Overnight repaving to close Northern State at Nassau-Suffolk border for 3 weeks
The paving is being done overnight on the eastbound Northern State Parkway at the Nassau-Suffolk border. Credit: Newsday/Howard Schnapp
A road repaving project will close a section of the eastbound Northern State Parkway near the Nassau-Suffolk border overnight for the next three weeks, the New York State Department of Transportation said.
The work, which was scheduled to begin Wednesday night, will cause the closure between Exit 36A, the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway in Plainview, and Wolf Hill Road, Exit 41, in Dix Hills. Those closures will take place nightly between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., weather permitting.
Officials said drivers will be detoured onto the southbound Seaford-Oyster Bay to eastbound Old Country Road and then to the eastbound Long Island Expressway for travel to northbound Route 231, Deer Park Avenue, for access back to the Northern State.
For more on this and other projects, call 511 or visit 511NY.org for real-time closures and information.
Earlier this month, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the state will invest $58.8 million in Nassau and Suffolk counties to repave roads, fill potholes and improve curb and sidewalk ramps.
The effort includes projects on the Northern State Parkway, Hempstead Turnpike, Nassau Expressway, Veterans Memorial Highway, Sunrise Highway service roads and Route 25, Newsday reported.
They are the first batch of a larger, $107 million commitment to repave approximately 225 lane miles of state roads on Long Island. Planned projects include an $18.5 million, 50-mile repaving initiative on the Northern State Parkway from Exit 33 in Westbury to Exit 41 in Dix Hills.
Newsday's Tara Smith contributed to this story.
John Valenti, a Newsday reporter since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press, Society of the Silurians and National Headliner Awards for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing. He is the author of “Swee'pea,” about New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. His debut crime novel, “For Nothing Is Hidden,” rooted in 1950s Long Island, was released in October 2025.
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