Peninsula Boulevard

Peninsula Boulevard
Route information
Length:	9.1 mi (14.6 km)
Major junctions
West end:	CR 2A / CR 257 in Cedarhurst
	NY 27 in Lynbrook
East end:	NY 24 in Hempstead
Location
Counties:	Nassau
Highway system
Numbered highways in New York Interstate U.S. N.Y. (former) Reference County (Nassau)

Peninsula Boulevard was once signed as Nassau County Route 2 until all county route numbers were removed in the 1970s.^[1]

Peninsula Boulevard is a 9.1-mile-long (14.6 km) arterial road through southwestern Nassau County, New York. It runs southwest-to-northeast between Cedarhurst connecting the Five Towns area to the Village of Hempstead, and indirectly serves The Rockaways as well. Throughout the county, Peninsula Boulevard is county-maintained as the unsigned County Route 2 (CR 2).^[2]

Route description

Peninsula Boulevard begins in Cedarhurst at Rockaway Turnpike (CR 257), near a connecting road to New York Route 878 (Nassau Expressway), and runs through the Five Towns area, where it spends much of its journey running northeast and southwest as a four-lane undivided thoroughfare. In Hewlett, it becomes a divided highway at Franklin Street and then runs beneath a bridge for the Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road between Mill Road and Gibson Boulevard. After Gibson Boulevard, the divider becomes wider as it winds towards Rockaway Avenue, only to return to its former stature. Within Lynbrook, New York, the road takes a sharp northern trajectory after the intersection with New York State Route 27 (Sunrise Highway) and almost immediately runs beneath Lynbrook (LIRR station). The road returns to the northeast at South Niemann Avenue and then intersects Merrick Road. After Ocean Avenue, it runs along the southeastern edge of Hempstead Lake State Park. Between Lakeview Avenue and the Southern State Parkway, it contains residential frontage roads on the east side, and pedestrian bridges over the road, the first being Lakeside Drive, and the second being North Village Avenue. The segment along North Village Avenue was a former segment of the Southern State Parkway.^[3] The second of these frontage roads ends at Mercy Hospital on the southeast corner of the interchange with the current Southern State Parkway at Exit 19 in South Hempstead. Beyond the Southern State, the road maintains its status as a divided highway even as it enters Downtown Hempstead, where it briefly turns east as it intersects Franklin, Greenwich, and Henry Streets. It is at the latter where the road turns back to the northeast to serve as the southern terminus of Clinton Street, which leads to Glen Cove Road, then intersects New York State Route 102 (Front Street), and finally terminates at New York State Route 24 (Fulton Street).

Bay Boulevard (CR 2A)

Bay Boulevard is a short extension of Peninsula Boulevard in Cedarhurst, New York. It runs from an intersection at Rockaway Turnpike (CR 257) to an industrial area just west of Nassau Expressway (NY 878).

Peninsula Blvd in Hempstead Lake State Park

Major intersections

The entire route is in Nassau County.

Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Cedarhurst	0.00	0.00	Rockaway Turnpike (CR 257) / Bay Blvd (CR 2A)	CR 2A to NY 878
Woodmere	1.24	2.00	Woodmere Boulevard	South to Broadway and Woodmere station.
Valley Stream	2.09	3.36	Mill Road	North to Cross Island Parkway
Lynbrook	3.81	6.13	NY 27 (Sunrise Highway)
	3.88	6.24	Merrick Road
	4.83	7.77	Ocean Avenue	Start of brief rural area
Lakeview	5.79	9.32	Lakeside Drive	Hempstead Lake State Park entrance
South Hempstead	7.32	11.78	Southern Parkway	Exit 19 (Southern Parkway)
Village of Hempstead	8.58	13.81	Greenwich Street (CR 7B)	South to Nassau County extension of NY 105
	8.84	14.23	Clinton Avenue (CR 7B)	To Glen Cove Road
	8.86	14.26	NY 102 (Front Street)
	9.11	14.66	NY 24 (Fulton Avenue)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

External links

• Peninsula Boulevard (AlpsRoads)
• Peninsula Boulevard (Greater New York Roads)