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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.
Route description
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 Blvd 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.
Eastern segment
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.
History
NY 24 was originally a continuous route between New York City and Hampton Bays when it was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering.[2][3] The route was split into two pieces in 1941 when the section between Farmingdale and Riverhead was removed. Between 1958 and 1962, when the western section was relocated to the Long Island Expressway, Hempstead Turnpike was designated New York State Route 24A.[4]
In the 1960s, there was a proposal to build a "Republic Bypass" around the current terminus, as part of a plan to re-link the western and eastern segments.[5]
Other proposed extensions built by Suffolk County were Suffolk Avenue (CR 100), Furrows Road, Peconic Avenue, and the formerly proposed Central Suffolk Highway (CR 90).[6] The right-of-way for the Central Suffolk Highway can be found beneath the Suffolk CR 101 bridge over the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road.[7][8]
Before the eastern segment of NY 24 was extended along Suffolk CR 94 between Suffolk CR 104 and the Long Island Expressway, it shared a brief concurrency with NY 113 (that 113 is now CR 104, and there is a new 113 in Dutchess County) both of which terminated at NY 25.[9]
Major intersections
Western segment
Eastern segment
References
- Old Hagstrom's Maps and Road Atlases.
External links
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