New York State Route 107

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NY Route 107

Length:

17.07 mi^[1] (27.47 km)

Formed:

1930^[2]

South end:

Merrick Road in Massapequa

Major
junctions:

Southern in Massapequa

NY 135 in Plainedge

Northern in Jericho

I-495 in Jericho

North end:

Mill Street in Glen Cove

Counties:

Nassau

Numbered highways in New York
< NY 106		NY 108 >
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 107 is a state highway entirely in Nassau County in the State of New York. It runs from Merrick Road in Massapequa to Mill Street and Brewster Avenue in the City of Glen Cove near City Hall. Route 107 is the only State Highway on Long Island to enter a city other than New York City.

1 Route description
2 History
- 2.1 Glen Cove Arterial Highway
3 Major intersections
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Route description

Southern terminus of Route 106-107 concurrency in Hicksville

Beginning at Merrick Road in Massapequa as Massapequa-Hicksville Road, it veers left in a northwesterly direction at the intersection of Broadway, which moves northeast, both before intersecting with Sunrise Highway.

Continuing through North Massapequa after its intersection with the east end of NY 105, it encounters two interchanges, first with the Southern State Parkway, then with Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, before veering to the left again in Plainedge, south of Hempstead Turnpike. After its brief entry into the town of Hempstead, Route 107 is renamed South Broadway, where it passes by the former Grumman Bethpage Airport. Shortly after crossing under Hicksville Station as North Broadway where the Main Line and Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road split up, Route 107 overlaps NY 106. The two routes encounter Broadway Mall, as well as the interchanges with Northern State Parkway and Long Island Expressway, also in Hicksville. The Parkway and Expressway interchanges are so close together that the distance between them can be measured not in miles, but in feet.

Immediately after an unnumbered cloverleaf interchange with NY 25 (Jericho Turnpike) in Jericho, NY 106 breaks away from NY 107 and continues as a four-lane divided highway as it heads for Oyster Bay, while NY 107 narrows down to two lanes on its way to Glen Cove, until reaching and joining up with Greenvale-Glen Cove Road.

[edit] History

The entirety of NY 107 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering, extending from the hamlet of Massapequa on South Oyster Bay to the city of Glen Cove on Long Island Sound.^[2]

[edit] Glen Cove Arterial Highway

The northernmost segment of NY 107, known as the Glen Cove Arterial Highway, clearly had limited-access aspirations. In the mid-1960s, this segment was constructed as a bypass of Glen Street.^[3] Some have even gone as far as to suggest the possibility of leading it to one of two bridges to Rye, New York across the Long Island Sound.^[4]

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile^[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Nassau	Massapequa	0.00	Merrick Road	Former routing of NY 27A
		0.65	NY 27 (Sunrise Highway)
		1.14	NY 105	Eastern terminus of NY 105
		2.58	Southern State Parkway	Exits 31 N-S (Southern Pkwy)
	Plainedge	3.13	NY 135	Exit 5 (NY 135)
	Plainedge	4.20	NY 24 (Bethpage Turnpike)
	Levittown	5.14	Wantagh Avenue	Former northern terminus of NY 115
	Hicksville	8.11	NY 106	Southern terminus of overlap
	Jericho	8.80	Northern State Parkway	Exits 35 N-S (Northern Pkwy)
		8.94	I-495	Exits 41 N-S (I-495)
		9.48	NY 25	Grade-separated interchange
		9.62	NY 106	Northern terminus of overlap
	East Norwich	13.18	NY 25A (Northern Boulevard)
	Glen Head	15.01	Glen Cove Road	Merges with Glen Cove Road from here to Glen Cove Arterial Highway
	Glen Cove	17.07	Pulaski Street