Meadowbrook State Parkway

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Meadowbrook State Parkway
Reference Route 908E
Length: 12.52 mi[1] (20.15 km)
Formed: 1956[citation needed]
South end: Bay/Ocean Pkwys at Jones Beach
Major
junctions:		 NY 27 in Freeport
Southern Pkwy in North Merrick
NY 24 in Uniondale
North end: Northern Pkwy in Carle Place
Counties: Nassau
Numbered highways in New York
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

The Meadowbrook State Parkway is a 12.52-mile (20.15 km) long parkway in Nassau County, New York. The southern terminus is at the Bay Parkway in Jones Beach State Park, where the parkway becomes the Ocean Parkway. The northern terminus is at the Northern State Parkway in Carle Place. The parkway is designated New York State Reference Route 908E, an unsigned reference route.

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[edit] Route description

The Meadowbrook State Parkway travels north from the Ocean Parkway in Jones Beach. The road crosses a causeway over South Oyster Bay onto Jones Island, where the Meadowbrook meets the Loop Parkway and where southbound traffic passes through a toll plaza. In Freeport, the Meadowbrook meets NY-27 at a full cloverleaf interchange. Two and a half miles later, the Meadowbrook meets the Southern State Parkway, then NY-24 before ending at the Northern State Parkway in Carle Place.

[edit] History

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By 1931, the parallel Wantagh State Parkway was becoming an inadequate route to Jones Beach, where attendance regularly reached 100,000 visitors a day. The Meadowbrook State Parkway quickly began construction by 1932. In 1934, a four mile section was completed from Jones Beach to what is now Exit M9 (Merrick Road). The following year, the parkway was extended 2.8 miles to the Southern State Parkway in North Merrick. Robert Moses proposed an extension to the Northern State Parkway, and despite having rights to construct, the plan was delayed by World War II.

In the 1950s, an expressway extension was proposed to the Northern Parkway as opposed to the parkway extension that Moses proposed. The idea was shot down by officials, and a parkway extension was completed in 1956 by the state Department of Public Works.

[edit] Exit list

County Location Mile[1] # Destinations Notes
Nassau Jones Beach State Park Meadowbrook State Parkway southbound becomes the Ocean Parkway.
0.00 Bay Parkway – Jones Beach
0.98 M10 Loop Parkway
Freeport 4.30 M9E-W Merrick Road (CR 27A)
4.57 M8E-W NY 27 (Sunrise Highway)
5.10 M7E-W Babylon Turnpike (CR 7A)
North Merrick 6.81 M6W-E Southern State Parkway
Uniondale 8.99 M5 NY 24 east (Hempstead Turnpike) – East Meadow, Farmingdale
M4 NY 24 west (Hempstead Turnpike) – Hempstead, Nassau Coliseum
10.50 M3E-W Stewart Avenue (CR 177)/Merchants Concourse – Eisenhower Park
11.28 M2E-W Zeckendorf Boulevard (CR 154) To Roosevelt Field Mall.
Carle Place 11.68 M1E-W Old Country Road (CR 25) Single exit M1 northbound.
12.52 Northern State Parkway

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Traffic Data Report - NY 427 to NY 908F (PDF). NYSDOT (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2007-09-03.

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