East Meadow Avenue | |
|---|---|
| Nassau County Route C62 | |
 East Meadow Avenue, highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained byNCDPW | |
| Length | 1.95 mi[1] (3.14 km) |
| Major junctions | |
| South end |  NY 106 inNorth Bellmore |
| Major intersections |  NY 102 inEast Meadow |
| North end |  NY 24 andPark Boulevard (CR D82) inEast Meadow |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Nassau |
| Highway system | |
East Meadow Avenue is a major, 1.95-mile (3.14 km) road inNassau County, onLong Island, New York, connectingNorth Bellmore andEast Meadow. The road, in its entirety, is designated as unsignedNassau County Route C62, and is one of two separate Nassau County highways with this designation – the other beingDutch Broadway.[2] It is owned by Nassau County and is maintained by theNassau County Department of Public Works.[2][3]
Historically, East Meadow Avenue was known asNewbridge Avenue.
CR C62 begins atNewbridge Road (NY 106) in North Bellmore. From there, it travels northwest, soon intersectingJerusalem Road (CR 181), entering East Meadow.[2][3][4][5] It continues northwest from there, eventually intersecting Prospect Avenue, thence continuing northwest toFront Street (NY 102). From NY 102, CR C62 continues northwest, eventually reaching an intersection withHempstead 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 aminor arterial road by theNew York State Department of Transportation.[4][5]
East 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'sManual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.[11][12]
| 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 toEisenhower Park via CR D82; at-grade intersection | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||