The North Hempstead Country Club (abbreviated as NHCC ) is a private country club in the Incorporated Village of Flower Hill in Nassau County , on the North Shore of Long Island , in New York , United States.
76-417: The North Hempstead Country Club is located off of Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101) , and features an 18-hole, 70-par golf course designed by A.W. Tillinghast , with many trees and water hazards. The NHCC also features a card room, a pool, tennis courts, and dining facilities. The countrified manor style clubhouse was designed by renowned architect Clifford C. Wendehack . Many homes on Country Club Drive in
152-686: A county highway to connect Nicolls Road in Lake Grove through the Long Island MacArthur Airport, then on to the east end of the merge. As recently as 1981, the New York State Department of Transportation planned to add service roads and a proper interchange at both ends of the merge. Pressure from environmental groups seeking to avoid damaging the parkland stalled construction. NYSDOT eventually reconstructed Sunrise Highway in eastern Islip township into
228-486: A former alignment of the current CR 101 alignment. At this point, the highway curves to the northeast and passes through a small area of trees nestled amongst a large, residential area bordering Williston Park . Old Searingtown Road rejoins CR 101 at the northern edge of the forested area. The route continues north, serving as the boundary between Searingtown and Albertson as it proceeds past side streets lined by homes. At I.U. Willets Road , CR 101 serves
304-426: A four-lane, undivided highway, passing homes, businesses, and small patches of trees situated near the junction with NY 25A. At an intersection with Park Avenue North , NY 101 becomes a divided highway with two lanes in each direction. The highway continues north through Flower Hill to St. Francis Hospital , where it curves to the northwest to serve the center of Flower Hill. Here, NY 101 passes east of
380-430: A freeway during the 1990s, resulting in the present configuration. The entrance to Connetquot River Park remained as an at-grade intersection, accessible only from the westbound lane. Former segments of Montauk Highway now exist on both sides of the interchange, and sections of both roads were converted into fishing areas owned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation . Numerous accidents occurred at
456-671: A frontage road entering Springfield Gardens , crossing multiple exits of the Belt Parkway until entering Laurelton . In Laurelton, the Belt Parkway turns northward while NY 27 continues eastbound as South Conduit Avenue and westbound as Sunrise Highway, but stays a seven-lane divided boulevard (four eastbound and three westbound). The route crosses Francis Lewis Boulevard and south of the Rosedale Long Island Rail Road station; just east of Hook Creek Boulevard, NY 27 enters Nassau County and becomes
532-518: A group of golfers. The plane, which was owned by Speed's Flying Service, was dragged off of the fairway, and nobody was hurt in the incident. In September 1979, the North Hempstead Country Club expelled club member William Kirkendale after he critiqued their admissions policy, which barred Black and Jewish people from becoming members of the club. Later that year, Kirkendale filed a $ 1.25 Million (1979 USD) lawsuit against
608-561: A junction with Main Street. North of this point, the surroundings of NY 101 become more residential as the route narrows to two lanes and passes into the village of Sands Point . NY 101 ends shortly afterward at an intersection with Astor Lane, at which point Port Washington Boulevard is continued by Middle Neck Road and designated as CR 101. North of Astor Lane, the road becomes Middle Neck Road (CR D55) and heads northward, passing local residences and local commercial buildings to
684-540: A new highway parallel to Merrick Road, and then Montauk Highway, between the New York City line and Massapequa connecting several local roads from Massapequa to Montauk Highway at Oakdale. The former routing of NY 27 from Massapequa to Oakdale became NY 27A , connecting to NY 27 in Massapequa by way of County Line Road. Sunrise Boulevard was extended eastward to Oakdale c. 1934 as
760-869: A numbered highway system as part of their "Master Plan" for the county highway system. This plan marked CR 101 along its current alignment. In 1963, roughly a decade after the cancellation of the Freeport–Roslyn Expressway , the New York State Department of Public Works proposed a new expressway, known as the Western Nassau Expressway. This expressway would have extended from Sunrise Highway (NY 27) in Valley Stream north to an intersection with Middle Neck Road (then-CR 101) in Sands Point. Part of
836-427: A private club can admit whomever they want. In 2018, the North Hempstead Country Club underwent an expansion project. This project saw the club purchase and raze an adjcent home for the construction of a driving range. Official website New York State Route 101 New York State Route 101 ( NY 101 ) is a 3.58-mile (5.76 km) long state highway in northwestern Nassau County, New York , in
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#1732802094277912-535: A realignment of NY 27. One portion of NY 27's former route between NY 27A in Massapequa and the Suffolk County line is known as Old Sunrise Highway, and remains state-maintained to this day as NY 900D, an unsigned reference route . Sunrise Highway was built over the Brooklyn Waterworks aqueduct, past the south side of Aqueduct Racetrack . In December 1934, the route
988-429: A subsequent renovation project between 1994 and 1996. On March 20, 1968, a small plane, piloted by Reuven Jerzy and carrying Leonard Caplan as a passenger, suffered an engine failure over Manhasset Bay whilst Jerzy and Caplan were practicing stalls . As a result, Jerzy and Caplan proceeded to make an emergency landing , and they landed the plane on the North Hempstead Country Club's golf course, ahead of (and avoiding)
1064-650: A two-lane service road on either side. The route then meets the Robert Moses Causeway near West Islip . In East Patchogue, New York , the highway is reduced to a four-lane freeway after passing the NY ;112 exit. Between County Route 16 (CR 16) in Brookhaven and CR 46 in Shirley , the median is lined with pine trees along South Haven County Park. The setting along these roads
1140-636: Is at the other end of Queens. Sunrise became Conduit at 111th Street, which no longer exists, but is approximately where Aqueduct Road currently crosses over Route 27.) When the Nassau Expressway splits off, NY 27 continues east along Conduit Avenue and remains a frontage road for multiple exits of the Belt Parkway . The route interchanges with I-678 (the Van Wyck Expressway) a short distance later. NY 27 remains
1216-429: Is eligible for federal aid. Middle Neck Road begins at an intersection with Northern Boulevard (NY 25A) and The Locusts. From this intersection, Middle Neck Road continues towards the north along a mostly straight right-of-way , eventually reaching its southern intersection with Greenway. From its southern intersection with Greenway, the road continues towards the north for a short distance before bending slightly to
1292-485: Is known as Montauk Point State Parkway. NY 27's designation was assigned in the mid-1920s to a road extending from the New York City line to Amagansett . It began at the point where Merrick Road exited Queens and entered Nassau County . It mostly followed Merrick Road and Montauk Highway east to Amagansett. From East Patchogue to Brookhaven , NY 27 followed South Country Road, passing through
1368-843: Is similar to the one on the Southern State Parkway west of Belmont Lake State Park . The last exit with a state highway is near Hampton Bays , where it meets NY 24 . East of NY 24, Sunrise Highway crosses over the Shinnecock Canal and has one last eastbound exit before merging with CR 39 . It changes names to North Highway, a four-lane surface road more commonly known as Southampton Bypass. The highway continues east near toward village of Southampton before ending at an intersection with Montauk Highway . NY 27 turns east at that junction, following Montauk Highway toward Water Mill and points east. The section of Montauk Highway over which NY 27 runs
1444-539: Is two lanes wide, with the exception of the four-lane sections in the village of East Hampton . This section of NY 27 is concurrent with New York State Bicycle Route 27 . NY 27 heads generally northeastward to East Hampton village where it becomes Woods Lane, and later, Main Street. It has an intersection with the southern end of NY 114 before entering downtown. After passing Newtown Lane and North Main Street, NY 27's name changes to Pantigo Road, as it passes an eponymous historic district , listed on
1520-697: The BMT Canarsie Line , winding through New Lots before turning northeast. After crossing under a nearby subway yard , the boulevard passes through the City Line neighborhood. Near the junction with Ruby Street, NY 27 enters the borough of Queens , but retains the Linden Boulevard name. Continuing northeast through Queens, NY 27 and Linden Boulevard enter Ozone Park and reach an interchange with Conduit Avenue , where Linden Boulevard ends. NY 27 then continues eastward along
1596-600: The Flower Hill Village Park and west of the North Hempstead Country Club , before curving back to the north and entering Port Washington . In Port Washington, NY 101 passes Nassau Knolls Cemetery and narrows to become a four-lane undivided highway as it enters the center of the hamlet. It proceeds north–south through downtown, passing several blocks of commercial buildings and Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School ahead of
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#17328020942771672-552: The Henry Viscardi School and enters Searingtown. Just inside of the community, CR 101 intersects Hilldale Drive and Dogwood Road, two local streets connecting to Herricks Middle School . The route continues on through Searingtown into the village of North Hills , where the homes give way to trees as it turns to the northeast and passes under the Northern State Parkway . A short distance after
1748-801: The Holland Tunnel in Manhattan by way of the Gowanus Expressway, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel , and the West Side Elevated Highway . On January 1, 1970, NY 27A was truncated eastward to its current western terminus in Massapequa while NY 27 was extended northward along NY 27A's former route to the Holland Tunnel, where it ends at I-78 and NY 9A . By 1973, NY 27
1824-658: The National Register of Historic Places . In the hamlet of Amagansett , NY 27's name changes back to Main Street, again returning to the Montauk Highway name. The road becomes Montauk Point State Parkway as it enters Hither Hills State Park in Napeague . The parkway, a Robert Moses -designed highway, carries NY 27 to its eastern terminus at Montauk Point State Park , on the east side of Montauk . The final 10 miles (16 kilometers) of NY 27
1900-749: The New York City borough of Brooklyn to Montauk Point State Park on Long Island , New York . Its two most prominent components are Sunrise Highway and Montauk Highway , the latter of which includes the Montauk Point State Parkway . NY 27 acts as the primary east–west highway on southern Long Island east of the interchange with the Heckscher State Parkway in Islip Terrace . The entire route in Suffolk , Nassau , and Queens counties were designated by
1976-663: The New York State Senate as the POW/MIA Memorial Highway . The highway gives access to every town on the South Shore . NY 27 is the easternmost state route in the state of New York, as well as the longest highway on Long Island. Except for a short stretch in Oakdale, NY 27 has service roads that parallel the highway continuously from North Lindenhurst to Patchogue, and intermittently to
2052-635: The Park Slope and Windsor Terrace neighborhoods — providing interchanges with Fourth Avenue , Seventh Avenue , and 11th Avenue . At exit 5, eastbound NY 27 leaves the Prospect Expressway; the highway interchanges with Ocean and Fort Hamilton Parkways before ending a short distance to the south at exit 6 and Church Avenue. Eastbound NY 27 follows East 5th Street to Caton Avenue; westbound NY 27 leaves Caton Avenue at Coney Island Avenue, then follows Church Avenue to
2128-733: The Robert Moses Causeway in West Islip had two parkway-style arch bridges over two lanes of NY 27. When the service roads were built in Western Islip Township between 1969 and 1972, parkway-style bridges were added for them as well. The interchanges at Fifth Ave and Brentwood Road in Bay Shore had parkway-style arch bridges and cloverleaves. When the service roads were added, the parkway-style bridges were demolished and new ultilitarian structures built in their place. The original cloverleaves were also rebuilt to align with
2204-833: The Shinnecock Canal were made in the 1950s. In 1969, the New York Legislature approved a $ 160 million plan for the extension. It was a limited-access route, flanked by bicycle and equestrian trails. The eastbound and westbound roadways were to be separated by wide wooded medians. For the most part, the road was to run a mile or two north of existing NY 27, thus avoiding the populated centers through which it now passes. The extended Sunrise Highway would have had interchanges with CR 38 (North Sea Road) and CR 39 (County Road), CR 79 (Bridgehampton–Sag Harbor Road), NY 114 (East Hampton–Sag Harbor Turnpike), CR 40 (Three Mile Harbor Road), and CR 45 (Amagansett–Springs Road) before merging back into
2280-651: The Wantagh State Parkway . One mile (1.6 km) later, the highway has an interchange with NY 135 in Seaford . In East Massapequa , NY 27 passes under the LIRR and ends its stretch through Nassau. NY 27 then enters Suffolk County , where it veers to the northeast, bypassing Copiague . At the interchange with NY 109 in West Babylon , Sunrise Highway becomes a six-lane freeway with
2356-531: The 1920s were renumbered or modified. At the same time, hundreds of state-maintained highways that did not yet have a route number were assigned one. One of these highways was Port Washington Boulevard, a roadway connecting NY 25A (Northern Boulevard) in Flower Hill to Astor Lane in Sands Point , which was designated as NY 101 by the following year. Shortly after being designated as NY 101,
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2432-588: The Department of Public Works. Many people residing in Flower Hill and other surrounding communities were concerned by these improvements, in part due to the number of trees that were removed to accommodate the widened roadway, and the fact that the state did not immediately commit to replanting greenery and restoring the landscape. The state also did not immediately compensate the Village of Flower Hill for
2508-534: The Mayor of Flower Hill, to cite the road as being "poorly engineered", and that the "road has been engineered for 70-mph and the present speed limit is 30-mph." The state ultimately pledged to restore the landscaping and announced that they would adjust the grade of the intersections if prompted to do so by Flower Hill's officials. In 1959, the Nassau County Department of Public Works created
2584-465: The NY ;101 corridor north of NY 25A. The proposal was shelved in the 1970s. CR 101 begins at an intersection with Shelter Rock Road (CR 8) and Herricks Road near Herricks High School . The route heads eastward as Searingtown Road, passing to the south of the high school and to the north of a small pond. One block east of Herricks Road, CR 101 intersects with Old Searingtown Road,
2660-558: The North Lindenhurst area, plans to construct a cloverleaf interchange with CR 2 (Straight Path) in Copiague have existed for some time. In recent years, planners have realized that such an interchange would be too close to the cloverleafs with CR 47 (Great Neck Road) to the west and CR 3 (Wellwood Road) to the east. To further complicate matters, a widened CR 28 was extended to Sunrise Highway near
2736-639: The Northern Parkway overpass, CR 101 meets the Long Island Expressway ( Interstate 495 ) by way of Nassau Boulevard—the southern service road—and North Service Road. North of the Long Island Expressway, CR 101 passes by Christopher Morley Park to the east and residential neighborhoods to the west. Past the park, CR 101 enters an area with more residential development as it begins to run along
2812-596: The Port Washington section of Flower Hill border the North Hempstead Country Club. These homes, built by Walter Uhl in the 1930s and 1940s, were amongst the first homes to be built within the Village of Flower Hill. The North Hempstead Country Club celebrated its centennial in 2016. The North Hempstead Country Club opened in 1916, partially over the former Burtis Farm. The club purchased the more than 150 acre (61 ha) property on September 7, 1918, for an estimated price of $ 150,000 to $ 200,000 (1918 USD ). In 1956,
2888-571: The Prospect Expressway. NY 27 runs along Caton Avenue near the south end of Prospect Park in Flatbush . A short distance east, the street merges into Linden Boulevard , crossing eastward through Brooklyn on Linden. NY 27 passes east through East Flatbush and reaches a large intersection with Kings Highway and Remsen Avenue, where it expands into a six-lane boulevard through Brooklyn with frontage roads. East of East 96th Street, NY 27 intersects Rockaway Parkway and then travels under
2964-636: The Straight Path intersection in the late-1980s. To date, no interchange has been built for this area. The Oakdale Merge is a convergence of Sunrise Highway and Montauk Highway between Great River and Oakdale abutting the southern edge of Connetquot River State Park . The Montauk Highway predates the Sunrise Highway in the area. When Sunrise Highway was extended east of Amityville in 1940, it terminated at Montauk Highway's entrance to Connetquot River State Park. In 1953, Sunrise Highway
3040-676: The Sunrise Highway. Sunrise Highway begins as a six to eight-lane arterial road in eastern Queens, directly paralleling the Atlantic and Montauk branches of the Long Island Rail Road . It heads east into Nassau County , passing through Valley Stream , Lynbrook , and Rockville Centre on its way to Merrick . There it connects to the Meadowbrook State Parkway by way of an interchange. NY 27 continues to Wantagh , where it has an interchange with
3116-555: The United States. It runs north–south as Port Washington Boulevard from NY 25A in Flower Hill , west of Roslyn and east of Manhasset , to Astor Lane in Sands Point . It becomes County Route 101 ( CR 101 ) south along Searingtown Road to Shelter Rock Road ( CR 8 ) and becomes Middle Neck Road (CR D55) north of Astor Lane, continuing north and west to a dead end at the Long Island Sound as
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3192-457: The club. It was one of the first cases in which a white Christian sued a country club for barring and discriminating against Black and Jewish people. He argued that the club discriminated against minorities, and that the NHCC violated his civil rights by expelling him when he voiced his concern regarding said policy. The New York State Supreme Court ultimately sided with the club, concluding that
3268-400: The divided Conduit Avenues. This portion of the route becomes a controlled access highway, coterminous with the western portion of Nassau Expressway ( NY 878 ) starting at Cross Bay Boulevard until Aqueduct Road. (When constructed, the portion from Linden Boulevard until what is now Aqueduct Road, was designated Sunrise Highway. This is not to be confused with present Sunrise Highway, which
3344-528: The downtown section of the village of Bellport . The NY 27 designation was extended eastward along Montauk Highway to Montauk Point by 1930. On February 24, 1930, South Country Road was added to the Suffolk County highway system as CR 36 . NY 27 was subsequently realigned to follow Montauk Highway between East Patchogue and Brookhaven. NY 27 was realigned west of Oakdale c. 1931 to follow Sunrise Boulevard,
3420-515: The downtown villages along the route effectively put a stop to the idea. The portion of Sunrise Highway between North Lindenhurst and East Patchogue was gradually upgraded to a freeway from the late 1960s until the late 1990s, while the portion between East Patchogue and Shinnecock Hills was built as one from the start, and not upgraded from a surface road like the North Lindenhurst to East Patchogue segment was. The freeway portion of Sunrise Highway between North Lindenhurst and Shinnecock Hills
3496-469: The east end of the merge, resulting in its reconstruction in 1999. A new off-ramp to the service road for Pond Road was built, resulting in renumbering of exit 47 to exit 46A. While none of the interchanges north of Patchogue were built until 1988 to 1993, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) had known the need for them and had planned them decades before their eventual construction. As an example, Waverly Avenue ( CR 19 )
3572-475: The east into Southampton . They are officially designated, but not signed, as New York State Route 906C eastbound and New York State Route 906D westbound. NY 27 begins at exit 24 of I-278 (the Gowanus Expressway ) in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City . For the first stretch through Brooklyn, NY 27 runs along the Prospect Expressway — a sunken six-lane freeway through
3648-443: The eastbound lane and an extension of Sinn Street along the westbound lane. Sinn Street was acquired by NYSDOT east of NY 112 in the early-1960s, and was gradually abandoned. Today, exit 53 is a diamond interchange, and Sinn Street, Austin Street, and Franklin Street are now dead-end streets. Originally there were proposals to connect Washington Avenue and Phyllis Drive via ramps to side streets such as Franklin Street along
3724-558: The eastbound lane, and to an extension of Sinn Street along the westbound lane. Phyllis Drive was once part of NY 27 until Sunrise Highway was extended to Eastport in 1957. Today, both roads are only accessible via the service roads. Some residents are waiting for a potential pedestrian bridge connecting the two ends of Washington Avenue. West of the Carmans River near Southaven County Park in South Haven , there
3800-418: The existing Montauk Highway. The exits would have been sequentially numbered from 67 to 72. The plan failed, and Governor Hugh Carey canceled it in 1975. Other suggestions have included building a limited-access road on either side of Long Island Rail Road's Montauk Branch . As Sunrise Highway was upgraded during the 1970s and 1980s many interchanges were redesigned and replaced. The original interchange with
3876-399: The golf course's design was altered, as some of the easternmost portions of the property were returned to the local sand mining operations that took place nearby at the time. Holes 11-13, 16, and 17 were altered; this reconfiguration was designed by Robert Trent Jones . Following the end of sand mining operations in the area, the golf course's original, A.W. Tillinghast design was restored in
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#17328020942773952-492: The highway would not be open to traffic until 1975. The project was eventually shelved. Since 2005, the traffic counts contained within the annual New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) Traffic Data Report have indicated that the northern terminus of NY 101 is at an intersection with Beacon Hill Road. However, other documents produced by NYSDOT, such as their official description of routes in New York, give
4028-447: The highway's northern terminus as Astors [ sic ] Lane. In 2014, as part of a project to improve electricity transmission in the area, PSEG Long Island erected a new power line between Great Neck and Port Washington. The routing follows Port Washington Boulevard through the area, and was controversial due to the height of the poles. In November 2017, the portion of NY 101 between Northern Boulevard and Crabapple Road
4104-425: The lanes to accommodate peak travel in what was called the "traffic cone program". At the end of summer 2007, another eastbound lane was added, heading eastward to North Sea Road. The construction snarled traffic on CR 39. The Long Island Rail Road added three trains each way between Speonk and East Hampton during the construction. In April 2008, the three-lane segment from North Sea Road to Flying Point Road
4180-429: The median on NY 27 between North Ocean Avenue and NY 112 until 1975. This road could also have been used as a connecting ramp to both roads. Today, the north section only intersects the westbound service road , while the south section was converted into a dead-end street north of Austin Street. NY 112 was originally proposed to be accessible via connecting ramps to side streets such as Franklin Street along
4256-561: The new service roads. As with interchanges to the west, Islip Avenue ( NY 111 ) and Carleton Avenue ( CR 17 ) in Islip Terrace originally had parkway-style bridges crossing over Sunrise Highway. However, only Islip Ave had a partial cloverleaf on the west side of the bridge. The eastern side of the bridge used side streets for access, as did both sides of the Carleton Ave bridge. This section of Sunrise Highway wasn't divided. Since 1983, both areas have more modern bridges over
4332-605: The northwest, continuing in that general direction and soon intersecting Woodland Road, thence reaching another intersection with Greenway, and thence with Cherrywood Lane. Middle Neck Road then continues in the same direction, and it soon reaches its northern terminus at Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101). In the early 20th century, the Port Washington Line of the New York & North Shore Traction Company ran along Middle Neck Road. The system's Roslyn Trolley Yard
4408-516: The property acquired through eminent domain, and the grades of several intersections in Flower Hill being engineered to have unusually steep angles, with the intersecting, residential roads being significantly lower than the improved Port Washington Boulevard. Furthermore, the roadway was also cited by local residents and officials as being engineered to carry traffic at speeds significantly higher than Flower Hill's then-standard, 30-mph (48 km/h) speed limit. These issues prompted Harold S. Shouse,
4484-402: The road was widened to 30 feet (9.1 m). In the late 1950s, the New York State Department of Public Works modernized NY 101 in a $ 1,690,000 (1958 USD ) improvement project. This project, which began in early 1957, saw the widening of Port Washington Boulevard – most notably the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) part running through Flower Hill, and was carried out by a private firm contracted by
4560-490: The route passes to the south of the Sands Point Preserve and north past Sands Point Golf Club as the surroundings around the route become increasingly forested and undeveloped. At Tibbits Lane, the route turns to the northwest and continues to the road's end at a dead end on the southern shore of Long Island Sound. In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York , several of the routes assigned during
4636-551: The route would use modern NY 101 and the right-of-way of an abandoned Long Island Rail Road line. In 1971, several proposed crossings of the Long Island Sound were studied. One crossing, a bridge connecting Sands Point to New Rochelle in Westchester County , may have become a northward extension of the highway if it was constructed. By 1971, though, hopes had begun to fade on the highway's prospects of becoming reality. Even if construction had begun in that year,
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#17328020942774712-547: The route, NYSDOT repaved the entirety of Port Washington Boulevard from Northern Boulevard to Harbor Road. This project was completed in 2020. The entire route is in Nassau County . Middle Neck Road is a major, 0.53-mile (0.9 km) road in the Incorporated Village of Flower Hill , New York . It connects NY 25A to its south and NY 101 to its north. This portion of Middle Neck Road
4788-520: The service roads, and the old cross streets connect to those service roads or other side roads instead. Islip Avenue connects to NY 27 at exit 45 while Carleton Avenue meets the Sunrise Highway at exit 46. Besides the replacement of interchanges in Western Suffolk County, Sunrise Highway has had proposed interchanges and crossings that were either never built or were built according to alternate design specifications. In
4864-510: The unsigned County Route D55 ( CR D55 ). NY 101 was assigned c. 1931 while the county route continuations were assigned in 1959. CR 101 was initially signed; however, signage for the route was removed in 1973. In the 1960s, a proposal was made to construct an expressway , known as the Western Nassau Expressway . This expressway would have extended from NY 27 to NY 101 and utilized
4940-492: The west and the Village Club of Sands Point to the east. North of the club, the highway curves to the northwest and becomes surrounded by several blocks of residential homes to the southwest and patches of trees to the northeast as it heads deeper into the village. From this point west to the highway's end on Long Island Sound , CR D55 follows a mostly east–west alignment through Sands Point. Along this last stretch,
5016-448: The western boundary of Roslyn Estates and the eastern edge of Manhasset . The homes give way to commercial developments as the highway approaches Flower Hill and NY 25A (Northern Boulevard). Searingtown Road becomes Port Washington Boulevard and CR 101 becomes NY 101 upon intersecting NY 25A. Historically, Searingtown Road was known as Searington–Flower Hill Road. NY 101 continues north from NY 25A as
5092-432: Was again altered in the mid-1960s to continue west on Linden Boulevard, Caton Avenue, and Church Avenue to the south end of the Prospect Expressway. There, the route turned north, following the freeway to its end at the Gowanus Expressway (then-NY 27A), where NY 27A now ends. The Prospect Expressway was planned by Robert Moses , and was constructed during the 1950s. Prior to 1970, NY 27A continued north to
5168-435: Was completed in full in 1998. At the east end of NY 27 the highway abruptly became a three-lane highway east of the Shinnecock Canal , at the point where NY 27 is concurrent with CR 39 . This area was known as the "Shinnecock Squeeze" as traffic on the two-lane eastbound NY 27 was "squeezed" into a single lane. In 2006 and 2007 Suffolk County and Southampton officials began using traffic cones to adjust
5244-609: Was cut back to its interchange with the Gowanus Expressway while I-478 was assigned to both the Battery Tunnel and all of the West Side Elevated Highway south of the Lincoln Tunnel . Robert Moses developed plans for an elevated freeway featuring 10 to 12 lanes along Sunrise Highway through Nassau County. This freeway would have provided a truck link for the South Shore of Long Island but
5320-492: Was dedicated and renamed to Sergeant James J. Regan Memorial Boulevard , after the late U.S. Army Ranger Sergeant James J. Regan, in efforts made by New York State Senator Elaine Phillips . Regan, a Purple Heart recipient from Manhasset, was killed on active duty in Northern Iraq on February 9, 2007, when the vehicle that he was in was targeted by an IED . Starting in 2019, after several years of complaints from local and state officials, and from residents of communities along
5396-459: Was extended to East Patchogue; a 0.5 mi (0.80 km) overlap of NY 27 and NY 27A was created, with at-grade intersections connecting the highways. A segment of this alignment remains south of the eastern interchange. NY 27A was truncated east of the overlap in 1972. Plans to upgrade the interchange have existed since its creation. During the early-1960s, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works considered designating
5472-596: Was extended westward into New York City. NY 27 followed Sunrise Highway , Linden Boulevard , and Flatbush Avenue through Queens and Brooklyn to the Manhattan Bridge , where it continued into Manhattan along Canal Street to a terminus at 6th Avenue (then- U.S. Route 1A and later NY 1A ). The route was realigned slightly in the early 1940s to follow Atlantic and Washington Avenues, Eastern Parkway, Buffalo Avenue, and Rockaway Avenue between Flatbush Avenue and Linden Boulevard. NY 27
5548-499: Was formerly designated as CR 101A – and later as the southern segment of CR D55, in tandem with the northern, disconnected segment of Middle Neck Road in the Incorporated Village of Sands Point. When numbered as CR 101A, the route was a spur of CR 101 in name only, as it never connected to CR 101. The road is classified as a major collector roadway by the New York State Department of Transportation and
5624-491: Was located at the southern end of the road. The trolley operated between the 1900s and 1920s. In 2022, the Incorporated Village of Flower Hill took ownership of Middle Neck Road in a deal with Nassau County; the village acquired the road for $ 1. The entire route is in Nassau County . New York State Route 27 New York State Route 27 ( NY 27 ) is a 120.58-mile (194.05 km) long state highway that runs east–west from Interstate 278 (I-278) in
5700-521: Was originally proposed as a cloverleaf interchange. Today, exit 52 with CR 19 is a diamond interchange instead. North Ocean Avenue ( CR 83 ) was originally proposed to be accessible via connecting ramps to side streets including Austin Street along the eastbound lane and Sinn Street along the westbound lane. Today, exit 53A is a half-diamond interchange while Austin Street and Howard Street are now dead-end streets, and Sinn Street never reached North Ocean Avenue. Maple Avenue had crossed
5776-404: Was reconfigured from one eastbound and two westbound lanes to two eastbound and one westbound lane. The merge from two lanes to one in the eastbound direction is now assisted by a signalized intersection at Flying Point Road, where eastbound NY 27 traffic makes a left turn onto Montauk Highway. This widening project eliminates the "Shinnecock Squeeze." The first proposals for an extension east of
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