New York State Route 32

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NY Route 32

Length:

176.58^[1] mi (284.29 km)

South end:

US 6/NY 17 in Harriman

Major
junctions:

I-84/NY 52 in Newburgh

US 9W in Newburgh

US 44/NY 55 in Modena

I-587/NY 28 in Kingston

I-87 in Saugerties

US 9W in Kenwood

I-787 in Albany

US 20 in Albany

US 9 in Albany

I-787 in Menands

US 4 in Waterford

US 4 in Stillwater

US 9 in South Glens Falls

US 4 in Hudson Falls

North end:

NY 196 in Hudson Falls, NY

Counties:

Orange, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Saratoga, Warren, Washington

Numbered highways in New York
< NY 31F		NY 32A >
Interstates - U.S. Routes - State Routes

New York State Route 32 is a New York State Route traveling from Harriman to Hudson Falls. It connects the area past Newburgh, Kingston, Albany, Glens Falls and Hudson Falls. In Newburgh, 32 joins with US 9W for a reasonable distance. On I-84, NY 32 is Exit 10S, which is also signed as TO 9W SOUTH. On I-87/New York State Thruway, NY 32 is Exit 20. The road passes many interesting features such as the Catskill Mountains. The predecessor to the New York State Thruway features great views of the Hudson River along the way. 32 is one of the longest NY state routes and runs alongside I-87 for most of its route.

1 Route description
2 Major intersections
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Route description

[edit] Harriman to Newburgh

Route 32 begins right where NY 17 leaves off at the Quickway overpass west of the Thruway toll barrier, just north of the Harriman village line. Immediately following it on the right is Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, a popular shopping destination that has created major traffic jams on busy weekends. Opposite the mall is Central Valley Elementary School of the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District.

After clearing the mall and its many entrances, 32 descends into downtown Central Valley as a four-lane undivided road, reverting to two lanes as it leaves the northern end of the hamlet. Two miles further north is another of the Town of Woodbury's hamlets, Highland Mills. Beyond it the road begins to trend to the west slightly as it is now at the southwestern foot of Schunemunk Mountain, the highest in the county.

Shortly after Highland Mills, the Metro-North Port Jervis Line crosses over on a high trestle. After crossing over Woodbury Creek and under the Thruway, NY 32 now runs along the eastern side of the narrow valley between Schunemunk and the Hudson Highlands. This section of highway is lightly trafficked through mostly wooded terrain as it leaves Woodbury for Cornwall. Just north of Mountainville and the north end of Schunemunk, the road crosses Moodna Creek immediately downriver from the Woodbury Creek confluence. The light at Orrs Mills Road, and the intersection with Angola Road a quarter-mile to the north, were once the beginning and end of a brief concurrency with now-decommissioned NY 307. Today they are part of county roads, with Orrs Mills leading up to Storm King Art Center.

Vails Gate

The road begins to climb gently out of the creek valley and show more development. 1.6 miles (2.5 km) north of Angola Road, it crosses the New Windsor town line and reaches the complicated five-way intersection at the center of Vails Gate, where NY 94 intersects and NY 300 begins. The next two miles of road widen to include a middle turn lane as 32 becomes New Windsor's main commercial strip. This section ends at Temple Hill Avenue, with Snake Hill looming to the west, although the road remains heavily commercial as it enters the city of Newburgh as the wide Lake Street.

A mile from the city limit, it reaches Broadway, Newburgh's main street, also NY 17K. It turns right along Broadway and the brief, unsigned concurrency, the first currently along 32, ends two blocks later where 17K terminates at US 9W (Robinson Avenue), an intersection marked by the historic Broadway School. Route 32, however, turns left to start the first of its several concurrencies with Route 9W.

The two highways remain joined for the next 1.2 miles (2 km) as they pass the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Downing Park and reach the city limit where Interstate 84 and NY 52 cross over on their way to the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. Immediately following that junction, the concurrency ends as 32 leaves to the northwest.

[edit] Newburgh to New Paltz

This is the commercial strip north of the city, featuring the Mid-Valley Mall and another large shopping plaza built around a supermarket anchor. This development ends after a mile, when 32 passes the Town of Newburgh's Cronomer Hill Park alongside the south, where spectacular views are available from the summit observation tower a short drive up.

Two miles more brings 32 to the center of the hamlet of Cronomer Valley and an unusual junction with NY 300. Seemingly a conventional four-way intersection regulated by a traffic light, both highways turn. Thus it is necessary to turn right to stay on 32 north, while continuing through puts traffic on Route 300.

From this intersection, 32 passes Chadwick Lake, the town's reservoir and then continues straight north through much less developed, mostly wooded countryside in the northern reaches of the town. Four miles (6.4 km) of this brings it to the Ulster County line at almost the point where the woods abate.

Barely a mile into Plattekill, the highway crosses the Thruway once again. It curves northwards shortly thereafter, retaining a slightly westward trend through mostly open fields offering glimpses of the Shawangunk Ridge. 4.5 miles from the Thruway, NY 32 intersects US 44 and NY 55 in the center of another Town of Plattekill hamlet, Modena.

North of Modena, the road becomes just a bit more wooded. There is, however, one long stretch on high ground with sweeping views of the Shawangunks around the point where 32 crosses into the Town of New Paltz. But it gets once again wooded and curving before 32 enters the village right next to the campus of SUNY New Paltz. Two blocks north of campus, at New Paltz Middle School, it turns left at a light to join NY 299 as the village's Main Street.

[edit] New Paltz to Kingston

While 32 officially remains concurrent with 299 all the way to the traffic light at the northern terminus of NY 208, a sign at the Elting Memorial Library, just before the center of downtown, directs northbound traffic on the highway down North Front Street. This shortcut allows that traffic to skip an often busy intersection and head out of the village on North Chestnut Street. Once past the village, Ulster BOCES comes up on the left and the town hall along the right. Route 32 then returns to mostly rural landscapes, with the lowlands of the upper Wallkill River valley and the upper Shawangunks visible to the west.

Over the next five miles (9 km), the road trends easterly until NY 213 joins it from the east right before the bridge over the Wallkill. The Thruway's own bridge is visible a short distance to the east. Now concurrent, 32 and 213 bend away from the Thruway and pass through the hamlet of Tillson and then descend to cross Rondout Creek at the former village of Rosendale. Just after the crossing, at the Stewart's, 213 leaves to the west along the creek, ending a 2.5-mile (4 km) concurrency

From Rosendale, 32 climbs up out of the Rondout valley and veers east into the almost-invisible hamlet of Maple Hill, where it crosses over the Thruway once again. It resumes a northerly course through Bloomington, and several miles further on crosses the Kingston city line.

[edit] Kingston and Saugerties

On its route through Kingston, 32 frequently changes streets and directions. Drivers must pay close attention to signage.

At first, it comes into town as just Boulevard, meandering its way to just past Washington Avenue, where it splits onto the more easterly Greenkill Avenue for several blocks. NY 213 returns, coming in from the south as Wilbur Avenue. The joined routes then turn left onto Clinton Avenue for two blocks, then right onto Henry Street. This carries them about a half-mile (1 km) to Broadway, where 32 turns left and 213 ends.

Another half-mile brings Broadway to the wide junction where Interstate 587 and NY 28 both terminate. Route 32 follows Albany Avenue northeast to Flatbush Avenue, where it turns right to assume an eastward course. This finally bends slightly north to East Chester Street near the city limit where US 9W again comes in from the right to begin a brief wrong-way concurrency, where 32 north is 9W south. It ends, unsigned, after 500 feet (151 m) with 9W's turn onto Frank Koenig Boulevard.

Continiung as Flatbush Road into the Town of Ulster, 32 is for the first time along its route east of 9W and closer to the river. It thus has the interchange with NY 199 immediately east of the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, after which it passes Kingston-Ulster Airport. It remains on a northerly heading until a mile south of Saugerties, where it veers west and merges with 9W again.

The two routes cross Esopus Creek and enter the village, where Partition Street gives way to Main Street. At that T intersection, 9W turns right to continue north, while 32 picks up the new NY 212 and heads west out of town.

[edit] The Catskills to Albany

After one block of Main Street, 32 and 212 turn right on Market Street, then left onto Ulster Avenue after another block. As it crosses the railroad tracks and leaves the village, the road widens and becomes a commercial strip, heralding the imminent Thruway exit. This, the fourth time 32 has crossed the Thruway, is the first time it does so at an actual exit. Beyond the overpass, the concurrency ends when 32 turns right and heads north once again. A tight nearby onramp provides access to the southbound Thruway.

Visible ahead here are the peaks of Overlook and Plattekill mountains, the southern end of the Catskill Escarpment. Route 32 does not enter the Catskills but will for the next stretch be a key access route to them.

The highway begins to put some distance between itself and the Thruway. At the junction with Malden Turnpike (Ulster County 34), it turns westward, apparently toward the Escarpment, and starts climbing through some rock cuts. When Blue Mountain Road (Ulster County 35) comes in from the south, 32 resumes heading north, parallel to the ridge. A mile from that junction, its only suffixed route, NY 32A, splits off to the west to provide direct access via NY 23A and Kaaterskill Clove to Tannersville and Hunter.

After crossing into Greene County, the road intersects 23A at an undeveloped junction. 32 remains in its straight course through the lowlands below the Escarpment, passing around the north side of Cairo Roundtop, before it joins with NY 23 at Cairo. After 1.5 mile, NY 32 leaves the divided highway to once again strike north as a two-lane route. It trends west, as far as it has on its entire journey, until beginning to bend back to the east just south of Freehold.

The landscape gets hillier at another hamlet, Greenville, where NY 81 has its western terminus. Amile further on, 32 enters Albany County. After sharing two miles of road with NY 143, crossing the northern end of Alcove Reservoir and descending the southern end of the Helderberg Escarpment, the road veers eastward toward Albany.

To get there, it crosses the northern end of the busy Selkirk rail yard, intersects NY 335 on the southern fringe of Delmar and crosses under the Thruway for the last time before reaching its final concurrency with US 9W at Kenwood, then entering Albany as it crosses under I-787.

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile	Road(s)	Notes
Orange	Harriman	0.0	US 6 NY 17
	Highland Mills	3.0	I-87/Thruway	NY 32 passes under I-87.
	Orrs Mill	9.7	NY 307	Former western terminus of NY 307.
	Vails Gate	11.5	NY 94
	Vails Gate	11.5	NY 300	Southern terminus of 300
	City of Newburgh	15.1	NY 17K Broadway	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		15.3	NY 17K Broadway	Northern terminus of concurrency. Eastern terminus of NY 17K.
		15.3	US 9W Robinson Ave.	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		16.6	I-84 NY 52	Exit 10 (I-84/NY 52 EB).
		16.7	US 9W Plank Rd.	Northern terminus of concurrency.
		16.9	I-84 NY 52	Exit 10 (I-84/NY 52 WB).
	Cronomer Valley	19.9	NY 300
Ulster	CDP of Plattekill	24.3	I-87/Thruway	NY 32 passes over I-87.
	Modena	29.1	US 44 NY 55
	Village of New Paltz	35.0	NY 299 Main Street	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		35.5	NY 299 Main Street	Northern terminus of concurrency.
		35.5	NY 208	Northern terminus of NY 208.
	Rosendale	40.3	NY 213	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		42.9	NY 213	Northern terminus of concurrency.
		44.4	I-87/Thruway	NY 32 passes over I-87.
	City of Kingston	49.8	NY 213	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		50.1	NY 213	Northern terminus of concurrency.
		50.4	NY 28 I-587	Southern terminus of I-587/NY 28 concurrency. Southern terminus of I-587. Southern terminus of NY 28.
		51.9	US 9W	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		52.2	US 9W	Northern terminus of concurrency.
	Ulster	54.6	NY 199
	Town of Saugerties	60.2	US 9W	Southern terminus of concurrency.
	Village of Saugerties	62.4	US 9W	Northern terminus of concurrency.
	Village of Saugerties	62.4	NY 212	Eastern terminus of concurrency.
	Town of Saugerties	63.7	I-87/Thruway	Exit 20 (I-87/Thruway).
	Town of Saugerties	63.8	NY 212	Western terminus of concurrency.
	Saxton	62.4	NY 32A	Eastern terminus of NY 32A.
Greene	Town of Cairo	65.1	NY 23A
		72.7	NY 23	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		73.8	NY 23	Northern terminus of concurrency.
	Town of Greenville	82.5	NY 81
Albany	Westerlo	88.7	NY 143	Southern terminus of concurrency
	Westerlo	91.0	NY 143	Northern terminus of concurrency
	Bethlehem	102.9	NY 335
		104.6	I-87/Thruway	NY 32 passes under I-87.
		104.9	US 9W	Western terminus of concurrency.
		105.3	US 9W	Eastern terminus of concurrency.
		105.9	NY 144	Northern terminus of NY 144.
	Albany	107.4	I-787	Exit 2 (I-787).
		108.1	US 20	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		108.2	US 20	Northern terminus of concurrency.
		108.4	NY 5
		108.7	US 9
	Menands	111.2	I-787	Exit 6 (I-787).
	Menands	111.3	NY 378
	Watervliet	113.4	NY 155	Eastern terminus of NY 155.
	Watervliet	113.9	NY 2
	Cohoes	116.1	NY 787
	Cohoes	117.0	NY 470
Saratoga	Village of Waterford	118.8	US 4	Southern terminus of concurrency.
	Halfmoon	129.2	NY 146	Eastern terminus of NY 146.
	Mechanicville	130.7	NY 67	Southern terminus of concurrency, which lasts for 100 feet (30 m).
	Mechanicville	130.8	NY 67	Northern terminus of concurrency.
	Town of Stillwater	136.0	US 4	Northern terminus of concurrency.
	Town of Stillwater	138.3	NY 423	Eastern terminus of NY 423.
	Schuylerville	148.3	US 4	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		148.4	NY 338	Former eastern terminus of NY 338.
		148.5	NY 29	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		148.8	NY 29	Northern terminus of concurrency.
	Northumberland	150.6	US 4	Southern terminus of concurrency.
	Gansevoort	158.1	NY 50	Northern terminus of NY 50.
	Moreau	162.3	NY 197
	South Glens Falls	164.9	US 9	Southern terminus of concurrency.
Warren	Glens Falls	166.4	US 9	Southern terminus of concurrency.
Warren	Queensbury	168.3	NY 254
Washington	Hudson Falls	170.3	US 4
Washington	Hudson Falls	176.6	NY 196