Hampton Bays is a hamlet and census-designated place located in Suffolk County, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York. It is within the Town of Southampton. The hamlet is known as “The boat ways of the Hamptons”. Hampton Bays is the only Hampton area to have access to all surrounding waterways; the Atlantic Ocean, Shinnecock and Tiana Bays and the Great Peconic Bay via Shinnecock Canal. In 1740, the community was settled as “Good Ground” and became the main hamlet of eleven in the immediate area. Montauk Highway was the Main Street and considered as the approximate area of the original hamlet known as Good Ground. The other hamlets in the area were called Ponquogue, Squiretown, East Tiana, Canoe Place, Southport, Springville, Red Creek, West Tiana, Newtown, and Rampasture. During the early part of 20th century, the eleven hamlets commonly called as "Good Ground” changed the name to “Hampton Bays”.
Hampton Bays is a perfect place for your family with many activities to enjoy such as jet skiing around the bay, camping by a pond, hiking rails, and horseback riding. Annual events include outdoor arts, craft shows and the Chili/Chowder Contest which usually happens every September. Nightlife is very much alive in which the Long Island’s largest nightclub 'Whitehouse' once known as 'CPI's (Canoe Place Inn) in the Hamptons' located in Hampton Bays. The area is also known for the popular Boardy Barn which offers live music as well as many area Hampton Dance and Beach Clubs and local Pubs. The Local Chamber of Commerce is helping to advance their commercial, industrial, civic, and general interests in the Hampton Bays area. The community feature homes old and new, ranch styles, capes, contemporaries, postmodern, and traditional.
North Shore Eye Care serves the residents of Hampton Bays with a variety of concerns including cataract surgery. With the development of improved lens implants to replace the natural lens of the eye when it no longer allows for acceptable vision, it is important to pick the lens that's best for you when having cataract surgery. For instance in the effort to see more clearly without the dependence on glasses following surgery more and more people are seeking multifocal or accommodative lenses. These lenses enable people to focus on objects at a distance as well as up close. However, in the presence of other ocular problems such as macular degeneration or glaucoma choosing a multifocal intraocular lens may not be appropriate since these lenses have been shown to decrease contrast sensitivity. With decreased contrast sensitivity it becomes much harder to see things, especially with poor illumination which could compound a problem that glaucoma patients as well as patients with macular degeneration already face.
Certain lenses on the other hand have been shown to be helpful in aiding vision in failing eyes such as aspheric lenses and toric lenses that decrease astigmatism. For those that wish to see better at near as well as far the Crystalens by Bauch and Lomb is the only accommodative lens that is approved on the U.S. market. With its excellent aspherical optic design this could be an excellent lens for people with decreased vision secondary to such diseases as macular degeneration or glaucoma. Of interest North Shore Eye Care has been named a Crystalens Center of Excellence.
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