New York State Route 210

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Warwick
North end NY 17A in Greenwood Lake
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesOrange
Highway system
←
US 209
→ NY 211

New York State Route 210 (NY 210) is a

NY 55, a route connecting New Jersey to Goshen
, in the 1920s.

Route description

NY 210 northbound past its southern terminus at CR 511 at the New Jersey border in Warwick

NY 210 commences at the

eponymous village of Greenwood Lake, located at the northern tip of the lake.[3]

NY 210 enters the village center from the west on Jersey Avenue. It follows the village street for four blocks to Windermere Avenue, where it turns to follow that street to the northeast. The route terminates nine blocks later upon intersecting NY 17A north of the village center.[3]

History

Junction of NY 17 and NY 17A in Southfields. From 1930 to 1982, NY 210 entered this intersection from the background on NY 17A and left in the foreground on modern CR 106.

Old roads

From 1930 to 1982, NY 210 extended eastward into

Haverstraw, where it ended at a fork in the road somewhere in the town. The turnpike company ceased to exist on April 28, 1870, when the legislature passed a law repealing the 1824 document that created the turnpike company. The highway was subsequently sold off in order to pay off the debts of the company and to finance repairs to bridges along the road.[5][6]

When Harriman State Park opened in 1910, the Monroe–Haverstraw highway was renamed Southfields Road. Three years later, a portion of the route became part of Seven Lakes Drive, a major highway built to traverse the park. In 1916, Rockland County numbered its highways for the first time. The Rockland County section of the former Monroe and Haverstraw Road was designated as CR 416 at this time. From 1919 to 1920, the highway was reconstructed and rebuilt to state standards.[5]

Designation

In the late 1920s, what is now NY 210 was originally designated as part of

Southfields, NY 210 was routed on modern NY 17A. The route continued east from there along Southfields Road to the eastern fringe of Harriman State Park, at which point it headed to West Haverstraw via Willow Grove and Letchworth Village roads, Suffern Lane, and Railroad Avenue.[2][4]

Sign assembly for NY 210 at CR 106 (former NY 210) in Rockland County

By 1933, NY 17A was extended eastward along NY 210 to Southfields, completing the alternate loop of NY 17,[10] while NY 210 was realigned on its east end by 1938 to end at US 9W in Stony Point. Instead of following Willow Point Road, the highway remained on modern Gate Hill Road to the vicinity of Stony Point, where it entered the hamlet on Main Street.[11] It was rerouted again between 1968 and 1973 to bypass Main Street to the south on Central Drive.[12][13]

On April 1, 1980, ownership and maintenance of the portion of NY 210 from NY 17 to the Orange–Rockland county line was transferred from the state of

overlap with NY 17A in Greenwood Lake.[15][16] The former routing of NY 210 is now designated as CR 106 in both Orange and Rockland counties.[17][18]

Accidents

Over the years, at least two fatal accidents have occurred on the portion of NY 210 that runs alongside Greenwood Lake. On July 15, 1940, a Brooklyn couple was killed when their car struck a stone ledge near the lake. Two others were injured in the accident.[19] On December 1, 1968, three were killed and one person was injured when two cars had a head-on collision just north of the New Jersey state line.[20]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Orange County.

Locationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
hamlet of Sterling Forest
Greenwood Lake4.046.50
 NY 17A to NY 17 – Warwick, Monroe, Sterling Forest		Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. p. 268. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
  2. ^ a b Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". The New York Times. p. 136.
  3. ^ a b Google (April 14, 2008). "overview map of NY 210" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved April 14, 2008.
  4. ^
    Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1930.
  5. ^ a b c d Myles, William J. (1999). Harriman Trails, A Guide and History. New York City: New York–New Jersey Trail Conference.
  6. ^ New York State Legislature (1870). Laws of the State of New York. Vol. 2. Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Company. p. 1155. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
  7. ^ Automobile Blue Book. Vol. 1 (1927 ed.). Chicago: Automobile Blue Book, Inc. 1927.
  8. ^ Automobile Blue Book. Vol. 3. Automobile Blue Books, Inc. 1929. p. 13. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
  9. 1930 renumbering
  10. Texas Oil Company
    . 1933.
  11. ^ New York Road Map for 1938 (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1938.
  12. ^ New York (Map) (1969–70 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1968.
  13. Amoco Oil Company
    . 1973.
  14. ^ New York State Legislature. "New York State Highway Law § 341". Retrieved December 18, 2009.
  15. State of New York
    . 1981.
  16. ISBN 0-528-91040-X
    .
  17. ^ Sloatsburg Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1990. Retrieved December 18, 2009.
  18. ^ Thiells Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1990. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2009.
  19. ^ "Brooklyn Couple Killed; Two Others Hurt as Car Strikes Ledge Near Greenwood Lake". The New York Times. July 15, 1940. p. 14.
  20. ^ "3 Killed and 1 Injured In Collision on Route 210". The New York Times. December 1, 1968. p. 62.

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