County Route1 is known as County Line Road and extends for 1.52 miles (2.45km) through the town of Babylon. It begins at NY27A (Montauk Highway) in Amityville and heads north to the intersection of Joyce Avenue in East Farmingdale. Parts of the road enter Nassau County; however, the Nassau County sections are not part of CR1.
County Route2 is mostly known as Straight Path and extends from the village of Amityville to the town of Huntington. It begins at an intersection with NY110 in Amityville and heads east along Dixon Avenue to CR47 in Copiague. From there it begins to move to the northeast until it eventually becomes Straight Path before the intersection with NY27 in North Lindenhurst. The road widens into a four-lane divided highway ahead of its junction with CR3 (Wellwood Avenue). This intersection contains turning ramps on all corners except the southwest corner, where Heathcote Road ends. The divider ends at Sherbrooke Road and the North Lindenhurst Fire Department, where the road returns to a four-lane undivided highway.
The road intersects an at-grade crossing with the Central Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. From there the road crosses NY109 and meets the Southern State Parkway. As CR2 approaches the interchange with the parkway, the road becomes narrower despite remaining four lanes wide. On the northwest corner of this interchange is the beginning of St. Johns Catholic Cemetery, where the road widens to accommodate a center left-turn lane. The northern border of the cemetery is along Edison Avenue, located near the intersection with Little East Neck Road in Wyandanch.
CR2 narrows to two lanes with stretches occasionally featuring medians. North of Commonwealth Drive, the road become four lanes with no left-turn lane until it approaches the vicinity of Wyandanch Station. Past Winter Avenue, CR2 narrows back down to two lanes, but with a center left-turn lane. The road continues in this manner until it reaches its terminus at an intersection with NY231 in Half Hollow Hills.
CR2 was assigned on January27, 1930, to the portion of its alignment between Albany Avenue in Amityville and modern NY231 in Huntington. It was extended west along Dixon Avenue to NY110 on February5, 1943, replacing CR2A. An extension beyond NY231 was proposed during the 1960s and 1970s and officially added to CR2's alignment on June22, 1961. The terminus was to be at the Long Island Motor Parkway;[2] however, this extension was never built. The intersection between CR2 and NY27 was once intended to be upgraded into an interchange.[citation needed]
County Route3 is a north–south road that includes Wellwood Avenue and Pinelawn Road. It runs mostly parallel to NY110 until it crosses over the Long Island Expressway, where it moves to the northwest to use NY110 before its northern terminus with Walt Whitman Road.
Route description
County Route3 begins as Wellwood Avenue on the Lindenhurst village line at Perry Street in North Lindenhurst, which quickly encounters a cloverleaf interchange with NY27, where the road briefly becomes a four-lane divided highway until the intersection of Spieglehagen Street and becomes a four-lane undivided highway. The road divides again at CR2 (Straight Path), and includes a northwest to northeast turning ramp. The divider ends at June Street, and the road returns to a four-lane undivided highway.
As the road intersects an at-grade crossing with the LIRR Central Branch and becomes a divided highway again north of Gear Avenue as it approaches NY109. North of NY109, CR3 runs through the center of the Cemetery zone of southwestern Suffolk County along the following burial grounds;
Mount Ararat Cemetery on the west side between NY109 and Southern State Parkway.
New Montifeore Cemetery on the northeast corner of the Southern State Parkway interchange.
Before leaving the cemetery zone, CR3 becomes a divided highway again and passes by the headquarters of Newsday, which also includes the former right-of-way for the Long Island Motor Parkway. Both of these sites are on the southwest corner of CR3 and CR5 (Ruland Road). North of unsigned CR5 (Ruland Road), CR3 becomes Pinelawn Road, and runs parallel to Old East Neck Road until hitting Half Hollow Road, which leads to the only remaining drivable section of Long Island Motor Parkway (CR67. From there, CR3 takes a northwesterly turn and crosses over the Long Island Expressway east of exit49, where it becomes a four-lane highway again approaching NY110. CR3 and Pinelawn Road end just north of NY110 at Walt Whitman Road. The road continues northward as Sweet Hollow Road as it meanders through the Manetto Hills area past Gwynne Park and West Hills County Park before reaching NY25, but not as CR3.
County Route4 consists mainly of Commack Road. The road starts at a northeast angle off of NY231, and immediately has an intersection with Carll's Straight Path to the northwest. The road continues to the northeast as it crosses the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road. A realigned section exists on the western border of the former Edgewood State Hospital and current Pilgrim State Hospital. The segment in front of Edgewood Hospital was intended to either be replaced by or run parallel to the formerly proposed Babylon–Northport Expressway.
Between the Long Island Expressway and Jericho Turnpike, Commack Road is a four-lane undivided highway with sporadic residential frontage roads. Similar features were installed on parts of Larkfield Road and CR11 (Pulaski Road).
North of NY25, CR4 becomes Townline Road. Though the first two sites consist of churches listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the rest of the area is standard residential suburbia. North of Dovecote Lane, Townline Road runs mostly along the border between the towns of Huntington and Smithtown. New York State Bicycle Route 25A is shared with CR4 between Burr Road and Scholar Road.
The designation for CR4 ends at the intersection at Clay Pitts Road in Commack, but the roadway continues northward towards NY 25A in Fort Salonga.
County Route5 is a short industrial county route known as Ruland Road and Colonial Springs Road. It runs parallel to a former section of the original Long Island Motor Parkway, beginning at an intersection with New York State Route 110 and heading east. The road passes the headquarters of Newsday and the northern end of Long Island National Cemetery, before terminating just east of the intersection with Little East Neck Road North at the Huntington/Babylon town line in Wheatley Heights.[7]
The route was unsigned for much of its existence. As of January 2024, the route is once again signed.
County Route6 is Rabro Drive and serves the Hauppauge Industrial Park and the state and county government office buildings. The road begins at an intersection with County Route 108 and proceeds east to New York State Route 111, all within the hamlet of Hauppauge.[8]
The road was named for Francis Moses Asbury Wicks (1818-1867), a wealthy landowner and politician who owned the land in the vicinity of the former Thompson's (LIRR station), and later Pine Aire (LIRR station). His home, a large and rambling farmhouse, served as the railroad depot, inn, and general store.
Originally, Wicks Road ran further north than CR67 onto part of what is today Moreland Road, across the Northern State Parkway to the west side of Hoyt's Farm Town Park, and as far north as NY25.
County Route8 was reserved for the never-built Yaphank Bypass. It was intended to be a new four-lane road beginning at the vicinity of exit66 of the Long Island Expressway, running west of the Carman's River and terminating at CR21 near Bayliss (Bailey) Road.
County Route9, known as Greenlawn Road and Cuba Hill Road, is an unsigned county road that runs through the town of Huntington. The road runs northwest to southeast, beginning as Greenlawn Road and crossing over the Long Island Rail Road as Cuba Hill Road. Its northern terminus is East Main Street (NY 25A) in Huntington, and it ends across from Burr Road at the intersection of Elwood Road (CR10) in Elwood.[10]
The Greenlawn Road portion of CR9 was formerly CR34 and was reassigned in 1930. The expansion of CR9 led from the Long Island Rail Road tracks to CR10, Elwood Road. This expansion, today, is known as Cuba Hill Road, and was added on December 26, 1936. CR 34 was appended onto CR 9 sometime after the 1960s. The road is currently unsigned; however, there were once signs that marked CR9.
County Route10, commonly referred to as Elwood Road, is a two-lane suburban county road. It runs from NY25 in Elwood to NY25A in Northport.
From the 1950s into the 1980s, there were proposals by the New York State Department of Transportation to build the Babylon–Northport Expressway within the vicinity of the west side of Elwood Road, with interchanges at both ends that included ramps utilizing CR10. Suburban sprawl and public opposition to the roadway has resulted in the cancellation of the highway.
County Route11, commonly referred to as Pulaski Road, runs west to east between Cold Spring Harbor and Kings Park. CR11 provides the closest access to the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, which runs roughly parallel to the tracks throughout its span in northwestern Suffolk County.
County Route11A was a former suffixed extension of CR 11 assigned to Pulaski Road between CR86 and CR10 from January26, 1931 to September21, 1966[2][4]
County Route11B was a former suffixed extension of CR 11 assigned to Pulaski Road between NY 110 and CR86 from December28, 1931 to September21, 1966[2][4]
County Route11C was a former suffixed extension of CR 11 assigned to Pulaski Road between NY 108 and NY 110 from November27, 1933 to September21, 1966[2][4]
CR 12 was originally a suffixed extension of CR50 until 1959.
Route description
At the intersection of CR47, the elevated Copiague Station over the street is visible to the north. The station can also be seen from the next block at the intersection of an unnamed street leading to Railroad Avenue. The Babylon Branch finally runs along the north side of Oak Street between Garfield and Strong Avenues, where it crosses the Copiague–Lindenhurst village line.
In Lindenhurst, the name of CR12 is changed to Hoffman Avenue. However, this name is also shared by a street running parallel to it on the north side of the Babylon Branch maintained by the village. East of the intersection with CR3, the road passes in front of Lindenhurst Station, while the village of Lindenhurst's Hoffman Avenue runs behind it.
In West Babylon, CR12's name is changed to South Railroad Avenue, a name it will hold onto upon crossing the border with the village of Babylon. At the border, which is at the intersection of CR96, is the eastern terminus of CR12. The roadway east of the terminus reaches NY109, where it becomes Trolley Line Road, named for the former Babylon Railroad Company, which used the street as part of the route for its streetcar.
County Route13 is a 7.50-mile (12.07km)county road that runs north to south from CR4 near Commack to NY27A in Bay Shore which includes Fifth Avenue and Crooked Hill Road.. The road runs primarily east of Robert Moses Causeway and Sagtikos State Parkway, until it crosses over the Sagtikos Parkway in the vicinity of Pilgrim State Hospital. The route was added to the county highway system on April28, 1930, and extensions were made on July9, 1945.[2]
Route description
CR13 begins at NY27A in Bay Shore. It heads northwest as the northbound one-way Fifth Avenue, part of a one-way couplet that includes the southbound-only North Clinton Avenue (CR13A) one block to the west. They converge south of CR57 (Howell's Road) itself located just south of NY27. CR13 moves over the main road and service roads of Sunrise Highway (NY27), connecting to the highway by way of exit43, a cloverleaf interchange. Continuing on, Fifth Avenue meets Brook Avenue, which leads to a shopping mall along Sunrise Highway before looping back to meet Third Avenue in Bay Shore.
Past Brook Avenue, the route takes on a more northerly routing as it heads into North Bay Shore and connects to the Heckscher State Parkway at exit42. Farther north, CR13 passes by the Entenmann's bakery factory prior to crossing the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road and intersecting CR100 (Suffolk Avenue) in Brentwood. The route's run as Fifth Avenue ends just north of CR100 at a junction with CR7 (Wicks Road), which continues north from the intersection on the routing established by Fifth Avenue. CR13, meanwhile, forks to the northwest as Crooked Hill Road.[14]
Not far from CR7, the route serves both the Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center and Suffolk County Community College's Grant Campus and connects to the Sagtikos State Parkway at exitS2. Crooked Hill Road was originally southbound exitS1 on the Sagtikos Parkway. A traffic circle also existed at the southbound ramps to and from the parkway.[15] When the nearby Long Island Expressway was constructed, the southbound off-ramp was eliminated, but the on-ramp was left intact. The reconstruction of the Long Island Expressway–Sagtikos Parkway interchange from 1988–1991 revived a southbound connection from the parkway to Crooked Hill Road via exitS1W. Today, and as always, Crooked Hill Road is also accessible from exitS2, which connect to roads within the grounds of the Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center, including unsigned CR106 (Community College Drive).[14]
The route continues on, descending Crooked Hill to reach the Long Island Expressway and its service roads. It crosses under the highway between exits52 and53, but has no ramps to or from the main road. Instead, the only access is to the service roads that lead to the expressway westbound and from the expressway eastbound. North of the expressway, CR13 begins to head in a more north–northeasterly direction that takes it on a largely parallel routing to that of nearby CR4 (Commack Road). CR13 ends when the two roads finally converge just south of the Long Island Motor Parkway (CR67) in Commack.
County Route13A is the southbound only segment of CR13 in downtown Bay Shore. At the intersection of Reil Place all southbound traffic along CR13 shifts to a parallel street called Clinton Avenue. This segment was designated CR53[17] until May22, 1967.[2] North of this switch, Clinton Avenue runs parallel to Fifth Avenue as a two-way street, until the intersection with Joseph Avenue, only to be cut off by the interchange with Sunrise Highway. Both CR13 and CR13A cross the LIRR Montauk Branch and intersect with CR50 (Union Boulevard) before terminating at NY27A.[16]
Major intersections
The entire route is in Bay Shore, and the junction list below runs from north to south.
County Route14 is a county highway running south to north from NY25 (Jericho Turnpike) in Commack to NY25A in Kings Park. It runs parallel to the east of Sunken Meadow State Parkway. CR14 ends at NY25A near Kings Park Station, just two blocks east of CR11. North of NY25A, the road turns into Church Street, then Kohr Road, and runs along the east side of Sunken Meadow State Park until ending at Sunken Meadow Road. CR14 was first added to the county highway system on January27, 1930. A portion of former CR2 (Straight Path) was added to CR14 on June22, 1961.[2]
In 1978, New York State Department of Transportation built an interchange to-and-from the northbound lane of the Sunken Meadow State Parkway, in order to prevent accidents from motorists trying to cross NY25 in order to get to CR14 at exitSM3E. This interchange was designated exitSM3A. West-to-northbound motorists from NY25 use the on-ramp from this newer interchange to get to the parkway.[19]
County Route15, Maple Avenue, was an unsigned, 1.35-mile (2.17km) county highway in Smithtown. The route began at an intersection with NY111 to NY25 and NY25A (Main Street). CR15 was added to the county highway system on January27, 1930[2] and is no longer recognized by the Suffolk County Department of Public Works nor the New York State Department of Transportation.[19]
County Route16 is a 15.90 miles (25.59km) county-maintained highway stretching from NY25 in Village of the Branch eastward to Montauk Highway (CR80) in Brookhaven consisting of part of five roads: Terry Road, Smithtown Boulevard, Lake Shore Drive (formerly East Lake Terrace), Portion Road, and Horse Block Road. CR16 has been in the Suffolk County highway system since January27, 1930.[2]
Though CR16 has run consistently from the Town of Smithtown to the Town of Brookhaven since the mid-1960s, this was not always the case. Many segments have been part of other county roads. Lake Shore Drive and Portion Road used to be part of CR19 from the Smithtown–Brookhaven town line to Waverly Avenue in Farmingville. In 1960, this terminus was moved to Patchogue–Holbrook Road. The construction of Sunrise Highway in 1957 lead to the realignment of Horseblock Road west of its original eastern terminus with South Country Road (former Montauk Highway) in South Haven. Because the interchange is shared with CR21, the new alignment was originally designated as CR21A. Horse Block Road used to be a western extension of CR56 between Victory Avenue, a frontage road along Sunrise Highway that begins at CR46, in Brookhaven and Waverly Avenue in Farmingville. In 1964, it was moved only to Victory Avenue.
County Route17 is a 5.53-mile (8.90km)county road located in western Suffolk County. The route runs south-to-north from NY27A in East Islip to NY111 in Hauppauge, just south of exit56 on I-495 (the Long Island Expressway). Originally, CR17 was an alignment of NY111 (designated as State Highway1208 internally). On September13, 1966, the alignment was transferred from the state to Suffolk County and redesignated CR17.[2] The exit with the Heckscher State Parkway was added in the early 1990s.
Route description
The NY 111 designation was moved from Carleton Avenue to Islip Avenue, which runs parallel to Carleton Avenue between NY 27A and I-495, on September 13, 1966, in order to facilitate access to the Heckscher State Parkway. Evidence of County Road 17's former status as a State Highway can be found at the railroad bridge in Islip, which carries the Montauk Line of the Long Island Rail Road.[21] Between then and the mid-to-late 1980s, CR 17 passed over the Heckscher State Parkway with no access, other than to nearby frontage roads that were used for residents. Exit43A, linking CR 17 to the parkway, was built in the 1980s. Carleton Avenue also runs through the grounds of the former Central Islip Psychiatric Center. Nursing quarters were located on a frontage road along the west side of the street. The hospital was closed in 1990, and converted into a campus for the New York Institute of Technology. The road was widened to four lanes in the 1990s from Heckscher Parkway to the northern terminus of the former hospital grounds. North of the NYIT Campus, Carleton Avenue squeezes through downtown Central Islip. The former Central Islip railroad station was on the corner of the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road just south of County Road 100 (Suffolk Avenue). A modernized station was built down the tracks on the corner of CR 100 and Lowell Avenue.
North of Suffolk Avenue, CR 17 moves northwest onto Wheeler's Road. This section kept its given name while NY 111 was renamed "Wheeler Road" in order to distinguish the state route from CR 17. From there, CR 17 crosses County Road 67 (the Long Island Motor Parkway) and encounters Bridge Road, a side road that mainly runs parallel to Motor Parkway for much of its run south of the Long Island Expressway. The northern terminus is at a fork in the road with NY 111 roughly 250 yards south of I-495. The NY 111/CR 17 intersection has quite a history. It was originally an at-grade interchange with an overhead expressway signpost holding two signs mounted on the corner that could be seen from the Long Island Expressway. The NY 111 shield was moved from one sign to the next in 1966, but the outline of the former NY 111 shield could still be seen on the original sign. Eventually, as the road was downgraded and the area developed, this sign came down. A Texaco gas station was built at the fork in the road in the mid-1970s. It was shortly converted into a Park and Ride for traffic from the Long Island Expressway.
County Route18 was a 3.90-mile (6.28km) county highway along Broadway Avenue from east of Sayville to Holbrook. It was an unsigned two-lane arterial spanning from Montauk Highway (CR85) to CR19 (Patchogue–Holbrook Road). A former segment of Broadway Avenue called "Old Broadway Avenue" runs east of the segment between Montauk Highway and somewhere south of Sunrise Highway along the border of Sans Soucci Lakes County Park and near a former Girl Scouts of the USA camp. The route was added to the Suffolk County highway system on January27, 1930.[2]
County Route19 is a 6.76-mile (10.88km) south–north arterial through central Suffolk County. The highway begins at an intersection with CR65 in Patchogue. It connects several bedroom communities with major highways such as I-495 (the Long Island Expressway) and NY27. CR19 terminates at an intersection with CR16 in Lake Ronkonkoma. The route was added to the Suffolk County highway system on January27, 1930, and was amended on January29, 1965.[2]
Route description
The highway's southern terminus is at CR65 (Division Street). It serves as a widened, upgraded version of local West Street, which continues south of Division Street toward the Great South Bay. The starting point of the highway is immediately to the west of the Long Island Rail Road's Patchogue station. The road heads north and crosses Montauk Highway just west of downtown Patchogue. The road then curves west as it forms the southern bank of Great Patchogue Lake. Curving north again after passing the lake, the road assumes the name of Waverly Avenue, a pre-existing road that extends south of CR19 toward Montauk Highway. Still with four lanes, the road passes near Saint Joseph's College's Patchogue branch campus before crossing NY27 (Sunrise Highway). The diamond interchange here was built between 1988 and 1991 when NY27 was converted from an urban boulevard to a limited-access freeway, although it was originally planned as a cloverleaf interchange.[25][26]
Leaving the Patchogue area, the road curves slightly left, as Waverly Avenue (unsigned CR61) leaves CR19 and continues its north–south route. Just to the north, CR19 (now Patchogue–Holbrook Road) intersects two more partial-limited access highways. CR99 (Woodside Avenue), which leads to the IRS center at Holtsville, has its terminus at CR19 with a traffic signal. Less than a quarter mile to the north, CR97 (Nicolls Road) passes overhead and has a diamond interchange with CR19. Now entering Holbrook, the road divides various large bedroom communities. As it nears downtown Holbrook, the road moves onto a new alignment that was built between 1971 and 1973 to bypass the hamlet. After this bypass was built, the old section was renamed Main Street, eliminated between the new section and former CR18 (Broadway Avenue) and designated CR19A (now a former route). The new alignment carries four lanes up and over the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line, and was intended to have an interchange with Union Avenue and Main Street. Reassuming its former alignment, CR19 then crosses the Long Island Expressway (I-495) with another diamond interchange. This interchange was the eastern terminus of the Long Island Expressway until 1971.
After the Long Island Expressway interchange, the highway narrows to just two lanes with center turn lane. The road again takes an S-curve to the west before heading north again. Halfway within this S-curve, CR19 was originally intended to terminate at the never built "MacArthur Airport Expressway."[27] The character of this northernmost portion of the road is quite different from the rest, as the road has a much lower speed limit and even passes through a school zone roughly a mile before the terminus at CR16.
County Route19A was a 0.9-mile (1.4km) former segment of CR19 in Holbrook. When Patchogue–Holbrook Road was realigned, this section was named Main Street. The old alignment goes "around" Holbrook, which was realigned to carry four lanes up and over the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line, which was intended to have an interchange with Union Avenue and Main Street.
County Route20 was the unsigned designation for a 6.60 miles (10.62km) portion of North Country Road from NY25A in Port Jefferson, just north of the railroad station, to an intersection with NY25A in Sound Beach. CR20 was added to the county highway system on January 27, 1930.[2] Until the 1980s, it also included Sheep Pasture Road and Lower Sheep Pasture Road from Stony Brook to Port Jefferson.
Sheep Pasture Road is an alternate route in East Setauket connecting Stony Brook to Port Jefferson Station. For a small section it is broken up into Upper Sheep Pasture Road and Lower Sheep Pasture Road. Its main claim to fame is its name which at one time meant that there were sheep and pastures around in abundance but currently it is a heavily travelled artery and is almost all residential. The only sheep to be found are in a petting zoo about a mile north of the road on Gnarled Hollow Road. There are a few businesses closer to the eastern end in Port Jefferson Station. There is a picturesque bridge over the Long Island Rail Road track as it enters Port Jefferson Station. Unfortunately this bridge has been the scene of quite a few suicides in recent years by despondent youths. One of the largest Greek Orthodox church complexes on Long Island is on this road. It is the responsibility of Brookhaven town to maintain this road.
County Route21 is a two-lane, 11.70-mile (18.83km) highway running from Brookhaven to Rocky Point. Its southern terminus is at CR80 south of the interchange between CR16 and NY27 (which includes Yaphank Avenue in the interchange) in Brookhaven. The highway heads northward and terminates at an intersection with NY25A in Rocky Point. CR21 was added to the Suffolk County highway system on January27, 1930.[2]
Route description
CR21 ends at CR80 (Montauk Highway), although this portion of the road was severed when Sunrise Highway was built. For all intents and purposes as an uninterrupted route, CR21 ends at CR16 (Horseblock Road) in Yaphank. The road continues through Yaphank, a formerly agrarian area that has been built up by Suffolk County into a government office center, which includes the Suffolk County Police Department headquarters, and one of the main county jails. In conjunction with the development of this zone, CR21 was widened in the mid-1970s. This project included a bridge over the Long Island Rail Road Main Line as well as some local streets, one of which leads directly to Yaphank Station. North of the tracks, the Suffolk County Almshouse Barn can be found west of the road, as well as the former Suffolk County Sanitorium, and other county government buildings. In this area, CR21 also crosses I-495, which was built through the existing road in the late 1960s. The interchange here was not finished until 2000, when a westbound on-ramp and an eastbound off-ramp were added.
North of the Long Island Expressway, Yaphank Avenue runs on top of the dam for Lower Yaphank Lake before its terminus at East Main Street. Here the historic Homan-Gerard House and Mills can be found on the southeast corner, while the former Yaphank Garage can be found on the southwest corner. CR21 makes a left turn at the intersection and proceeds through historic Yaphank. East Main Street leads to another historic Long Island road named Moriches–Middle Island Road, which took residents between Rocky Point and The Moricheses long before the automobile was invented, let alone the Suffolk County Highway System. Near Upper Yaphank Lake, CR21 intersects with West Main Street, at one of two former Yaphank triangles (the other being at Mill Road and Patchogue–Yaphank Road). At this point, CR21 resumes its northward heading. Also at this point, a former section of the road is visible on land now owned by the Suffolk County Parks Department. It is visible diagonally across the street from and north of a building formerly owned by New York Telephone.
CR21 meanders through a variety of landscapes as it heads north to Middle Island, including farmland and forest. It passes close to the Carman's River at this point, particularly in the area of Cathedral Pines County Park. This area was notorious as one of the most deadly stretches of the road until safety improvements realigned and modernized the roadway near East Bartlett Road and again north of Longwood Road. Another former section of road called Old Middle Island–Yaphank Road breaks off to the left near CR21's intersection with NY25. North of NY25, the name of the road changes from Yaphank–Middle Island Road to Rocky Point–Yaphank Road. The former alignment of the road continues roughly parallel to the newer road, rejoining it near the intersection of Bayliss Road (also known as Bailey Road). Additionally, a former meander in the road is visible on either side of CR21 just south of Whiskey Road.
Between Middle Island and Rocky Point, much of CR21 runs through the Rocky Point Natural Resources Management Area, a major conservation area on land once owned by the Radio Corporation of America. This land was once considered the world's largest radio transmitting field.[32] Here, the road is given a second name of Marconi Boulevard. North of the former RCA Labs, CR21 runs between a high school and a housing project, before terminating at NY25A. North of NY25A, the road turns into Hallock Landing Road as it heads towards the bluffs of the Long Island Sound.
History
CR21 was added to the Suffolk County highway system on January27, 1930, on various roads dating back to colonial times. A widening project took place along Yaphank Avenue during the 1970s but various realignments took place along Yaphank–Middle Island Road, and Rocky Point–Yaphank Road before then. Though CR21 runs almost the entire breadth of Central Long Island, it does not intersect many major highways. Due to steep public opposition to highway improvements, there are multiple proposed and never-built highways that would have intersected this road:
CR99 was supposed to be extended east of CR16 terminating at an interchange with CR21.
CR90 was supposed to have an interchange with Yaphank Avenue near the Suffolk County Police Department Headquarters. This was to be part of the proposed Central Suffolk Highway designed to reconnect the two broken ends of NY24.
CR101 was either supposed to cross over Lower Yaphank Lake and East Main Street or at the east triangle with West Main Street and Middle Island–Yaphank Road. Both proposed extensions were to lead to William Floyd Parkway between Parr Meadows and Longwood Road.
CR24 was supposed to be upgraded to an extension between East Bartlett Road and Longwood Road.
CR8, the formerly proposed Yaphank Bypass, was supposed to terminate between Bayliss Road (also known as Bailey Road) and Miller Place–Yaphank Road.
CR111 was supposed to have an interchange at the intersection of Whiskey Road.
CR26 was supposed to have an interchange at the north end of the Rocky Point Natural Resources Management Area. It was intended to be relocated from the North Fork and upgraded as part of NY347.
With the construction of exit57 along Sunrise Highway, which interrupted original sections of both Horseblock Road and Yaphank Avenue, the new section of Horseblock Road was originally designated CR21A. This designation was eventually integrated into part of CR16.
County Route21A was a suffixed alternate of CR 21 created during the construction of exit57 along Sunrise Highway, which interrupted original sections of both Horse Block Road and Yaphank Avenue, The new section was officially part of Horse Block Road, but was eventually deleted, when it was integrated into part of CR16.
County Route22 was an unsigned, 2.45-mile (3.94km) north–south county highway known as Manor Lane. The designation ran from NY25 in the community of Jamesport to an intersection with Sound Avenue, a former alignment of NY25A,[35] in Northville, just east of now former CR23. CR22 began in the Suffolk County highway system since January27, 1930.[2]
County Route23 was an unsigned, 1.75-mile (2.82km) north–south county highway. CR23, designated Church Lane, began at an intersection with NY25 (Main Road) in Aquebogue and terminated at an intersection with Sound Avenue in Northville. CR23 was added to the county highway system on January27, 1930, and is no longer recognized by either SCDPW or NYSDOT.[2]
County Route24 was an unsigned county highway extending from CR21 (Yaphank–Middle Island Road) in the community of Middle Island to CR46 (William Floyd Parkway) in Upton. CR24, designated Longwood Road, also served Cathedral Pines County Park at its western terminus. The route, which was originally named South Manor Road, was added to the county highway system for Suffolk County on March25, 1975. The route is no longer recognized by the Suffolk County Department of Public Works and the New York State Department of Transportation.[2]
County Route25 was an 11.05-mile (17.78km) north–south two-lane highway running from Center Moriches to Wading River. CR25 went from the Montauk Highway in Center Moriches to an intersection with NY25A in the community of Riverhead. The highway was designated on May 1, 1968, from former CR66 along Brookfield Avenue, Wading River Road and Schultz Road.[2] During the 1970s, the highway was to receive widening and realignment projects west of the existing Wading River Road. The projects were to stretch from exit69 on the Long Island Expressway (I-495) southward to the Montauk Highway and the western terminus of the Moriches Bypass, designated CR98. The new section of the road was never built, and the CR25 designation was eventually removed.
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Montauk Highway is an east–west road extending for 95 miles (153 km) across the southern shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It extends from the Nassau County line in Amityville, where it connects to Merrick Road, to Montauk Point State Park at the very eastern end of Long Island in Montauk. The highway is known by several designations along its routing, primarily New York State Route 27A (NY 27A) from the county line to Oakdale and NY 27 east of Southampton. The portion of Montauk Highway between Oakdale and Southampton is mostly county-maintained as County Route 80 and County Route 85.
New York State Route 25 (NY 25) is an east–west state highway in downstate New York in the United States. The route extends along the central parts and North Shore of Long Island for just over 105 miles (169 km) from east midtown Manhattan in New York City to the Cross Sound Ferry terminal at Orient Point on the end of Long Island's North Fork. NY 25 is carried from Manhattan to Queens by way of the double-decked Queensboro Bridge over the East River.
New York State Route 27 (NY 27) is a 120.58-mile (194.05 km) long state highway that runs east–west from Interstate 278 (I-278) in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to Montauk Point State Park on Long Island, New York. Its two most prominent components are Sunrise Highway and Montauk Highway, the latter of which includes the Montauk Point State Parkway. NY 27 acts as the primary east–west highway on southern Long Island east of the interchange with the Heckscher State Parkway in Islip Terrace. The entire route in Suffolk, Nassau, and Queens counties were designated by the New York State Senate as the POW/MIA Memorial Highway. The highway gives access to every town on the South Shore. NY 27 is the easternmost state route in the state of New York, as well as the longest highway on Long Island.
New York State Route 112 (NY 112) is a state highway located entirely within the town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It runs from an intersection with Montauk Highway in the village of Patchogue to a junction with NY 25A in Port Jefferson Station. It is known locally as Medford Avenue in Patchogue and Patchogue Road in Terryville and Port Jefferson Station. The official name for the road outside these areas is "Patchogue–Port Jefferson Road", though it is often signed simply as "Route 112".
New York State Route 111 (NY 111) is a state highway located in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It runs north–south for 9.42 miles (15.16 km) through the towns of Islip and Smithtown, connecting NY 27A in the town seat of Islip to the east end of the NY 25 and NY 25A concurrency in Smithtown's Village of the Branch. Most of the road is a two-lane highway, save for several short four-lane stretches in the vicinity of interchanges along the route. NY 111 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York as an East Islip–Village of the Branch highway, using what is now County Route 17 (CR 17) south of Hauppauge. It was realigned to serve the hamlet of Islip in 1966.
New York State Route 347 (NY 347) is an east–west state highway located in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It connects the Northern State Parkway in Hauppauge to NY 25A in Mount Sinai. The route serves as a southern bypass of Smithtown and as a direct link between Nesconset and Port Jefferson, leading to the road being known as Smithtown Bypass in the Town of Smithtown, and for its entire length as the Nesconset–Port Jefferson Highway. Along the way, NY 347 intersects NY 25 in Nesconset and Nicolls Road in Lake Grove. The westernmost 2 miles (3.2 km) of NY 347 is concurrent with NY 454 while the portion northeast of NY 25 parallels NY 25A, which follows a more northerly alignment through the Town of Brookhaven than NY 347.
New York State Route 27A (NY 27A) is a state highway between Massapequa in Nassau County and Oakdale in Suffolk County, on Long Island, New York, in the United States. Its two most prominent components are Merrick Road and Montauk Highway.
New York State Route 110 (NY 110) is a major north–south state highway along the western border of Suffolk County, New York. It runs between the village of Amityville in the town of Babylon and Halesite in the town of Huntington. NY 110 comes close to the Nassau County line several times in the town of Babylon, which is only surpassed by NY 108 in distance to the county line for a state highway.
County Route 16 (CR 16) is a main thoroughfare through central Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. Its western terminus is at Middle Country Road in Village of the Branch, and its eastern terminus is at Montauk Highway (CR 80) in Brookhaven. The route carries five different names along its length: Terry Road, Smithtown Boulevard, Lake Shore Road, Portion Road, and Horseblock Road.
County Route 97 (CR 97) is a north–south expressway in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It runs from an intersection with CR 85 in Bayport just west of Blue Point on the south shore of Long Island to a junction with New York State Route 25A (NY 25A) in Stony Brook on the island's north shore. A 5-mile (8.0 km) section of the route from Holbrook to Farmingville is a freeway, while the remainder of the road is an expressway with at-grade intersections. CR 97 is known as Nicolls Road, named after 17th-century colonial Governor Richard Nicolls.
County Route 83 (CR 83) is a major north–south county road in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It runs from NY 27 exit 52A in North Patchogue to NY 25A in Mount Sinai. The road was to have to run further south along North Ocean Avenue and South Ocean Avenue through the village of Patchogue, but that proposal was canceled. CR 83 is known as North Ocean Avenue south of Granny Road in Medford and as Patchogue–Mount Sinai Road north of that point.
County Route 46 (CR 46) is a major county road in eastern Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It runs south-to-north from CR 75 in Smith Point County Park to New York State Route 25A (NY 25A) near the border of Shoreham and Wading River. The road is known as the William Floyd Parkway along its entire length, and is named after William Floyd, a Long Island native and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Despite its "parkway" designation within the State of New York, the road is open to commercial vehicles.
County Route 111 (CR 111) is a north–south county road in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It runs northwest and southeast from New York State Route 27 (NY 27) at exit 62 near Eastport to Interstate 495 (I-495) at exit 70 in Manorville. It serves as a connecting route between central Long Island and the Hamptons. The road is known as Captain Daniel Roe Highway, for Captain Daniel Roe (1740–1820) of Selden, who served in the French and Indian War and was a captain in the Revolutionary War. Within Manorville, the road is also known as Eastport Manor Road. It also appears on maps as Port Jefferson-Westhampton Road, for the communities in which the route was originally intended to have its north and south endpoints in.
New York State Route 231 (NY 231) is a 9.05-mile (14.56 km) long state highway located in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, in the United States. The route extends north–south from a partial interchange with NY 27A in the Incorporated Village of Babylon to an interchange with the Northern State Parkway in Dix Hills.
New York State Route 135 (NY 135) is a 10.8-mile (17.4 km) freeway in eastern Nassau County, New York, in the United States. The route connects Seaford with Syosset. The highway runs from Merrick Road in Seaford to NY 25 in Syosset. In between, NY 135 passes through Bethpage and Plainview and serves Bethpage State Park. The highway is ceremoniously designated as the Ralph J. Marino Expressway; however, it is more commonly known as the Seaford–Oyster Bay Expressway.
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1 2 "CR1"(PDF). NYSDOT Local Highway Inventory. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
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