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Transportation On Long Island
Nearly every major type of transportation serves Long Island, including three major airports, railroads and subways, and several major highways. The New York City Subway only serves the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. There are historic and modern bridges, recreational and commuter trails, and ferries, that connect the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn to Manhattan, the south shore with Fire Island and Long Island's north shore and east end with the state of Connecticut. Air 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 in Suffolk County. MacArthur is the only airport in Nassau or Suffolk counties with regularly scheduled commercial flights, handling about 2 million passengers a ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Island
Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York (state), New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area. The island extends from New York Harbor eastward into the ocean with a maximum north–south width of . With a land area of , it is the List of islands of the United States by area, largest island in the contiguous United States. Long Island is divided among four List of counties in New York, counties, with Brooklyn, Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, and Nassau County, New York, Nassau counties occupying its western third and Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County its eastern two-thirds. It is an ongoing topic of debate whether or not Brooklyn and Queens are considered part of Long Island. Geographically, both Kings and Queens county are located on the Island, but some argue they are culturally separate from Long Island. Long Island may ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Airport
Republic Airport is a public airport in East Farmingdale in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, United States The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation ''reliever airport''. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 3,586 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 2,866 in 2009, and 2,783 in 2010. It is the busiest public general aviation airport within the State of New York and the third largest airport overall by total annual flights – behind only John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, respectively. On behalf of the New York State Department of Transportation, the airport is currently managed by AvPORTS – an American operator and manager of airports. History Early history Republic Airport was developed by Sherman Fairchild as the Fairchild Flying Field in East Farmingdale in late 1927, after determining that his existing flying field & airpl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merrick Road
Merrick Road is an east–west urban arterial in Queens, Nassau County, New York, Nassau, and Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk counties in New York (state), New York, United States. It is known as Merrick Boulevard or Floyd H. Flake Boulevard in Queens, within New York City. Merrick Road runs east from the Queens neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens, Jamaica through Merrick, New York, Merrick past the county line between Nassau and Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk into Amityville, New York, Amityville, where it becomes Montauk Highway at the Amityville, New York, Amityville–Copiague, New York, Copiague village/hamlet line. The easternmost portion of Merrick Road, from Carman Mill Road to its eastern terminus, is signed as part of New York State Route 27A (NY 27A). At one time, the entire length of Merrick Road east of Baisley Boulevard was signed as NY 27A; currently, the entire portion within Nassau County is currently designated as the unsigned highway, unsigned Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NY-27A
New York State Route 27A (NY 27A) is a state highway between Massapequa in Nassau County and Great River in Suffolk County, on Long Island, New York, in the United States. Its two most prominent components are Merrick Road and Montauk Highway. Route description NY 27A begins at a large junction between NY 27 (the Sunrise Highway) in front of the former Sunrise Mall site in the town of Oyster Bay, just east of Massapequa. NY 27A proceeds east along Old Sunrise Highway for one block, turning south on Carman Mill Road (former NY 276), which consists of several blocks of residential homes and passing a local school. Several blocks to the south, NY 27A intersects with Merrick Road at a t-intersection. At Merrick Road, NY 27A turns east off Carman Mill and onto Merrick, a four-lane boulevard through the town of Oyster Bay and the hamlet of East Massapequa. NY 27A is commercial for a long distance across East Massapequa, soon bending no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean Parkway (Long Island)
The Ocean Parkway (abbreviated as OP) is a limited-access road, limited-access Parkways in New York, parkway that traverses Jones Beach Island between Jones Beach State Park and Captree State Park on Long Island, New York (state), New York, United States. It begins at the southern terminus of the Meadowbrook State Parkway and heads east across Jones Beach Island, intersecting the south end of the Wantagh State Parkway before ending just past the Robert Moses Causeway. The highway is designated New York State Route 909D (NY 909D), an unsigned reference route (New York), reference route – and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing asset to the Jones Beach State Park, Causeway and Parkway System historic district. Route description The Ocean Parkway begins at a cloverleaf interchange with the southern terminus of the Meadowbrook State Parkway and the Bay Parkway (Jones Beach), Bay Parkway in Jones Beach State Park. Proceeding e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
