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Map showing the location of the Great South Bay. The Great South Bay is a lagoon [1] situated between Long Island and Fire Island, in the State of New York.It is about 45 miles (72 km) long and has an average depth of 4 feet 3 inches (1.3 m) and is 20 feet (6.1 m) at its deepest. [2]
The Great South Bay Bridge (historically known as the Captree Bridge) is a twin-span bridge on the southwest side of Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island. It carries the Robert Moses Causeway over the Great South Bay , between Long Island's South Shore and Captree Island . [ 1 ]
The Robert Moses Causeway is an 8.10-mile (13.04 km) state parkway in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island. It is named for the master builder and urban planner Robert Moses . The parkway, originally known as the Captree Causeway , connects West Islip on Long Island to the barrier beach islands, such as Captree Island, Jones Beach Island ...
West Sayville is located on the South Shore of Long Island in the Town of Islip.Its coordinates are 40°43’54”N 73°6’18”W (40.731594, -73.099701). West Sayville's coastline borders the Great South Bay.
The Smith Point Bridge is a steel bascule drawbridge in Shirley, New York that connects Long Island to Fire Island.Located on the south shore of central Suffolk County, the bridge carries William Floyd Parkway (Suffolk CR 46) across The Narrows between Bellport Bay (an arm of the Great South Bay) and Moriches Bay.
The community borders the Great South Bay, Sayville and the hamlet of Blue Point.. Bayport is located at (40.747858, -73.054216 [3]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.8 square miles (9.8 km 2), of which 3.7 square miles (9.6 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km 2) (2.37%) is water.
It is located on Fire Island, a barrier island separated from the southern side of Long Island by the Great South Bay. The hamlet has approximately 300 houses on 41 acres (17 ha), a summer seasonal population of 2,000 and a year-round population of 15. [2]
The Long Island State Park Commission, led by Robert Moses, expropriated the property in 1924, an action found to be illegal by the state's highest court on the grounds that the law did not permit such expropriation when the Commission did not have the funds to pay for the property; however, in the meantime, the Commission had retained control ...