Editing Wyandanch, New York (section)

==Transportation==

===Roads===
The original roads in West Deer Park/Wyandanch were Colonial Springs Road and Main Avenue, Little East Neck Road, Upper Belmont Road (now Mount Avenue) and Straight Path. All were established before 1900 by the Conklins or the Belmonts or by real estate developers wanting access to filed lots by buyers. Straight Path in Wyandanch seems to have been developed in the early 1870s by the developers of the "North Breslau" filed lots north of the West Deer Park railroad station. What is now called Long Island Avenue (established in 1895) was originally known as Conklin Street, designed to provide easier access between the village of [[Farmingdale, New York|Farmingdale]] and the new real estate sites in the future Wyandanch.<ref>Dyson, ''The Deer Park-Wyandanch Story'', 1957; Douglas, "Pine Barren Pioneers," 1982.</ref> A section of [[William Kissam Vanderbilt II|William K. Vanderbilt Jr.]]'s [[Long Island Motor Parkway]] (LIMP) toll road (1908) had two concrete overpass bridges crossing hollows at Little East Neck Road and Colonial Springs Road (across from the Wheatley Heights Post Office). The parkway (abandoned in 1938) was dug up and the bridges demolished in the early 1960s to make room for the Westwood Village housing estate in Wheatley Heights.

Working class Wyandanch was sandwiched in between the wealthy estates of the Belmonts, the Corbins and the Guggenheims in [[North Babylon, New York|North Babylon]], and the Dr. Herman B.Baruch estate in [[Wheatley Heights, New York|Wheatley Heights]]. What is now known as Wheatley Heights was mapped out as real estate sub-divisions of Wyandanch (including Wheatley Heights Estates, and Harlem Park) by [[Bellerose, New York|Bellerose]] developer William Geiger (the names Geiger Lake park and pool) in 1913 following the development of the Long Island Motor Parkway. The filed lot sub-divisions south of the LIRR and east of Straight Path were known as the Colonial Springs Development Corp property. These lots ran from Straight Path to the Carlls River.<ref>Dyson, ''The Deer Park-Wyandanch Story'', 1957. On Long Island Avenue see: "Farmingdale," ''The Long Islander'' (Huntington) June 1, 1895: 4</ref>

In 1941, Robert Moses' [[Southern State Parkway]] was opened to [[Belmont Lake State Park]] in North Babylon. Wyandanch residents were able to enter and exit the parkway at Exit 36 at Straight Path in [[West Babylon, New York|West Babylon]].<ref name=":4" />

===Railroad===
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In 1875, a station was built in Wyandanch on the [[Long Island Rail Road]]. It was demolished in June 1958 and replaced with a station building that was, in turn, replaced in 1986. The station was completely rebuilt in 2018 as part of the Double Track Project on the LIRR's [[Ronkonkoma Branch]].<ref>"LIRR to Move Station at Wyandanch Crossing," ''Newsday'', July 3, 1957</ref><ref>"Wyandanch to Get New RR Station", ''Babylon Town News'', February 1958</ref><ref>"Historic L.I.R.R. Station Is Razed," ''New York Times'', June 11, 1958, 37.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Wyandanch Station Enhancement (Completed 09/2018)|url=https://www.amodernli.com/project/wyandanch-station-enhancement/|access-date=2020-08-17|website=A Modern LI|language=en-US}}</ref>
[[File:WyandanchStation2018Rebuild.jpg|thumb|The [[Wyandanch station|Wyandanch LIRR station]], as seen following the 2018 rebuild.]]

===Buses===
Wyandanch is served by several bus routes operated by [[Suffolk County Transit]]:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sctbus.org/System-Map|title=System Map|website=sctbus.org|access-date=October 31, 2023}}</ref>

*3: [[Babylon station|Babylon LIRR station]] – [[Walt Whitman Shops]]
*4: [[Amityville station|Amityville LIRR station]] – [[Smith Haven Mall]]
*12: [[Farmingdale State College]] – [[Bay Shore, New York|Bay Shore]]