Ponquogue Causeway
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Suffolk County, New York
Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,493,350. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came...
, designed to connect Montauk Highway
Montauk Highway
Montauk Highway is one of the original through highways of Long Island, New York, extending from Jamaica, in the New York City borough of Queens to Montauk Point in Suffolk County, a distance of approximately 100 miles ....
(then NY 27) in Hampton Bays with the proposed Ocean Parkway Extension on Fire Island's Tiana Beach. The road was designed to either replace or run parallel to Suffolk County Road 32 as a two-lane, two-way limited-access parkway, that included a whole new bridge across Shinnecock Bay. As opposition to the Ocean Parkway extension stalled and killed that project, so too went the Ponquogue Causeway. However in the 1980s, Suffolk County Department of Public Works realized they needed to replace the old wooden drawbridge that carried Suffolk CR 32, and with help from the New York State Department of Transportation
New York State Department of Transportation
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, built a new one west of the former bridge, which survives as a fishing pier.