Robert Moses
The park, originally Fire Island State Park, was renamed for Robert Moses, a "master builder" of mid 20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York, president of the Long Island State Park Commission in the early and middle 20th century who oversaw the expansion of the state park system on Long Island.
It is one of two state parks in New York to bear this name "Robert Moses State Park". The other, Robert Moses State Park - Thousand Islands, is in northern New York along the St. Lawrence River.
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“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and chariot drivers.” So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth. As the Egyptians fled before it, the LORD tossed the Egyptians into the sea.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 14:26,27.