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Old Country Road is a major east-west thoroughfare through central Nassau County on Long Island, New York. It serves many of the major shopping centers in central Nassau County including Roosevelt Field Mall. Old Country Road also forms part of the border between the towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead Nassau County is a suburban city county in the New York Metropolitan Area east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. ... Map showing Long Island; to the north is Connecticut and to the west are New York City and New Jersey. ... Roosevelt Field Mall is the largest shopping mall in the state of New York as measured by gross leasable area at 2,189,941 sq. ... The Town of Hempstead is one of the three towns (otherwise known as civil townships) in Nassau County, New York, United States. ... North Hempstead is a town in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 222,611. ...


Old Country Road is unsigned Nassau County Route 25. [1] [2]

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Route description

Nassau County

Old Country Road begins as the north-south Herricks Road (unsigned CR 8) curves to the west. It passes by the Nassau County govenment buildings in Mineola and northern Garden City around its intersection with Mineola Boulevard/Franklin Avenue (unsigned CR 5A). It then crosses Glen Cove Road/Clinton Road (unsigned CR 1), passing by a series of major shopping centers in Carle Place and Westbury including Roosevelt Field Mall and The Source Mall. It passes through Hicksville just south of where the NY 106/NY 107 concurrency ends. It briefly multiplexes with Round Swamp Road (unsigned CR 110) before continuing into western Suffolk County. Nassau County is a suburban city county in the New York Metropolitan Area east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. ... Mineola is a village in Nassau County, New York, USA. The population was 19,233 at the 2000 census. ... Garden City, New York is a village in central Nassau County, New York in the USA, which was founded by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869. ... Glen Cove Road is a major north-south thoroughfare through north-central Nassau County on Long Island, New York, and the main road leading to the communities on the east shore of Hempstead Harbor. ... Carle Place is a hamlet (and census-designated place) part of the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States. ... Westbury is a village located in Nassau County, New York in the USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 14,263. ... Roosevelt Field Mall is the largest shopping mall in the state of New York as measured by gross leasable area at 2,189,941 sq. ... The Source Mall (Also known as Mall at the Source) is a shopping mall located in Westbury, New York on Old Country Road and Merchants Concourse (Ellison Avenue). ... Hicksville is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. ... New York State Route 107 is a State Highway entirely in Nassau County in the State of New York. ... A multiplex or concurrency on a road network occurs where a single physical road carries two or more different highway, motorway or other road numbers. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


Suffolk County

Old Country Road multiplexes with Round Swamp Road before crossing the Nassau-Suffolk County Line at the same time as the Long Island Expressway at Exit 48. Between Foxhurst Road and Suffolk CR 35 the Dix Hills Road bridge goes over both Old Country Road and Northern State Parkway. A connecting road between Old Country & Dix Hills Road exists. The Long Island Expressway (LIE) is one of the interstate highways with the designation of Interstate 495. ... The Northern State Parkway is a limited-access parkway that runs for approximately 29 miles west-east across the north shore of New Yorks Long Island. ...


Communities Served

Mineola is a village in Nassau County, New York, USA. The population was 19,233 at the 2000 census. ... Garden City, New York is a village in central Nassau County, New York in the USA, which was founded by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869. ... Carle Place is a hamlet (and census-designated place) part of the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States. ... Westbury is a village located in Nassau County, New York in the USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 14,263. ... Hicksville is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. ... Welcome to Plainview sign on Old Country Rd. ... Melville is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, in the United States. ... Located in western Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island, Dix Hills is a hamlet (and census-designated place). ...

Major Intersections

County Location Mile Road(s) Notes
Nassau Herricks
0.0
Herricks Road
Rockaway Avenue
Mineola Mineola Boulevard
Franklin Avenue
Carle Place Glen Cove Road
Clinton Road
Carle Place Meadowbrook State Parkway Exit M1
Westbury Post Avenue
Merrick Avenue
Westbury Wantagh State Parkway Exit W2
Hicksville Newbridge Road
Hicksville S. Broadway
Plainview Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway Exit 10
Plainview Bethpage State Parkway Formerly proposed Bethpage State Parkway Exit B7 E-W
Nassau and Suffolk Plainview Round Swamp Road
Long Island Expressway
LIE Exit 48
Suffolk Melville Broad Hollow Road
Dix Hills Wolf Hill Road
Pidgeon Hill Road
  Deer Park Road
  E. Jericho Turnpike

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