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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.
Belmont Lake State Park was established in 1926 on land that was formerly part of the "Nursery Stud Farm", a Thoroughbred horse farm owned by August Belmont, namesake of the Belmont Stakes. [1] [5] The park was selected by Robert Moses as regional headquarters for all state parks on Long Island in 1935. [1]
Prospect Point at the Niagara Reservation, c. 1900.The reservation, known today as Niagara Falls State Park, was the first park opened by New York State.. State-level procurement and management of parks in New York began in 1883, when then-governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation authorizing the appropriation of lands near Niagara Falls for a "state reservation".
Officers of the Long Island State Parkway Police were given the option of transferring to either the State Police or the State Park Police. Headquartered at Belmont Lake State Park in North Babylon, the New York State Park Police currently patrols 25,000 acres (101 km 2) of parkland in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. [1]
Belmont Lake State Park: Long Island: Suffolk: 463 acres (187 ha) 1926 [26] 578,226: Belmont Lake: Day-use only. Formerly hosted the headquarters of the Long Island State Park Commission. [26] Bethpage State Park: Long Island: Nassau, Suffolk: 1,477 acres (598 ha) 1934 [27]: 21 795,563
The old version of exit 37 was a partial cloverleaf that included a direct entrance to the former headquarters of the Long Island State Park Commission, [12] and utilized eastbound re-entry to nearby exit 38, which had a north to east loop ramp, and eastbound connecting ramps to and from Sylvan Road, [13] the frontage road along the eastbound ...
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.
Moses's projects transformed the New York area and revolutionized the way cities in the U.S. were designed and built. As Long Island State Park Commissioner, Moses oversaw the construction of Jones Beach State Park, the most-visited public beach in the United States, [4] and was the primary architect of the New York State Parkway System.