New York State Route 207

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NYS Route 207
Length:	19.10 mi[1] (30.74 km)
West end:	US 6 / NY 17 / NY 17A / NY 17M in Goshen
East end:	NY 17K in Newburgh
Counties:	Orange
Numbered highways in New York < NY 206 NY 208 > Interstate – U.S. – N.Y. (former) – Reference

New York State Route 207 (NY 207) is a state road, located entirely within Orange County, that connects Goshen and Newburgh. It has for a long time provided the main access to Stewart International Airport.

It follows the route of the old Goshen-Newburgh Turnpike and is a two-lane road through its entire length. While much of the countryside surrounding the road is rural and picturesque, increasing development within the county has given it the highest growth in traffic volume of any Orange County state highway in the early 2000s, according to state Department of Transportation data analyzed by a local newspaper.^[2][3]

Contents 1 Route description 2 History 3 Major intersections 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Route description

The route begins in southwest Goshen, at the intersection of the Quickway (US 6 and NY 17) and NY 17M. South of the junction NY 17A continues as Pulaski Highway toward Florida and Warwick.

It enters Goshen as Greenwich Avenue, becoming Main Street at a five-way intersection at the southwest corner of the village's large triangular central green (Westbound traffic sometimes misses the Greenwich fork and continues on Main as there is no overhead sign, just one at the side of the road). The historic buildings in this area of Goshen have been federally recognized as the Church Park Historic District. At the triangle's northern end, after passing next to Orange County's original courthouse and the Orange Blossoms monument, it is joined by Park Place and passes the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame on the right, then the Orange County Government Center on the left, before leaving the village. Entering the countryside, it begins to veer more to the east.

Six miles (9.6 km) later in the Town of Hamptonburgh, Route 207 goes into a short tunnel under the Metro North-Norfolk Southern tracks and then immediately bears right, more due east, where NY 416 splits off to the left, northward, toward Montgomery. It then passes through what could be called downtown Campbell Hall at a grade crossing with the former Wallkill Valley Railroad, still used today by NS as a freight spur to Walden.

Three miles further down it goes through a slightly staggered intersection with NY 208 in the hamlet of Rock Tavern between Maybrook and Washingtonville. Now known as Little Britain Road, it skirts the southern boundary of Stewart State Forest for several miles, passes Little Britain Elementary School and a new medical office park.

The intersection with Drury Lane, long the dividing lane between the airport proper and lands seized in the early 1970s for a massive expansion that was later canceled, has currently^[update] been expanded and rebuilt to support a new exit on Interstate 84. A traffic light was installed, and Drury became NY 747. A mile and half later 207 reaches an entrance to Stewart International Airport. After that, it passes under (but does not intersect with) the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87), immediately west of its junction with NY 300.

After a concurrent section of 0.2-mile (0.32 km), 207 then splits to the northeast at the Squire Patton House, now the city of Newburgh's police K-9 training facility. It runs past Lake Washington reservoir, the water supply for the City of Newburgh, into the town of Newburgh and then into the city itself and, shortly afterward, its eastern terminus at a junction with NY 17K.

[edit] History

When it was widened, the short section concurrent with 300 was relocated just to the south. The former right of way can still be seen.

[edit] Major intersections

The entire route is in Orange County.

Location	Mile[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Village of Goshen	0.00	US 6 / NY 17 / NY 17M NY 17A	Exit 124 (US 6/NY 17/NY 17M); northern terminus of NY 17A
Hamptonburgh	5.48	NY 416	Southern terminus of NY 416
	9.11	NY 208 south	Western terminus of overlap
	9.24	NY 208 north	Eastern terminus of overlap
Town of New Windsor	13.78	NY 747	Southern terminus of NY 747; former southern terminus of CR 54
	16.57	NY 300 north (Union Avenue)	Western terminus of overlap; to I-87 / Thruway
	16.96	NY 300 south (Union Avenue)	Eastern terminus of overlap
City of Newburgh	19.10	NY 17K (Broadway)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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