Meadowbrook State Parkway

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Meadowbrook State Parkway
Reference Route 908E
Length:	12.8 mi[1] (21 km)
Formed:	1956
South end:	Ocean Parkway
Major junctions:	NY 27 in Freeport Southern Parkway in N. Merrick Hempstead Tpke in Uniondale
North end:	Northern Parkway in Carle Place
Counties:	Nassau
New York State Reference Routes

The Meadowbrook State Parkway is a parkway in Nassau County, New York which runs 12.8-miles from the Ocean Parkway near Jones Beach to the Northern State Parkway in Carle Place. It is unsigned New York State Reference Route 908E.

[edit] 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.

[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] 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] Miscellanea

• The parkway is the host of the annual Long Island Marathon during the first weekend in May each year.

• 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
• Maps and aerial photographs
  • Hybrid satellite image and street map from WikiMapia