A Summary on the Route 25A Final Visioning Report

New York Route 25A marks a shallow curving line across ten miles of land at the northern end of the Town of Brookhaven. It connects and, just as much, disconnects five Brookhaven hamlets, while running across the tip of a sixth. In the early twenty-first century, it is a broken zipper of a road. Nearby neighborhoods are not well served and there is a strong sense in the six communities it touches that the road does not link them in any more than a physical way – and does not even do that very well. Fixing the problems Route 25A presents is the purpose of a groundswell of activity in Mount Sinai, Miller Place, Sound Beach, Rocky Point, Shoreham, and Wading River.

An exhaustively organized Final Visioning Report, compiled from professional analysis and public outreach concerning 25A, was completed in September, 2010. It is not itself an action strategy, but instead the necessary precursor to actions to be taken after assessment of community attitudes towards 25A , the assets and liabilities lying along it now, and a judgment of what tools are right for use in the concerted actions to come.