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Long Island Sound at night, with nearby settlements marked. The Long Island Sound link is a proposed bridge or tunnel that would link Long Island, New York, to Westchester County or Connecticut, across Long Island Sound east of the Throgs Neck Bridge. The project has been studied and debated since the mid-20th century.
part of the New York Tunnel Extension Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road (Northeast Corridor) Queens–Midtown Tunnel: 1940: 1,955 m (6,414 ft) 4 lanes of I-495 (Long Island Expressway) Steinway Tunnel: 1915 trains: 53rd Street Tunnel: 1933 trains: 60th Street Tunnel: 1920 trains: 63rd Street Tunnel: 1989: 960 m (3,140 ft) Upper level: train
The MV Long Island, the newest member of the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry's fleet, was built in 2024 by Eastern Shipbuilding in Panama City, Florida, and entered service in Fall 2024. She is 302 feet long and 52 feet wide and has capacity for 124 automobiles. Externally, she is identical to the P.T. Barnum and Grand Republic.
Cross Sound Ferry is a passenger and road vehicle ferry service operating between New London, Connecticut and Orient, New York on Long Island.. The service is privately owned and operated by Cross Sound Ferry Services, headquartered in New London and run by the Wronowski family, which also owns and operates the Block Island Express ferry service and the Thames Shipyard and Repair Company.
Direct connections for rail freight between Long Island and nearby areas of the United States have long been limited. At present, freight trains from the west and south destined for New York City (except for Staten Island, via the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge), Long Island and Connecticut must cross the Hudson River using the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge which is 140 miles (225 km ...
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Map showing JFK (1) and LaGuardia (2) airports, both in Queens. Long Island is the location of three large airports with regularly scheduled commercial jet airline service. These are the John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, both in Queens County (in New York City), and the Long Island MacArthur Airport, (sometimes referred to as the "Islip Airport"), a smaller airport ...
A second boat for the Daufuskie Island ferry service was approved by Beaufort County, as the service provider looks to end the battle over compliance with the county’s contract.