A Highway S-Curve

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An undated photograph from Newsday's files, believed to be from the early 1940s, shows the S-curve on Montauk Highway just east of Cooper Street in Babylon.

The curve was part of a two-lane section of Montauk Highway completed in 1912, according to Christopher Cotter, senior landscape architect at the State Department of Transportation's regional office in Hauppauge.

In a recent photograph, the area is now the southern terminus of a portion of state Route 231, built from 1966 and 1970, between the Southern State Parkway and Montauk Highway.

As part of the project, the S-curve was eliminated and Montauk Highway was reconstructed as a four-lane, separated roadway.