Hutchinson River Parkway
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North end | Route 15 / Merritt Parkway at the Connecticut state line in Rye Brook | |
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Country | United States | |
State | New York | |
Counties | Bronx, Westchester | |
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The Hutchinson River Parkway (known colloquially as the Hutch) is a
Construction of the parkway began in 1924 and was completed in 1941. The section of the parkway between Eastern Boulevard (now Bruckner Boulevard) in the Bronx and U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Pelham Manor was designated as New York State Route 1X (NY 1X) from 1941 to 1946. NY 1A was subsequently realigned to follow the Hutch between Eastern Boulevard and US 1. The NY 1A designation was removed around 1962.[4][5]
Route description
The road is designated as NY 908A within the Bronx and is maintained by the
Throggs Neck to Pelham
The Hutchinson River Parkway begins at the large Bruckner Interchange in the Throggs Neck section of the
Just after crossing into Pelham Bay, the parkway enters Exits 1C–D, an interchange with
Mount Vernon to Connecticut
Soon the parkway leaves Pelham for Mount Vernon, entering the Chester Heights section. In Mount Vernon, the Hutchinson River Parkway enters Exit 6B, a connection to the Cross County Parkway. The parkway winds northeast into Exit 7, a junction with New Rochelle Road, bending northwest through Nature Study Woods Park. The parkway then bends north into New Rochelle. Just after crossing into New Rochelle, the Cross County Parkway merges into the northbound lanes. Crossing through Twin Lakes Park, the parkway enters Exit 8, a junction with the northern end of Webster Avenue. Passing around Reservoir 3, the Hutchinson River Parkway crosses into Eastchester and soon back into New Rochelle near Exit 9, which connects to North Avenue.[8]
To the north, Exit 9A and Exit 9B going southbound junctions with Mill Road in Eastchester, the continuation of North Avenue. After Exits 9A and 9B, the parkway passes east of Reservoir 1 and south of Exit 9C, Wilmot Road. The Hutchinson River Parkway proceeds northeast as a four-lane freeway through New Rochelle. The parkway crosses under NY 125 (Weaver Street), which is accessible southbound via Exit 11. Proceeding northbound, Exit 11 services Hutchinson Avenue, which connects to NY 125 and Quaker Ridge Country Club. Now in the Quaker Ridge section of Scarsdale, the Hutchinson River Parkway crosses into Exit 12, Mamaroneck Road near Saxon Woods County Park. The parkway runs along the southern end of the park, entering Exit 13A-B in the center of the park.[8]
Exit 13A-B services Mamaroneck Avenue as it crosses over the West Branch of the
After Exit 16A-B the parkway makes a bend to the southeast entering Exit 17, a junction with Lincoln Avenue in Harrison. The four-lane parkway winds northeast once again, entering Exit 18, a junction with North Ridge Street in Rye Brook. The Hutchinson River Parkway enters Exit 19A, a connection with NY 120A (King Street). At this interchange, the Hutchinson River Parkway crosses into the state of Connecticut and continues northeast as the Merritt Parkway (Route 15).[8]
History
Construction of the parkway began in 1924 and the first two-mile (3 km) section was completed in December 1927. By October 1928, 11 miles (18 km) of the parkway were open, connecting US 1 in Pelham Manor, New York with Westchester Avenue in White Plains, New York.
In 1930, Robert Moses, an American public official who worked on New York metropolitan area infrastructure, announced plans to build more parkways in the Bronx.[10] A southward extension from Pelham Manor to Pelham Bay Park opened on December 11, 1937.[11][12][13] The new southerly extension became part of a rerouted New York State Route 1A.[14][15][16] The final segment of the parkway—a southward extension to the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge—was completed on October 11, 1941[17] and was initially designated NY 1X. The NY 1X designation was removed in 1946 and replaced with a realigned NY 1A,[18] which had previously followed Bruckner Boulevard and Shore Road between what is now the Bruckner Interchange and Exit 5 on the Hutch.[19] The NY 1A designation was completely removed c. 1962.[20][21]
Originally, the parkway was built and designated all the way to the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, but the original parkway designs did not allow for commercial traffic. When the bridge was designated I-678, the section between the Bruckner Interchange and the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge had to be converted to
Exit list
County | Location | mi [1][29][30] | km | Old exit | New exit[31] | Destinations | Notes |
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Kennedy Airport | Continues south as the Hutchinson River Expressway; Bruckner Interchange | ||||||
1 | 1A | RFK Bridge | I-95/I-278 not signed northbound; exit 54 on I-278 | ||||
Schuylerville | 0.70 | 1.13 | 2 | 1B | East Tremont Avenue / Westchester Avenue | ||
Pelham Bay | 1.93 | 3.11 | 3 | 1C-D | Pelham Parkway | Signed as exits 1C (east) and 1D (west) | |
Co-op City | Southbound exit and northbound entrance; signed as exits 2A (south) and 2B (north); access to I-95 north via Baychester Avenue; exit 9 on I-95 | ||||||
Hutchinson River | 2.90 | 4.67 | Hutchinson River Drawbridge | ||||
Orchard Beach, City Island | |||||||
4.20 | 6.76 | 6 | 4A | New Haven, CT | Northbound exit and southbound entrance; exit 14 on I-95 | ||
Westchester | Pelham Manor | 4.54 | 7.31 | 7 | 4B | US 1 (Boston Post Road) – Pelham Manor, New Rochelle | Signed as exit 4 southbound; signed as Boston Road northbound; New Rochelle not signed northbound |
5.20 | 8.37 | 8 | 5A | Sanford Boulevard – Mount Vernon, Pelham Manor | Southbound exit and entrance | ||
Village of Pelham | 5.31 | 8.55 | 9 | 5 | Wolfs Lane – Mount Vernon, Pelham | Northbound exit and entrance | |
5.53 | 8.90 | 10 | 5B | East Third Street – Mount Vernon, Pelham | Southbound exit and northbound entrance; northbound entrance via Sparks Avenue | ||
Pelham–Mount Vernon village/city line | 6.29 | 10.12 | 12 | 6A | East Lincoln Avenue – Mount Vernon, Pelham | Signed as exit 6 southbound | |
6.67 | 10.73 | 13 | 6B | Cross County Parkway west to Saw Mill River Parkway – Yonkers | Northbound exit and southbound entrance; exit 9 on Cross County Parkway | ||
7.11 | 11.44 | 14 | 7 | Hutchinson Boulevard – Mount Vernon Pelhamdale Avenue / New Rochelle Road – New Rochelle | Southbound exit and entrance Northbound exit and entrance | ||
Eastchester | 7.95 | 12.79 | 15 | 8 | Cross County Parkway west – George Washington Bridge | Southbound exit and northbound entrance; eastern terminus of Cross County Parkway | |
New Rochelle | 8.56 | 13.78 | 16 | 8 | Webster Avenue – New Rochelle | No southbound exit | |
8.94 | 14.39 | 17 | 9 | North Avenue – New Rochelle, Eastchester | Northbound exit and entrance | ||
9.30 | 14.97 | 18 | 9 | Mill Road – New Rochelle, Eastchester | Southbound exit and entrance; signed as exits 9A (east) and 9B (west) | ||
9.90 | 15.93 | 19 | 9C | Wilmot Road – New Rochelle | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
New Rochelle–Scarsdale city/village line | 11.10 | 17.86 | 20 (SB) 21 (NB) | 11 | NY 125 (Weaver Street) – Scarsdale, New Rochelle, Larchmont | Access via local roads | |
Scarsdale | 12.09 | 19.46 | 22 | 12 | Mamaroneck Road – Scarsdale, Mamaroneck | ||
White Plains–Harrison city/village line | 13.05 | 21.00 | 23 | 13 | Mamaroneck Avenue – Mamaroneck, White Plains | Signed as exits 13A (south) and 13B (north) | |
14.57 | 23.45 | 25 | 14 | NY 127 (North Street) – White Plains, Harrison | |||
Cloverleaf interchange; signed as exits 15A (east) and 15B (west); Port Chester not signed southbound; exits 9S-N on I-287 | |||||||
16.01 | 25.77 | 27A | 16A | To NY 984J | |||
16.41 | 26.41 | 27B | 16B | NY 120 (Purchase Street) – Westchester County Airport | Signed as exit 16 southbound; Westchester County Airport not signed northbound | ||
17.23 | 27.73 | 28 | 17 | Lincoln Avenue – Rye Brook, Harrison, Purchase | |||
Rye Brook | 17.96 | 28.90 | 29 | 18 | North Ridge Street – Rye Brook | ||
18.70 | 30.09 | 30S (NB) 27S (SB) | 19A | NY 120A south (King Street) – Rye Brook, Greenwich, Port Chester | Access to NY 120A north via Merritt Parkway exit 27 | ||
18.71 | 30.11 | — | — | Route 15 north / Merritt Parkway north | Continues north in Connecticut as the Merritt Parkway | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
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- ^ Ames, Lynne (November 13, 1994). "Tolls Abolished and Smiley Face Exits the Saw Mill Parkway". The New York Times. p. WC2.
- ^ Keane, Isabel (July 30, 2021). "Exit signs change to mileage-based system along the Hutchinson River Parkway". Rockland/Westchester Journal News. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
- ^ "Old numbers make their exit on Hutchinson River Parkway". Pelham Examiner. July 23, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
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External links
- Hutchinson River Parkway at Alps' Roads