(RNS) — How do you get to Great Neck, New York? You can take the Port Washington branch of the Long Island Rail Road, or you can drive out on the Long Island Expressway to Exit 33. And you can work hard, be successful and want a great community for your family with one of the best school districts in the New York City area. This is the way it has been in Great Neck for almost a century. The Long Island North Shore town was home to F. Scott Fitzgerald, who located Gatsby’s West Egg at the end of the peninsula, in Kings Point. Groucho Marx lived there in the 1920s. So did Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan. Over the subsequent decades, and certainly after World War II, Great Neck became a capital city of the Jewish upper-middle class — a classic suburb, like Scarsdale, New York; Newton, Massachusetts; or Highland Park, Illinois. My relatives lived there. My closest friends grew up there.…