Meadowbrook State Parkway
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The Meadowbrook State Parkway is part of the Long Island State Parkway System, running half the length of central Nassau County, New York from North to South. It is unsigned New York State Reference Route 908E.
The parkway begins in the north at Mineola, the County Seat of Nassau, at the Northern State Parkway, near its intersection with the Long Island Expressway. The parkway then runs south, though what is to be named the "Nassau HUB" area, including exits adjacent to the Roosevelt Field Shopping Mall, Mitchell Field Park, Reckson Plaza (was called EAB Plaza), the Nassau Coliseum, Nassau Community College and Hofstra University. The parkway winds south, through East Garden City, Uniondale, East Meadow, and Merrick. Exits connect the parkway to the Northern State Parkway, Old Country Road, Stewart Avenue, Hempstead Turnpike, the Southern State Parkway, Babylon Turnpike, Sunrise Highway, Merrick Road, and Jones Beach's West End. At Merrick the parkway crosses the Great South Bay, towards Jones Beach Island and Jones Beach State Park, where it meets the Bay Parkway interchange and turns east, becoming the Ocean Parkway. Before the parkway reaches Jones Beach, the Loop Parkway meets the parkway, connecting it to Long Beach Island and the communities of Point Lookout, Lido Beach and Long Beach.
[edit] Exit list
With the exception of the northern terminus at Northern State Parkway and the southern terminus at Bay Parkway and Ocean Parkway, all interchanges are prefixed with the letter "M" in numeric order from North to South.
- No Exit Numbers: Northern State Parkway.
- M1(Northbound): Old Country Road (NCR 25).
- M1 E-W(Southbound): Old Country Road (NCR 25).
- M2 W-E: Zeckendorf Boulevard/Roosevelt Field Shopping Mall (NCR 154).
- M3 W-E: Stewart Avenue (NCR 177)/Merchants Concourse (Eisenhower Park)
- M4: NY 24(Westbound)- Hempstead and Nassau Coliseum.
- M5: NY 24(Eastbound)- East Meadow/Farmingdale
- M6 W-E: Southern State Parkway.
- M7 W-E: Babylon Turnpike (NCR 7A)
- M8 W-E: NY 27(Sunrise Highway)
- M9 W-E: Merrick Road(NCR 27A)
- M10: Loop Parkway
- No Exit Numbers: Bay Parkway
- END: Meadowbrook State Parkway/BEGIN: Ocean Parkway.
[edit] Interesting facts
The parkway is the host of the annual Long Island Marathon during the first weekend in May each year.
In Fiction In the novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo, the Meadowbrook Parkway is where Santino "Sonny" Corleone is gunned down.
[edit] 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
| Parkways of Long Island, New York | |
| East-west | Northern - Southern - Heckscher - Bay - Ocean - Long Island Motor Parkway |
| North-south | Meadowbrook - Loop - Wantagh - Bethpage - R. Moses Causeway - Sagtikos - Sunken Meadow |
| Formerly proposed | Caumsett - Sound Shore - Wildwood - Smith Point - Ponoquogue |
