Algonquin word for oyster bed; community leader Floyd H. Flake
Type
Major surface street
Maintained by
NYCDOT, Nassau County DPW, NYSDOT
Length
21.8 mi (35.1 km)[1]
Component highways
CR 27 from Valley Stream to East Massapequa NY 27A from East Massapequa to Copiague
Location
Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties
Nearest metro station
Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer station
West end
NY 25 in Jamaica
Major junctions
Belt Parkway in Laurelton NY 27 in Rockville Centre Meadowbrook State Parkway in Freeport Wantagh State Parkway in Wantagh NY 135 in Seaford
East end
NY 27A on the Amityville–Copiague line
Merrick Road is an east–west urban arterial in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties in New York, United States. It is known as Merrick Boulevard or Floyd H. Flake Boulevard in Queens, within New York City.
Merrick Road runs east from the Queens neighborhood of Jamaica through Merrick past the county line between Nassau and Suffolk into Amityville, where it becomes Montauk Highway at the Amityville–Copiague village/hamlet line. The easternmost portion of Merrick Road, from Carman Mill Road to its eastern terminus, signed as part of New York State Route 27A (NY 27A). At one time, the entire length of Merrick Road was signed as NY 27A; currently, the entire portion within Nassau County is currently designated as the unsigned County Route 27 (CR 27).[2] Merrick Road travels along an old right-of-way that was one of the original paths across southern Long Island, stretching from Queens to Montauk Point.
Merrick Road's name comes from the Algonquin word "Meroke", meaning "oyster bed".[3] The section of Merrick Boulevard in Queens was renamed Floyd H. Flake Boulevard in October 2020, in honor of Floyd Flake, senior pastor of the Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica.
^Google (May 30, 2015). "Merrick Boulevard / Road" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
^"Merrick Road - Nassau CR 27". Greater New York Roads. Retrieved April 1, 2010.[self-published source]
^Cusanelli, Michael; Weiss, Rachel; Doyle, Heather; Stark, Ian J. (January 26, 2019). "How 60 LI communities got their names". Newsday. Archived from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
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