"Approaching the Causeway"- Long Island, N.Y.

A crab fisherman is making his rounds in search of blue claw crabs in the Great South Bay, on the southern coast of Long Island, N.Y, not far from Captree State Park.

The Fire Island Bridge spanning the Fire Island Inlet, is silhouetted by the late afternoon sun. The two-lane span is part of the 8.1-mile Robert Moses Causeway State Parkway that connects West Islip to the barrier beach islands.  The southern end of the causeway terminates in Fire Island State Park established in 1908 and is the oldest state park on Long Island. The namesake of the causeway, Robert Moses, transformed the New York area and revolutionized the way cities in the U.S. were designed and built.

The 665 ft. Fire Island Bridge was built in 1964 and modeled after Brooklyn’s Mill Basin Drawbridge. The design of the bridge was changed to conform with that of the Great South Bay span a short distance to the north.  In 1985 a dual span was proposed to alleviate traffic, but it was never constructed.