History
Glen Cove Road was once (as of 1959) part of an extended County Route 1 which reached as far south as Point Lookout and as far north as Centre Island. The current state designation for the route only includes the Clinton Road and Glen Cove Road alignment south of the North Hempstead/Oyster Bay town line, after which it becomes NY 900B and later New York State Route 107. Route 900B had originally been NY 904 prior to the creation of the modern reference route system. The county route signage was removed in the mid-1970s because the county did not want to pay to replace the signs to conform to new federal standards.
The northernmost segment of NY 107, known as the Glen Cove Arterial Highway, clearly had limited-access aspirations. In the mid-1960s, this segment was constructed as a bypass of Glen Street, likely as the approach for one of two proposed bridges to Rye, New York across the Long Island Sound.
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