 Ponquogue Parkway | |
|---|---|
| Route information | |
| Maintained by NYSDOT | |
| History | Formerly proposed parkway |
| Major junctions | |
| South end |  Ocean Parkway in Tiana Beach |
| North end | Possible endpoints: NY 27 in Hampton Bays Southern State Parkway extension in Hampton Bays |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| Counties | Suffolk |
| Highway system | |
In 1938, after the destruction to Fire Island from the Long Island Express hurricane, Robert Moses and W. Earle Andrews, both part of the Long Island State Park Commission, proposed reconstruction of the island. This proposal included an extension of the Ocean Parkway out from its terminus at Captree State Park across Fire Island to Westhampton. This new parkway, which would boast 22 feet (6.7 m) wide roadways, would have connections back to the mainland at Smith Point County Park and Ponquogue with parkway spurs across Shinnecock Bay and the Great South Bay. 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.