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Little Neck, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Little Neck is the eastern part of the Douglaston-Little Neck neighbourhood, in northeastern Queens, New York City. Great Neck lies across the line.
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Where to stay in Little Neck
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
Little Neck is one of the least urban corners of New York City, and a stay here is a stay among houses rather than near anything to see. The Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch stops at Little Neck, which is the link into the rest of the city. Northern Boulevard carries the through traffic.
About Little Neck
What are the main landmarks in Little Neck?
Zion Episcopal Church is the one designated landmark. The Douglaston Community Theater players perform in it, and the Douglaston Club occupies the Greek Revival mansion Wyant Van Zandt built in 1819. The Memorial Day Parade runs from Great Neck along Northern Boulevard each year.
What is the history of Little Neck?
The Matinecock were the first people known to live here. Little Neck Bay fed them. Dutch settlers came for the land and the fishing, and Europeans followed in the seventeenth century for the harbour.
Thomas Hicks and a band of armed settlers drove the Matinecock out of Madnan's Neck, a name that may come from Menhaden-ock, the place of fish. Hicks's estate passed to Thomas Wickes in 1796 and to Wyant Van Zandt in 1819. George Douglas bought the mansion and two hundred and forty acres in 1835, and his son William inherited it in 1862.
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Updated September 2026