Saw Mill River Parkway

Saw Mill River Parkway
Route information
Length:	29.83 mi (48.01 km)
Existed:	1954 – present
Major junctions
South end:	Henry Hudson Parkway at Bronx-Westchester border
	Cross County Parkway in Yonkers I-87 / Thruway in Greenburgh I-287 in Elmsford Sprain Brook Parkway / Taconic Parkway in Hawthorne
North end:	I-684 in Bedford
Location
Counties:	Westchester
Highway system
Numbered highways in New York Interstate • U.S. • N.Y. (former) • Reference • County

The Saw Mill River Parkway is a north–south parkway that extends for 28.93 miles (46.56 km) through Westchester County, New York, in the United States. It begins at the border between Westchester County and the Bronx, where it continues into New York City as the Henry Hudson Parkway, and heads generally northeastward to an interchange with Interstate 684 (I-684) and New York State Route 35 (NY 35). At its north end, the parkway serves as a collector/distributor road for both highways as it passes east of the hamlet of Katonah. The parkway is named for the Saw Mill River, which the highway parallels for most of its length.

The Saw Mill serves as an important connection from the Taconic State and Sprain Brook parkways to the Tappan Zee Bridge and New York State Thruway. It is not a limited-access highway as several of its exits are signalized at-grade intersections. However, most of the road has a high speed limit in spite of this fact.^{[citation needed]} The Saw Mill River Parkway is inventoried by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) as New York State Route 987D, an unsigned reference route designation.

History

The Saw Mill River Parkway in Yonkers looking south from the Yonkers Avenue Bridge

The Saw Mill Parkway started construction in 1926. By 1930, it had reached Route 119 in Elmsford. Construction had only reached Chappaqua by 1940 when World War II halted any further progress. The Saw Mill Parkway was constructed along the Saw Mill River, as a sort of flood control project that never really worked right. The full length of the parkway was opened in 1955.

The Parkway once fed into the accident-prone Hawthorne Circle, a former roundabout at the intersection of the Taconic Parkway extension from the Bronx River Parkway, Taconic State, and Saw Mill River parkways. In 1972 the circle was rebuilt as a three-level interchange.

NYSDOT has maintained the Saw Mill River Parkway since 1980. Under NYSDOT, the 25¢ toll between exits 3 and 4, which was originally implemented by Westchester County in 1936, was removed on October 31, 1994.

For several years, right up until the closing of the toll, Robert Roberts, a dead ringer for Santa Claus, collected tolls. During each holiday season Mr. Roberts would don a Santa Claus suit and collect tolls. As the toll booth's tenure came to an end around Halloween in 1994, Mr. Roberts donned his Santa Claus outfit one more time, much to the pleasure of commuters.

Exit list

The entire route is in Westchester County.

Location	Mile	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Yonkers	0.00		Henry Hudson Parkway	Continuation into the Bronx
		3	McLean Avenue – Yonkers	Southbound exit and entrance
	1.73	4	Cross County Parkway to Hutchinson River Parkway – Whitestone Bridge
		4A	Rumsey Road	No northbound exit
		5	Yonkers Avenue – Yonkers	No southbound exit to Yonkers Avenue eastbound
	2.60	5A	Palmer Road – Yonkers
		6	Lockwood Avenue	Southbound exit and entrance
		7	Tuckahoe Road – Yonkers	Northbound exit and entrance; southbound entrance from Nepperhan Avenue
	4.45	9	Executive Boulevard	At-grade intersection except for northbound exit
		10	Hearst Street	At-grade intersection
		11	Tompkins Avenue	At-grade intersection
Hastings-on-Hudson		12	Farragut Parkway	At-grade intersection
		13	Farragut Avenue	At-grade intersection; median closed
		14	Clarence Avenue	Southbound at-grade intersection
		15	Cliff Street	Southbound at-grade intersection
Dobbs Ferry		16	Lawrence Street	At-grade intersection
		17	Ashford Avenue – Dobbs Ferry, Ardsley
			Cyrus Field Road	Southbound at-grade intersection
Greenburgh		20	I-87 north / Tappan Zee Bridge	Northbound exit and entrance; southbound entrance from I-87 south
			Mountain Road	Southbound at-grade intersection
Elmsford		21	NY 119 – Elmsford, Tarrytown	Signed as 21E (east) and 21W (west) northbound; access to NY 119 west southbound
		22	I-287 west to I-87 (New York State Thruway)	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
Greenburgh	13.10	23	Saw Mill River Road – Eastview
Mount Pleasant	14.17	25	NY 9A to NY 100 – Hawthorne	Northbound exit and entrance
	15.71	26	Taconic Parkway – Albany	Hamlet of Hawthorne; northbound exit and southbound entrance
	15.71	26	Sprain Brook Parkway / Bronx River Parkway – New York City	Hamlet of Hawthorne; southbound exit and northbound entrance
		27	Marble Avenue – Thornwood	Hamlet of Thornwood; at-grade intersection
Pleasantville	18.04	28	Bedford Road – Pleasantville	Northbound exit only
		29	NY 117 (Manville Road) – Pleasantville	Southbound exit and entrance
		30	Grant Street	At-grade intersection; no southbound turns or northbound left turn
New Castle	20.40	32	NY 120 – Chappaqua	Hamlet of Chappaqua
		33	Readers Digest Road / Roaring Brook Road	At-grade intersection
Mount Kisco	24.42	34	NY 133 – Mount Kisco
		36	Croton Avenue	Southbound exit and entrance
		37	Kisco Avenue
Town of Bedford		38	Green Lane	Northbound exit and entrance; southbound at-grade intersection
	27.30	39	NY 117 – Bedford Hills	Hamlet of Bedford Hills; signed as 39S (south) and 39N (north) southbound
		42	NY 117 / Harris Road – Katonah	NY 117 not signed northbound
		43	NY 117	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
	29.83		I-684	Northbound exit from northbound I-684, southbound entrance from southbound I-684
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

• New York Roads portal

External links

• Media related to Saw Mill River Parkway at Wikimedia Commons