East Meadow Avenue is a major, 1.95-mile (3.14 km) road in Nassau County, on Long Island, New York, connecting North Bellmore and East Meadow. The road, in its entirety, is designated as unsigned Nassau County Route C62, and is one of two separate Nassau County highways with this designation – the other being Dutch Broadway.[2] It is owned by Nassau County and is maintained by the Nassau County Department of Public Works.[2][3]
East Meadow Avenue | |
|---|---|
| Nassau County Route C62 | |
 East Meadow Avenue, highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by NCDPW | |
| Length | 1.95 mi[1] (3.14 km) |
| Major junctions | |
| South end |  NY 106 in North Bellmore |
 NY 102 in East Meadow | |
| North end |  NY 24 and Park Boulevard (CR D82) in East Meadow |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Nassau |
| Highway system | |
Historically, East Meadow Avenue was known as Newbridge Avenue.
Route description
editCR C62 begins at Newbridge Road (NY 106) in North Bellmore. From there, it travels northwest, soon intersecting Jerusalem Road (CR 181), entering East Meadow.[2][3][4][5] It continues northwest from there, eventually intersecting Prospect Avenue, thence continuing northwest to Front Street (NY 102). From NY 102, CR C62 continues northwest, eventually reaching an intersection with Hempstead Turnpike (NY 24) and Park Boulevard (CR D82), where the route terminates.[2][3][4][5]
North of the intersection with NY 24, East Meadow Avenue becomes Park Boulevard, at which point the CR C62 designation is replaced with the CR D82 designation.[2][3][4][5]
The entirety of CR C69 is classified as a minor arterial road by the New York State Department of Transportation.[4][5]
History
editEast Meadow Avenue was originally known as Newbridge Avenue.[6][7][8] The name of the road was changed to East Meadow Avenue in 1982, to distinguish it from, and avoid potential confusion with, Newbridge Road – East Meadow Avenue's southern terminus. The name change was unanimously approved by the Hempstead Town Council on March 23, 1982, and the name change was ultimately made official on May 28 of that year.[6] Five years prior, an unsuccessful proposal to rename the road was made by the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce, which had asked the Hempstead Town Council to rename the road as East Meadow Boulevard.[8]
East Meadow Avenue was formerly designated as CR 144, prior to the route numbers in Nassau County being altered.[9][10] It, along with all of the other county routes in Nassau County, became unsigned in the 1970s, when Nassau County officials opted to remove the county route shields as opposed to allocating the funds for replacing them with new ones that met the latest federal design standards and requirements, as per the federal government's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.[11][12]
Major intersections
edit| Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Bellmore | 0.00 | 0.00 | NY 106 – North Bellmore, Oyster Bay (hamlet) | At-grade intersection | |
| North Bellmore–East Meadow line | 0.2 | 0.32 | Cold Spring Road (CR E39) | ||
| East Meadow | 1.07 | 1.72 | McKinley Avenue | ||
| 1.17 | 1.88 | Prospect Avenue | |||
| 1.64 | 2.64 | NY 102 – Hempstead (village), East Meadow | At-grade intersection | ||
| 1.95 | 3.14 | NY 24 (Hempstead Turnpike) – New York, East Farmingdale Park Boulevard (CR D82) | Roadway continues north as Park Boulevard (CR 82); access to Eisenhower Park via CR D82; at-grade intersection | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "CR C62" (PDF). NYSDOT Local Highway Inventory. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e New York State Department of Transportation (2021). "County Roads Listing: Nassau County" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "My Roads". Nassau County, NY. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
- ^ a b c d "New York State Department of Transportation Functional Class Viewer". gis.dot.ny.gov. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ^ a b c d "New York State Roadway Inventory System Viewer". gis.dot.ny.gov. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ^ a b "Street Gets a New Name". Newsday. March 24, 1982. p. 29 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Strong, Otto (April 22, 1990). "His Trips Down Memory Lane: Steve Buczak chronicles East Meadow's history". Newsday. pp. 1, 5 – via ProQuest.
- ^ a b Young, Gwen (February 3, 1982). "Street's Identity Crisis Bothers Merchants". Newsday. p. 23 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Freeport quadrangle, New York-Nassau Co – Map Collections". Brooklyn Public Library. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
- ^ "Hicksville quadrangle, New York-Nassau Co – Map Collections". Map Collections. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
- ^ "Nassau-Suffolk County Road History". 2009-01-03. Archived from the original on 2009-01-03. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
- ^ Anderson, Steve. "County Roads on Long Island". NYCRoads. Archived from the original on January 3, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2008.[self-published source]