The first portion of Manhasset Woods Road to be built was
platted and constructed in the early 1920s, when
Carlos W. Munson, the founding father of Flower Hill, had a portion of his large Flower Hill estate developed; this housing development and its street layout were developed by the
T. B. Ackerson Company. This portion of the road extended from Stonytown Road to the north into the housing development to its south, connecting to Bonnie Heights Road and eventually extending south to the Flower Hill–Munsey Park border. 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. In the 1950s, there was a proposal for a bypass of Northern Boulevard in Manhasset, starting at East Shore Road and continuing east, ending at Manhasset Woods Road; the proposed highway would have crossed Whitney Pond and
Shelter Rock Road. 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). In the mid-to-late 1990s, the section of Manhasset Woods Road between Bonnie Heights Road and Stonytown Road in Flower Hill was straightened. The project was undertaken in order to eliminate a dangerous curve in the road. == Major intersections ==