Hampton Bays Residents Call for Road Closure or Protests To Slow Shinnecock Gas Station Construction

Hampton Bays residents are calling on Southampton Town to take steps to block the construction by the Shinnecock Nation of a gas station, underway off Newtown Road in Hampton Bays. Some suggested that residents themselves should mount a "sit in" protest to block construction vehicles from accessing the site. DANA SHAW

Hampton Bays residents are calling on Southampton Town to take steps to block the construction by the Shinnecock Nation of a gas station, underway off Newtown Road in Hampton Bays. Some suggested that residents themselves should mount a "sit in" protest to block construction vehicles from accessing the site. DANA SHAW

Carol McNeil and other Hampton Bays residents said this week that Southampton Town should be taking drastic steps to stop the Shinnecock Nation from continuing construction of a gas station off Newtown Road. JOE SHAW

Jason Davis and members of a group called Friends of Peconic told the Hampton Bays Civic Association this week that they are proposing Southampton Town block commercial truck traffic on Newtown Road as a way to halt construction of the gas station being built by crews working for the Shinnecock Nation. MICHAEL WRIGHT

Aerial images on Google Maps now show the land cleared off Newtown Road in Hampton Bays to make way for the Shinnecock Nation's planned gas station. The tribe has ignored stop work orders issued by the town and now Hampton Bays residents are calling on Newtown Road to be closed to commercial truck traffic as a way to halt the ongoing construction of the access drive to the property.