| Merrick Boulevard; Floyd H. Flake Boulevard | |
 At Linden Boulevard in Queens | |
 | |
| Namesake | Algonquin word for oyster bed; community leader Floyd H. Flake |
|---|---|
| Type | Major surface street |
| Maintained by | NYCDOT, Nassau County DPW, NYSDOT |
| Length | 21.8 mi (35.1 km)[1] |
| Component highways | CR 27 from Valley Stream to East Massapequa NY 27A from East Massapequa to Copiague |
| Location | Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties |
| Nearest metro station | Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer station |
| West end |  NY 25 in Jamaica |
| Major junctions |  Belt Parkway in Laurelton NY 27 in Rockville Centre Meadowbrook State Parkway in Freeport Wantagh State Parkway in Wantagh NY 135 in Seaford |
| East end | NY 27A in Copiague |
Merrick Road is an east–west urban arterial in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties in New York, United States. It is known as Merrick Boulevard or Floyd H. Flake Boulevard in Queens, within New York City.
Merrick Road runs east from the Queens neighborhood of Jamaica through Merrick past the county line between Nassau and Suffolk into Amityville, where it becomes Montauk Highway at the Amityville–Copiague village/hamlet line. The easternmost portion of Merrick Road, from Carman Mill Road to its eastern terminus, signed as part of New York State Route 27A (NY 27A). At one time, the entire length of Merrick Road was signed as NY 27A; currently, the entire portion within Nassau County is currently designated as the unsigned County Route 27 (CR 27).[2] Merrick Road travels along an old right-of-way that was one of the original paths across southern Long Island, stretching from Queens to Montauk Point.
Merrick Road's name comes from the Algonquin word "Meroke", meaning "oyster bed".[3] The section of Merrick Boulevard in Queens was renamed Floyd H. Flake Boulevard in October 2020, in honor of Floyd Flake, senior pastor of the Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica.
- ^ "Merrick Boulevard / Road" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved May 30, 2015.[dead link]
- ^ "Merrick Road - Nassau CR 27". Greater New York Roads. Retrieved April 1, 2010.[self-published source]
- ^ Cusanelli, Michael; Weiss, Rachel; Doyle, Heather; Stark, Ian J. (January 26, 2019). "How 60 LI communities got their names". Newsday. Archived from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved 2020-12-04.