New York State Route 304
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New York State Route 304 (NY 304), also known as "Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato Memorial Highway",[3] as well as Pearl Street for its first half a mile and Main Street for other parts, is a north–south state highway located in central Rockland County, New York, in the United States. The 10.38-mile (16.70 km) route begins at the New Jersey–New York border in Pearl River and ends at an intersection with U.S. Route 9W (US 9W) in the community of Congers. The route is a main route through Rockland County, intersecting NY 59 and indirectly connecting to the New York State Thruway and the Palisades Interstate Parkway (PIP) in Nanuet. NY 304 has three distinct sections: a freeway that extends from Pearl River to Nanuet, a surface section between Nanuet and New City, and an expressway linking New City to Haverstraw.
NY 304 was assigned in 1930, originally following a series of at-grade roads that loosely parallel its modern alignment between Pearl River and Haverstraw. Concerns over the route's ability to handle a projected 40,000 vehicles per day in 1980 led to the construction of new highways south of Nanuet and north of New City in the mid-1960s. Most of NY 304's old alignment through these areas is now maintained by Rockland County as part of several county routes.
Route description
NY 304 begins as a two-lane surface road at the New Jersey–New York border in
At its intersection with former
North of this location, NY 304 becomes a four-lane
History
NY 304 was assigned as part of the
Street traffic forecasters for the Rockland County Planning Department predicted in 1960 that the section of the road between Pearl River and Nanuet would serve 30–40,000 vehicles
Although the plans for a Nanuet–Haverstraw freeway were scrapped, NY 304 was ultimately moved onto a new, mostly at-grade highway between the two locations in the mid-1960s. The new alignment utilized the pre-existing Long Clove Road near the northern tip of DeForest Lake and a newly built road bypassing New City to the east and running generally northeasterly to the junction of Ridge and Long Clove roads.[11][12] The northernmost part of NY 304 was realigned in the 1980s to follow a new highway paralleling Long Clove Road to the south.[13][14]
Major intersections
The entire route is in Rockland County.
Location | mi[1][15] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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Pearl River | 0.00 | 0.00 | CR 503 south (Kinderkamack Road) | Continuation into New Jersey | |
Southern end of freeway section | |||||
1.60 | 2.57 | Crooked Hill Road | Northbound exit and entrance | ||
1.88 | 3.03 | CR 33 (Middletown Road) – Nanuet, Pearl River | |||
Nanuet | 3.50 | 5.63 | NY 59 – Nyack, Spring Valley | Modified cloverleaf interchange | |
3.80 | 6.12 | Northern end of freeway section | |||
West Nyack Road | Former routing of NY 59A | ||||
New City | Southern end of limited-access section | ||||
10.38 | 16.70 | Northern terminus | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
See also
References
- ^ a b c "2010 Traffic Volume Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. July 25, 2011. p. 211. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
- ^ 1930 renumbering
- ^ ]https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S6221 senate Bill S6221 - Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato Memorial Highway]
- ^ a b c Google (September 8, 2007). "overview map of NY 304" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved September 8, 2007.
- Shell Oil Company. 1936.
- ^ New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1940.
- ^ New York with Pictorial Guide (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1942.
- ^ New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map) (1955–56 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1954.
- ^ New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map) (1957 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1956.
- ^ a b c Anderson, Steve (2007). "Pearl River Bypass (NY 304)". NYCRoads. Retrieved December 6, 2007.
- ^ Rand McNally and Company. Mobil. 1965.
- ^ a b New York (Map) (1969–70 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1968.
- Exxon. 1979.
- ^ Haverstraw Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1990. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
- ^ Google (June 25, 2018). "New York State Route 304" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
External links
- New York State Route 304 at New York Routes