Long Island truck stop

Google maps shows an "Eastlands Nursery" in Watermill and it has a large looking parking area just by the road. You may be able to overnite there.

https://maps.google.com/maps?safe=o...ei=FCjCUfaZAY384APuxIDACA&sqi=2&ved=0CJwBELYD

 

Long Island does not have ANY truck stops. The only one that was there around exit 57/58 or so, closed before I started driving a car. They eventually bulldozed it to the ground and built a hotel on the grounds. I grew up and lived there for 29 years. I don't miss the traffic and lack of parking. There is still a rest area on 495 near exit 52 (Commack) but they also put in a DOT scale on the eastbound side right before exit 49 for route 110. Good times.

 

Long Island TS closed along time ago--I think everyone(includin me)was referring to the small rest are on 495

 

Well done--always a fun trip---its not as bad as it seems few more rounds up there--you might even get to enjoy it--really it can happen--well course Im little nutz--but been runnin there since 74--and for what it is worth born an raised in Union Park--when it still WAS 20 miles outta Orlando--LOL.......
Next time well tell ya how to get outta there from 4c w/out payin any TOLLS!

 

I remember when a $200 advance would get you into Hunts Point over the GW, cover the lumper fee, the meat market entrance fee and you still had enough left to get pizza and soda at the pizza joint inside the market.

 

Union park!!! Shoot, Bithlo and Winter Garden are part of Orlando now. Where I live on Alafaya, it was nothing but woods and swamps, now there's 15,000 houses.

I used to go to Center Moriches all Nursery season long. There is parking on Long Island, but no one wants to share their spot. OP, if you went in during daylight, you made the mistake of using the bottom bridges. Sure it's cheaper, but during daylight GWB to the Throgs Neck is the way to go. You'll save time and aggravation. If you don't have XM, 1010 am has the best traffic reports every 10 minutes.

 

with bloomberg in charge of long island and NYC PFJ, t/a petro and any other have given up hopes by now. your on your own.

 

I see that place as it was 25 years ago. It still was nasty. Food was good. Have to smile.

 

LOL Forty Cal--Why I DONT LIVE THERE ANYMORE!---My kid sister lives offa McColluch--Mom still talk about how she hated to go visit her at night--cause drivin out University when it was a 2 lane thru the swamp with deep ditches on both sides!
I normally tell people Im from Orlando BEFORE THE 4 FINGERED RAT SHOWED UP!
And its funny loaded grapefruit twicw this year in Winter Garden few of us shootin the ####--and rest of the drivers were lookin at us and dock foreman like we were nutz--really seperates the locals!
and as far as Im concerned when the built the E/W past 50 and tore down the ABC Truck Stop--that was the final straw!