Long Beach Barrier Island
Long Beach is one of the
History
The first inhabitants on the Long Beach Barrier Island were the
Development began on the island as a resort and was organized by Austin Corbin, a builder from Brooklyn, New York.[2] Austin Corbin formed a partnership with the Long Island Rail Road to finance the New York and Long Beach Railroad Company which laid tracks from Lynbrook to Long Beach in 1880. The company also opened the 1,100-foot-long (340 m) Long Beach Hotel, at the time the largest in the world.[5] The railroad brought 300,000 visitors the first season. By the next spring, tracks had been laid almost the full length of the Long Beach Island, but after repeated winter storm washouts they were removed in 1894.[6]
Communities
Cities
Villages
Hamlets
Transportation
Road
The Long Beach Bridge connects to Island Park, the Atlantic Beach Bridge connects to Lawrence on the mainland of Long Island, and the Loop Parkway bridge connects Lido Beach to the Meadowbrook State Parkway.[1][7]
Rail
The Long Island Rail Road's Long Beach Branch terminates at the Long Beach station on the island.[1]
Bus
Bus services are provided by Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) and Long Beach Bus.[1][8]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Long Island Index: Interactive Map". www.longislandindexmaps.org. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ^ ISBN 978-1557871541.
- ^ "U. S. Life-Saving Service - Fire Island National Seashore (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
- ^ Howland, Southworth Allen (1840). Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in the United States: To which is Appended Accounts of Recent Shipwrecks, Fires at Sea, Thrilling Incidents, Etc. Dorr, Howland & Company. pp. 267–275.
- ^ "A Brief History - The City of Long Beach, New York". www.longbeachny.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ^ www.longbeachny.org https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044452/http://www.longbeachny.org/vertical/Sites/%7BC3C1054A-3D3A-41B3-8896-814D00B86D2A%7D/uploads/%7B04BE0A92-835C-4BEC-BF37-C72B7032B283%7D.PDF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
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(help) - ^ "Long Beach Bridge (Nassau CR 1)". www.nycroads.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ^ "Transportation". City of Long Beach. Retrieved October 22, 2019.