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The Wantagh State Parkway is a Parkway on Long Island , New York that links the Ocean Parkway at Jones Beach State Park with the Northern State Parkway in Westbury . It is unsigned ''' New York State Reference Route 908T'''. The parkway is located approximately 30 miles east of Manhattan and 14 miles east of the Nassau - Queens border. It runs north-south providing four lanes worth of traffic north of exit W4 ( Southern State Parkway ) and six lanes south of exit W4. The parkway starts from the south at Jones Beach (where it meets the Ocean Parkway at a Traffic Circle ), and runs through Wantagh , which is a populated suburb of New York City. As the parkway moves north toward Westbury, it cloverleafs with larger capacity roadways such as Merrick Road , Sunrise Highway , the Southern State Parkway , Hempstead Turnpike , and Old Country Road before ending at the Northern State Parkway . ROUTE DESCRIPTION From the southern terminus north to Wantagh , a Greenway, repaved in 2007, lies east of the Parkway, allowing bicyclers, skaters and walkers to travel about 3.5 miles (5.5 km) from Jones Beach State Park to Cedar Creek County Park. HISTORY A formerly proposed extension to Interstate 495 (the Long Island Expressway) has been on the books since the late-1950's. Upon completion of the southern extension of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway , 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. EXIT LIST Exits on the Wantagh State Parkway are prefixed with the letter "W" and numbered from north to south, in violation of common numbering practices by NYSDOT , which places exit 1 at the western or southernmost point of a highway. The Bay Parkway interchange in Jones Beach State Park is unnumbered. REFERENCES
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