New York State Route 45

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"NY 45" redirects here. The term may also refer to New York's 45th congressional district.
This article is about the current alignment of NY 45. For previous alignments of NY 45, see New York State Route 45 (disambiguation).

CR 73 at the New Jersey state line in Chestnut Ridge
Major intersections
North end
CR 47 / Palisades Parkway in Mount Ivy
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesRockland
Highway system
←
US 44
→ NY 46

New York State Route 45 (NY 45) is a north–south

town of Haverstraw. Though an interchange does exist between NY 45 and the Palisades Interstate Parkway, the route has no access to the New York State Thruway
.

NY 45 was originally designated as New York State Route 305 as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York. It was renumbered to New York State Route 94 in the early 1940s before becoming NY 45 on January 1, 1949.

Route description

NY 45 begins here at the New York–New Jersey state line in Chestnut Ridge.

NY 45 begins at the

reference marker below the "Welcome to New York" sign at the crossing indicates the beginning of NY 45.[3]

NY 45 runs parallel to the small portion of the

CR 41, which intersects the parkway. Through Chestnut Ridge (where it is known as Chestnut Ridge Road, just as CR 73, its southern extension, is in New Jersey), it crosses the New York State Thruway.[3]

NY 45's northern terminus at US 202 in Mount Ivy near exit 13 of the Palisades Parkway.

Once it enters

CR 80, NY 45 enters New Hempstead. Again the road becomes relatively quiet, but it begins to parallel the Palisades Interstate Parkway, until its intersection at exit 12 in Pomona. NY 45 quickly leaves Pomona and enters Mount Ivy. This is where NY 45 comes to its northern terminus at US 202. This area of US 202 is in downtown Mount Ivy, and exit 13 of the Palisades is just 0.1 miles (0.2 km) west of NY 45's northern terminus.[3]

History

What is now NY 45 was originally designated NY 305 as part of the

NY 94, while the current NY 94 in Orange County was designated NY 45.[5] The NY 305 and NY 94 designations were swapped in the early 1940s, placing NY 305 on its current alignment and NY 94 on what is now NY 45.[6][7] NY 94 was then swapped again, this time for NY 45, on January 1, 1949, placing both routes on their modern routings.[2]

In 1958, Ramapo town engineer Edwin Wallace noticed an increase in the amount of traffic passing through the village of Spring Valley. This led Wallace to propose a 5-mile (8.0 km) bypass of the village, starting at NY 59 in Monsey and ending at NY 45 in Hillcrest. Rockland County approved the proposed bypass two years later, and the plans were forwarded to the New York State Department of Transportation.[8] In 1966, the Tri-State Transportation Commission released its long-term highway report for the area. The new study replaced the Spring Valley Bypass with the NY 45 expressway, a north–south bypass of Spring Valley connecting the Garden State Parkway to the Palisades Interstate Parkway. The road would serve a steadily growing area of commercial businesses along the NY 45 corridor. No action was taken on this proposal.[9]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Rockland County.

Locationmi[1][10]kmDestinationsNotes
CR 73 south (Chestnut Ridge Road) to G.S. Parkway – Montvale
Continuation into New Jersey
I-287 Toll / New York Thruway – Suffern, Nanuet
Town of Ramapo
7.5112.09 Palisades ParkwayExit 12 on Palisades Parkway; access to Palisades Parkway north via Concklin Road
8.4613.62
 Palisades Parkway north		Southbound exit only
CR 47 north / Palisades Parkway south – Pomona, Haverstraw
Northern terminus; continuation onto Old County Road; hamlet of Mount Ivy
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. 192. Retrieved November 14, 2009.
  2. ^
    Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ a b c Google (September 8, 2007). "overview map of NY 45" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved September 8, 2007.
  4. 1930 renumbering
  5. Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1930.
  6. Gulf Oil Company
    . 1940.
  7. ^ New York with Pictorial Guide (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1942.
  8. ^ "Bypass Hearing Held: Most of 200 Favor Route to Avoid Spring Valley". The New York Times. April 22, 1960. p. 6.
  9. ^ Transportation 1985: A Regional Plan. Tri-State Transportation Commission. 1966.
  10. ^ Google (June 25, 2018). "New York State Route 45" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved June 25, 2018.

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