the town," Ms. Himes, a lifelong Little Neck resident, said of the vacant structure.

Mr. Sear, a 68-year-old Great Neck resident, works to keep alive the kind of folk music he believes in.

Great Neck residents passed a school budget last month that scaled back the driver education program considerably.

Mr. Drake, an 82-year-old Great Neck resident, is a tunesmith.

"Great Neck residents are very generous."

Freda Leight, an 88-year-old Great Neck resident who has seen the taxes on her home rise to $5,000, does not feel the exemption goes far enough.

Unlike many Great Neck residents and officials, I am not afraid to speak my mind about the real issue at hand: a power struggle.

A Great Neck resident for 48 years, always involved in charitable causes.

A number of Eaton's Neck residents gave sworn testimony, including a nine-year-old boy.

He estimated that 20 years ago 8 out of 10 Great Neck residents resented the Persians.