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The Ponquogue Bridge is a 2,812-foot-long (857 m) bridge over Shinnecock Bay in Hampton Bays, New York. Maintained by the Department of Works for Suffolk County , the 29-span bridge carries two lanes of County Route 32 over the bay, connecting Hampton Bays to the eastern end of Westhampton Island . [ 3 ]
After Montauk, Hampton Bays is the second-busiest commercial fishing port in the state of New York. According to 2014 statistics by the National Marine Fisheries Service , 4.7 million pounds of finfish and shellfish, worth $5.5 million, were landed in the Hampton Bays/Shinnecock port.
The new spur at Ponquogue, deemed the Ponquogue Parkway, would have marked the eastern terminus of the new Ocean Parkway extension. The proposal lived until the cut-back to Smith Point County Park in 1962 for environmental issues with such a construction, ending any proposal for a parkway in the area of Hampton Bays.
Apr. 26—Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is taking comments on a plan to relocate the state fishing access site at Sportsman's Bridge ahead of construction of a new span across the Flathead River.
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It then proceeds northwest over Seaman's Creek by way of the Seaman's Creek Bridge, on the north end of which the parkway finally lands on Long Island. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] After crossing onto Long Island, the parkway enters the hamlet of Wantagh , with Wantagh County Park on its west side Cedar Creek County Park on its east side.
The Hampton Bays station was originally built along what was then the Sag Harbor Branch on December 20, 1869 [3] [4] [5] (although some sources claim it was in February 1871) as "Good Ground."
After Loop Parkway, the Meadowbrook heads northwest across another water channel and becomes a divided highway with a large center median. A third bridge over a waterway soon follows, bringing the Meadowbrook Parkway onto the mainland part of Long Island, near what is today the Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve. [3]