MEADOWBROOK STATE PARKWAY

The 'Meadowbrook State Parkway' is a 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.

Contents

Route description

History

Exit list

References

External links

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.

History

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.

Exit list

County	Location	Mile1	#	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
		5.10	M7E-W	Babylon Turnpike (CR 7A)
	North Merrick	6.81	M6W-E	Southern State Parkway
	Uniondale	8.99	M5
			M4	– 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

References

1. Traffic Data Report - NY 427 to NY 908F

External links

★ Meadowbrook State Parkway article from NYCROADS.com Website

★ Interchange of the Week Monday, December 15, 2003 (Empire State Roads)

★ Jones Beach State Park

★ Maps and aerial photographs

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★ Hybrid satellite image and street map from WikiMapia