Editing East Garden City, New York (section)

==Geography==
[[File:East-garden-city-ny-map.png|thumb|left|U.S. Census map of East Garden City.]]
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the CDP had a total area of {{convert|3.0|sqmi|km2}}, all land.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web |date=2011-02-12 |title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990 |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html |access-date=2011-04-23 |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>

Beginning on its northern border and proceeding clockwise, East Garden City was bordered on the north by [[Carle Place]] and the Village of [[Westbury, New York|Westbury]] in the Town of North Hempstead (the Hempstead/North Hempstead town line); on the east by [[East Meadow]]; on the south by Uniondale and the Village of [[Hempstead (village), New York|Hempstead]]; and, on the west by the Villages of Hempstead and [[Garden City, New York|Garden City]].

East Garden City was one of many areas on [[Long Island]] where none of the places in the community have the hamlet name as part of their mailing address: places in East Garden City have either a "Garden City, NY 11530", a "Westbury, NY 11590", a "Uniondale, NY 11553" or a "Hempstead, NY 11550" mailing address.