Bay Shore, New York Bay Shore, New York Bay Shore is positioned in New York Bay Shore - Bay Shore Bay Shore is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York, United States.

It is situated on the South Shore of Long Island, adjoining the Great South Bay.

11 Bay Shore Union Free School District Bay Shore is one of the older hamlets on Long Island.

Sagtikos Manor, positioned in West Bay Shore, was assembled around 1697.

Station, Bay Shore, Long Island, September 1879.

The territory that would turn into Bay Shore proper was purchased from the Secatogue Native Americans in 1708 by small-town school teacher John Mowbray for "several eel spears". The name of the hamlet and postal service was changed to Bay Shore in 1868. Construction of the South Shore Mall (currently Westfield South Shore) two miles north of Main Street took company away from the small businesses on Main Street.

The Bay Shore High School underwent an extensive renovation and an expansion from 2005 through 2008.

Since 1891, Bay Shore has been served by volunteer firefighters of the Bay Shore Fire Department.

The department also serves Brightwaters and West Bay Shore.

The Bay Shore Fire Department is made up of members from five companies.

The three companies were soon consolidated to form the Bay Shore Fire Department that same year.

Bay Shore is served by the Suffolk County Police Department 3rd precinct.

Bay Shore is served by the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Volunteer Rescue Ambulance. Southside Hospital, which is part of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, is positioned at 301 East Main Street in Bay Shore.

Bay Shore is accessible by primary roads on Long Island such as: NY 27 - A, Known by a several names inside the Bay Shore limits, including Main Street (Bay Shore), South Country Road (Brightwaters) and Montauk Highway (West Bay Shore) CR-13, Fifth Avenue, runs from CR-4 (Commack Road) in Commack to Main Street in Bay Shore.

CR-57, Howell's Road/Bay Shore Road, runs from NY 231 in Deer Park to Third Avenue in Bay Shore, where it runs south towards NY 27 - A.

Bay Shore is approximately 12 miles (19 km) from Islip Mac - Arthur Airport, generally referred to as Long Island Mac - Arthur Airport, in Ronkonkoma.

Because there are severaler flights to choose from, most Bay Shore inhabitants (like other Long Islanders) travel to larger and more accommodative airports for most of their air travel, such as John F.

Bay Shore is a stop on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road.

The Bay Shore stop is a prominent stop for visitors traveling to and from Fire Island.

Bay Shore has terminals for the Ferries to Fire Island, serving Atlantique, Dunewood, Fair Harbor, Kismet, Ocean Bay Park, Ocean Beach, Saltaire, and Seaview, and lesser hamlets.

There are many bus stops in Bay Shore on different lines, provided by Suffolk County Transit.

Most of the buses that run in the Bay Shore region are directed and maintained by Suffolk Bus Corp, a subsidiary business of Suffolk Transportation Services, which provides transit service for the Bay Shore Union Free School District.

The Bay Shore CDP is positioned at 40 43 47 N 73 15 13 W (40.729857, 73.253722), on the South Shore of central Long Island, approximately 42 miles (68 km) from Manhattan and 79 miles (127 km) from Montauk.

The northern boundary of the Bay Shore CDP is the Southern State Parkway.

The northern part of the CDP (just south of the parkway) includes the hamlet of North Bay Shore.

North of the parkway is the CDP of North Bay Shore, which contains the hamlet of Pine Aire and part of the hamlet of Brentwood. The Village of Brightwaters is west of Bay Shore, and east of West Bay Shore and south of a portion of the Bay Shore CDP; The Great South Bay is to the south. The hamlet separates Bay Shore proper from West Bay Shore.

Almost all of the North Bay Shore CDP and the West Bay Shore CDP have the same postal ZIP code as Bay Shore, and nearly all inhabitants of those communities are also served by the Bay Shore Union Free School District, as are inhabitants of the Village of Brightwaters.

The US Postal Service does not officially recognize North Bay Shore nor West Bay Shore as correct postal addresses, causing inhabitants of those communities to use Bay Shore as their postal address.

Portions of Fire Island are also served by the Bay Shore Post Office and Bay Shore Union Free School District.

Bay Shore Union Free School District The Bay Shore UFSD serves most of Bay Shore, West Bay Shore, and North Bay Shore, with some portions served by neighboring school districts.

Bay Shore School District colors are Maroon and White and the mascot is the Marauder.

Gardiner Manor School, grades 3 5 (located in West Bay Shore) South Country School, grades 3 5 (located in West Bay Shore) Bay Shore Middle School, grades 6 8 Bay Shore High School, grades 9 12.

Bay Shore High School offers extensive AP courses, and became an official International Baccalaureate (IB) school in December 2008.

In addition, Bay Shore Parochial School of St.

Among Bay Shore's places of worship are: the Christian Science Society of Bay Shore, the First Baptist Church, First Congregational Church, St.

Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Sinai Reform Temple, Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk, Bay Shore Jewish Center, the United Methodist Church, Bethel A.M.E Church, St.

Patti Austin, singer, graduated from Bay Shore High School 1968 Frank Boulton, Bay Shore High School alumnus, president of Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, owner and president of the Long Island Ducks Aristotle Dreher, musician, co-founder of band Vaeda, born in Bay Shore and graduated from Bay Shore High School 1996 Henry Osborne Havemeyer, 19th century sugar baron and art collector, summered in Bay Shore through the 1900s and was an active member of the Bay Shore Yacht Club brokerage company, summered in Bay Shore in the early 20th century Gustav Kobbe, opera expert and art critic, summered in Bay Shore, killed by hydroplane while sailing on Great South Bay Harvey Milk, former San Francisco Supervisor, gay rights pioneer, 2009 posthumous recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom, graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1947 Judith Regan, publisher, graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1971 a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Bay Shore CDP, New York".

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"Bay Shore road map & street view".

"Map of North Bay Shore CDP"."Map of hamlets and villages inside the Town of Islip".

"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Bay Shore CDP, New York".

"Selected Economic Characteristics: 2009-2011 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates (DP03): Bay Shore CDP, New York".

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