Sagtikos State Parkway to be closed overnight for construction of new ramps

A section of the Sagtikos State Parkway in Brentwood will be closed overnight for four weeks to construct new ramps connecting Crooked Hill Road to the Long Island Expressway, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Both directions of the parkway will be closed starting on Monday, from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., between Exit S1, Long Island Expressway, and Exit S2, Crooked Hill Road. 

Southbound traffic will be directed onto the Long Island Expressway South Service Road to Wicks Road southbound to Pine Aire Drive westbound.

Northbound traffic will be detoured off at Exit S2 to eastbound Community College Drive to northbound Wicks Road to eastbound Motor Parkway to the Long Island Expressway North Service Road.

The $27 million project was announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2022 and was expected to be completed last year.

The project includes the addition of two off ramps for direct access to Crooked Hill Road from both the eastbound and westbound LIE. A second lane will be added throughout the ramp from the eastbound LIE toward the southbound Sagtikos State Parkway. A third travel lane will be extended for traffic merging onto southbound Sagtikos State Parkway to the G Road bridge. Additional improvements will also be completed at Exit S2.

First floated in 2019, the project went through several revisions and needed to meet more federal interstate requirements.

The completed infrastructure will provide a faster link to shopping areas in Commack; industrial areas in Brentwood, Deer Park and Hauppauge; and Suffolk County Community College’s Grant Campus in Brentwood.