Hochul allocates $58.8 million for Suffolk, Nassau road repairs
Long Island’s $58.8 million road push splits between Nassau-only, Suffolk-only and shared jobs, with Route 25, Sunrise service roads and the Northern State first in line.
Governor Kathy Hochul’s latest Long Island paving package is more than a pothole patch. Of the $58.8 million now moving into the region, $22.6 million is tied to Nassau-only stretches, $17.7 million is tied to Suffolk-only work, and the $18.5 million Northern State Parkway job runs across both counties. That means Suffolk drivers should see the earliest benefit on the Sunrise Highway service roads and State Route 25, while Nassau commuters get Hempstead Turnpike, Front Street and the Nassau Expressway corridor.
The Suffolk side of the announcement is the most commuter-heavy. State work is resuming on a $17.7 million project that began last fall to resurface 61 lane miles and upgrade more than 180 sidewalk ramps along the Sunrise Highway service roads and State Route 25. The route list includes Sunrise Highway service roads from Manor Lane to Brentwood Road in Islip and State Route 25 from Route 25A to Splish Splash Drive in Riverhead. Those are not cosmetic fixes. They are full milling and resurfacing jobs meant to leave a smoother, more durable ride on corridors drivers use every day to move between the Island’s east end, the South Shore and the commercial strip in central Suffolk.
Nassau’s biggest piece is a $13.8 million resurfacing package for State Route 24, Hempstead Turnpike, and State Route 102, Front Street, in and around the Village of Hempstead. Another $8.8 million project covers Nassau Expressway from Burnside Avenue to the Atlantic Beach Bridge toll booth and Veterans Memorial Highway from State Route 111 to the Long Island Expressway North Service Road in Islip. The Northern State Parkway work, priced at about $18.5 million, runs eastbound from the Wantagh State Parkway in Westbury to the New York Avenue overpass near Huntington; westbound lanes were completed last fall. NYSDOT says that project is a milling-and-resurfacing job intended to restore the roadway to a smooth, distress-free condition.
Drivers are already feeling the change in the form of lane, ramp and overnight closures. NYSDOT advisories in April listed work on the Northern State Parkway, Sunrise Highway service road, State Route 25, Veterans Memorial Highway, Wantagh State Parkway and the Long Island Expressway, a reminder that the public usually feels the disruption before it feels the payoff. Hochul’s new round follows earlier Long Island funding pushes, including a $27 million 2024 transportation investment that was expected to create about 350 construction jobs and a $157 million 2022 pavement program that covered about 480 lane miles statewide, including 287 lane miles of the Long Island Expressway and 62 on-off ramps carrying an average of 152,000 vehicles a day.
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