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On July 5, 1962, the New York State Assembly announced the opening of bids on the widening of a 4.4-mile (7.1 km) section of the Meadowbrook between Merrick Road and the Southern State Parkway. Bids were to be accepted on the project in August, with a price tag of $3.851 million (1962 USD).
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The interchange's ramp to the westbound Northern State Parkway. A diagram of the Westbury Interchange. The interchange is a semi-directional T interchange, connecting two major, controlled-access parkways: the Meadowbrook State Parkway and the Northern State Parkway; it also connects the two parkways to two major surface arterial routes: Jericho Turnpike (NY 25) and Glen Cove Road (CR 1).
The Southern State Parkway comprises the western portion of unsigned New York State Route 908M (NY 908M), with the Heckscher Parkway occupying the eastern section. Construction of the highway, designed by Robert Moses, began in 1925. The first section of the parkway opened in 1927.
The state's parkway system originally began as a series of then-high-speed (25 miles per hour or 40 kilometres per hour) four-lane roads that were created to provide a scenic way into, out of, and around New York City. The first section of this system opened in 1908.
The Long Beach Loop Causeway was opened to extreme fanfare on October 27, 1934, as was the Meadowbrook State Parkway with parades celebrating the event were held in Freeport and Rockville Centre, and they were attended by Robert Moses, at the time a candidate for Governor of New York, and Fiorello LaGuardia, the Mayor of New York City. [2]
Meadowbrook State Parkway north: Continuation north: Bay Parkway – Theater, West End Beaches: 2.00: 3.22: Wantagh State Parkway north: Roundabout; southern terminus of Wantagh State Parkway: Suffolk: West Gilgo Beach: 7.00: 11.27: West Gilgo Beach: Eastbound access is via center median u-turn ramp: Captree State Park: 15.27: 24.57
The state-maintained section of NY 102 was improved to state highway standards as part of a project contracted out by the state of New York on September 20, 1907. A total of 7.09 miles (11.41 km) of highway were rebuilt as part of the $81,000 project (equivalent to $2.75 million in 2025), including all of modern NY 105.