It serves as a major north–south through street across the lower portion of the Cow Neck Peninsula, between Northern Boulevard (NY 25A) to the south and Stonytown Road to the north.

[1][4] Manhasset Woods Road is classified as a major collector roadway by the New York State Department of Transportation and is eligible for federal aid.

Then, in the late 1920s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art had been willed a large amount of land by publisher Frank Munsey, and the museum had the portion of the property north of Northern Boulevard developed as Munsey Park – a large, planned community which would take advantage of the nearby Manhasset station on the Long Island Rail Road.

[2][8] This portion of Manhasset Woods Road between the Flower Hill–Munsey Park border and Northern Boulevard was platted and constructed in the late 1920s, with the landscaping designed by the Olmsted Brothers.

[14][15][16][17][18] The proposed highway would have consisted of a four or six lanes and would bypass the western half of Manhasset's Miracle Mile; the project, had it been approved, would have cost approximately $5,000,000-$8,000,000 (1956 USD).