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New York State Route 22

New York State Route 22 (NY 22) is a north–south state highway that parallels the eastern border of the U.S. state of New York, from the outskirts of New York City to the hamlet of Mooers in Clinton County near the Canadian border. At 337 miles (542 km), it is the state's longest north–south route and the third longest state route overall, after NY 5 and NY 17.[a] Many of the state's major east–west roads intersect with, and often join, NY 22 just before crossing into the neighboring New England states, where U.S. Route 7 (US 7), which originally partially followed NY 22's alignment, similarly parallels the New York state line.

New York State Route 22

NY 22 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT, NYCDOT, Clinton County, Westchester County, and the cities of Mount Vernon and Plattsburgh
Length337.26 mi[1] (542.77 km)
Existed1924[2]–present
Tourist
routes
Lakes to Locks Passage (from Whitehall to Keeseville)
Major junctions
South end US 1 in The Bronx
Major intersections
North end US 11 in Mooers
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesBronx, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington, Essex, Clinton
Highway system

Almost all of NY 22 is a two-lane rural road through small villages and hamlets. The exceptions are its southern end in the heavily populated Bronx and lower Westchester County, and a section that runs through the city of Plattsburgh near the northern end. The rural landscape that the road passes through varies from horse country and views of the reservoirs of the New York City watershed in the northern suburbs of the city, to dairy farms further upstate in the Taconic and Berkshire mountains, to the undeveloped, heavily forested Adirondack Park along the shores of Lake Champlain. An 86-mile (138 km) section from Fort Ann to Keeseville is part of the All-American Road known as the Lakes to Locks Passage.

The oldest portions of today's NY 22, in Westchester County and along the Lake Champlain shoreline, were Native American trails. Dutch, and after them English, settlers continued to use the road to get their farm products to market, with the southernmost portion eventually becoming the White Plains Post Road in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the early 20th century, as automobile use became widespread, the state paved the more heavily used sections and built new roads to create the current highway, first designated as NY 22 in 1930. In its early years the highway began in Manhattan; until 2008 its northern end was the Canadian border.

Route description edit

NY 22 starts as an urban arterial road, passing through the most populous communities along its route within its first 15 miles (24 km). After running northerly from its origin in the Bronx it veers slightly to the northeast in the vicinity of a traffic circle near Kensico Dam before heading northward for good as a mostly two-lane rural route all the way to the state's North Country.[5]

The majority of NY 22's 337-mile (542 km) routing is maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT); however, several sections are maintained by other jurisdictions. The southernmost of these is in the Bronx, where the entirety of the highway within the borough is maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT).[6] In Westchester County, NY 22 is mostly locally maintained within the city of Mount Vernon and is county-maintained within the city of White Plains.[7] In Clinton County, the route is locally maintained within the city of Plattsburgh.[8][b]

During its course, NY 22 intersects or runs concurrently with 46 other designated routes: one state parkway, five Interstate Highways, and seven U.S. Highways not counting its own termini. Of the surface road intersections, 18 terminate at NY 22 and 15 are concurrencies shared with the crossing routes, accounting for 72.6 miles (116.8 km), or 21.5% of the highway's total length.[10]

The Bronx to Kensico Dam edit

 
NY 22 northbound in Mount Vernon, just north of the East 233rd Street intersection in the Bronx

NY 22 starts as Provost Avenue at an intersection with U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in the Eastchester section of the Bronx, intersecting with East 233rd Street about 0.2 miles (320 m) to the north.[11] It soon crosses the Westchester county line into Mount Vernon and becomes South Third Avenue, beginning a 30-mile (48 km) section in that county.[5] Shortly after the county line, NY 22 makes a sharp turn to the east at the South Columbus Avenue intersection, soon passing St. Paul's Church National Historic Site on its north, then curving back to that direction. It parallels the nearby Hutchinson River Parkway as it passes through the suburbs of Bronxville and Tuckahoe. At Wilson Woods Lake, it crosses under a railroad bridge on the Metro-North New Haven Line and becomes North Columbus Avenue, then has its first interchange with a freeway at the Cross County Parkway.[7]

Country clubs on either side bracket NY 22's entry into Eastchester.[5] It makes a turn to the northeast, passing the Vernon Hills Shopping Center to the right. After leaving Eastchester, NY 22 continues north into the village of Scarsdale.[5] Paralleling the Bronx River Parkway (BRP), enters Westchester's county seat, White Plains.[5][c] NY 22 also intersects NY 125 and NY 119 in downtown White Plains, then bends to the northwest along North Broadway, eventually intersecting the Cross-Westchester Expressway (Interstate 287 or I-287). The White Plains Rural Cemetery is visible to the west as NY 22 continues northward out of the city.[5] In North White Plains, the surrounding area becomes less developed as it goes over a gentle rise from which a short connector runs downhill to the traffic circle where the BRP ends and the Taconic State Parkway begins, just south of Kensico Dam.[5]

Kensico Reservoir to Brewster edit

While the Taconic State Parkway continues along the northwest heading NY 22 had been following, NY 22 itself veers to the northeast along the reservoir's south shore. After crossing a small bridge over one of the reservoir's bays, NY 22 becomes a four-lane surface road and begins a thousand-foot (300 m) concurrency, the first of 15 along its length, with NY 120.[5] The combined roads pass just west of IBM's Armonk headquarters and the "Duke's Trees angle", the westernmost point in Connecticut, after which NY 22 becomes a four-lane expressway.[12] For the first time, NY 22 runs parallel to New York's eastern border, intersecting I-684 for the first of several times just north of the short portion of that highway in Connecticut, after which NY 22 reverts to two-lane surface road. A short distance later, NY 433, one of the state's shortest highways,[d] heads south from NY 22 into Greenwich.[5]

After that junction, NY 22 bends back to the north, paralleling I-684 as a narrow, shaded meandering two-lane rural route through the Westchester countryside of large wooded lots and houses well-screened from the road. In downtown Bedford, the first settlement since White Plains, the highway overlaps with NY 172 for a mile (1.6 km), its first concurrency with an east–west route, then veers back to the northwest at the center of town. Just to the north, NY 121, the only north–south state highway whose route is entirely east of NY 22, forks off from its southern terminus. Another mile past that, NY 22 returns to a due-north heading, passing the John Jay Homestead State Historic Site a National Historic Landmark, where it turns west briefly, and Harvey School, where it curves to the northwest again. After the Katonah Museum of Art it widens briefly at a major intersection with NY 35.[5] Two miles (3.2 km) north of that junction, NY 22 becomes parallel with I-684 into the Town of Somers and the hamlet of Goldens Bridge. On the other side of the Interstate, accessible via NY 138, is the Goldens Bridge station on Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, which begins a long parallel alignment with NY 22 at this point.[5]

 
I-84 overpass north of Brewster

The railroad's Purdy's station is a short distance west of the next junction, NY 116. At another traffic light 400 feet (120 m) to the north, NY 116 goes east to Titicus Reservoir at the northern intersection, the highway crosses under I-684, remaining between it and the railroad tracks. Just past the Interstate, NY 22 turns west onto Hardscrabble Road, which soon turns north again to follow the tracks to the next station, North Salem's hamlet of Croton Falls. Just north of the hamlet, NY 22 crosses under the tracks, and is joined by US 202.[e] Immediately afterward, the road crosses back under the railroad again and enters Putnam County, following the Croton River north past the spillway of East Branch Reservoir.[5]

After paralleling the reservoir for almost two miles (3.2 km), a third route, US 6, joins the concurrency just east of the village of Brewster, forming the only three-route overlap along NY 22. The three routes cross under a high, long bridge carrying I-84, then veer east to an interchange with the north end of I-684. US 6 and 202 continue east for Danbury while NY 22 uses the northbound on-ramp of the I-684 roadway. The next thousand feet (300 m) of NY 22, along the brief extension of I-684, is the highway's only freeway section; the roadways merge and narrow to two lanes after they cross the Croton's East Branch.[5]

Harlem Valley, Taconics and Berkshires edit

 
NY 22 looking north into the Harlem Valley from Patterson

NY 22 continues heading northeast along a narrow strip of land between the East Branch and Bog Brook reservoirs. It then resumes its northward heading, following a much straighter course than it had up to this point, on two lanes through wooded areas of the town of Patterson, where two local state highways, NY 312 and 164, come in from the west. The highway gradually expands to three and sometimes four lanes as it passes through built-up areas of strip development. Shortly after intersecting a third state highway, NY 311, and passing another strip plaza, NY 22 crosses into Dutchess County.[5]

After another supermarket strip to the east, a long, gentle divided bend in the road almost a mile long ends with an overpass where NY 55 comes in from the west. It joins NY 22 as the two routes, returning to two lanes, pass through the eastern fringe of the village of Pawling and then by Trinity-Pawling School. Past the village, the railroad tracks edge closer to the highway as NY 22 enters the scenic Harlem Valley, near the lower end of the Taconic Mountains.[5] The road curves more gently and takes longer straightaways, with lower density of residential and commercial development. Two miles (3.2 km) from Pawling, the Appalachian Trail crosses the road next to the line's similarly named station.[5]

NY 22 and NY 55 continue their long curve into the town of Dover, past the Harlem Valley–Wingdale station next to the road across from the now-closed buildings of Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center. The NY 55 concurrency ends when that road forks off east towards Connecticut at the hamlet of Wingdale. The road continues through Dover Plains and into Amenia, where an overlap with NY 343 begins. The railroad line ends at Wassaic. NY 343 remains joined with NY 22 into the hamlet of Amenia, where it separates and heads towards Sharon, Connecticut. At the same junction, US 44 comes in from Millbrook to begin an overlap with NY 22.[5] The valley opens up as the southern Taconics loom ahead. Shortly after crossing into the Town of North East, the highway passes by the large Coleman Station Historic District.[14]

After intersecting with NY 199 at its eastern end, NY 22 and US 44 veer northeast into the small village of Millerton in the northern protrusion of Dutchess County's Oblong, an area once the subject of a boundary dispute between New York and Connecticut in the late 17th century. US 44 continues eastward towards Lakeville, Connecticut, only a mile (1.6 km) east at this point, while NY 22 resumes its northward course into the shadow of the ridge ahead, where 2,311-foot (704 m) Brace Mountain, Dutchess County's highest peak,[15] dominates the view. At another gentle curve, NY 22 slips into Columbia County and the town of Ancram.[5] North of the county line, Massachusetts becomes the state behind Alander Mountain and the other peaks visible to the east. The southernmost route from New York to the Massachusetts state line, NY 344, leaves for Bashbish Falls State Park just west of the hamlet of Copake Falls.[5]

 
NY 22 passing the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival north of Hillsdale

The next major junction is at Hillsdale, where NY 23, the longest[f] east–west state highway not to overlap with NY 22, intersects at a traffic light just east of downtown. At Green River, NY 71, the state's shortest two-digit route,[g] begins it short eastward course into Massachusetts. NY 22 then crosses into Austerlitz, where the surrounding terrain becomes much more wooded and the valleys become narrower. In the center of town, the historic hamlet of Old Austerlitz, East Hill Road offers a short detour to Steepletop, the farm where Edna St. Vincent Millay lived, another National Historic Landmark. A short distance later, NY 22 intersects with NY 203 at its eastern end.[5]

NY 22 then veers sharply to the northeast, resuming a northward direction within 150 feet (46 m) of the state line, the highway's closest approach to it along its entire length. It then rounds a mountain and heads west, paralleling the New York State Thruway's Berkshire section (I-90) for a mile. NY 980D (an unsigned reference route) leaves to the east, where it becomes Massachusetts Route 102 at the state line. After Thruway exit B3, NY 22 resumes its northerly heading. From here it intersects NY 295, then passes Queechy Lake. NY 22 then straightens out to reach New Lebanon, where it intersects US 20. Ending a 41.8-mile (67.3 km) stretch with no concurrencies, the longest on NY 22, New York's longest east–west route (US 20)[h] overlaps with its longest north–south route (NY 22) for a mile before the former continues to Pittsfield and the latter returns to the border-paralleling course, which takes it into Rensselaer County.[5]

 
The historic district along NY 22 in downtown Hoosick Falls

As NY 22 continues north, it remains, at first, within a mile of Massachusetts, moving to the east to intersect with NY 43 in Stephentown. North of that junction, it begins to run through a deep, isolated, lightly populated valley in the New York section of the Berkshires.[i] Wide curves take the road through the town of Berlin. NY 22 trends further west, then back east to where NY 2 crosses via an overpass at Petersburgh on its way to Petersburg Pass, the northernmost crossing of the New York–Massachusetts state line. The next road to head east from NY 22, NY 346 at North Petersburgh, enters Vermont.[5]

Shortly afterward, the highway descends gently from the Berkshires to meet another major east–west state road, NY 7. After turning northeast to join it at a traffic light, NY 22 overlaps with Route 7 for 1,500 feet (460 m), then forks off to the north just before crossing the Hoosic River. NY 22 follows the river for 2 miles (3.2 km) to Hoosick Falls, the first village it has passed through since Millerton. There are no other state routes here, but after another two miles (3.2 km), at North Hoosick, NY 67 comes in from the east and the two roads overlap as they leave Rensselaer County.[5]

Washington County edit

The next 73 miles (117 km) of NY 22 traverse Washington County, the longest portion of the highway in a single county.[19] Almost immediately after the joined roads cross the line, NY 67 splits off to the west, crossing the Hoosick back into Rensselaer County, while NY 22 straightens out again to go due north. After four miles (6.4 km), it reaches Cambridge, where NY 313 forks off to the east. In the middle of town, NY 372, a local connector to Greenwich, ends.[5] North of Cambridge, the highway continues through a rolling landscape of fields and farms, the low transitional country between the Appalachians and the Adirondacks. Beyond NY 29's eastern terminus at Greenwich Junction, NY 22 heads eastward again through 18 miles (29 km) of countryside until, just before reaching Granville, it comes within 0.5 miles (800 m) of the state line, the closest it has come to that boundary since Austerlitz. At the village's south end, NY 22 intersects NY 149 and the two routes overlap for 400 feet (120 m) until Route 149 begins its short journey to Vermont. Just north of Granville, the first of NY 22's two suffixed routes, NY 22A, begins its route running closely parallel to the state line and then into Vermont, where it becomes Vermont Route 22A (VT 22A), paralleling the parent route for some distance on the other side of the state line.[5]

 
View to the Drowned Lands at the south end of Lake Champlain from near Whitehall

Immediately after this junction, NY 22 begins a long curve away from the state line that has it running due west at the end of NY 40 in North Granville. It heads northwest a little further until, after passing between Great Meadows and Washington state prisons, it reaches US 4 and turns right to join it, resuming its northward course. At this point the highway is 8 miles (13 km) from the state line, the farthest west it has gotten from it since southern Westchester County. The overlap with US 4, the first to pair NY 22 with another north–south route[j] since the short concurrency with NY 120, lasts for seven miles (11 km) along the base of the Adirondack foothills between the low country and Lake George, before ending in Whitehall, where US 4 leaves to assume the east–west course it takes across northern New England.[5]

Adirondack Park and Lake Champlain edit

As NY 22 bends westward after leaving Whitehall, it rounds the north end of the ridge to the west, offering views into Vermont. Once again the Vermont state line is very near NY 22, but now it is separated from New York by water instead of land. The stream at the bottom of this valley, surrounded by the low lying Drowned Lands flood plain, is the inflow for Lake Champlain. The lake's South Bay, which the road crosses immediately after this turn, is also the Blue Line. NY 22 has now entered the Adirondack Park, the 6.1-million-acre (25,000 km2) Forest Preserve and National Historic Landmark, and the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States.[20] Within the park, NY 22 mainly follows the lakeshore, closer to some of its more populated areas.[5]

 
NY 22 in Washington County north of Whitehall

It climbs through rock cuts as it meanders north on the narrowing isthmus between Lakes Champlain and George. Near the northern end, it crosses the Essex County line. Two miles (3.2 km) into the county, it reaches the first settlement along its length within the Adirondack Park, Ticonderoga. The highway skirts the northeastern edge of the village, the site of key battles in both the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars, as NY 74 comes in from the ferry to the east, the first intersecting state route since Whitehall, ending the longest such break on NY 22 at 24.9 miles (40.1 km). The two routes overlap for almost two miles (3.2 km) until NY 74 goes straight ahead at the intersection with NY 9N, while NY 22 turns right to join NY 9N, the longest suffixed route in the state, and return to its northbound orientation for the longest of its concurrencies, at 25.5 miles (41.0 km).[5]

At first, NY 22 and NY 9N veer west, away from the lake, but then return to its shoreline to avoid a nearby mountain, just before Crown Point. NY 185, a small connector road, runs from NY 9N and NY 22 along the peninsula to become VT 17. The road remains close to the widening lake for the next 15 miles (24 km), with the tracks of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, used today by CSX for freight and Amtrak for passenger service between New York and Montreal, sometimes immediately to the east. After passing through Port Henry to Westport, where 9N leaves heading west for Elizabethtown. Beyond that junction, NY 22 again turns inland, going through the easy pass around Split Rock Mountain, going northwest to Wadhams where it turns northeast to Whallonsburg, then north. At Boquet, it makes an abrupt turn to go 3 miles (4.8 km) due east back to the lakeshore and ferry landing at Essex, where it connects to the Charlotte–Essex Ferry via Dock Street, leading to VT F-5 on the opposite side of Lake Champlain.[5]

 
View of Vermont and Lake Champlain near Essex

The highway again follows the lakeshore to Willsboro, where NY 22 heads to the northwest again, inland, through dense forest, until it heads west and intersects US 9 in the town of Chesterfield, the other major north–south surface route up the state's eastern side. NY 22 and US 9 join, closely parallel to the Adirondack Northway (I-87), the only other route in the state to directly connect New York City with Canada. The three routes, spread over many miles in the southern part of the state, run through a narrow corridor for two miles (3.2 km) until US 9 and NY 22 veer east again toward Keeseville.[5]

Here, NY 9N ends and US 9 and NY 22 separate, ending the last concurrency along the latter. The two will exchange corridors, with US 9 following the lake shore line while NY 22 remains mostly inland. NY 22 enters Clinton County just north of Keeseville, and then leaves Adirondack Park two miles (3.2 km) beyond at the Peru town line.[5]

Clinton County edit

Just south of the hamlet of Peru, the short NY 442 terminates at NY 22. In the hamlet itself, after the Little Au Sable River crossing, NY 22's other suffixed route, NY 22B, branches off further inland. NY 22 continues north of Peru, and returns to the Northway's side again in a mile. After another five miles (8.0 km), it has its first exit on the Northway near the now-closed Plattsburgh Air Force Base. It continues northeastward, crossing the Saranac River into Plattsburgh,[5] the first city and most populous community NY 22 has passed through since White Plains.[k]

 
Northern terminus of NY 22 at US 11 in Mooers

NY 22 runs along South Catherine Street for a few blocks, then divides into one-way couplets for the first time since Westchester County, with northbound traffic moving a block to the east to follow Oak Street, while southbound traffic comes down North Catherine Street. It parallels US 9 for a couple of blocks, intersecting NY 3 (Cornelia Street) just a block west of its eastern terminus at that highway. After Boynton Avenue, the separate streets reunite and turns northwest just before it has its second and final exit with the Northway. Just after the exit, NY 374 begins along the westbound route as NY 22 turns to the north once again.[5]

The highway follows the railroad tracks into Beekmantown until it bears left at a fork, trending further west to Beekmantown Corners, where another short local road, County Route 58, formerly NY 456, comes to its western end. After crossing into the next town, Chazy, NY 22 bears left again at another fork to drift further to the west.[5] The terrain around the road becomes increasingly wooded, with long unbroken stretches of pine, in the northern portion of the town. This is briefly broken at another western terminus of a short local road, County Route 23, formerly NY 191, in the hamlet of Sciota.[22]

NY 22 continues past Sciota in a fairly straight north-northwesterly course through more woods with small home and farm clearings. Those yield to mostly fields just before the Great Chazy River, after which NY 22 enters the hamlet of Mooers.[23][24] NY 22 comes to an end upon intersecting US 11.[25]

History edit

In popular culture edit

The road is celebrated and described in Benjamin Swett's 2007 photographic travelogue, Route 22.[26]

Old roads edit

The road from the modern-day Bronx (then part of Westchester County) through White Plains to Bedford and points north was originally an old Native American path.[27] This path was later used and widened by the first European settlers. During colonial times, the road was known as "the road to Bedford and Vermont".[27] Further north, near Lake Champlain, the route now used by NY 22 was used by the St. Francis Indians of Canada as they went south to find warmer fishing areas.[28] The old road was also used heavily during the American Revolution to transport iron south from the mines in the Adirondacks.[28]

Once White Plains became the county seat of Westchester in 1759, the road between the village and the city of New York (then encompassing only Manhattan) became an important route and was established as the White Plains Post Road. Before 1797, the main road heading to points north and east out of Manhattan went via Kingsbridge along the old Boston Post Road.[29] A new bridge over the Harlem River (the original Harlem Bridge) was opened in 1797, shortening the route out of Manhattan. This also relocated the Boston and White Plains Post roads to a new alignment along Third Avenue and Boston Road. The White Plains Post Road separated from the Boston Post Road in Bronxdale, with the road to Boston heading east and the road to White Plains heading north. The old White Plains Post Road roughly followed the alignment of modern-day White Plains Road, which was laid out in 1863.[29] (The original post road was to the east of the modern-day avenue). The White Plains Post Road continued north through Olinville, Wakefield, and Mount Vernon, where the route shifted east to modern-day White Plains Post Road, going through Bronxville and Scarsdale to White Plains.[30]

The stretch from Salem to the Vermont border in Granville was part of the old Northern Turnpike, which began in Lansingburgh and went along modern-day NY 40. The Northern Turnpike was chartered on April 1, 1799.[31]

Public ownership edit

 
A picture of State Road in Patterson, which would later become part of 22

In 1868, the New York State Legislature formed a commission "to regulate, grade, widen, gravel, and improve the old White Plains Post Road", which was amended in 1870 to "macadamize the road"[32] between Mount Vernon and White Plains. The post road south of Mount Vernon, which was part of New York City, was later widened between 1902 and 1908.[29]

State highways were first formally defined by the state legislature in 1909 and given numeric designations,[33] although these initial designations were not publicly signed. Portions of modern NY 22 were defined as part of legislative routes 1 and 22. Legislative route 1 went from the New York City line north along the White Plains Post Road to White Plains, then detoured to Harrison (via Westchester Avenue), before proceeding north to Armonk (via modern NY 120). Legislative route 1 continued north along modern NY 22 to Austerlitz, where it then turned northwest to Valatie (via modern NY 203 and NY 980B), then followed US 9 to Albany. Legislative route 22 had two segments. The southern segment began in Troy, following NY 7 to Hoosick, then went north along modern NY 22 up to Putnam Station (south of Ticonderoga).

NY 22 designation edit

 
Original NY 22 shield, adopted in 1927

In 1924, New York signed several major state roads with route numbers. Most of Legislative Route 1 was designated as NY 22, but with a direct route between White Plains and Armonk. Also, instead of continuing to Valatie, NY 22 initially ended at the NY 23 intersection in Hillsdale.[2] By 1929, the road to Valatie had been improved and NY 22 was extended to US 9, with a length of 139 miles (224 km).[34] The middle section of modern NY 22 was designated in 1924 as NY 24, running for 75 miles (121 km) from Stephentown to Comstock. The portion of modern NY 22 north of Whitehall remained unnumbered in 1924 but the next year NY 30, a route assigned in 1924 that linked Mechanicville to Whitehall, was extended north from Whitehall to the Canadian border north of Mooers.[2][35] In the 1930 renumbering, the NY 24 and NY 30 designations were both reassigned elsewhere. NY 22 was then extended north along their former routes,[36] incorporating newly improved roads between Austerlitz and Stephentown, creating the 370-mile (600 km) route that existed until 2008.[34] The segment of old NY 22 between Austerlitz and Valatie was renumbered to NY 203.[36]

 
View down Lenox Avenue from West 124th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard. This was once part of NY 22 in Manhattan

In 1934, at the insistence of the Automobile Club of New York, several numbered routes were extended and signed within New York City, with NY 22 among them. It was extended south from the Mount Vernon line in the Bronx along White Plains Road, then following East 233rd Street to Webster Avenue until Fordham Road (US 1). From there, it continued south along the Grand Concourse (then overlapped with NY 100), crossing into Manhattan via East 149th Street to the 145th Street Bridge. In Manhattan, the NY 22/100 concurrency continued south along Lenox Avenue, 110th Street, Fifth Avenue, 96th Street, and Park Avenue, ending at Houston Street (NY 1A).[37] By 1941, the alignment within Mount Vernon was shifted east to use Columbus Avenue and South 3rd Avenue (current NY 22), continuing its route to New York City via East 233rd Street as before.[38] On January 1, 1970, the NY 22 designation was removed from Manhattan and most of the Bronx, and the short piece remaining in the city was realigned to meet US 1 at NY 22's current southern terminus.[39]

U.S. Route 7 edit

In the original plan for the U.S. Highway System, as approved by the Bureau of Public Roads in November 1926,[40] US 7 was defined as beginning in New York City and designated on the alignment of NY 22 to Amenia, where it shifted northeast into Sharon, Connecticut, to use old New England Route 4 through Massachusetts and Vermont all the way to the Canadian border. Apparently New York did not approve this plan, and by mid-1927 the official route log published by the American Association of State Highway Officials had relocated the southern end of US 7 to Norwalk, Connecticut.[41]

NY 9N concurrency edit

In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the stretch from Ticonderoga to Keeseville now concurrent with NY 9N was designated solely as NY 22. The north end of NY 47 was also located at an intersection with NY 22 in Ticonderoga. At Westport, NY 22 connected to NY 195, an east–west highway leading to Elizabethtown. At the time, Route 9N only extended from there to Keeseville.[36] NY 9N was extended southward to Lake George c. 1936, supplanting Routes 47 and 195 and becoming concurrent with NY 22 between Ticonderoga and Westport.[42][43]

NY 8 originally extended eastward from Hague to a ferry across Lake Champlain at Putnam when it was assigned as part of the renumbering. In between the two locations, the route utilized modern NY 9N, Montcalm Street, NY 22, and Wrights Ferry and Wrights roads.[34][44] It was realigned in the early 1930s to continue east from Ticonderoga on what is now NY 74 to another ferry across the lake.[34][44][45] NY 8 was altered again c. 1934 to follow NY 22 north from Ticonderoga to Crown Point, where it turned off the highway onto Bridge Road (now NY 185).[45][46] Route 8 remained intact along this routing until c. 1968, when Route 8 was truncated southwestward to NY 9N at Hague.[47][48]

Realignments edit

 
Dutchess CR 81, a realigned section of NY 22

Over the course of many years, several sections of NY 22 were straightened, realigned to new roads, or both. Some old alignments are still either county-maintained or state-maintained. Several of these are in Dutchess County. In Dover Plains, the southern leg of NY 22's junction with NY 343 is maintained by the state as NY 980G, a reference route.[43][49] To the north in the town of Amenia, a 4.03-mile-long (6.49 km)[50] loop off NY 22 between Wassaic and Amenia is designated as CR 81. Another former routing of NY 22 in the town of Dover exists as CR 6, a loop route between the hamlets of Wingdale and Dover Plains that runs along the west bank of the Ten Mile River.[43][49] Within the 44/22 concurrency, part of CR 5 (and its short spur 5S), a mile-long (1.6 km) loop west of the highway south of Millerton, is also a former alignment of NY 22.[51]

Before the construction of I-684, NY 22 continued northeast along Sodom Road north of Brewster on what is now CR 50, a dead-end road maintained by Putnam County.[52] Modern NY 22 joins the I-684 roadway at exit 10 (the northern terminus of I-684) and connects to the surface road on the opposite side of the Croton River via the NY 981B connector. South of Copake Falls, the state also still maintains an old alignment designated as NY 980F. North of Copake Falls, the northern half of the original alignment was designated as an extension of NY 344.[53][54]

Mooers area edit

The segment of NY 22 north of US 11, named Hemmingford Road, was state-maintained until 1988, when ownership and maintenance of that part of the route was transferred to Clinton County as part of a highway maintenance swap between the county and the state of New York.[55] Following the swap, it was co-designated as CR 34 by Clinton County.[8] In 2008, the signed northern terminus of NY 22 was moved to the eastern end of its overlap with US 11 in Mooers.[25][56] The official alignment of NY 22 was not changed, however, as the New York State Department of Transportation still considered the Canadian border to be NY 22's northern terminus[8] until 2014.[1]

Major intersections edit

CountyLocationmi[10]kmDestinationsNotes
The BronxEastchester0.000.00  US 1 (Boston Road)Southern terminus
WestchesterMount Vernon2.794.49  Cross County ParkwayExit 8 on Cross County Parkway
White Plains11.1517.94 
 
NY 125 south (Mamaroneck Avenue)
Northern terminus of NY 125
11.5718.62 
 
NY 119 west (Hamilton Avenue)
Eastern terminus of NY 119
12.3019.79  I-287 – Governor Mario M. Cuomo BridgeExit 6 on I-287
Town of North Castle13.2821.37 
 
To I-287 – Port Chester, Tappan Zee Bridge
Access via Central Westchester Parkway; no southbound entrance
13.8122.23 
 
 
 
Bronx River Parkway south / Taconic State Parkway north
Southbound exit and northbound entrance to Kensico Circle; other movements via North Broadway
Bridge over the Kensico Reservoir
17.4728.12 
 
NY 120 south – Rye
Southern end of NY 120 concurrency
17.7928.63South end of expressway section
 
 
NY 120 north – Chappaqua
Northern end of NY 120 concurrency
18.9430.48 
 
NY 128 north – Armonk
Southern terminus of NY 128; hamlet of Armonk
19.5731.49  I-684 – White Plains, BrewsterExit 3 on I-684
North end of expressway section
19.9732.14 
 
NY 433 south – Glenville
Northern terminus of NY 433
Town of Bedford25.8041.52 
 
 
 
NY 172 west to I-684 – Mount Kisco
Western end of NY 172 concurrency
26.8343.18 
 
NY 172 east – Pound Ridge, Stamford, CT
Eastern end of NY 172 concurrency; hamlet of Bedford
27.2143.79 
 
NY 121 north – Cross River
Southern terminus of NY 121
32.1051.66  
 
NY 35 to I-684 – Katonah, Cross River
Town of Lewisboro34.2555.12 
 
To NY 138
Grade-separated interchange; hamlet of Goldens Bridge
Town of North Salem36.7659.16 
 
 
 
 
NY 116 west to I-684 south – Somers
Southern end of NY 116 concurrency; hamlet of Purdys Station
36.8359.27 
 
NY 116 east – North Salem
Northern end of NY 116 concurrency; hamlet of Purdys Station
38.1361.36 
 
Hardscrabble Road (CR 138) to I-684
Hamlet of Croton Falls
Town of Somers38.8462.51 
 
US 202 west – Mahopac
Southern end of US 202 concurrency
PutnamBrewster43.2969.67 
 
US 6 west – Carmel
Southern end of US 6 concurrency
Town of Southeast44.2071.13  
 
I-84 / I-684 south – White Plains, Newburgh, Danbury, CT
Exit 10 on I-684; exit 68B on I-84; northern terminus of I-684
 
 
 
 
US 6 east / US 202 east / Starr Ridge Road
Northern end of US 6/US 202 concurrency
44.5971.76NY 981B
47.1875.93 
 
NY 312 west
Eastern terminus of NY 312; hamlet of Sears Corners
Town of Patterson50.3681.05 
 
NY 164 west – Towners
Eastern terminus of NY 164
53.5386.15 
 
NY 311 south – Patterson
Northern terminus of NY 311
DutchessTown of Pawling56.0290.16 
 
NY 55 west – Poughkeepsie
Interchange; southern end of NY 55 concurrency
Town of Dover62.90101.23 
 
NY 55 east – Gaylordsville, CT
Northern end of NY 55 concurrency; hamlet of Wingdale
70.32113.17NY 980G – MillbrookFormer routing of NY 22; southern terminus of unsigned NY 980G; hamlet of Dover Plains
Town of Amenia71.32114.78 
 
NY 343 west
Southern end of NY 343 concurrency
78.71126.67 
 
 
 
US 44 west / NY 343 east – Millbrook, Sharon, CT
Northern end of NY 343 concurrency; southern end of US 44 concurrency; hamlet of Amenia
North East85.71137.94 
 
NY 199 west – Pine Plains
Eastern terminus of NY 199
Millerton87.30140.50 
 
US 44 east – Lakeville, CT
Northern end of US 44 concurrency
ColumbiaTown of Copake99.62160.32NY 980FFormer routing of NY 22; southern terminus of unsigned NY 980F; formerly NY 960; hamlet of Copake Falls
100.12161.13 
 
NY 344 east – Copake Falls, Taconic State Park
Western terminus of NY 344; hamlet of Copake Falls
Town of Hillsdale104.16167.63  
 
NY 23 to Taconic State Parkway – Great Barrington, MA
Hamlet of Hillsdale
108.20174.13 
 
CR 21 west
Former eastern terminus of NY 217; hamlet of North Hillsdale
111.42179.31 
 
NY 71 east – Great Barrington, MA
Western terminus of NY 71; hamlet of Green River
Austerlitz115.07185.19 
 
NY 203 north – Spencertown, Chatham
Southern terminus of NY 203
Canaan119.57192.43 
 
Route 102 east – Stockbridge, West Stockbridge
Access via NY 980D
120.33193.65   
 
I-90 / Berkshire Connector to Mass Pike / I-87 – Albany, Boston
Exit B3 on I-90 / Thruway
123.18198.24  
 
NY 295 to Taconic State Parkway – Chatham, Pittsfield, MA
New Lebanon128.12206.19 
 
US 20 west – Albany
Southern end of US 20 concurrency; hamlet of New Lebanon
128.86207.38 
 
US 20 east – Pittsfield, MA
Northern end of US 20 concurrency; hamlet of Lebanon Springs
RensselaerStephentown134.86217.04  NY 43 – Williamstown
Petersburgh150.26241.82  NY 2 – PetersburghGrade-separated; access via unsigned NY 914A (Moses Road and Main Street); hamlet of Petersburg
155.55250.33 
 
NY 346 east
Western terminus of NY 346; hamlet of North Petersburg
Hoosick157.78253.92 
 
NY 7 west – Troy
Western end of NY 7 concurrency
158.11254.45 
 
NY 7 east – Bennington, VT
Eastern end of NY 7 concurrency
164.16264.19 
 
NY 67 east – North Bennington, VT
Southern end of NY 67 concurrency; hamlet of North Hoosick
WashingtonWhite Creek166.65268.20 
 
NY 67 west – Valley Falls
Northern end of NY 67 concurrency
Village of Cambridge171.65276.24 
 
NY 313 east – Arlington, VT
Western terminus of NY 313
171.98276.77 
 
NY 372 west – Greenwich
Eastern terminus of NY 372
Town of Salem181.00291.29 
 
NY 29 west – Greenwich
Eastern terminus of NY 29
Town of Granville199.49321.05 
 
NY 149 west – Hartford
Southern end of NY 149 concurrency
199.56321.16 
 
NY 149 east – Granville
Northern end of NY 149 concurrency
202.27325.52 
 
NY 22A north – Middle Granville
Southern terminus of NY 22A; hamlet of Middle Granville
206.71332.67 
 
NY 40 south – Hartford
Northern terminus of NY 40; hamlet of North Granville
Town of Fort Ann210.96339.51 
 
US 4 south / Lakes to Locks Passage – Fort Ann
Southern end of US 4 concurrency; hamlet of Comstock
Village of Whitehall217.67350.31 
 
US 4 north – Rutland, VT
Northern end of US 4 concurrency
Bridge over South Bay
EssexTiconderoga242.52390.30 
 
  NY 74 east – Fort Ticonderoga, Ferry to Vermont
Southern end of NY 74 concurrency; hamlet of Ticonderoga
244.12392.87 
 
 
 
NY 9N south / NY 74 west – Ticonderoga, Schroon Lake
Northern end of NY 74 concurrency; southern end of NY 9N concurrency
Crown Point255.43411.07 
 
 
 
NY 185 north to VT 17 – Bridge to Vermont
Southern terminus of NY 185
Westport269.60433.88 
 
 
 
NY 9N north to I-87 – Elizabethtown
Northern end of NY 9N concurrency; hamlet of Westport
Chesterfield295.80476.04  
 
I-87 / US 9 south – Elizabethtown
Southern end of US 9 concurrency; exit 33 on I-87; to I-87 via NY 915K
300.37483.40 
 
  US 9 north / NY 9N / Lakes to Locks Passage – Ausable Chasm, Plattsburgh
Northern end of US 9 concurrency; southern end of NY 9N concurrency; northern terminus of NY 9N; hamlet of Keeseville
ClintonAu Sable300.64483.83 
 
 
 
 
 
NY 9N south to I-87 / A-15 – Au Sable Forks, Whiteface Mountain
Northern end of NY 9N concurrency; hamlet of Keeseville
Peru306.22492.81 
 
 
 
NY 442 east to I-87
Western terminus of NY 442; hamlet of Peru
306.45493.18 
 
NY 22B north – Schuyler Falls
Southern terminus of NY 22B; hamlet of Peru
Town of Plattsburgh312.58503.05  I-87Exit 36 on I-87
City of Plattsburgh316.98510.13  NY 3 (Cornelia Street)
Town of Plattsburgh318.17512.04  I-87 – Albany, MontrealExit 38 on I-87
318.50512.58 
 
NY 374 west / Tom Miller Road – Dannemora, Saranac Lake
Eastern terminus of NY 374
Beekmantown323.17520.09 
 
 
 
CR 58 east to I-87
Formerly NY 456
Chazy332.39534.93 
 
 
 
CR 23 east to I-87
Formerly NY 191; hamlet of Sciota
Mooers337.26542.77  US 11 – ChamplainNorthern terminus; hamlet of Mooers
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Suffixed routes edit

NY 22 has two suffixed routes, both in the North Country.

See also edit

County route systems containing a former alignment

Notes edit

  1. ^ NY 5 is 371 miles (597 km) long;[3] and NY 17 397 miles (639 km).[4] When the latter is fully converted to I-86, NY 22 will replace it as the second longest state route.
  2. ^ New York law delegates the maintenance of all state highways within the boundaries of incorporated cities in the state, other than New York City, to those cities.[9]
  3. ^ Within that city, the highway is maintained by the county under the unsigned designations of County Route 53 (CR 53) from the Scarsdale line to NY 125, CR 108 between NY 125 and Westchester Avenue, and CR 87 from Broadway to the North Castle line.[7]
  4. ^ At 0.7 miles (1.1 km)[13]
  5. ^ US 202, signed as north–south in the other six states it traverses, is an east–west route in New York
  6. ^ At 156.2 miles (251.4 km)[16]
  7. ^ At 2.3 miles (3.7 km),[17] after which it continues into Massachusetts as that state's Route 71.
  8. ^ At 372.3 miles (599.2 km)[18]
  9. ^ Geologically these are still the Taconics, but due to their adjacency often commingled with the Berkshires to their east.
  10. ^ US 4 is signed as east–west through Vermont and New Hampshire since those segments are oriented that way.
  11. ^ Plattsburgh's population is estimated to be 19,696 as of 2017.[21]

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  3. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (2015), pp. 85–92.
  4. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (June 16, 2009). (PDF). Albany: New York State Department of Transportation. pp. 50–57. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2012. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
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External links edit

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  • New York State Route 22 at Alps' Roads • New York Routes
  • NY 22 (Greater New York Roads)

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NY 22 redirects here The term may also refer to New York s 22nd congressional district White Plains Post Road redirects here For the road of a similar name wholly in the Bronx see White Plains Road New York State Route 22 NY 22 is a north south state highway that parallels the eastern border of the U S state of New York from the outskirts of New York City to the hamlet of Mooers in Clinton County near the Canadian border At 337 miles 542 km it is the state s longest north south route and the third longest state route overall after NY 5 and NY 17 a Many of the state s major east west roads intersect with and often join NY 22 just before crossing into the neighboring New England states where U S Route 7 US 7 which originally partially followed NY 22 s alignment similarly parallels the New York state line New York State Route 22NY 22 highlighted in redRoute informationMaintained by NYSDOT NYCDOT Clinton County Westchester County and the cities of Mount Vernon and PlattsburghLength337 26 mi 1 542 77 km Existed1924 2 presentTouristroutesLakes to Locks Passage from Whitehall to Keeseville Major junctionsSouth endUS 1 in The BronxMajor intersectionsCross County Parkway in Mount Vernon I 287 in White Plains Bronx River Parkway Taconic State Parkway in North Castle I 684 in Armonk I 84 I 684 US 6 US 202 in Southeast US 44 from Amenia to Millerton I 90 Berkshire Connector in Canaan US 20 in New Lebanon US 4 in Whitehall I 87 in ChesterfieldNorth endUS 11 in MooersLocationCountryUnited StatesStateNew YorkCountiesBronx Westchester Putnam Dutchess Columbia Rensselaer Washington Essex ClintonHighway systemNew York HighwaysInterstate US State Reference Parkways NY 21A NY 22AAlmost all of NY 22 is a two lane rural road through small villages and hamlets The exceptions are its southern end in the heavily populated Bronx and lower Westchester County and a section that runs through the city of Plattsburgh near the northern end The rural landscape that the road passes through varies from horse country and views of the reservoirs of the New York City watershed in the northern suburbs of the city to dairy farms further upstate in the Taconic and Berkshire mountains to the undeveloped heavily forested Adirondack Park along the shores of Lake Champlain An 86 mile 138 km section from Fort Ann to Keeseville is part of the All American Road known as the Lakes to Locks Passage The oldest portions of today s NY 22 in Westchester County and along the Lake Champlain shoreline were Native American trails Dutch and after them English settlers continued to use the road to get their farm products to market with the southernmost portion eventually becoming the White Plains Post Road in the 18th and 19th centuries In the early 20th century as automobile use became widespread the state paved the more heavily used sections and built new roads to create the current highway first designated as NY 22 in 1930 In its early years the highway began in Manhattan until 2008 its northern end was the Canadian border Contents 1 Route description 1 1 The Bronx to Kensico Dam 1 2 Kensico Reservoir to Brewster 1 3 Harlem Valley Taconics and Berkshires 1 4 Washington County 1 5 Adirondack Park and Lake Champlain 1 6 Clinton County 2 History 2 1 In popular culture 2 2 Old roads 2 3 Public ownership 2 4 NY 22 designation 2 5 U S Route 7 2 6 NY 9N concurrency 2 7 Realignments 2 8 Mooers area 3 Major intersections 4 Suffixed routes 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksRoute description editNY 22 starts as an urban arterial road passing through the most populous communities along its route within its first 15 miles 24 km After running northerly from its origin in the Bronx it veers slightly to the northeast in the vicinity of a traffic circle near Kensico Dam before heading northward for good as a mostly two lane rural route all the way to the state s North Country 5 The majority of NY 22 s 337 mile 542 km routing is maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation NYSDOT however several sections are maintained by other jurisdictions The southernmost of these is in the Bronx where the entirety of the highway within the borough is maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation NYCDOT 6 In Westchester County NY 22 is mostly locally maintained within the city of Mount Vernon and is county maintained within the city of White Plains 7 In Clinton County the route is locally maintained within the city of Plattsburgh 8 b During its course NY 22 intersects or runs concurrently with 46 other designated routes one state parkway five Interstate Highways and seven U S Highways not counting its own termini Of the surface road intersections 18 terminate at NY 22 and 15 are concurrencies shared with the crossing routes accounting for 72 6 miles 116 8 km or 21 5 of the highway s total length 10 The Bronx to Kensico Dam edit nbsp NY 22 northbound in Mount Vernon just north of the East 233rd Street intersection in the BronxNY 22 starts as Provost Avenue at an intersection with U S Route 1 US 1 in the Eastchester section of the Bronx intersecting with East 233rd Street about 0 2 miles 320 m to the north 11 It soon crosses the Westchester county line into Mount Vernon and becomes South Third Avenue beginning a 30 mile 48 km section in that county 5 Shortly after the county line NY 22 makes a sharp turn to the east at the South Columbus Avenue intersection soon passing St Paul s Church National Historic Site on its north then curving back to that direction It parallels the nearby Hutchinson River Parkway as it passes through the suburbs of Bronxville and Tuckahoe At Wilson Woods Lake it crosses under a railroad bridge on the Metro North New Haven Line and becomes North Columbus Avenue then has its first interchange with a freeway at the Cross County Parkway 7 Country clubs on either side bracket NY 22 s entry into Eastchester 5 It makes a turn to the northeast passing the Vernon Hills Shopping Center to the right After leaving Eastchester NY 22 continues north into the village of Scarsdale 5 Paralleling the Bronx River Parkway BRP enters Westchester s county seat White Plains 5 c NY 22 also intersects NY 125 and NY 119 in downtown White Plains then bends to the northwest along North Broadway eventually intersecting the Cross Westchester Expressway Interstate 287 or I 287 The White Plains Rural Cemetery is visible to the west as NY 22 continues northward out of the city 5 In North White Plains the surrounding area becomes less developed as it goes over a gentle rise from which a short connector runs downhill to the traffic circle where the BRP ends and the Taconic State Parkway begins just south of Kensico Dam 5 Kensico Reservoir to Brewster edit While the Taconic State Parkway continues along the northwest heading NY 22 had been following NY 22 itself veers to the northeast along the reservoir s south shore After crossing a small bridge over one of the reservoir s bays NY 22 becomes a four lane surface road and begins a thousand foot 300 m concurrency the first of 15 along its length with NY 120 5 The combined roads pass just west of IBM s Armonk headquarters and the Duke s Trees angle the westernmost point in Connecticut after which NY 22 becomes a four lane expressway 12 For the first time NY 22 runs parallel to New York s eastern border intersecting I 684 for the first of several times just north of the short portion of that highway in Connecticut after which NY 22 reverts to two lane surface road A short distance later NY 433 one of the state s shortest highways d heads south from NY 22 into Greenwich 5 After that junction NY 22 bends back to the north paralleling I 684 as a narrow shaded meandering two lane rural route through the Westchester countryside of large wooded lots and houses well screened from the road In downtown Bedford the first settlement since White Plains the highway overlaps with NY 172 for a mile 1 6 km its first concurrency with an east west route then veers back to the northwest at the center of town Just to the north NY 121 the only north south state highway whose route is entirely east of NY 22 forks off from its southern terminus Another mile past that NY 22 returns to a due north heading passing the John Jay Homestead State Historic Site a National Historic Landmark where it turns west briefly and Harvey School where it curves to the northwest again After the Katonah Museum of Art it widens briefly at a major intersection with NY 35 5 Two miles 3 2 km north of that junction NY 22 becomes parallel with I 684 into the Town of Somers and the hamlet of Goldens Bridge On the other side of the Interstate accessible via NY 138 is the Goldens Bridge station on Metro North Railroad s Harlem Line which begins a long parallel alignment with NY 22 at this point 5 nbsp I 84 overpass north of BrewsterThe railroad s Purdy s station is a short distance west of the next junction NY 116 At another traffic light 400 feet 120 m to the north NY 116 goes east to Titicus Reservoir at the northern intersection the highway crosses under I 684 remaining between it and the railroad tracks Just past the Interstate NY 22 turns west onto Hardscrabble Road which soon turns north again to follow the tracks to the next station North Salem s hamlet of Croton Falls Just north of the hamlet NY 22 crosses under the tracks and is joined by US 202 e Immediately afterward the road crosses back under the railroad again and enters Putnam County following the Croton River north past the spillway of East Branch Reservoir 5 After paralleling the reservoir for almost two miles 3 2 km a third route US 6 joins the concurrency just east of the village of Brewster forming the only three route overlap along NY 22 The three routes cross under a high long bridge carrying I 84 then veer east to an interchange with the north end of I 684 US 6 and 202 continue east for Danbury while NY 22 uses the northbound on ramp of the I 684 roadway The next thousand feet 300 m of NY 22 along the brief extension of I 684 is the highway s only freeway section the roadways merge and narrow to two lanes after they cross the Croton s East Branch 5 Harlem Valley Taconics and Berkshires edit nbsp NY 22 looking north into the Harlem Valley from PattersonNY 22 continues heading northeast along a narrow strip of land between the East Branch and Bog Brook reservoirs It then resumes its northward heading following a much straighter course than it had up to this point on two lanes through wooded areas of the town of Patterson where two local state highways NY 312 and 164 come in from the west The highway gradually expands to three and sometimes four lanes as it passes through built up areas of strip development Shortly after intersecting a third state highway NY 311 and passing another strip plaza NY 22 crosses into Dutchess County 5 After another supermarket strip to the east a long gentle divided bend in the road almost a mile long ends with an overpass where NY 55 comes in from the west It joins NY 22 as the two routes returning to two lanes pass through the eastern fringe of the village of Pawling and then by Trinity Pawling School Past the village the railroad tracks edge closer to the highway as NY 22 enters the scenic Harlem Valley near the lower end of the Taconic Mountains 5 The road curves more gently and takes longer straightaways with lower density of residential and commercial development Two miles 3 2 km from Pawling the Appalachian Trail crosses the road next to the line s similarly named station 5 NY 22 and NY 55 continue their long curve into the town of Dover past the Harlem Valley Wingdale station next to the road across from the now closed buildings of Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center The NY 55 concurrency ends when that road forks off east towards Connecticut at the hamlet of Wingdale The road continues through Dover Plains and into Amenia where an overlap with NY 343 begins The railroad line ends at Wassaic NY 343 remains joined with NY 22 into the hamlet of Amenia where it separates and heads towards Sharon Connecticut At the same junction US 44 comes in from Millbrook to begin an overlap with NY 22 5 The valley opens up as the southern Taconics loom ahead Shortly after crossing into the Town of North East the highway passes by the large Coleman Station Historic District 14 After intersecting with NY 199 at its eastern end NY 22 and US 44 veer northeast into the small village of Millerton in the northern protrusion of Dutchess County s Oblong an area once the subject of a boundary dispute between New York and Connecticut in the late 17th century US 44 continues eastward towards Lakeville Connecticut only a mile 1 6 km east at this point while NY 22 resumes its northward course into the shadow of the ridge ahead where 2 311 foot 704 m Brace Mountain Dutchess County s highest peak 15 dominates the view At another gentle curve NY 22 slips into Columbia County and the town of Ancram 5 North of the county line Massachusetts becomes the state behind Alander Mountain and the other peaks visible to the east The southernmost route from New York to the Massachusetts state line NY 344 leaves for Bashbish Falls State Park just west of the hamlet of Copake Falls 5 nbsp NY 22 passing the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival north of HillsdaleThe next major junction is at Hillsdale where NY 23 the longest f east west state highway not to overlap with NY 22 intersects at a traffic light just east of downtown At Green River NY 71 the state s shortest two digit route g begins it short eastward course into Massachusetts NY 22 then crosses into Austerlitz where the surrounding terrain becomes much more wooded and the valleys become narrower In the center of town the historic hamlet of Old Austerlitz East Hill Road offers a short detour to Steepletop the farm where Edna St Vincent Millay lived another National Historic Landmark A short distance later NY 22 intersects with NY 203 at its eastern end 5 NY 22 then veers sharply to the northeast resuming a northward direction within 150 feet 46 m of the state line the highway s closest approach to it along its entire length It then rounds a mountain and heads west paralleling the New York State Thruway s Berkshire section I 90 for a mile NY 980D an unsigned reference route leaves to the east where it becomes Massachusetts Route 102 at the state line After Thruway exit B3 NY 22 resumes its northerly heading From here it intersects NY 295 then passes Queechy Lake NY 22 then straightens out to reach New Lebanon where it intersects US 20 Ending a 41 8 mile 67 3 km stretch with no concurrencies the longest on NY 22 New York s longest east west route US 20 h overlaps with its longest north south route NY 22 for a mile before the former continues to Pittsfield and the latter returns to the border paralleling course which takes it into Rensselaer County 5 nbsp The historic district along NY 22 in downtown Hoosick FallsAs NY 22 continues north it remains at first within a mile of Massachusetts moving to the east to intersect with NY 43 in Stephentown North of that junction it begins to run through a deep isolated lightly populated valley in the New York section of the Berkshires i Wide curves take the road through the town of Berlin NY 22 trends further west then back east to where NY 2 crosses via an overpass at Petersburgh on its way to Petersburg Pass the northernmost crossing of the New York Massachusetts state line The next road to head east from NY 22 NY 346 at North Petersburgh enters Vermont 5 Shortly afterward the highway descends gently from the Berkshires to meet another major east west state road NY 7 After turning northeast to join it at a traffic light NY 22 overlaps with Route 7 for 1 500 feet 460 m then forks off to the north just before crossing the Hoosic River NY 22 follows the river for 2 miles 3 2 km to Hoosick Falls the first village it has passed through since Millerton There are no other state routes here but after another two miles 3 2 km at North Hoosick NY 67 comes in from the east and the two roads overlap as they leave Rensselaer County 5 Washington County edit The next 73 miles 117 km of NY 22 traverse Washington County the longest portion of the highway in a single county 19 Almost immediately after the joined roads cross the line NY 67 splits off to the west crossing the Hoosick back into Rensselaer County while NY 22 straightens out again to go due north After four miles 6 4 km it reaches Cambridge where NY 313 forks off to the east In the middle of town NY 372 a local connector to Greenwich ends 5 North of Cambridge the highway continues through a rolling landscape of fields and farms the low transitional country between the Appalachians and the Adirondacks Beyond NY 29 s eastern terminus at Greenwich Junction NY 22 heads eastward again through 18 miles 29 km of countryside until just before reaching Granville it comes within 0 5 miles 800 m of the state line the closest it has come to that boundary since Austerlitz At the village s south end NY 22 intersects NY 149 and the two routes overlap for 400 feet 120 m until Route 149 begins its short journey to Vermont Just north of Granville the first of NY 22 s two suffixed routes NY 22A begins its route running closely parallel to the state line and then into Vermont where it becomes Vermont Route 22A VT 22A paralleling the parent route for some distance on the other side of the state line 5 nbsp View to the Drowned Lands at the south end of Lake Champlain from near WhitehallImmediately after this junction NY 22 begins a long curve away from the state line that has it running due west at the end of NY 40 in North Granville It heads northwest a little further until after passing between Great Meadows and Washington state prisons it reaches US 4 and turns right to join it resuming its northward course At this point the highway is 8 miles 13 km from the state line the farthest west it has gotten from it since southern Westchester County The overlap with US 4 the first to pair NY 22 with another north south route j since the short concurrency with NY 120 lasts for seven miles 11 km along the base of the Adirondack foothills between the low country and Lake George before ending in Whitehall where US 4 leaves to assume the east west course it takes across northern New England 5 Adirondack Park and Lake Champlain edit As NY 22 bends westward after leaving Whitehall it rounds the north end of the ridge to the west offering views into Vermont Once again the Vermont state line is very near NY 22 but now it is separated from New York by water instead of land The stream at the bottom of this valley surrounded by the low lying Drowned Lands flood plain is the inflow for Lake Champlain The lake s South Bay which the road crosses immediately after this turn is also the Blue Line NY 22 has now entered the Adirondack Park the 6 1 million acre 25 000 km2 Forest Preserve and National Historic Landmark and the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States 20 Within the park NY 22 mainly follows the lakeshore closer to some of its more populated areas 5 nbsp NY 22 in Washington County north of WhitehallIt climbs through rock cuts as it meanders north on the narrowing isthmus between Lakes Champlain and George Near the northern end it crosses the Essex County line Two miles 3 2 km into the county it reaches the first settlement along its length within the Adirondack Park Ticonderoga The highway skirts the northeastern edge of the village the site of key battles in both the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars as NY 74 comes in from the ferry to the east the first intersecting state route since Whitehall ending the longest such break on NY 22 at 24 9 miles 40 1 km The two routes overlap for almost two miles 3 2 km until NY 74 goes straight ahead at the intersection with NY 9N while NY 22 turns right to join NY 9N the longest suffixed route in the state and return to its northbound orientation for the longest of its concurrencies at 25 5 miles 41 0 km 5 At first NY 22 and NY 9N veer west away from the lake but then return to its shoreline to avoid a nearby mountain just before Crown Point NY 185 a small connector road runs from NY 9N and NY 22 along the peninsula to become VT 17 The road remains close to the widening lake for the next 15 miles 24 km with the tracks of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad used today by CSX for freight and Amtrak for passenger service between New York and Montreal sometimes immediately to the east After passing through Port Henry to Westport where 9N leaves heading west for Elizabethtown Beyond that junction NY 22 again turns inland going through the easy pass around Split Rock Mountain going northwest to Wadhams where it turns northeast to Whallonsburg then north At Boquet it makes an abrupt turn to go 3 miles 4 8 km due east back to the lakeshore and ferry landing at Essex where it connects to the Charlotte Essex Ferry via Dock Street leading to VT F 5 on the opposite side of Lake Champlain 5 nbsp View of Vermont and Lake Champlain near EssexThe highway again follows the lakeshore to Willsboro where NY 22 heads to the northwest again inland through dense forest until it heads west and intersects US 9 in the town of Chesterfield the other major north south surface route up the state s eastern side NY 22 and US 9 join closely parallel to the Adirondack Northway I 87 the only other route in the state to directly connect New York City with Canada The three routes spread over many miles in the southern part of the state run through a narrow corridor for two miles 3 2 km until US 9 and NY 22 veer east again toward Keeseville 5 Here NY 9N ends and US 9 and NY 22 separate ending the last concurrency along the latter The two will exchange corridors with US 9 following the lake shore line while NY 22 remains mostly inland NY 22 enters Clinton County just north of Keeseville and then leaves Adirondack Park two miles 3 2 km beyond at the Peru town line 5 Clinton County edit Just south of the hamlet of Peru the short NY 442 terminates at NY 22 In the hamlet itself after the Little Au Sable River crossing NY 22 s other suffixed route NY 22B branches off further inland NY 22 continues north of Peru and returns to the Northway s side again in a mile After another five miles 8 0 km it has its first exit on the Northway near the now closed Plattsburgh Air Force Base It continues northeastward crossing the Saranac River into Plattsburgh 5 the first city and most populous community NY 22 has passed through since White Plains k nbsp Northern terminus of NY 22 at US 11 in MooersNY 22 runs along South Catherine Street for a few blocks then divides into one way couplets for the first time since Westchester County with northbound traffic moving a block to the east to follow Oak Street while southbound traffic comes down North Catherine Street It parallels US 9 for a couple of blocks intersecting NY 3 Cornelia Street just a block west of its eastern terminus at that highway After Boynton Avenue the separate streets reunite and turns northwest just before it has its second and final exit with the Northway Just after the exit NY 374 begins along the westbound route as NY 22 turns to the north once again 5 The highway follows the railroad tracks into Beekmantown until it bears left at a fork trending further west to Beekmantown Corners where another short local road County Route 58 formerly NY 456 comes to its western end After crossing into the next town Chazy NY 22 bears left again at another fork to drift further to the west 5 The terrain around the road becomes increasingly wooded with long unbroken stretches of pine in the northern portion of the town This is briefly broken at another western terminus of a short local road County Route 23 formerly NY 191 in the hamlet of Sciota 22 NY 22 continues past Sciota in a fairly straight north northwesterly course through more woods with small home and farm clearings Those yield to mostly fields just before the Great Chazy River after which NY 22 enters the hamlet of Mooers 23 24 NY 22 comes to an end upon intersecting US 11 25 History editIn popular culture edit The road is celebrated and described in Benjamin Swett s 2007 photographic travelogue Route 22 26 Old roads edit The road from the modern day Bronx then part of Westchester County through White Plains to Bedford and points north was originally an old Native American path 27 This path was later used and widened by the first European settlers During colonial times the road was known as the road to Bedford and Vermont 27 Further north near Lake Champlain the route now used by NY 22 was used by the St Francis Indians of Canada as they went south to find warmer fishing areas 28 The old road was also used heavily during the American Revolution to transport iron south from the mines in the Adirondacks 28 Once White Plains became the county seat of Westchester in 1759 the road between the village and the city of New York then encompassing only Manhattan became an important route and was established as the White Plains Post Road Before 1797 the main road heading to points north and east out of Manhattan went via Kingsbridge along the old Boston Post Road 29 A new bridge over the Harlem River the original Harlem Bridge was opened in 1797 shortening the route out of Manhattan This also relocated the Boston and White Plains Post roads to a new alignment along Third Avenue and Boston Road The White Plains Post Road separated from the Boston Post Road in Bronxdale with the road to Boston heading east and the road to White Plains heading north The old White Plains Post Road roughly followed the alignment of modern day White Plains Road which was laid out in 1863 29 The original post road was to the east of the modern day avenue The White Plains Post Road continued north through Olinville Wakefield and Mount Vernon where the route shifted east to modern day White Plains Post Road going through Bronxville and Scarsdale to White Plains 30 The stretch from Salem to the Vermont border in Granville was part of the old Northern Turnpike which began in Lansingburgh and went along modern day NY 40 The Northern Turnpike was chartered on April 1 1799 31 Public ownership edit nbsp A picture of State Road in Patterson which would later become part of 22In 1868 the New York State Legislature formed a commission to regulate grade widen gravel and improve the old White Plains Post Road which was amended in 1870 to macadamize the road 32 between Mount Vernon and White Plains The post road south of Mount Vernon which was part of New York City was later widened between 1902 and 1908 29 State highways were first formally defined by the state legislature in 1909 and given numeric designations 33 although these initial designations were not publicly signed Portions of modern NY 22 were defined as part of legislative routes 1 and 22 Legislative route 1 went from the New York City line north along the White Plains Post Road to White Plains then detoured to Harrison via Westchester Avenue before proceeding north to Armonk via modern NY 120 Legislative route 1 continued north along modern NY 22 to Austerlitz where it then turned northwest to Valatie via modern NY 203 and NY 980B then followed US 9 to Albany Legislative route 22 had two segments The southern segment began in Troy following NY 7 to Hoosick then went north along modern NY 22 up to Putnam Station south of Ticonderoga NY 22 designation edit nbsp Original NY 22 shield adopted in 1927In 1924 New York signed several major state roads with route numbers Most of Legislative Route 1 was designated as NY 22 but with a direct route between White Plains and Armonk Also instead of continuing to Valatie NY 22 initially ended at the NY 23 intersection in Hillsdale 2 By 1929 the road to Valatie had been improved and NY 22 was extended to US 9 with a length of 139 miles 224 km 34 The middle section of modern NY 22 was designated in 1924 as NY 24 running for 75 miles 121 km from Stephentown to Comstock The portion of modern NY 22 north of Whitehall remained unnumbered in 1924 but the next year NY 30 a route assigned in 1924 that linked Mechanicville to Whitehall was extended north from Whitehall to the Canadian border north of Mooers 2 35 In the 1930 renumbering the NY 24 and NY 30 designations were both reassigned elsewhere NY 22 was then extended north along their former routes 36 incorporating newly improved roads between Austerlitz and Stephentown creating the 370 mile 600 km route that existed until 2008 34 The segment of old NY 22 between Austerlitz and Valatie was renumbered to NY 203 36 nbsp View down Lenox Avenue from West 124th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard This was once part of NY 22 in ManhattanIn 1934 at the insistence of the Automobile Club of New York several numbered routes were extended and signed within New York City with NY 22 among them It was extended south from the Mount Vernon line in the Bronx along White Plains Road then following East 233rd Street to Webster Avenue until Fordham Road US 1 From there it continued south along the Grand Concourse then overlapped with NY 100 crossing into Manhattan via East 149th Street to the 145th Street Bridge In Manhattan the NY 22 100 concurrency continued south along Lenox Avenue 110th Street Fifth Avenue 96th Street and Park Avenue ending at Houston Street NY 1A 37 By 1941 the alignment within Mount Vernon was shifted east to use Columbus Avenue and South 3rd Avenue current NY 22 continuing its route to New York City via East 233rd Street as before 38 On January 1 1970 the NY 22 designation was removed from Manhattan and most of the Bronx and the short piece remaining in the city was realigned to meet US 1 at NY 22 s current southern terminus 39 U S Route 7 edit In the original plan for the U S Highway System as approved by the Bureau of Public Roads in November 1926 40 US 7 was defined as beginning in New York City and designated on the alignment of NY 22 to Amenia where it shifted northeast into Sharon Connecticut to use old New England Route 4 through Massachusetts and Vermont all the way to the Canadian border Apparently New York did not approve this plan and by mid 1927 the official route log published by the American Association of State Highway Officials had relocated the southern end of US 7 to Norwalk Connecticut 41 NY 9N concurrency edit In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York the stretch from Ticonderoga to Keeseville now concurrent with NY 9N was designated solely as NY 22 The north end of NY 47 was also located at an intersection with NY 22 in Ticonderoga At Westport NY 22 connected to NY 195 an east west highway leading to Elizabethtown At the time Route 9N only extended from there to Keeseville 36 NY 9N was extended southward to Lake George c 1936 supplanting Routes 47 and 195 and becoming concurrent with NY 22 between Ticonderoga and Westport 42 43 NY 8 originally extended eastward from Hague to a ferry across Lake Champlain at Putnam when it was assigned as part of the renumbering In between the two locations the route utilized modern NY 9N Montcalm Street NY 22 and Wrights Ferry and Wrights roads 34 44 It was realigned in the early 1930s to continue east from Ticonderoga on what is now NY 74 to another ferry across the lake 34 44 45 NY 8 was altered again c 1934 to follow NY 22 north from Ticonderoga to Crown Point where it turned off the highway onto Bridge Road now NY 185 45 46 Route 8 remained intact along this routing until c 1968 when Route 8 was truncated southwestward to NY 9N at Hague 47 48 Realignments edit nbsp Dutchess CR 81 a realigned section of NY 22Over the course of many years several sections of NY 22 were straightened realigned to new roads or both Some old alignments are still either county maintained or state maintained Several of these are in Dutchess County In Dover Plains the southern leg of NY 22 s junction with NY 343 is maintained by the state as NY 980G a reference route 43 49 To the north in the town of Amenia a 4 03 mile long 6 49 km 50 loop off NY 22 between Wassaic and Amenia is designated as CR 81 Another former routing of NY 22 in the town of Dover exists as CR 6 a loop route between the hamlets of Wingdale and Dover Plains that runs along the west bank of the Ten Mile River 43 49 Within the 44 22 concurrency part of CR 5 and its short spur 5S a mile long 1 6 km loop west of the highway south of Millerton is also a former alignment of NY 22 51 Before the construction of I 684 NY 22 continued northeast along Sodom Road north of Brewster on what is now CR 50 a dead end road maintained by Putnam County 52 Modern NY 22 joins the I 684 roadway at exit 10 the northern terminus of I 684 and connects to the surface road on the opposite side of the Croton River via the NY 981B connector South of Copake Falls the state also still maintains an old alignment designated as NY 980F North of Copake Falls the northern half of the original alignment was designated as an extension of NY 344 53 54 Mooers area edit The segment of NY 22 north of US 11 named Hemmingford Road was state maintained until 1988 when ownership and maintenance of that part of the route was transferred to Clinton County as part of a highway maintenance swap between the county and the state of New York 55 Following the swap it was co designated as CR 34 by Clinton County 8 In 2008 the signed northern terminus of NY 22 was moved to the eastern end of its overlap with US 11 in Mooers 25 56 The official alignment of NY 22 was not changed however as the New York State Department of Transportation still considered the Canadian border to be NY 22 s northern terminus 8 until 2014 1 Major intersections editCountyLocationmi 10 kmDestinationsNotesThe BronxEastchester0 000 00 nbsp US 1 Boston Road Southern terminusWestchesterMount Vernon2 794 49 nbsp Cross County ParkwayExit 8 on Cross County ParkwayWhite Plains11 1517 94 nbsp nbsp NY 125 south Mamaroneck Avenue Northern terminus of NY 12511 5718 62 nbsp nbsp NY 119 west Hamilton Avenue Eastern terminus of NY 11912 3019 79 nbsp I 287 Governor Mario M Cuomo BridgeExit 6 on I 287Town of North Castle13 2821 37 nbsp nbsp To I 287 Port Chester Tappan Zee BridgeAccess via Central Westchester Parkway no southbound entrance13 8122 23 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Bronx River Parkway south Taconic State Parkway northSouthbound exit and northbound entrance to Kensico Circle other movements via North BroadwayBridge over the Kensico Reservoir17 4728 12 nbsp nbsp NY 120 south RyeSouthern end of NY 120 concurrency17 7928 63South end of expressway section nbsp nbsp NY 120 north ChappaquaNorthern end of NY 120 concurrency18 9430 48 nbsp nbsp NY 128 north ArmonkSouthern terminus of NY 128 hamlet of Armonk19 5731 49 nbsp I 684 White Plains BrewsterExit 3 on I 684North end of expressway section19 9732 14 nbsp nbsp NY 433 south GlenvilleNorthern terminus of NY 433Town of Bedford25 8041 52 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 172 west to I 684 Mount KiscoWestern end of NY 172 concurrency26 8343 18 nbsp nbsp NY 172 east Pound Ridge Stamford CTEastern end of NY 172 concurrency hamlet of Bedford27 2143 79 nbsp nbsp NY 121 north Cross RiverSouthern terminus of NY 12132 1051 66 nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 35 to I 684 Katonah Cross RiverTown of Lewisboro34 2555 12 nbsp nbsp To NY 138Grade separated interchange hamlet of Goldens BridgeTown of North Salem36 7659 16 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 116 west to I 684 south SomersSouthern end of NY 116 concurrency hamlet of Purdys Station36 8359 27 nbsp nbsp NY 116 east North SalemNorthern end of NY 116 concurrency hamlet of Purdys Station38 1361 36 nbsp nbsp Hardscrabble Road CR 138 to I 684Hamlet of Croton FallsTown of Somers38 8462 51 nbsp nbsp US 202 west MahopacSouthern end of US 202 concurrencyPutnamBrewster43 2969 67 nbsp nbsp US 6 west CarmelSouthern end of US 6 concurrencyTown of Southeast44 2071 13 nbsp nbsp nbsp I 84 I 684 south White Plains Newburgh Danbury CTExit 10 on I 684 exit 68B on I 84 northern terminus of I 684 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp US 6 east US 202 east Starr Ridge RoadNorthern end of US 6 US 202 concurrency44 5971 76NY 981B47 1875 93 nbsp nbsp NY 312 westEastern terminus of NY 312 hamlet of Sears CornersTown of Patterson50 3681 05 nbsp nbsp NY 164 west TownersEastern terminus of NY 16453 5386 15 nbsp nbsp NY 311 south PattersonNorthern terminus of NY 311DutchessTown of Pawling56 0290 16 nbsp nbsp NY 55 west PoughkeepsieInterchange southern end of NY 55 concurrencyTown of Dover62 90101 23 nbsp nbsp NY 55 east Gaylordsville CTNorthern end of NY 55 concurrency hamlet of Wingdale70 32113 17NY 980G MillbrookFormer routing of NY 22 southern terminus of unsigned NY 980G hamlet of Dover PlainsTown of Amenia71 32114 78 nbsp nbsp NY 343 westSouthern end of NY 343 concurrency78 71126 67 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp US 44 west NY 343 east Millbrook Sharon CTNorthern end of NY 343 concurrency southern end of US 44 concurrency hamlet of AmeniaNorth East85 71137 94 nbsp nbsp NY 199 west Pine PlainsEastern terminus of NY 199Millerton87 30140 50 nbsp nbsp US 44 east Lakeville CTNorthern end of US 44 concurrencyColumbiaTown of Copake99 62160 32NY 980FFormer routing of NY 22 southern terminus of unsigned NY 980F formerly NY 960 hamlet of Copake Falls100 12161 13 nbsp nbsp NY 344 east Copake Falls Taconic State ParkWestern terminus of NY 344 hamlet of Copake FallsTown of Hillsdale104 16167 63 nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 23 to Taconic State Parkway Great Barrington MAHamlet of Hillsdale108 20174 13 nbsp nbsp CR 21 westFormer eastern terminus of NY 217 hamlet of North Hillsdale111 42179 31 nbsp nbsp NY 71 east Great Barrington MAWestern terminus of NY 71 hamlet of Green RiverAusterlitz115 07185 19 nbsp nbsp NY 203 north Spencertown ChathamSouthern terminus of NY 203Canaan119 57192 43 nbsp nbsp Route 102 east Stockbridge West StockbridgeAccess via NY 980D120 33193 65 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I 90 Berkshire Connector to Mass Pike I 87 Albany BostonExit B3 on I 90 Thruway123 18198 24 nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 295 to Taconic State Parkway Chatham Pittsfield MANew Lebanon128 12206 19 nbsp nbsp US 20 west AlbanySouthern end of US 20 concurrency hamlet of New Lebanon128 86207 38 nbsp nbsp US 20 east Pittsfield MANorthern end of US 20 concurrency hamlet of Lebanon SpringsRensselaerStephentown134 86217 04 nbsp NY 43 WilliamstownPetersburgh150 26241 82 nbsp NY 2 PetersburghGrade separated access via unsigned NY 914A Moses Road and Main Street hamlet of Petersburg155 55250 33 nbsp nbsp NY 346 eastWestern terminus of NY 346 hamlet of North PetersburgHoosick157 78253 92 nbsp nbsp NY 7 west TroyWestern end of NY 7 concurrency158 11254 45 nbsp nbsp NY 7 east Bennington VTEastern end of NY 7 concurrency164 16264 19 nbsp nbsp NY 67 east North Bennington VTSouthern end of NY 67 concurrency hamlet of North HoosickWashingtonWhite Creek166 65268 20 nbsp nbsp NY 67 west Valley FallsNorthern end of NY 67 concurrencyVillage of Cambridge171 65276 24 nbsp nbsp NY 313 east Arlington VTWestern terminus of NY 313171 98276 77 nbsp nbsp NY 372 west GreenwichEastern terminus of NY 372Town of Salem181 00291 29 nbsp nbsp NY 29 west GreenwichEastern terminus of NY 29Town of Granville199 49321 05 nbsp nbsp NY 149 west HartfordSouthern end of NY 149 concurrency199 56321 16 nbsp nbsp NY 149 east GranvilleNorthern end of NY 149 concurrency202 27325 52 nbsp nbsp NY 22A north Middle GranvilleSouthern terminus of NY 22A hamlet of Middle Granville206 71332 67 nbsp nbsp NY 40 south HartfordNorthern terminus of NY 40 hamlet of North GranvilleTown of Fort Ann210 96339 51 nbsp nbsp US 4 south Lakes to Locks Passage Fort AnnSouthern end of US 4 concurrency hamlet of ComstockVillage of Whitehall217 67350 31 nbsp nbsp US 4 north Rutland VTNorthern end of US 4 concurrencyBridge over South BayEssexTiconderoga242 52390 30 nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 74 east Fort Ticonderoga Ferry to VermontSouthern end of NY 74 concurrency hamlet of Ticonderoga244 12392 87 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 9N south NY 74 west Ticonderoga Schroon LakeNorthern end of NY 74 concurrency southern end of NY 9N concurrencyCrown Point255 43411 07 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 185 north to VT 17 Bridge to VermontSouthern terminus of NY 185Westport269 60433 88 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 9N north to I 87 ElizabethtownNorthern end of NY 9N concurrency hamlet of WestportChesterfield295 80476 04 nbsp nbsp nbsp I 87 US 9 south ElizabethtownSouthern end of US 9 concurrency exit 33 on I 87 to I 87 via NY 915K300 37483 40 nbsp nbsp nbsp US 9 north NY 9N Lakes to Locks Passage Ausable Chasm PlattsburghNorthern end of US 9 concurrency southern end of NY 9N concurrency northern terminus of NY 9N hamlet of KeesevilleClintonAu Sable300 64483 83 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 9N south to I 87 A 15 Au Sable Forks Whiteface MountainNorthern end of NY 9N concurrency hamlet of KeesevillePeru306 22492 81 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp NY 442 east to I 87Western terminus of NY 442 hamlet of Peru306 45493 18 nbsp nbsp NY 22B north Schuyler FallsSouthern terminus of NY 22B hamlet of PeruTown of Plattsburgh312 58503 05 nbsp I 87Exit 36 on I 87City of Plattsburgh316 98510 13 nbsp NY 3 Cornelia Street Town of Plattsburgh318 17512 04 nbsp I 87 Albany MontrealExit 38 on I 87318 50512 58 nbsp nbsp NY 374 west Tom Miller Road Dannemora Saranac LakeEastern terminus of NY 374Beekmantown323 17520 09 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp CR 58 east to I 87Formerly NY 456Chazy332 39534 93 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp CR 23 east to I 87Formerly NY 191 hamlet of SciotaMooers337 26542 77 nbsp US 11 ChamplainNorthern terminus hamlet of Mooers1 000 mi 1 609 km 1 000 km 0 621 mi Concurrency terminus Electronic toll collection Incomplete accessSuffixed routes editNY 22 has two suffixed routes both in the North Country NY 22A 10 61 miles or 17 08 kilometers is a spur connecting NY 22 to the Vermont state line south of Fair Haven 10 Once in Vermont the route becomes VT 22A 57 The route was assigned in the early 1940s 58 59 NY 22B 10 90 miles or 17 54 kilometers is a bypass around the southern and western extents of Plattsburgh NY 22B begins at NY 22 in Peru and continues north through Schuyler Falls to Morrisonville where it terminates at NY 3 near Clinton County Airport 10 It was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York 36 See also edit nbsp New York state portal nbsp Hudson Valley portal nbsp U S roads portalNew York State Bicycle Route 22County route systems containing a former alignment List of county routes in Clinton County New York List of county routes in Dutchess County New York List of county routes in Putnam County New York List of county routes in Westchester County New YorkNotes edit NY 5 is 371 miles 597 km long 3 and NY 17 397 miles 639 km 4 When the latter is fully converted to I 86 NY 22 will replace it as the second longest state route New York law delegates the maintenance of all state highways within the boundaries of incorporated cities in the state other than New York City to those cities 9 Within that city the highway is maintained by the county under the unsigned designations of County Route 53 CR 53 from the Scarsdale line to NY 125 CR 108 between NY 125 and Westchester Avenue and CR 87 from Broadway to the North Castle line 7 At 0 7 miles 1 1 km 13 US 202 signed as north south in the other six states it traverses is an east west route in New York At 156 2 miles 251 4 km 16 At 2 3 miles 3 7 km 17 after which it continues into Massachusetts as that state s Route 71 At 372 3 miles 599 2 km 18 Geologically these are still the Taconics but due to their adjacency often commingled with the Berkshires to their east US 4 is signed as east west through Vermont and New Hampshire since those segments are oriented that way Plattsburgh s population is estimated to be 19 696 as of 2017 21 References edit a b New York State Department of Transportation July 22 2015 2014 Traffic Data Report for New York State PDF Albany New York State Department of Transportation p 313 Retrieved May 2 2016 a b c New York s Main Highways Designated by Numbers The New York Times December 21 1924 p XX9 New York State Department of Transportation 2015 pp 85 92 New York State Department of Transportation June 16 2009 2008 Traffic Volume Report for New York State PDF Albany New York State Department of Transportation pp 50 57 Archived from the original PDF on September 27 2012 Retrieved August 5 2018 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah Google August 5 2018 Overview Map of NY 22 Map Google Maps Google Retrieved August 5 2018 New York State Department of Transportation March 2 2010 Bronx County Inventory Listing CSV Albany New York State Department of Transportation Retrieved December 19 2010 a b c Westchester County Department of Public Works 2006 Westchester County and State Road Map PDF Map c 1 72 400 White Plains NY Westchester County Department of Public Works Archived from the original PDF on December 29 2009 Retrieved November 30 2007 a b c New York State Department of Transportation March 2 2010 Clinton County Inventory Listing CSV Albany New York State Department of Transportation Retrieved December 19 2010 New York State Highway Law Section 349 c 2 2 Such sidewalks facilities and appurtenances shall be maintained or shall be continued to be maintained as the case may be by the city in which they are located or by the agency or unit owning or having control and jurisdiction thereof Retrieved August 5 2018 a b c d New York State Department of Transportation 2009 pp 68 71 American Automobile Association 2007 New York City New York Map c 1 90 000 Heathrow FL American Automobile Association full citation needed New York State Legislature New York State State Law 2 Retrieved February 4 2010 2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State PDF New York State Department of Transportation June 16 2009 p 314 Retrieved January 10 2010 Case Daniel October 18 2008 Coleman Station Historic District sign Digital photo Retrieved August 7 2018 via Wikimedia Commons Taconic State Park Copake Falls Area New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation Retrieved August 7 2016 New York State Department of Transportation 2009 pp 71 74 New York State Department of Transportation 2009 p 209 New York State Department of Transportation 2009 pp 139 44 New York State Department of Transportation 2015 p 157 The Adirondack Park Adirondack Park Agency Retrieved August 8 2018 Annual Estimates of the Resident Population April 1 2010 to July 1 2017 for New York U S Census Bureau August 8 2018 p 19 Archived from the original PDF on August 9 2018 Retrieved August 8 2018 New York State Department of Transportation 1979 Beekmantown Digital Raster Quadrangle Map 1 24 000 Albany New York State Department of Transportation Retrieved January 20 2010 New York State Department of Transportation 1979 West Chazy Digital Raster Quadrangle Map 1 24 000 Albany New York State 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Highway Touring Routes Bicycling Touring Routes Scenic Byways amp Commemorative Memorial Designations in New York State PDF Retrieved January 9 2017 United States Geological Survey 1953 Copake Quadrangle New York Massachusetts Topographic map 1 24 000 7 5 Minute Series Reston VA United States Geological Survey Archived from the original on December 19 2014 Retrieved July 11 2008 New York State Legislature New York State Highway Law 341 Retrieved March 29 2010 New York State Department of Economic Development Division of Tourism Map Works 2007 I Love New York s 30th Anniversary Map Map c 1 775 000 Albany New York State Department of Economic Development Division of Tourism OCLC 123904093 full citation needed New York State Department of Economic Development Division of Tourism Map Works 2009 New York State Map Map c 1 775 000 Albany New York State Department of Economic Development Division of Tourism OCLC 505217389 full citation needed Esso General Drafting 1942 New York with Pictorial Guide Map Esso full citation needed United States Army Corps of Engineers United States Geological Survey 1944 New York Vermont Granville Quadrangle Topographic map 1 24 000 7 5 Minute Series Reston VA United States Geological Survey Retrieved May 3 2009 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to New York State Route 22 KML file edit help Template Attached KML New York State Route 22KML is from Wikidata New York State Route 22 at Alps Roads New York Routes NY 22 Travelogue Empire State Roads NY 22 Greater New York Roads Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title New York State Route 22 amp oldid 1183432882, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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