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36-55992. NWS SAME code. 036059. Oyster Bay is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Oyster Bay on the North Shore of Long Island in Nassau County in the state of New York, United States. The hamlet is also the site of a station on the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road and the eastern termination point of ...
Oyster Sloop Christeen Photo of Christeen, 2008. Christeen, a 38-foot gaff-rigged sloop, is the oldest oyster sloop in America and a National Historic Landmark. She was originally built in 1883 for Captain William Smith in Glenwood Landing, New York for harvesting oysters in Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor.
January 25, 1979. Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, which includes the Coe Hall Historic House Museum, is an arboretum and state park covering over 400 acres (160 ha) located in the village of Upper Brookville in the town of Oyster Bay, New York . Near the end of America's Gilded Age, the estate named Planting Fields was the home ...
The Town of Oyster Bay is the easternmost of the three towns that make up Nassau County, New York, United States. Part of the New York metropolitan area, it is the only town in Nassau County to extend from the North Shore to the South Shore of Long Island. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 301,332, making it the 5th most populous ...
Woodbury, Nassau County, New York. / 40.81389°N 73.46917°W / 40.81389; -73.46917. Woodbury is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 9,335 at the 2020 census. [1]
April 28, 2005. Jones Beach State Park (colloquially " Jones Beach ") is a state park in the U.S. state of New York. It is located in southern Nassau County [ 6 ] on Jones Beach Island, a barrier island linked to Long Island by the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Wantagh State Parkway, and Ocean Parkway. The park was created during Robert Moses ...
Octagon Hotel. Coordinates: 40°52′19.56″N 73°31′59.87″W. Photo of Octagon Hotel, ca.1910. The Octagon Hotel, built as the Nassau House by Luther Jackson in 1851, was a pre-eminent political and social meeting space in Oyster Bay, New York. This eight-sided building is also believed to be among only a few like it on Long Island and ...
Christeen. Christeen is the oldest oyster sloop in the United States and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992. [2] [3] She was built in 1883 in Glenwood Landing, New York as a gaff-rigged sloop. She had several homes including Essex, Connecticut, but in 1992 she arrived back in the hamlet of Oyster Bay, New York.