Waterfront Project Gets New Name: 'Garvies Point'

Glen Cove’s waterfront redevelopment project will officially be renamed Garvies Point at a Wednesday morning press conference, officials say.

The $1-billion revitalization project – and its new name – will be highlighted during a kickoff event for the pre-Sea Faire at Glen Cove Family Festival.

Sponsored by RXR Glen Isle Partners – the revitalization project’s developer – and the City of Glen Cove and the Glen Cove CDA/IDA, the festival will be held at the waterfront along Garvies Point Road during Independence Day Weekend, July 6-7. It will feature fireworks by Grucci, rides on The Christeen, a historic sloop built in Glen Cove in 1880, rides, food, music and more. The event will benefit the Glen Cove Youth Bureau.

Developer Scott Rechler told Newsday that the name of the waterfront revitalization project reflects the community’s history, pointing out that that project is on Garvies Road, there’s the Garvies Preserve next to it, and the house of a doctor and entrepreneur named Tom Garvie was once on the site.”