Glen Cove Road

Glen Cove Road (also known as Guinea Woods Road) is a 11.7-mile-long (18.8 km), major north–south thoroughfare running through north-central Nassau County on Long Island, New York, in the United States.

Glen Cove Road
Glen Cove Road highlighted in red
Route information
Length	11.70 mi[1][2] (18.83 km) 1.9 miles (3.06 km) as NY 107 1.95 miles (3.14 km) as NY 900B 9.55 miles (15.37 km) as CR 1 0.2 miles (0.32 km) as CR 243
Component highways	CR 1 from Hempstead to Greenvale NY 900B from Greenvale to Glen Head NY 107 from Glen Head to Glen Cove CR 243 in Glen Cove
Major junctions
South end	Peninsula Boulevard in Hempstead
	NY 24 in Hempstead Meadowbrook State Parkway in Carle Place Northern State Parkway in Carle Place NY 25 in Old Westbury I-495 in Old Westbury
North end	Glen Cove Avenue in Glen Cove
Location
Counties	Nassau
Highway system
New York Highways Interstate U.S. State Reference Parkways

It is the main road leading to the communities on the east shore of Hempstead Harbor. The portion south of the North Hempstead–Oyster Bay town line is the unsigned County Route 1 (CR 1), while the portion north of the town line until its intersection with NY 107 is designated as New York State Route 900B (NY 900B), an unsigned reference route, New York State Route 107 (NY 107), and County Route 243 (CR 243), an unsigned county route.

The northern segment of the highway encompasses the Glen Cove Arterial Highway (also known as Pratt Boulevard), a limited-access highway that was intended to connect to a proposed bridge across the Long Island Sound to Connecticut.

Route description

Glen Cove Road was once signed as Nassau County Route 1 until all county route numbers were removed in the 1970s.[3]

The alignment of Glen Cove Road starts at Peninsula Boulevard in downtown Hempstead as, but is known as Clinton Street in Hempstead and Clinton Road in Garden City until its intersection with Old Country Road in Carle Place.[4] It curves from when it intersects with NY 25 to I-495 to steer clear of the Meadowbrook Parkway and the Northern Parkway. Within Old Westbury the road is concurrently signed as Guinea Woods Road.[4]

Soon after its intersection with NY 25A in Greenvale, it widens to a divided highway and assumes the NY 900B designation, although the reference markers refer to it as NY 904.[5] At its intersection with NY 107 the alignment assumes that route's number and name.[4] After another 1.4 miles (2.3 km) the divided highway alignment and the NY 107 designation forks to the left as Pratt Boulevard, while Cedar Swamp Road forks to the right as a surface street. The road eventually ends at its intersection with Glen Cove Avenue near downtown Glen Cove.

History

Glen 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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[3]

The northernmost segment of NY 107, known as the Glen Cove Arterial Highway, was constructed in the mid-1960s.[8] 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.[9][10]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Nassau County.

Location	mi[1][2]	km	Destinations	Notes
Village of Hempstead	0.00	0.00	Peninsula Boulevard (CR 2)	Southern terminus of CR 1
	0.06	0.097	Front Street (CR 106)	Former NY 102
	0.20	0.32	NY 24 (Fulton Avenue)
Garden City	1.60	2.57	Stewart Avenue (CR 177)
Carle Place	2.60	4.18	Old Country Road (CR 25)	Transition between Clinton and Glen Cove roads
	3.20	5.15	Meadowbrook State Parkway south – Jones Beach
	3.40	5.47	Northern State Parkway east – Hauppauge	Exit 31 on Northern Parkway
Old Westbury	3.60	5.79	NY 25 to Northern State Parkway west – Mineola, Jericho, New York
	3.80	6.12	NY 25B (Hillside Avenue)
	4.00	6.44	Northern State Parkway west	Access from Northern Parkway only; exit 30 on Northern Parkway
	4.70	7.56	I.U. Willets Road to Northern State Parkway east
	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 0.00	12.39 0.00	Helen Street	Route transition between CR 1 and NY 900B^1
Glen Head	9.40 1.75	15.13 2.82	Glen Head Road – Glen Head	^1
	9.60 1.95	15.45 3.14	NY 107 south (Cedar Swamp Road)	Northern terminus of NY 900B^1
	10.40	16.74	Cedar Swamp Road north – Sea Cliff	Right-of-way diverts to Pratt Boulevard
Glen Cove	11.50	18.51	Pulaski Street	NY 107 transitions to CR 243
	11.70	18.83	Glen Cove Avenue	Northern terminus of CR 243
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access       Route transition

Notes

1. Upper mileage is based on the entire length of Glen Cove Road (via Google Maps),[1] while lower mileage based on NYSDOT records of NY 900B.[2]

See also

• List of county routes in Nassau County, New York
• New York State Route 107

References

1. Google (March 9, 2015). "Glen Cove Road" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
2. "2012 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. July 12, 2013. p. 177. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
3. Anderson, Steve. "County Roads on Long Island". NYCRoads. Archived from the original on January 3, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
4. Overview map of Glen Cove Road (Map). Google Maps. 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
5. "Traffic Data Report - All routes" (PDF). NYSDOT. July 16, 2007. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
6. Anderson, Steve. "County Roads in Nassau County - Routes 1 - 25". NYCRoads. Archived from the original on January 22, 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
7. Anderson, Steve. "State and U.S. Routes on Long Island". NYCRoads. Archived from the original on January 22, 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
8. "State Roads on Long Island". web.archive.org. 2008-01-22. Retrieved 2020-09-04. 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.
9. "Long Island Crossings". www.kurumi.com. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
10. "Proposed Long Island Sound Crossings: Comparative Data on Alternative Locations". Albany, NY: New York State Department of Transportation. December 1971. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

• Glen Cove Road at Alps' Roads