Islip
Islip is a town in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the South Shore of Long Island.
Islip is a town in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the South Shore of Long Island. The population was 339,938 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the fourth most populous city or town in the New York metropolitan area. The Town of Islip also contains a smaller, unincorporated hamlet and census-designated place named Islip, which serves as the town seat.
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Worth seeing in and around Islip
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Connetquot River State Park Preserve
Connetquot River State Park Preserve is a 3,473-acre state park and conservation area in the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. The park contains the Long Island Environmental Interpretive Center as well as the Southside Sportsmens Club District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
4.1 km · state park in New York · Wikipedia - 02Wereholme
Wereholme, also known as the Harold H. Weekes Estate, and the Scully Estate, is a historic estate located at Islip in Suffolk County, New York. The mansion was built in 1917 in the French Provincial style for Lousine Peters and her husband Harold H. Weekes.
5 km · historic house in New York, United States · Wikipedia - 03Bay Shore Methodist Episcopal Church
Bay Shore Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as the United Methodist Church of Bay Shore, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church complex at E. Main Street at the junction of Second Avenue in Bay Shore, Suffolk County, New York. The complex consists of three attached units: the 1893 Richardsonian Romanesque-style church; the Gothic Revival style former church building built in 1867, relocated and now attached to the main church as the "Fellowship Hall," and a two-story, flat roofed Sunday School wing built in 1959.
5.4 km · church building in New York, United States of America · Wikipedia - 04Bethpage Ballpark
Fairfield Properties Ballpark is a 6,002-seat baseball park in Central Islip, New York that serves as the home of the Long Island Ducks. This independent professional baseball team is a member of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
1.1 km · baseball park in Central Islip, New York that serves as the home of the Long Island Ducks · Wikipedia - 05First Congregational Church of Bay Shore
First Congregational Church of Bay Shore is a historic Congregational church complex at 1860 Union Boulevard on the corner of First Street at Bay Shore, Suffolk County, New York, United States. Contributing elements of the complex consists of three attached units: the 1891 Romanesque Revival / Shingle Style church and rectory.
5.3 km · church building in New York, United States of America · Wikipedia - 06United States Post Office
Bay Shore Post Office, the U.S. post office in Bay Shore, New York, is located at 10 Bay Shore Avenue just north of Main Street. It serves the ZIP code 11706, as well as Kismet, Saltaire, Dunewood, Fair Harbor, and Point O'Woods, on Fire Island.
5.4 km · government building in Bay Shore, New York · Wikipedia
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Getting to Islip
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 51 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 57 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 82 km
- New York → Islip67 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · $6–9
- Newark → Islip81 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · $8–10
- Hartford → Islip123 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · $18–25
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Islip
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Islip. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerry services from Connecticut, Rhode Island and Block Island The Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Company service from Bridgeport for passengers, motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, and trailers.
- Get inCross Sound Ferry service from New London for passengers, bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, campers, and trailers.
- Get inViking Fleet Ferry from Block Island for passengers only and bicycles and surfboards are accommodated, no cars.
- Get inFerry services to Shelter Island are unavailable during late night, so always check their schedules.
- Get inNorth Ferry Company is available year-round and allows passengers, bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks, and commercial vehicles.
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Next door to Islip
Islip is 54 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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