New York State Route 120A

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I-287 / NY 120 in Harrison, NY
Major intersections Route 15 / Merritt Parkway / Hutchinson River Parkway on the Rye Brook, NY–Greenwich, CT line
North end NY 120 in North Castle, NY
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesWestchester (NY), Fairfield (CT)
Highway system
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New York State Route 120A (NY 120A) is a state highway in southern Westchester County, New York, in the United States. It serves as an alternate route to the southern half of NY 120 running along the New York–Connecticut state line. The southern terminus of the route is at NY 120 in Harrison. Its northern terminus is at NY 120 in North Castle. Most of the 8.55-mile (13.76 km) route straddles the New York–Connecticut state line, and part of the route is physically located in Connecticut. However, this part of the highway is not recognized by Connecticut as "Route 120A", and is considered to be part of NY 120A by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT).

Route description

NY 120A begins at an intersection with

CR 104).[4]

NY 120A through the village of Port Chester

Inside the village limits, maintenance of NY 120A shifts from the state to Westchester County, which inventories the route as CR 112.[5] Continuing on, the road narrows to two lanes ahead of Port Chester's central business district, where NY 120A passes the Port Chester Public Library and the village's post office ahead of a junction with Pearl Street three blocks west of U.S. Route 1 and two blocks west of the Metro-North Railroad. Here, NY 120A turns off Westchester Avenue and onto North Pearl Street,[4] becoming a village-maintained route in the process.[5] The route's northeastward run on North Pearl Street is brief, however, as NY 120A turns northwest onto King Street after just two blocks.[4]

As the route heads away from Pearl Street and Port Chester's commercial center, the blocks of businesses are gradually replaced with the residential neighborhoods that comprise most of northern Port Chester. About 0.8 miles (1.3 km) north of Pearl Street, NY 120A passes Lyon Park

NY 982C).[5] Continuing on, the highway serves King Street School before crossing from Port Chester to Rye Brook several blocks later. In the latter village, the route slowly bends northward toward the Connecticut state line. It eventually reaches the boundary, at which point NY 120A begins to run northwestward along the state line, with the southbound lane in New York and the northbound lane in Connecticut. A short distance later, the route connects to the Hutchinson River Parkway and its Connecticut continuation, the Merritt Parkway (Route 15), by way of a modified cloverleaf interchange.[4]

An erroneous CT 120A shield at the interchange between NY 120A and the Merritt and Hutchinson River Parkways in Greenwich, Connecticut

Not far from the interchange, the highway bends northward to fully enter Connecticut.

CR 135).[4]

Past Rye Lake Road, NY 120A serves the Griffith E. Harris Golf Club and several mansions on its way back to the New York–Connecticut state line. Just north of the airport, NY 120A turns westward onto Gateway Lane, a small east–west street leading back into New York and the town of North Castle. Gateway Lane and NY 120A both end just inside the state line at an intersection with NY 120. Here, NY 120 changes names from Purchase Street to King Street as the route continues NY 120A's course along the state line.[4]

History

The portion of Westchester Avenue from Purchase Street in Harrison to North Pearl Street in Port Chester was originally designated as part of NY 119 in the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.[2] By the following year, a spur route connecting NY 119 to NY 120 in North Castle was assigned the NY 120A designation. It began at Westchester Avenue and went north to the Connecticut state line via Ridge Street, where it turned northwest to follow King Street to NY 120.[3] The section of King Street between Ridge Street and Port Chester was designated as NY 120B by 1932.[7]

NY 120A was truncated c. 1938 to consist only of the Ridge Street portion of its alignment while NY 120B was extended northwest along King Street to NY 120 in North Castle

NY 119A south to Rye along Purchase Street. The former routing of NY 119 and NY 120 from Purchase Street to downtown Port Chester became an extension of NY 120A.[12]

On September 1, 1980, ownership and maintenance of the 0.5-mile (0.80 km) section of NY 120A leading southeast from the northwestern crossing into Connecticut was transferred from Westchester County to the state of New York as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government. The road was one of 10 highways exchanged during the swap. That same day, the routing of NY 120A in Port Chester was modified slightly to follow North Pearl Street between Westchester Avenue and King Street.[13][5]

Major intersections

StateCountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
I-287 / NY 120 (Westchester Avenue west) – Rye, White Plains
Port Chester1.933.11
 Westchester Avenue east to US 1
2.914.68Putnam Avenue (
NY 982C
)
New York–
Connecticut line		Westchester–
Fairfield county line		Rye Brook–
Greenwich line		4.306.92


 Route 15 north / Merritt Parkway north / Hutchinson River Parkway south		Exit 19A on Hutchinson Parkway; exit 27 on Merritt Parkway
I-684
Serves Westchester County Airport
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "2008 Traffic Volume Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. p. 166. Retrieved February 1, 2010.
  2. ^
    Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1930.
  3. ^
    Kendall Refining Company
    . 1931.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Microsoft; Nokia (May 16, 2012). "overview map of NY 120A" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
  5. ^ a b c d Glenville Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1990. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
  6. ^ "Westchester County Inventory Listing" (CSV). New York State Department of Transportation. February 28, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
  7. Texas Oil Company
    . 1932.
  8. ^
    Shell Oil Company
    . 1937.
  9. ^ a b New York Road Map for 1938 (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1938.
  10. ^ Thibodeau, William A. (1938). The ALA Green Book (1938–39 ed.). Automobile Legal Association.
  11. Standard Oil Company
    . 1939.
  12. ^ "State Shifts Numbers Of Area Routes". The Herald Statesman. October 11, 1960. p. 11. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  13. ^ New York State Legislature. "New York State Highway Law § 341". Retrieved June 10, 2010.

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