History
The portion of NY 106 south of NY 107 in Hicksville was improved to state highway standards as part of a project contracted out by the state of New York on January 27, 1908. The road cost $57,516 to rebuild (equivalent to $1.47 million in 2013) and was added to the state highway system on November 2, 1908, as unsigned State Highway 546. State maintenance of Newbridge Road continued south of Jerusalem Avenue to Bellmore Avenue. By 1926, all of what is now NY 106 was state-maintained. In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, hundreds of state-maintained highways were assigned posted route numbers for the first time. NY 106 was assigned at this time, encompassing all of its modern alignment as well as the segment of Newbridge Road leading south to Merrick Road (then part of NY 27A) in Merrick. The route was truncated to end at NY 105 by 1970, and the section of Newbridge Road south of NY 105 is now county-maintained.
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