History
The original section of the parkway, then known as the Jones Beach Causeway, opened on August 4, 1929, along with Jones Beach State Park, running from Merrick Road in Wantagh to Jones Beach Island. The parkway was extended northward to Southern State Parkway in July 1932 and to Northern State Parkway in December 1938. A formerly proposed extension to Interstate 495 (the Long Island Expressway) has been on the books since the late 1950s.
Upon completion of the southern extension of the Seaford–Oyster Bay Expressway (NY 135), Wantagh State Parkway was to be renamed Jones Beach Causeway between NY 135 and Ocean Parkway. Many have erroneously referred to Ocean Parkway as the Jones Beach Causeway.
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