New York State Route 24

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NY Route 24
Length:	30.63 mi (49.29 km) Western segment: 18.58 mi[1] Eastern segment: 12.05 mi[1]
Formed:	Prior to 1941
West end:	I-295/NY 25 in Queens
Major junctions:	Cross Island in Queens Village Meadowbrook in Uniondale Wantagh in East Meadow Bethpage in Farmingdale NY 110 in East Farmingdale I-495 in Calverton Suffolk CR 104 in Riverhead Suffolk CR 105 in Flanders
East end:	Suffolk CR 80 in Hampton Bays
Counties:	Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
Numbered highways in New York < NY 23B NY 25 > Interstates - U.S. Routes - State Routes

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 Caleverton to Suffolk County Road 80 in Hampton Bays.

Contents 1 Route description 2 Communities along the route 3 Major intersections 4 History 4.1 One road from New York City to the Hamptons 5 Miscellanea 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Route description

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. It ends on NY 110 shortly after entering Suffolk County.

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.

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

[edit] Communities along the route

• New York City
• Hempstead village
• Hempstead town
• Oyster Bay town
• Farmingdale village
• Babylon town
• Brookhaven town
• Southampton town

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile	Road(s)	Notes
Western Segment
Queens	Queens	0.0	I-295 NY 25	Southern terminus of I-295.
	Queens Village	1.8	Cross Island	Exits 26B and 26C (Cross Island).
Nassau	West Hempstead	6.6	NY 102	Western terminus of NY 102.
	Uniondale	10.0	Meadowbrook	Exits M4 and M5 (Meadowbrook).
	East Meadow	11.1	NY 102	Eastern terminus of NY 102.
		11.8	NY 106
	Levittown	12.5	Wantagh	Exits W3 E and W3 W (Wantagh).
	Plainedge	14.8	NY 107
	Farmingdale	15.6	NY 135	Exits 7E and 7W (NY 135).
		15.9	Bethpage	Exit B3 (Bethpage).
		16.8	NY 109	Western terminus of NY 109.
Suffolk	East Farmingdale	18.6	NY 110	Just north of Republic Airport
Eastern Segment
Suffolk	Calverton	0.0	I-495	Exit 71 (I-495).
	Riverhead		CR 51	East Moriches-Riverhead Road
		4.3	CR 104	Formerly NY 113.
	Flanders	5.5	CR 105	Cross River Drive.
	Hampton Bays	11.8	NY 27	Exits 65N and 65S (NY 27).
		12.0	CR 80	Formerly NY 27A.

Legend
Crossing, no access	Concurrency termini	Decommissioned	Unconstructed	Closed

[edit] History

[edit] One road from New York City to the Hamptons

Before 1941, NY 24 ran uninterrupted from New York City to Hampton Bays. NY 24 went along its present route on Hempstead Turnpike and Conklin Street, then continued east along the LIRR corridor to Manorville. (It went along Long Island Avenue east to Brentwood, Suffolk Avenue east to Islandia, Johnson Avenue east to Ronkonkoma, Union Avenue east to Holtsville, Long Island Avenue east to Yaphank, Moriches-Middle Island Road to Manorville, Weeks Avenue-South Street-Hot Water Street through Manorville, and the current route of CR 51 to Riverhead. At Riverhead, NY 24 then continued along its present "eastern route." With the onset of World War II, the route of NY 24 in Suffolk County was interrupted due to security concerns. Specifically, the Fairchild Republic plant in East Farmingdale and the Grumman Naval Defense Weapons Plant in Calverton had been constructed along the route. [1]

[edit] Miscellanea

• Between 1958 and 1962, when the western section was relocated to the Long Island Expressway, Hempstead Turnpike was designated New York State Route 24A.
• In the 1960's 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.^[2]

• Other proposed extensions built by Suffolk County were Suffolk Avenue(SCR 100), Furrows Road, Peconic Avenue, and the formerly proposed Central Suffolk Highway(SCR 90)^[3]. 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.^{[citation needed]}

• 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 both of which terminated at NY 25.

• NY 24 is one of two major New York State routes that is split into two segments. The other is New York State Route 42, the palindrome of NY 24.

[edit] References

• Suffolk County Department of Public Works.
• Old Hagstrom's Maps and Road Atlases.

1. ^ ^{a b} New York Routes - New York State Route 24
2. ^ 1960's NY 24 Republic Bypass.jpg
3. ^ Suffolk County Roads 76-100(NYCROADS.com)

[edit] External links

• NY 24/Suffolk CR 94 Multiplex from Calverton to Riverhead