New York State Route 27
East end | Montauk Point State Park in Montauk | |||
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Country | United States | |||
State | New York | |||
Counties | Kings, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk | |||
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New York State Route 27 (NY 27) is a 120.58-mile (194.05 km) long
Except for a short stretch in Oakdale, NY 27 has service roads that parallel the highway continuously from North Lindenhurst to Patchogue, and intermittently to the east into Southampton. They are officially designated, but not signed, as New York State Route 906C eastbound and New York State Route 906D westbound.
Route description
Prospect Expressway and Linden Boulevard
NY 27 begins at exit 24 of
NY 27 runs along Caton Avenue near the south end of
Conduit Avenue
Continuing northeast through Queens, NY 27 and Linden Boulevard enter Ozone Park and reach an interchange with Conduit Avenue, where Linden Boulevard ends. NY 27 then continues eastward along the divided Conduit Avenues. This portion of the route becomes a controlled access highway, coterminous with the western portion of Nassau Expressway (NY 878) starting at Cross Bay Boulevard until Aqueduct Road.[6] (When constructed, the portion from Linden Boulevard until what is now Aqueduct Road, was designated Sunrise Highway. This is not to be confused with present Sunrise Highway, which is at the other end of Queens. Sunrise became Conduit at 111th Street, which no longer exists, but is approximately where Aqueduct Road currently crosses over Route 27.)[7][8]
When the Nassau Expressway splits off, NY 27 continues east along Conduit Avenue and remains a frontage road for multiple exits of the Belt Parkway. The route interchanges with I-678 (the Van Wyck Expressway) a short distance later.[4]
NY 27 remains a frontage road entering
Sunrise Highway
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Sunrise Highway begins as a six to eight-lane arterial road in eastern Queens, directly paralleling the Atlantic and Montauk branches of the Long Island Rail Road. It heads east into Nassau County, passing through Valley Stream, Lynbrook, and Rockville Centre on its way to Merrick. There it connects to the Meadowbrook State Parkway by way of an interchange. NY 27 continues to Wantagh, where it has an interchange with the Wantagh State Parkway. One mile (1.6 km) later, the highway has an interchange with NY 135 in Seaford. In East Massapequa, NY 27 passes under the LIRR and ends its stretch through Nassau.
NY 27 then enters Suffolk County, where it veers to the northeast, bypassing Copiague. At the interchange with NY 109 in West Babylon, Sunrise Highway becomes a six-lane freeway with a two-lane service road on either side. The route then meets the Robert Moses Causeway near West Islip. In East Patchogue, New York, the highway is reduced to a four-lane freeway after passing the NY 112 exit.
Between County Route 16 (CR 16) in Brookhaven and CR 46 in Shirley, the median is lined with pine trees along South Haven County Park. The setting along these roads is similar to the one on the Southern State Parkway west of Belmont Lake State Park. The last exit with a state highway is near Hampton Bays, where it meets NY 24.
East of NY 24, Sunrise Highway crosses over the
Montauk Highway
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The section of Montauk Highway over which NY 27 runs is two lanes wide, with the exception of the four-lane sections in the village of
In the hamlet of
History
Designation and early realignments
NY 27's designation was assigned in the mid-1920s to a road extending from the
On February 24, 1930, South Country Road was added to the
NY 27 was realigned west of Oakdale c. 1931 to follow Sunrise Boulevard, a new highway parallel to Merrick Road, and then Montauk Highway, between the New York City line and Massapequa connecting several local roads from Massapequa to Montauk Highway at Oakdale. The former routing of NY 27 from Massapequa to Oakdale became NY 27A, connecting to NY 27 in Massapequa by way of County Line Road.[14][15]
Sunrise Boulevard was extended eastward to Oakdale c. 1934 as a realignment of NY 27.
Sunrise Highway was built over the Brooklyn Waterworks aqueduct, past the south side of Aqueduct Racetrack.[19]
New York City
In December 1934, the route was extended westward into New York City. NY 27 followed
The route was realigned slightly in the early 1940s to follow Atlantic and Washington Avenues, Eastern Parkway, Buffalo Avenue, and Rockaway Avenue between Flatbush Avenue and Linden Boulevard.
Prior to 1970, NY 27A continued north to the Holland Tunnel in Manhattan by way of the Gowanus Expressway, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, and the West Side Elevated Highway.[23] On January 1, 1970, NY 27A was truncated eastward to its current western terminus in Massapequa while NY 27 was extended northward along NY 27A's former route to the Holland Tunnel, where it ends at I-78 and NY 9A.[25]
By 1973, NY 27 was cut back to its interchange with the Gowanus Expressway while
Long Island
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Robert Moses developed plans for an elevated freeway featuring 10 to 12 lanes along Sunrise Highway through Nassau County. This freeway would have provided a truck link for the South Shore of Long Island but the downtown villages along the route effectively put a stop to the idea.[28]
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The portion of Sunrise Highway between
In 2006 and 2007 Suffolk County and Southampton officials began using traffic cones to adjust the lanes to accommodate peak travel in what was called the "traffic cone program".[30]
At the end of summer 2007, another eastbound lane was added, heading eastward to North Sea Road. The construction snarled traffic on CR 39. The Long Island Rail Road added three trains each way between Speonk and East Hampton during the construction.[31] In April 2008, the three-lane segment from North Sea Road to Flying Point Road was reconfigured from one eastbound and two westbound lanes to two eastbound and one westbound lane. The merge from two lanes to one in the eastbound direction is now assisted by a signalized intersection at Flying Point Road, where eastbound NY 27 traffic makes a left turn onto Montauk Highway.[32] This widening project eliminates the "Shinnecock Squeeze."[33]
Eastward extension
The first proposals for an extension east of the
Older interchanges
As Sunrise Highway was upgraded during the 1970s and 1980s many interchanges were redesigned and replaced. The original interchange with the Robert Moses Causeway in West Islip had two parkway-style arch bridges over two lanes of NY 27. When the service roads were built in Western Islip Township between 1969 and 1972, parkway-style bridges were added for them as well. The interchanges at Fifth Ave and Brentwood Road in Bay Shore had parkway-style arch bridges and cloverleaves. When the service roads were added, the parkway-style bridges were removed and replaced with the modern structures that exist today and the original cloverleaves were modified to align with the new service roads.
As with interchanges to the west, Islip Avenue (
Proposed interchanges and crossings
Besides the replacement of interchanges in Western Suffolk County, Sunrise Highway has had proposed interchanges and crossings that were either never built or were built according to alternate design specifications.
In the North Lindenhurst area, plans to construct a
The Oakdale Merge is a convergence of
In 1953, Sunrise Highway was extended to East Patchogue; a 0.5 mi (0.80 km) overlap of NY 27 and
NY 27A was truncated east of the overlap in 1972.[12] Plans to upgrade the interchange have existed since its creation.
During the early-1960s, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works considered designating a county highway to connect Nicolls Road in Lake Grove through the Long Island MacArthur Airport, then on to the east end of the merge. As recently as 1981, the New York State Department of Transportation planned to add service roads and a proper interchange at both ends of the merge.[38] Pressure from environmental groups seeking to avoid damaging the parkland stalled construction. NYSDOT eventually reconstructed Sunrise Highway in eastern Islip township into a freeway during the 1990s, resulting in the present configuration.
The entrance to Connetquot River Park remained as an at-grade intersection, accessible only from the westbound lane. Former segments of Montauk Highway now exist on both sides of the interchange, and sections of both roads were converted into fishing areas owned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.[37] Numerous accidents occurred at the east end of the merge, resulting in its reconstruction in 1999. A new off-ramp to the service road for Pond Road was built, resulting in renumbering of exit 47 to exit 46A.[39]
While none of the interchanges north of
Maple Avenue had crossed the median on NY 27 between North Ocean Avenue and NY 112 until 1975. This road could also have been used as a connecting ramp to both roads. Today, the north section only intersects the westbound
Sinn Street was acquired by NYSDOT east of NY 112 in the early-1960s, and was gradually abandoned.[41] Today, exit 53 is a diamond interchange, and Sinn Street, Austin Street, and Franklin Street are now dead-end streets. Originally there were proposals to connect Washington Avenue and Phyllis Drive via ramps to side streets such as Franklin Street along the eastbound lane, and to an extension of Sinn Street along the westbound lane.
Phyllis Drive was once part of NY 27 until Sunrise Highway was extended to
West of the Carmans River near Southaven County Park in South Haven, there was a plan to combine the eastbound service road with Montauk Highway, similar to the Oakdale Merge.
NY 27A
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Major intersections
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County | Location | mi[1] | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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Manhattan | Western terminus; exit 24 (I-278) | |||||
0.01 | 0.016 | 1 | Hamilton Avenue | Westbound exit only | ||
Staten Island | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||||
0.61 | 0.98 | 3 | 7th Avenue / 8th Avenue | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||
Windsor Terrace | 0.91 | 1.46 | 4 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
1.45 | 2.33 | 5 | ![]() ![]() | NY 27 leaves the freeway eastbound | ||
Kensington | 1.76 | 2.83 | 6 | Church Avenue / Ocean Parkway – Coney Island | NY 27 joins the freeway westbound | |
Eastern end of freeway section | ||||||
Bushwick Expressway | ||||||
Cross Bay Boulevard – Riis Park | Interchange | |||||
9.03 | 14.53 | ![]() Eastern Long Island | Same-directional access only; no eastbound entrance; exit 17W on Belt Parkway | |||
Kennedy Airport | Interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; western terminus of NY 878 | |||||
![]() at-grade intersection | ||||||
11.51 | 18.52 | ![]() ![]() Bronx | No eastbound exit; exit 1 on I-678 | |||
![]() Kennedy Airport | Eastbound interchange; westbound at-grade intersection | |||||
![]() Kennedy Airport | Interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||||
Eastern Long Island | Same-directional access only; no eastbound exit; exits 23B-A on Belt Parkway | |||||
Nassau | Rockville Centre | Merrick Road | Interchange; same-directional access only | |||
Jones Beach | Exit M8 on Meadowbrook Parkway | |||||
Jones Beach | Exit W5 on Wantagh Parkway | |||||
Seaford | 27.93 | 44.95 | ![]() ![]() | Exit 2 on NY 135 | ||
Massapequa | 28.83 | 46.40 | ![]() | |||
East Massapequa | 31.04 | 49.95 | ![]() ![]() | Western terminus of NY 27A | ||
Suffolk | Amityville | 32.07 | 51.61 | ![]() | Interchange | |
CR 47 (Great Neck Road) – Copiague, Farmingdale | Interchange | |||||
CR 3 (Wellwood Avenue) – Lindenhurst, Melville | Interchange | |||||
North Lindenhurst–West Babylon line | 35.32 | 56.84 | Western end of freeway section | |||
37 | ![]() | Exit number not signed eastbound | ||||
West Babylon | 36.45 | 58.66 | 38 | Little East Neck Road / Belmont Avenue | ||
36.93 | 59.43 | 39 | Hubbards Path | |||
North Babylon–West Islip line | 38.26 | 61.57 | 40 | ![]() | ||
Robert Moses Park | Exit RM1 on Robert Moses Causeway | |||||
Brightwaters | 42 | Manor Lane | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||
42.40 | 68.24 | 44 | Brentwood Road – Brentwood, Bay Shore | |||
Community of Islip | 44.06 | 70.91 | 45 | ![]() | ||
New York | Signed for CR 17 eastbound, Heckscher Parkway westbound; exit 44 on Heckscher Parkway | |||||
Eastbound exit only; eastern terminus of NY 27A; western terminus of CR 85 | ||||||
Oakdale–Bohemia line | 47 | Pond Road south | Eastbound exit only | |||
47A | Oakdale–Bohemia Road – Bohemia, Oakdale | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||||
Oakdale–Bohemia– Sayville tripoint | 50.16 | 80.72 | 48 | Locust Avenue – Bohemia, Oakdale | ||
No westbound access to Johnson Avenue | ||||||
50A | ![]() CR 112 | |||||
Sayville–Bohemia– Holbrook tripoint | 50 | Lincoln Avenue – Ronkonkoma, Sayville | No westbound entrance | |||
Bayport–Holbrook line | 52.44 | 84.39 | 51 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | No eastbound access to NY 454; eastern terminus of NY 454 | |
54.82 | 88.22 | 52A | ![]() ![]() | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; southern terminus of CR 83 | ||
North Patchogue–East Patchogue line | 55.31 | 89.01 | 53 | ![]() | ||
East Patchogue | 56.72 | 91.28 | 54 | ![]() | Serves Long Island Community Hospital | |
North Bellport | 58.42 | 94.02 | 56 | Station Road – Bellport, Yaphank | ||
CR 56 east – Brookhaven, Yaphank | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; signed as exits 57S (south) and 57N (north/west); CR 56 not signed | |||||
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CR 56 east – Brookhaven, Yaphank | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; signed as exits 57S (CR 16 east) and 57N (north/west); CR 21/CR 56 not signed | |||||
CR 56 west – Shirley, Wading River | Signed as exits 58S (south) and 58N (north); CR 56 not signed | |||||
CR 25 | ||||||
67.28 | 108.28 | 60 | Railroad Avenue – Center Moriches, Manorville | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||
No westbound exit | ||||||
collector/distributor roads | ||||||
CR 31 – Westhampton Beach, Riverhead | Signed as exits 63S (south) and 63N (north); serves Francis S. Gabreski Airport | |||||
NY 113 | ||||||
Hampton Bays | 81.15 | 130.60 | 65 | ![]() | Signed as exits 65S (south) and 65N (north) | |
82.94 | 133.48 | 66 | North Road ( CR 39) – Shinnecock Hills | Quarter-cloverleaf interchanges | ||
CR 39 west) – Hampton Bays | Westbound exit only; western terminus of concurrency with CR 39 | |||||
Eastern end of freeway section | ||||||
CR 52 north – North Sea, Sag Harbor | Southern terminus of CR 52 | |||||
CR 38 north (North Sea Road) – North Sea, Southampton | Southern terminus of CR 38 | |||||
CR 39A | ||||||
89.68 | 144.33 | CR 39A ends | Eastern terminus of CR 39A | |||
CR 79 north – Sag Harbor, Shelter Island | Southern terminus of CR 79 | |||||
Village of East Hampton | 100.17 | 161.21 | ![]() ![]() | Southern terminus of NY 114 | ||
Montauk | 120.58 | 194.05 | Montauk Point State Park | Eastern terminus | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
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