Oyster Bay
The Town of Oyster Bay is the easternmost of the three towns that make up Nassau County, New York, United States.
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 city or town in the state.
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Worth seeing in and around Oyster Bay
2 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.
- 01Bethpage State Park
Bethpage State Park is a 1,477-acre New York state park on the border of Nassau County and Suffolk County on Long Island. The park contains tennis courts, picnic and recreational areas and a polo field, but is best known for its five golf courses, including the Bethpage Black Course, which hosted the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open Golf Championships, the 2019 PGA Championship and the 2025 Ryder Cup.
3.1 km · state park in Bethpage, New York · Wikipedia - 02Cantiague Park
Cantiague Park is a public park owned and maintained by the Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Museums, located in Hicksville, New York, United States.
3.7 km · park in the United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to Oyster Bay
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 27 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 31 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 57 km
- Stations
- Farmingdale station, 5.8 km · Landia, 4.4 km · Grumman, 600 m
- Newark → Oyster Bay56 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · $5–7
- Hartford → Oyster Bay122 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · $16–21
- Philadelphia → Oyster Bay171 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · $17–23
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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 Oyster Bay
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 Oyster Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Oyster Bay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Oyster Bay
Oyster Bay is 29 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.