West Broadway | |
|---|---|
| Nassau County Route E51 | |
 West Broadway highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained byNCDPW | |
| Length | 2.15 mi[1] (3.46 km) |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | Rockaway Turnpike (CR 257) / Burnside Avenue (CR C27) inCedarhurst |
| Major intersections | Prospect Avenue in Cedarhurst Woodmere Boulevard (CR E68) inWoodmere Franklin Avenue inHewlett Mill Road (CR D58) in Hewlett |
| North end | Broadway (CR C22) in Hewlett |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Nassau |
| Highway system | |
West Broadway is a major, 2.15-mile (3.46 km) road betweenCedarhurst andHewlett in the Five Towns area of Nassau County, New York, United States.
Owned by Nassau County and maintained by the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the road, in its entirety, is designated as the unsignedCounty Route E51.[2][3]
West Broadway begins at an intersection withRockaway Turnpike (CR 257) and Burnside Avenue (CR C27) in the Incorporated Village of Cedarhurst; a traffic triangle, featuring a park, is present at the intersection, along West Broadway.[2][3][4][5] From there, it then winds its way through the village, soon reaching Prospect Avenue. It then entersWoodmere, continuing east-northeast to Woodmere Boulevard (CR E68).
From its intersection with Woodmere Boulevard, West Broadway then continues east-northeast, enteringHewlett and reaching Mill Road (CR D58), thence crossing theLong Island Rail Road'sFar Rockaway Branch and ending atBroadway (CR C22), ultimately merging into it.[2][3]
West Broadway is primarily classified as amajor collector roadway by theNew York State Department of Transportation – although its westernmost and easternmost ends are classified as aminor arterial highway. The entirety of the road is eligible for federal aid.[4][5]
Much like Broadway to its south, West Broadway has long been one of the major thoroughfares through the Five Towns.[6][7]
In the 1940s, there was a failed proposal to eliminate West Broadway'sgrade crossing by elevating the Far Rockaway Branch through the area. West Broadway would then pass underneath the tracks.[8] However, this project never materialized, and as of 2025, the grade crossing remains.[2][5]
In the 1950s, when Nassau County upgraded and extendedPeninsula Boulevard to serve as the main thoroughfare through the Five Towns, West Broadway – like Broadway, itself – was bypassed, in turn providing traffic relief along the corridor.[6]
Beginning in 1959, when the Nassau County Department of Public Works created a numbered highway system as part of their "Master Plan" for the county highway system, West Broadway was originally designated as County Route 10.[9][10][11] This route, along with all of the other county routes in Nassau County, became unsigned in the 1970s, when Nassau County officials opted to remove the signs as opposed to allocating the funds for replacing them with new ones that met the latest federal design standards and requirements stated in the federal government'sManual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.[12][13] Subsequently, Nassau County renumbered many of its county roads, with West Broadway being renumbered as CR E51.[9][10]
| Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedarhurst–Lawrence line | 0.00 | 0.00 | Rockaway Turnpike (CR 257) and Burnside Avenue (CR C27) | Roadway continues west as Burnside Avenue (CR C27) | |
| Cedarhurst | 0.77 | 1.24 | Prospect Avenue | ||
| Woodmere | 1.35 | 2.17 | Woodmere Boulevard (CR E68) | ||
| Hewlett | 1.92 | 3.09 |  Franklin Avenue | Access toHewlett LIRR station | |
| 2.07 | 3.33 | Mill Road (CR D58) | |||
| 2.15 | 3.46 | Broadway (CR C22) | Merges into Broadway | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
As of September 2025, oneNassau Inter-County Express (NICE) bus route travels along West Broadway: then31.[14][15] This bus route travels along the entire road and runs betweenFar Rockaway, Queens and theRosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center in theVillage of Hempstead.[14][15]