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Robert Moses State Park - Long Island is a 875-acre (3.54 km 2) state park in southern Suffolk County, New York. [3] The park lies on the western end of Fire Island, one of the central barrier islands off the southern coast of Long Island, and is known for its five-mile (8.0 km) stretch of beaches on the Atlantic Ocean.
The following is a list of attractions on Long Island, New York State.The list includes museums, parks, and beaches as well as many other types of attractions. In this list, "Long Island" is defined as the geographical entity, and thus the list includes attractions in Kings County, New York, a.k.a. Brooklyn, as well as Queens County, New York, a.k.a. Queens, which are both parts of New York City.
The park was developed as a dairy farm by the Carver family in 1859. At one point, the 186-acre property had a house, barn, two silos, and sixty head of cattle. After most of the buildings burned down in 1927, the descendants of Captain George A. Carver offered the land to the State of Maine as a park in 1952. [4] [5] It opened in 1963. [6]
Robert Moses State Park – Thousand Islands is a 2,322-acre (9.40 km 2) state park located on Barnhart Island in the Saint Lawrence River and the adjacent mainland in the Town of Massena in St. Lawrence County, New York. [1] [3] The park is north of the Village of Massena, near the Canada–US border.
In 2009, Jones Beach introduced The Bay Stage, which has a general admission capacity of 5,000. The performances are staged behind the concessions on the theater property. The theater property is located a short distance from the VIP area but The Bay Stage events cannot be viewed or heard from the VIP area.
Fire Island Inlet is an inlet on the south shore of Long Island, New York.. It connects the Great South Bay with the Atlantic Ocean, passing between Robert Moses State Park (the western end of Fire Island) on the south and Oak Beach and Captree State Park (the eastern end of Jones Beach Island) on the north.
Tobay Beach is a restricted access recreational beach located in the middle of Jones Beach Island, a barrier island off the South Shore of Long Island, Nassau County, New York, United States, within the Massapequa 11758 Zip code. Its name is a portmanteau for the Town of Oyster Bay, which owns and manages the beach. Residents of the town are ...
Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, New York, in 2021. The LISPC was created in 1924 by the New York State Legislature to build and operate parks & parkways on Long Island. [2] [3] [4] Governor Al Smith was appointed as its first President, and Robert Moses, who had drafted the bill creating the agency, served until 1953. [2] [5] [6] [7] [8]