Glen Cove Road (also known as Cedar Swamp Road, Clinton Road, Clinton Street, Glen Cove Arterial Highway, Greenvale Glen Cove Road, Guinea Woods Road, and Pratt Boulevard) is a major, 11.7-mile-long (18.8 km) north–south thoroughfare running through north-central Nassau County on Long Island, New York, in the United States.
Glen Cove Road | |
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 Glen Cove Road and highlighted in red (Section maintained as NY 900B backed in blue) | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by NCDPW, NYSDOT, City of Glen Cove | |
| Length | 11.7 mi[1][2] (18.8 km) |
| Component highways | |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | Peninsula Boulevard in Hempstead |
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| North end | Glen Cove Avenue in Glen Cove |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| Counties | Nassau |
| Highway system | |
It is the main road leading to the communities on the east shore of Hempstead Harbor.
The portion from the North Hempstead–Oyster Bay town line to the intersection with Cedar Swamp Road (NY 107) is New York State Route 900B (NY 900B) – an unsigned reference route.
From there to Pulaski Street, it is New York State Route 107 (NY 107). This segment includes the Glen Cove Arterial Highway (also known as part of Pratt Boulevard) – an expressway that was intended to connect to a proposed bridge across the Long Island Sound to Connecticut. The limited-access section of the road is ceremoniously named Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph Daly Memorial Highway, in honor of Glen Cove native Daniel Joseph Daly.[3]
Route description
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Hempstead to Greenvale
editThe alignment of Glen Cove Road starts at Peninsula Boulevard in downtown Hempstead as Clinton Street. It travels north and northeast through Hempstead, eventually entering Garden City – at which point Clinton Street becomes Clinton Road. From there, Clinton Road continues north-northeast through Garden City until its intersection with Old Country Road – at which point it enters the Town of North Hempstead, in Carle Place, and becomes Glen Cove Road.[4][5]
Glen Cove Road then continues north, crossing underneath the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road. From there, it continues north for a distance, thence curving to the northwest to its intersection with Jericho Turnpike (NY 25), to steer clear of (and cross underneath) the Meadowbrook State Parkway and the Northern State Parkway.[4]
From there, Glen Cove Road enters Old Westbury, where the road is concurrently signed as Guinea Woods Road.[4][5] Continuing towards the north and northwest, the road soon intersects Hillside Avenue (NY 25B). It then continues north through Old Westbury, running parallel to (and serving as a frontage road for) the Northern State Parkway, intersecting I.U. Willets Road a short distance north of Hillside Avenue. From there, Glen Cove Road continues north-northeast, continuing to parallel the Northern State Parkway until the latter curves to the west; Glen Cove Road continues straight.[4]
Continuing north-northeast, Glen Cove Road soon intersects eastbound Old Westbury Road, then immediately crosses over the Long Island Expressway (I-495), thence immediately intersecting westbound Old Westbury Road.[4] It then enters East Hills, through which it continues to travel north, eventually reaching an intersection with Harbor Hill and Red Ground Roads. It then continues north through East Hills for a distance until reaching Town Path – at which point the road enters Greenvale.[4] From Town Path, Glen Cove Road continues north through Greenvale, soon reaching Northern Boulevard (NY 25A), veering to the northeast on the north side of the intersection. From there, the road continues through Greenvale to Back Road and the North Hempstead–Oyster Bay town line – at which point the CR 1 designation ends and the road then continues as unsigned NY 900B.[4]
This segment was once signed as part of Nassau County Route 1 until all county route numbers in Nassau County were removed in the 1970s.[6]
Greenvale to Glen Cove
editSoon after an intersection with NY 25A in Greenvale, Glen Cove Road becomes a four-lane boulevard and assumes the NY 900B designation – although the reference markers refer to it as NY 904.[7] At an intersection with NY 107, the alignment assumes that route's number and name: Cedar Swamp Road.[5] After another 1.4 miles (2.3 km) the alignment and the NY 107 designation forks to the left as a four-lane expressway known as Pratt Boulevard, while Cedar Swamp Road forks to the right as a surface street. A short distance later, NY 107 ends at an intersection with Pulaski Street, where Pratt Boulevard becomes a four-lane surface road. The road eventually ends at an intersection with Glen Cove Avenue near downtown Glen Cove.
History
editGlen Cove Road was once (as of 1959) part of an extended County Route 1, which reached as far south as Point Lookout and as far north as Centre Island.[8] The current state designation for the route only includes the Clinton Road and Glen Cove Road alignment south of the North Hempstead/Oyster Bay town line, after which it becomes NY 900B and later NY 107 and CR 243. Route 900B had originally been NY 904 prior to the creation of the modern reference route system.[9] The county route signage was removed in the mid-1970s because the county did not want to pay to replace the signs to conform to new federal standards.[6]
The northernmost segment of NY 107, known as the Glen Cove Arterial Highway, was constructed in the mid-1960s.[10] Built as a bypass of Glen Street, it would have served as the approach for the cancelled Rye-Glen Cove Bridge - one of two proposed bridges to connect Rye, New York with Long Island, via. the Long Island Sound.[11][12]
The bridge carrying Glen Cove Road over the Long Island Expressway was named the Police Officer Michael J. Califano Memorial Bridge, in honor of a police officer who was killed nearby on the line of duty.[13][14][15]
Major intersections
editThe entire route is in Nassau County.
| Location | mi[1][2] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Village of Hempstead | 0.00 | 0.00 | Peninsula Boulevard | Southern terminus | |
| 0.06 | 0.097 | Front Street | Former NY 102 | ||
| 0.20 | 0.32 |  NY 24 (Fulton Avenue) | |||
| Garden City | 1.60 | 2.57 | Stewart Avenue | ||
| Carle Place | 2.60 | 4.18 | Old Country Road | ||
| Clinton Road becomes Glen Cove Road | |||||
| 3.20 | 5.15 |   Meadowbrook State Parkway south – Jones Beach | |||
| 3.40– 3.60 | 5.47– 5.79 |   NY 25 / Northern State Parkway – Mineola, Jericho, New York, Hauppauge | Exit 31 on Northern State Parkway | ||
| Old Westbury | 3.80 | 6.12 |  NY 25B (Hillside Avenue) | ||
| 4.70 | 7.56 |  Northern State Parkway east – Hauppauge | Access via I.U. Willets Road; exit 30 on Northern State Parkway | ||
| 5.40 | 8.69 |  I-495 – New York, Riverhead | Exit 39 on I-495 | ||
| Greenvale | 7.30 | 11.75 |  NY 25A (Northern Boulevard) | ||
| 7.70 | 12.39 | Helen Street | |||
| NY 900B begins | |||||
| Glen Head | 9.40 | 15.13 | Glen Head Road – Glen Head | ||
| 9.60 | 15.45 |  NY 107 south (Cedar Swamp Road)NY 900B ends | South end of NY 107 overlap; northern terminus of NY 900B | ||
| 10.40 | 16.74 | Cedar Swamp Road – Sea Cliff | |||
| Glen Cove Road becomes Pratt Boulevard | |||||
| Glen Cove | 11.50 | 18.51 | Pulaski Street NY 107 ends | Northern terminus of NY 107 | |
| 11.70 | 18.83 | Glen Cove Avenue | Northern terminus | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Glen Cove Road" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
- ^ a b "2012 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. July 12, 2013. p. 177. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
- ^ "New York S7306 | TrackBill". trackbill.com. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Nassau County Road Jurisdiction Viewer". nassau-county.maps.arcgis.com. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
- ^ a b c Overview map of Glen Cove Road (Map). Google Maps. 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
- ^ a b Anderson, Steve. "County Roads on Long Island". NYCRoads. Archived from the original on January 3, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
- ^ "Traffic Data Report - All routes" (PDF). NYSDOT. July 16, 2007. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
- ^ Anderson, Steve. "County Roads in Nassau County - Routes 1 - 25". NYCRoads. Archived from the original on January 22, 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
- ^ Anderson, Steve. "State and U.S. Routes on Long Island". NYCRoads. Archived from the original on January 22, 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
- ^ "State Roads on Long Island". January 22, 2008. Archived from the original on January 22, 2008. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
The northernmost one-mile segment of NY 107, the Glen Cove Arterial Highway, appears to have limited-access aspirations. In the mid-1960's [sic], this segment was constructed as a bypass of Glen Street.
- ^ "Long Island Crossings". www.kurumi.com. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ^ "Proposed Long Island Sound Crossings: Comparative Data on Alternative Locations". Albany, NY: New York State Department of Transportation. December 1971.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Dooley, Emily C. (August 6, 2011). "Bridge being renamed for cop killed on duty". Newsday. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
- ^ Coen, Andrew (November 18, 2011). "Bridge Dedicated for Fallen Police Officer from Wantagh". Wantagh-Seaford, NY Patch. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
- ^ "Truck driver pleads guilty in crash that killed Nassau County cop". ABC7 New York. February 21, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
External links
edit- Glen Cove Road at Alps' Roads