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49-523: The Bowl, located at 48th Street and Northern Boulevard in Long Island City , was the site where James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer for the World Heavyweight title on June 13, 1935, a fight later dramatized in the film Cinderella Man . Braddock's first comeback fight against John "Corn" Griffin was also in the venue. Jack Sharkey and Primo Carnera also captured the heavyweight crown in

98-681: A fork in the road at Calverton National Cemetery , where the route veers southeast while Sound Avenue, the other leg of the fork, heads due east towards the North Fork of Long Island. NY 25A runs along the eastern edge of the cemetery and through part of the Brookhaven National Laboratory grounds before ending about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the split at a junction with NY 25 in Calverton . The route in Queens and Nassau County

147-499: A designation c.  1927 when it was designated as NY 25A. By 1930, NY 25 was shifted southward onto its modern alignment between Smithtown and Riverhead while NY 25A was extended east over its former routing via Port Jefferson . In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York , the alignments of NY 25 and NY 25A west of Smithtown were flipped, placing NY 25 on Jericho Turnpike and NY 25A on

196-463: A junction with NY 106 south of East Norwich . NY 25A's run as a four-lane road ends here, and the route becomes a simple two-lane country road. It briefly reverts to four lanes at Cold Spring Road, and the highway enters Suffolk County less than a mile (1.6 km) later. Some discrepancy exists over NY 25A's street name in Nassau County, particularly regarding the eastern half of

245-554: A part of a large street grid and running along a linear alignment through Jackson Heights, Corona, and East Elmhurst. It eventually reaches Flushing Meadows-Corona Park , where the highway intersects with the Grand Central Parkway just northwest of Citi Field . NY 25A then proceeds east to Flushing , where it intersects the Whitestone Expressway ( I-678 ). Northern Boulevard continues through Flushing, where it

294-631: A wider highway to match the width of the former road. About 1 mile (1.6 km) from NY 347, NY 25A intersects with CR 83 (Patchogue–Mount Sinai Road). From here, the road passes through Mount Sinai and Miller Place before splitting again to bypass Rocky Point . The old path of the road passes through the community while NY 25A veers south of the hamlet. They reconnect east of Rocky Point to continue toward Shoreham and an intersection with CR 46 (William Floyd Parkway) near Brookhaven State Park . NY 25A continues east for another 3 miles (4.8 km) through Wading River to

343-597: A width that the road retains well into Nassau County . The highway serves the Long Island City Courthouse on its way to a junction with Queens Boulevard ( NY 25 ) at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge . Here, the road changes names again, becoming Northern Boulevard . Unlike the first two names, the Northern Boulevard name extends for a considerable distance, remaining with NY 25A through

392-531: Is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County , New York , United States, on the notably affluent North Shore of Long Island , historically known as the Gold Coast . Formerly known as Little Cow Harbor in about 1700, as Centerport in 1836, and as Centerport after 1895, the name refers to its geographic position midway between the east and west boundaries of the town of Huntington . As of

441-878: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . New York State Route 25A [REDACTED] I-278 in Woodside [REDACTED] Grand Central Parkway  / Whitestone Expressway in Corona [REDACTED] I-678  / Whitestone Expressway in Flushing [REDACTED] I-295 in Bayside [REDACTED] Cross Island Parkway in Bayside [REDACTED] Sunken Meadow State Parkway in Fort Salonga [REDACTED] [REDACTED] NY 25  / NY 111 in Village of

490-518: Is in the Harborfields Central School District. The schools include Harborfields High School , Oldfield Middle School, T.J. Lahey Elementary School, and Washington Drive Primary School. In the past, the district has received Blue Ribbon awards of excellence. Centerport is located at 40°53′34″N 73°22′41″W  /  40.89278°N 73.37806°W  / 40.89278; -73.37806 (40.892848, -73.378007). According to

539-554: Is now Edgewood Avenue (itself once CR 87 ). A handful of smaller, mostly local sections also exist. In Northport , the through road originally utilized Woodbine Avenue from Fort Salonga Road to Main Street and Bayview Avenue, and all of Main Street from there to Fort Salonga Road. In Setauket , it followed Main Street from Ridgeway Avenue and North Country Road to Old Town Road and current NY 25A. Finally, in Port Jefferson ,

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588-553: Is the Centerport Yacht Club, which was founded in 1947 and has served as the social and athletic focal point for the boating community in both Centerport and its surrounding areas. The yacht club sponsors a variety of racing fleets and regattas every year generally beginning in the late spring and ending mid-autumn. Suydam House , built in 1730, a saltbox house , is one of the oldest surviving houses in Centerport. Centerport

637-449: The 2010 United States Census , the CDP population was 5,508. It is located in the town of Huntington . Huntington and its surrounding hamlets mark the east end of Long Island's renowned "Gold Coast", the name deriving from the traditional wealth and gentility associated with the area. The association dates back to the early twentieth century in which many affluent families built their homes along

686-660: The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and is also mostly part of NY Bike Route 25 , with occasional diversions. Along this stretch, NY 25A passes the Stony Brook Museum and Carriage House and Stony Brook University . On the eastern edge of the Stony Brook campus, the route intersects with the north end of CR 97 (Nicolls Road). It continues on a generally northeasterly track to East Setauket , where it turns to head due east toward Port Jefferson . It enters

735-459: The New York City borough of Queens to NY 25 in Calverton , Suffolk County . The highway is a northern alternate route of NY 25, which follows a more inland routing along Jericho Turnpike . The route is known for its scenic path through decidedly lesser-developed areas such as Brookville , Fort Salonga , Centerport , and Roslyn . It is known by various names along its routing,

784-517: The Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan , where it followed 2nd Avenue and 57th Street for five blocks to meet NY 22 and NY 100 at Park Avenue . The extension into Manhattan was eliminated by 1952 when NY 25A was truncated to the intersection of Northern and Queens Boulevards. In the 1960s, NY 25A was extended southwestward along Jackson Avenue to meet the Long Island Expressway ( I-495 ) just east of where it enters

833-471: The Queens–Midtown Tunnel . The east end of NY 25A was reconfigured c.  1931 to follow Sound Avenue across the north shore of Long Island from Wading River to Mattituck , where it rejoined NY 25. The former routing of NY 25A between Sound Avenue and NY 25 west of Riverhead went unnumbered until the early 1940s when it was re-designated as NY 254. NY 25A

882-681: The Sunnyside Yard to the south. NY 25A continues east into Woodside, and the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway ( I-278 ) intersects with Northern Boulevard at the Woodside–Jackson Heights border. Northern Boulevard serves as the southern border for East Elmhurst from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to 114th Street. It also serves as the northern border for Jackson Heights and North Corona . NY 25A becomes

931-549: The United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km ), of which 2.1 square miles (5.5 km ) is land and 0.19 square miles (0.5 km ), or 8.29%, is water. Centerport is the site of the estate and Eagle's Nest mansion of William Kissam Vanderbilt II . This 43-acre (170,000 m ) estate now contains the Vanderbilt museum and planetarium . Camp Alvernia in Centerport

980-519: The historic community to the south preserved intact. The new route, known as the Roslyn Cut-Off, opened in 1949, and it bypasses the old alignment, which travels through the heart of Roslyn's downtown area. The old route through this area is now known as Old Northern Boulevard, and is located within the Villages of Flower Hill , Roslyn , and Roslyn Estates . Much of Old Northern Boulevard within

1029-496: The 1930s at the Bowl. But because no titleholder ever successfully defended his title there, the stadium was soon dubbed the "Jinx Bowl". The Madison Square Garden Bowl was torn down during World War II to make way for a US Army Mail Depot (and also because arena management deemed it more economical to rent baseball stadiums for fights). Metal from the stadium was melted down to make bullets and other war materials, including those to build

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1078-695: The Branch [REDACTED] CR 97 in Stony Brook [REDACTED] NY 347 in Mount Sinai New York State Route ;25A ( NY 25A ) is a state highway on Long Island in New York , United States. It serves as the main east–west route for most of the North Shore of Long Island, running for 73 miles (117 km) from Interstate 495 (I-495) at the Queens–Midtown Tunnel in

1127-540: The CDP was 97.65% White , 0.22% African American , 0.11% Native American , 1.18% Asian , 0.31% from other races , and 0.53% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.15% of the population. There were 2,022 households, out of which 34.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.9% were married couples living together, 7.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% were non-families. 18.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.8% had someone living alone who

1176-523: The Mail Depot. The depot itself was torn down in the 1960s, and the area is now home to a Major World used-car dealership and strip mall. This article about a sports venue in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a building or structure in Queens is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to sports in New York City

1225-552: The Northern Boulevard name, crosses into Nassau County at the Great Neck hamlet known as University Gardens . It winds its way around a steep curve in the Great Neck area before descending into Manhasset and the hamlet's Miracle Mile shopping area. The route continues eastward, intersecting with NY 101 and Nassau County Route 101 (Port Washington Boulevard and Searingtown Road, respectively) just south of Port Washington , in

1274-495: The Queens line. NY 25A makes a sharp northward turn just inside the county line at an intersection with NY 108 . It travels through Cold Spring Harbor , where it is initially called Harbor Road, and then Main Street, before curving back to the east and heading into downtown Huntington . In the hamlet, the road widens to four lanes and is also known as Main Street. At an intersection with County Route 35 (CR 35) on

1323-462: The Smithtown Bull, where NY 25A intersects with its parent route. NY Bike Route 25A ends here; however, NY 25A continues east into the hamlet of Smithtown by way of an overlap with NY 25 along Jericho Turnpike . The Jericho Turnpike name ends a short distance into the community at a junction with Edgewood Avenue, giving way to Main Street. The Main Street name continues into

1372-526: The adjacent Village of the Branch, where NY 25 and NY 25A split at an intersection that also serves as the northern terminus of NY 111 . The latter route heads to the South Shore of Long Island while NY 25 continues eastward and NY 25A heads northeast toward St. James and Stony Brook as North Country Road. This section of NY 25A runs along the Port Jefferson Branch of

1421-504: The center of the hamlet. NY 25A continues on an eastward track to San Remo (just east of Kings Park), where it makes a sharp southward turn at an intersection with St. Johnland Road in the center of the community. The route takes on the St. Johnland Road name and loosely parallels the Nissequogue River as it heads toward Smithtown . They cross just west of the Village of the Branch at

1470-501: The county. While signage for Northern Boulevard exists as far east as Cold Spring Road, implying that Northern Boulevard extends from Queens to the Suffolk line, several businesses located between NY 107 and NY 106 give North Hempstead Turnpike as the highway's name. Additionally, an old, undated Hagstrom Map from the late 1940s indicates that the Turnpike name extends as far west as

1519-807: The downtown area of the Village of Roslyn is also part of its own historic district . Several smaller sections also exist: Several bypasses were planned for NY 25A by the New York State Department of Transportation . Only the Roslyn Viaduct and the Rocky Point Bypass were constructed; other attempts to realign the highway were cancelled as a result of public opposition. The projects were largely opposed out of fear that they would lower property values and bring more traffic jams and rampant development. The proposed bypasses were: A similar proposal

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1568-473: The east side of Huntington, NY 25A narrows to two lanes once more and heads toward Centerport , where it becomes Fort Salonga Road. This name remains in place through Centerport, Northport and Fort Salonga to the vicinity of Sunken Meadow State Park . Just south of the park, NY 25A intersects with its first limited-access highway since the Cross Island Parkway in Queens when it encounters

1617-422: The main road was initially East Broadway from Main Street and West Broadway to East Main Street, and East Main Street from there to the current Main Street. All of modern NY 25A east of the New York City limits was originally designated as part of NY 25 in the mid-1920s. At the time, the section of Jericho Turnpike between New York City and Smithtown was state-maintained but unnumbered. It gained

1666-459: The median income for a household in the CDP was $ 160,456, and the median income for a family was $ 194,908. Males had a median income of over $ 100,000 versus $ 54,706 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $ 71,763. About 1.6% of families and 2.9% of the population were below the poverty line , including 2.5% of those under age 18 and 9.2% of those aged 65 or over. The median household income estimate between 2014 and 2018, in 2018 dollars,

1715-433: The more northerly route via Roslyn and Huntington . NY 25A was one of several routes that was extended west into New York City in mid-December 1934 when the city signed routes within its limits for the first time. The route followed Northern Boulevard west across northern Queens to Queens Boulevard , which at the time carried NY 24 and NY 25 . Here, NY 25A joined NY 24 and NY 25 across

1764-603: The most prominent of which include Northern Boulevard, North Hempstead Turnpike, Main Street, Fort Salonga Road, and North Country Road. It merges with NY 25 for approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in Smithtown . NY 25A begins at I-495 exit 14, the second exit off the Long Island Expressway , in Long Island City in the New York City borough of Queens . The route initially heads northward, following 21st Street for three blocks before turning northeast onto Jackson Avenue. Here, NY 25A widens from two to four lanes,

1813-410: The neighborhoods of Long Island City, Woodside , Jackson Heights , Corona , East Elmhurst , Flushing , Bayside , Douglaston and Little Neck . Northern Boulevard is the starting point of several prominent streets, such as Springfield Boulevard , Steinway Street , Roosevelt Avenue and Woodside Avenue. As Northern Boulevard, NY 25A begins to follow a more easterly path, loosely paralleling

1862-415: The north shore of the island. In Centerport, an example of this is the estate of William Kissam Vanderbilt II , otherwise known as Eagles Nest . Centerport is highly residential, characterized by winding driveways and beachfront hills. As is common among the many beachfront locations on Long Island's North Shore, Centerport has developed a large boating and sailing culture. An important part of this culture

1911-476: The northernmost exit on the Sunken Meadow State Parkway . Past the parkway, the route changes names from Fort Salonga Road to Main Street as it enters Kings Park , home to the now-closed Kings Park Psychiatric Center . The similarly numbered New York State Bicycle Route 25A (NY Bike Route 25A) joins NY 25A here, switching from CR 11 to NY 25A at the former's east end in

1960-481: The show were located. Kelsey's Bar – the tavern which Archie Bunker frequented (and would eventually purchase and rename Archie Bunker's Place) – was one such location to be located on Northern Boulevard in the show. Another location was the first dry cleaning store opened by George Jefferson . The Bunker family's home at 704 Hauser Street – a fictitious street – was also said to be located off Northern Boulevard. Centerport, New York Centerport

2009-470: The viaduct at an interchange with Bryant Avenue, and Northern Boulevard heads northeastward through East Hills and Greenvale , where it intersects with Glen Cove Road . In Brookville , NY 25A passes the New York Institute of Technology and the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University before intersecting with NY 107 . Past this point, the route slowly curves back to the east ahead of

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2058-557: The village as West Broadway, but turns south onto Main Street once the road reaches the harbor. NY 25A follows Main Street southeastward to Port Jefferson Station , home to the end of the LIRR's Port Jefferson Branch and NY 25A's junction with the north end of NY 112 . At the latter, NY 25A makes a sharp turn to the east, heading through the hamlet on Hallock Avenue toward its intersection with NY 347 (Nesconset Highway). NY 347 ends here, and NY 25A briefly becomes

2107-547: The villages of Flower Hill (on its north side) and Roslyn Estates (on its south side), ahead of a split in Northern Boulevard. Old Northern Boulevard, which once carried the NY ;25A designation, is the old route, which passes through the village of Roslyn , whilst Northern Boulevard itself bypasses the village via. the Roslyn Viaduct , which carries NY 25A over Hempstead Harbor . The old and new routes converge east of

2156-435: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.07. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 25.0% under the age of 18, 3.9% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 27.8% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.3 males. In 2000,

2205-525: Was made in 1968 when the Spinney Hill area near Whitney Pond was preparing to receive a slum clearance/urban renewal project. This proposal would have created a bypass between East Shore Road and Plandome Road. Northern Boulevard was mentioned in several episodes of Norman Lear 's hit sitcoms All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place – in addition to being the street on which several major locations in

2254-404: Was moved back onto its original routing through the town of Riverhead in the early 1950s, supplanting NY 254 in the process. NY 25A has been realigned in several locations in order to bypass local streets or entire communities along its routing. The construction of the Roslyn Viaduct in the 1940s, for example, enabled traffic to flow more freely over Hempstead Harbor and keeping

2303-709: Was once known as Broadway, towards Bayside. The route travels generally easterly across Bayside, intersecting with the Clearview Expressway ( I-295 ) along the way. Not far to the east, it crosses over the Cross Island Parkway at Alley Pond Park . Past the Cross Island Parkway, NY 25A goes through Douglaston and Little Neck before crossing the New York City line into Nassau County . The five-mile (8 km) stretch of Northern Boulevard stretching eastward from Flushing has been described as roughly coterminous with Koreatown, Queens . NY 25A, still bearing

2352-436: Was originally an east–west Indian trail between the current town of North Hempstead and Flushing . Meanwhile, the original road in Suffolk County was realigned and straightened in several locations prior to becoming a state highway. The old route is now known as North Country Road from Port Jefferson Station to Sound Beach (formerly CR 20 ) and from Shoreham to Wading River . From Smithtown to Saint James , it

2401-532: Was the first Catholic summer camp in the United States, established in 1888. Camp Alvernia is still in operation, serving over 900 local children aged 3–14 each summer. As of the census of 2000, there were 5,446 people, 2,022 households, and 1,526 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 2,562.0 inhabitants per square mile (989.2/km ). There were 2,094 housing units at an average density of 985.1 per square mile (380.3/km ). The racial makeup of

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