New York State Route 24

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"NY 24" redirects here. NY 24 may also refer to New York's 24th congressional district.
This article is about the current alignment of NY 24. For the former alignment of NY 24 in Rensselaer and Washington Counties, see New York State Route 24 (1924–1930).
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NYS Route 24
Length: 30.84 mi (49.63 km)
Western segment: 18.68 miles (30.06 km)[1]
Eastern segment: 12.16 miles (19.57 km)[1]
Formed: 1930[2]
West end: I-295 / NY 25 in Queens
Major
junctions:		 Cross Island Parkway in Queens Village
Meadowbrook Parkway in Uniondale
Wantagh Parkway in Levittown
Bethpage Parkway in Bethpage
NY 110 in East Farmingdale
I-495 in Calverton
CR 104 in Riverhead
CR 105 in Flanders
East end: CR 80 in Hampton Bays
Counties: Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
Numbered highways in New York
< NY 23B NY 25 >
Interstate – U.S. – N.Y. (former) – Reference

New York State Route 24 (NY 24) is a state highway in New York that exists in two sections. The western section runs from Hillside Avenue/NY 25 and the Clearview Expressway/I-295 in the Queens Village section of the borough of Queens in New York City to NY 110 in East Farmingdale, in the Town of Babylon. The eastern section runs from Interstate 495 in Calverton to Suffolk County Road 80 in Hampton Bays.

NY 24 is one of three routes in New York that is split into two segments. The other two are New York State Route 42 in the Catskills and New York State Route 878 in Queens and Nassau County.

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[edit] Route description

Eastbound lanes of NY 24 (Fulton Avenue) in the Village of Hempstead.

[edit] Western segment

NY 24 begins at NY 25 and Interstate 295 in the New York City borough of Queens. NY 24 is unsigned for its first half-mile or so in Queens as one-way couplets via Hollis Court Boulevard and 212th Street. It then follows Jamaica Avenue for a block before turning onto Hempstead Avenue. Upon crossing the Nassau County line it becomes Hempstead Turnpike, one of the major thoroughfares of the county. It runs through many communities in the towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay, among them the villages of Hempstead and Farmingdale and the hamlets of Elmont (accessing Belmont Racetrack along the way), East Meadow, and Levittown (as it runs through some of these towns it takes on the name Hempstead-Bethpage Turnpike). It ends shortly after entering Suffolk County at NY 110 just north of Republic Airport in Babylon.

The turnpike becomes Conklin Street in Farmingdale. Ironically, the one place between the Nassau/Queens border and the Bethpage/Farmingdale border in which the strip is not known as Hempstead Turnpike is when it is surrounded by the village of Hempstead itself, where it is Fulton Avenue. Nationally-known Hofstra University which straddles Fulton Avenue and occupies land in both Hempstead Village and the hamlet of Uniondale, uses the address 1000 Fulton Avenue.

[edit] Eastern segment

The famous Big Duck.

The eastern section begins some forty miles to the east, still in Suffolk County, at Exit 71 of Interstate 495 in a rural section of the Town of Brookhaven in Calverton. It overlaps Suffolk County Route 94 (and is county maintained) for several miles, passing several Suffolk County offices and a County jail just outside Riverhead in the neighboring Town of Southampton. After a traffic circle just outside downtown Riverhead, State Route 24 drops the County Road 94 designation. It continues southeast from Riverhead, first through the area known as Flanders, and then through Sears Bellows County Park, now home to Long Island's famed "Big Duck" (which sits directly on Route 24). The highway crosses NY 27 just before its terminus at Montauk Highway/County Road 80 in Hampton Bays.

[edit] History

NY 24 was originally a continuous route between the New York City limits and Hampton Bays when it was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.[2][3] The route was extended into New York City in mid-December 1934.[4] It entered the city on Hempstead Avenue and followed 212th Street, Hillside Avenue, and Queens Boulevard to Roosevelt Avenue, where it ended at NY 25.[3] The section of NY 24 between Farmingdale and Riverhead was removed in the mid-1930s, splitting NY 24 into two pieces.[3][5][6]

[edit] Western segment

NY 25 was rerouted slightly in Queens by 1938 to follow Skillman Avenue instead. Its former routing along Queens Boulevard became a short extension of NY 24.[5] This alignment of NY 25 proved to be short-lived as NY 25 was returned to Queens Boulevard by 1942. As part of the change, NY 25 was rerouted to follow Queens Boulevard to Union Turnpike, where it turned eastward. However, NY 24 was not truncated, creating a lengthy overlap with NY 25 through the borough on Queens Boulevard.[7] The overlap was reduced slightly by 1947 as NY 24 was rerouted to follow the Crosstown Connecting Highway (now the right-of-way of Interstate 278) and Midtown Highway (Interstate 495) to the Queens–Midtown Tunnel. It then continued through the tunnel to end at NY 1A in Manhattan.[8]

The Crosstown Connection Highway and the Midtown Highway were upgraded into the first portions of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (BQE) and the Queens Midtown Expressway, respectively, in the early 1950s. At the time, the Queens Midtown Expressway ended at 61st Street.[9][10] By 1956, the highway had been renamed the Long Island Expressway (LIE) and extended east to Queens Boulevard. Although NY 24 intersected the highway twice—where it left the LIE at the BQE and at Queens Boulevard—NY 24 still followed the BQE and Queens Boulevard.[11] The portion of the LIE from Queens Boulevard to the Northern State Parkway (now exit 38) was completed in the late 1950s, at which time NY 24 was rerouted to follow the LIE between Manhattan and East Hills. The original routing of NY 24 from the BQE to Farmingdale was then redesignated as NY 24A. However, unlike NY 24 before it, NY 24A left NY 25 at the junction of Queens Boulevard and Hillside Avenue and followed Queens Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue through Queens.[12][13] The portion of NY 24 from Manhattan to the Clearview Expressway was co-signed as Interstate 495 by 1960.[13][14]

NY 24 was removed from the LIE and shifted southward to replace NY 24A ca. 1962. However, NY 24 was truncated to begin at the LIE instead.[14][15] On January 1, 1970, NY 24 was truncated again to the junction of Queens Boulevard and Hillside Avenue (NY 25), eliminating its overlap with NY 25.[16] NY 24 was rerouted once more between 1977 and 1981 to follow 212th Street once again to end at NY 25 and Interstate 295.[17][18]

[edit] Eastern segment

In Riverhead, NY 24 initially had a brief overlap with the northernmost portion of NY 113 between Riverleigh Avenue (NY 113) and Main Street (NY 25), where both terminated.[19] This concurrency was eliminated by 1970 as NY 113 was truncated to end at NY 24.[16]

NY 24 was extended westward in the early 1970s along a new divided highway following the course of the Peconic River. The roadway began at the Long Island Expressway and ended just south of Riverhead.[16][20] This segment of NY 24 is maintained by Suffolk County as County Route 94.[21]

[edit] Proposed extensions

In the 1960s, there was a proposal to build a bypass around the current eastern terminus of the western segment of NY 24. The highway, named the "Republic Bypass", would begin at NY 24 midway between the Nassau–Suffolk County line and NY 110 and would parallel Conklin Street along its north side to Wellwood Avenue, where the bypass would merge with Long Island Avenue. The bypass was part of a plan to re-link the western and eastern segments.[22]

Other proposed extensions built by Suffolk County were Suffolk Avenue (County Route 100), Furrows Road, Peconic Avenue, and the formerly proposed Central Suffolk Highway (CR 90).[23] The right-of-way for the Central Suffolk Highway can be found beneath the bridge carrying County Route 101 bridge over the main line of the Long Island Rail Road.[24]

[edit] Major intersections

[edit] Western segment

County Location Mile[1] Roads intersected Notes
Queens Queens Village 0.00 I-295
NY 25		 Southern terminus of I-295
1.75 Cross Island Parkway Exits 26B and 26C (Cross Island Pkwy)
Nassau West Hempstead 6.62 NY 102 Western terminus of NY 102
Uniondale 9.65 Meadowbrook Parkway Exits M4 and M5 (Meadowbrook Pkwy)
East Meadow 11.17 NY 102 Eastern terminus of NY 102
11.94 NY 106
Levittown 12.63 Wantagh Parkway Exits W3 E and W3 W (Wantagh Pkwy)
Plainedge 15.21 NY 107
Farmingdale 15.65 NY 135 Exits 7E and 7W (NY 135)
16.01 Bethpage Parkway Exit B3 (Bethpage Pkwy)
16.89 NY 109 Western terminus of NY 109
Suffolk East Farmingdale 18.68 NY 110

[edit] Eastern segment

The entire route is in Suffolk County.

Location Mile[1] Roads intersected Notes
Calverton 0.00 I-495 Exit 71 (I-495)
CDP of Riverhead CR 51 (East Moriches-Riverhead Road)
4.32 CR 104 Formerly NY 113
Flanders 5.61 CR 105 (Cross River Drive)
Hampton Bays 11.92 NY 27 Exits 65N and 65S (NY 27)
12.16 CR 80 Formerly part of NY 27A

[edit] References

New York portal
  • Old Hagstrom's Maps and Road Atlases.
  1. ^ a b c d "2008 Traffic Volume Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. pp. 74–75. https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/NYSDOT_Traffic_Volume_Report_2008.pdf. Retrieved January 31, 2010. 
  2. ^ a b Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". New York Times: p. 136. 
  3. ^ a b c Sun Oil Company. Road Map & Historical Guide - New York [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. (1935)
  4. ^ "Mark Ways in the City". New York Times. December 16, 1934. 
  5. ^ a b Thibodeau, William A. (1938). The ALA Green Book (1938–39 ed.). Automobile Legal Association. 
  6. ^ Esso. New York Road Map for 1938 [map]. Cartography by General Drafting. (1938)
  7. ^ Esso. New York with Pictorial Guide [map]. Cartography by General Drafting. (1942)
  8. ^ Sinclair Oil Corporation. New York Road Map and Pictorial Sight-Seeing Guide [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. (1947)
  9. ^ Sunoco. New York [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. (1952)
  10. ^ Esso. New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region [map], 1955–56 edition. Cartography by General Drafting. (1954)
  11. ^ Esso. New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region [map], 1957 edition. Cartography by General Drafting. (1956)
  12. ^ Esso. New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region [map], 1958 edition. Cartography by General Drafting. (1958)
  13. ^ a b Gulf. New York and New Jersey Tourgide Map [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. (1960)
  14. ^ a b Sunoco. New York and Metropolitan New York [map], 1961-62 edition. Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company. (1961)
  15. ^ Esso. New York with Sight-Seeing Guide [map]. Cartography by General Drafting. (1962)
  16. ^ a b c State of New York Department of Transportation (January 1, 1970) (PDF). Official Description of Touring Routes in New York State. http://www.greaternyroads.info/pdfs/state70.pdf. Retrieved May 24, 2009. 
  17. ^ Exxon. New York [map], 1977–78 edition. Cartography by General Drafting. (1977)
  18. ^ State of New York. I Love New York Tourism Map [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. (1981)
  19. ^ Long Island Magazine (Sunday Newsday); August 27, 1972, p. 14
  20. ^ Shell Oil Company. New York [map], 1973 edition. Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company. (1973)
  21. ^ Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! Maps – Riverhead, New York [map]. Cartography by NAVTEQ. Retrieved on May 24, 2009.
  22. ^ Suffolk County Department of Planning. Proposed routing of the Republic Bypass [map].
  23. ^ Anderson, Steve. "Suffolk County Roads 76–100". NYCRoads. http://www.nycroads.com/roads/suffolk_076-100/. Retrieved May 24, 2009. 
  24. ^ Suffolk CR 101-LIRR-Suffolk CR 90 Bridge (WikiMapia)

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