Long Island · NY
Babylon
A Great South Bay village with a rowdy biblical name.
- Population
- 12,188 (2020 census)
- Named
- 1803
- Incorporated
- 1893
Then
- 1803
When the hamlet needs a new name, Mrs. Conklin compares rowdy travelers' stop to the biblical city: “But it will be a new Babylon.”
- 1814
Survivors of the Battle of Valparaiso pass through Fire Island Inlet on their way to Babylon.
- 1885
Black workers at the Argyle Hotel form the Babylon Black Panthers baseball team.
- 1893
Babylon incorporates.
Now
Babylon faces the Great South Bay and is the end of the LIRR's Babylon Branch. The stations here run along the South Shore bays from Long Beach and Jones Inlet to Fire Island Inlet and Great River.
25 tide stations around Babylon
- Babylon0.9 mi
- Oak Beach4.2 mi
- Democrat Point, Fire Island Inlet4.6 mi
- Bay Shore, Watchogue Creek Entrance4.7 mi
- Amityville5.6 mi
- Fire Island Coast Guard Station5.9 mi
- Gilgo Heading6.4 mi
- West Fire Island6.9 mi
- Fire Island Light6.9 mi
- Biltmore Shores, South Oyster Bay7.7 mi
Show all 25 stations
- Great River, Connetquot River9.3 mi
- Seaview Ferry Dock9.7 mi
- Bellmore, Bellmore Creek10.4 mi
- Green Island10.5 mi
- Cuba Island11.6 mi
- Deep Creek Meadow12.2 mi
- Neds Creek13.0 mi
- Freeport, Baldwin Bay14.3 mi
- Jones Inlet (Point Lookout)15.2 mi
- Point Lookout (marina), Jones Inlet15.3 mi
- Baldwin, Parsonage Cove, Hempstead Bay15.8 mi
- Long Beach (Inside)18.2 mi
- Long Beach, Bridgewater Yacht Club, New York18.6 mi
- Bay Park, Hewlett Bay18.6 mi
- Woodmere, Brosewere Bay20.2 mi