U.S. Route 202 in New York

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This article is about the section of U.S. Route 202 in New York. For the entire route, see U.S. Route 202.

U.S. Route 202 marker

U.S. Route 202

Map
US 202 highlighted in red and US 202 Alt. in blue
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT and Westchester County
Length55.57 mi[1] (89.43 km)
ExistedJune 1934[2](signage was not up until April 1, 1935[3])–present
Major junctions
West end US 202 / CR 507 at the New Jersey state line in Suffern
Major intersections
East end US 6 / US 202 at the Connecticut state line in Southeast
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesRockland, Orange, Westchester, Putnam
Highway system
← NY 201→ NY 203

U.S. Route 202 (US 202) is a part of the

U.S. Highway System that runs from New Castle, Delaware, to Bangor, Maine. In the U.S. state of New York, US 202 extends 55.57 miles (89.43 km) from the New Jersey state line near Suffern to the Connecticut state line east of Brewster. While most of US 202 is signed north–south, the portion within New York is signed east–west. It drifts north slowly as it crosses southern New York. US 202 is the only road to cross New York between New Jersey and Connecticut and not pass through New York City
on the way.

US 202's New York stretch is roughly bisected by the

limited-access
stretch in Peekskill.

As it does in other states, US 202 serves mainly as a local road in suburban and exurban communities along the outskirts of the

metropolitan area, mostly two lanes with the exception of some four-lane sections and a brief concurrency onto an expressway in Peekskill. Its course along the Hudson River takes it first north up the west side, over the historic Bear Mountain Bridge, then south along the east side. It takes in many scenic areas, such as the Ramapo Mountains and Hudson Highlands, and two New York City reservoirs
.

Its circuitous path across the state puts it on many concurrencies—only 14.5 miles (23.3 km), or 26%, of US 202's mileage in New York is signed as US 202 alone. Among the roads it joins are three U.S. highways and two state routes. It forms four three-route concurrencies, including the only such grouping of three U.S. routes in the state, again in Peekskill.

Route description

Rockland and Orange counties

The left turn that brings US 202 into New York and the village of

wrong-way concurrency
with it.

US 202's first reassurance shield after entering New York in Suffern.

Leaving Suffern behind to return to the northeastern heading it had followed across New Jersey, it crosses under the Thruway without an interchange, the end of a close parallel with Interstate 287 (I-287) that began north of Somerville, New Jersey. It remains a two-lane route at the edge of development past Pomona and Montebello, at the foot of the Ramapo Mountains, home to the vast Harriman State Park. The headwaters of the Mahwah River parallel closely.

At Ladentown, the northern terminus of NY 306, the road begins to curve to the east, away from the ridge. US 202 widens as it cuts across the county, still a little less developed here, towards Mount Ivy, where it has a full interchange with the Palisades Interstate Parkway and NY 45. The Long Path hiking trail also crosses here. Beyond this junction US 202 is a four-lane undivided road, surrounded mainly by office parks and commercial establishments, but not strip development, as it follows the curve of South Mountain to the south.

US 6 and US 202 cross the Bear Mountain Bridge between Orange and Westchester counties.

Development starts to increase in West Haverstraw, and at Haverstraw, the road makes an oblique intersection with US 9W and joins it, following the Hudson River north through Stony Point and then climbing the mountains near Jones Point and Bear Mountain State Park, descending to the river's level again to reach the popular picnic ground complex at Hessian Lake. Here the Appalachian Trail (AT) crosses under the road to its lowest elevation in the nearby Trailside Zoo.

After ten miles (16 km), the US 9W concurrency comes to an end at Bear Mountain Circle, shortly after crossing into Orange County, also the Palisades Parkway's north end. US 6 replaces US 9W as the two join the AT in going through the tollbooths and crossing the Bear Mountain Bridge, entering Cortlandt in Westchester County, just south of the Putnam County line. Both US 6 and US 202 will enter Putnam County later in their routes, but for now they veer southeast, staying in Westchester.

Westchester County

In most of northern Westchester, US 202, primarily as part of concurrencies, serves as a local road between the towns it passes through. It skirts the one Putnam County village along its path, and is mostly a rural road in that county, expanded to four lines at its easternmost portion.

At the end of the bridge the AT leaves with

Anthony's Nose high above the river, with occasional views to Haverstraw Bay and the city of Peekskill to the south, and Dunderberg Mountain, Iona Island
and the sections of US 9W the highway had just followed upriver.

Mountains along US 9W and US 202 north of Stony Point.

Three and a half miles (5.6 km) US 6 and US 202 descend to river level again and, after passing the entrance to the

Bear Mountain Parkway begins to the east. At the second exit in Peekskill, the two routes leave US 9. NY 35
begins here and replaces it in the overlap, following Main Street across the city. At South Broad Street US 202 and NY 35 turn right while US 6 continues along Main, ending the first overlap between US 6 and US 202.

A few blocks to the south, US 202 and NY 35 turn left onto Crompond Road, which takes them out of Peekskill and back into the town of Cortlandt. The two roads pass the Hudson Valley Hospital Center. Two miles later, Bear Mountain Parkway returns to US 202 for the eastern terminus of its western segment. Shortly afterwards it and Route 35 enter Yorktown.

Here the road trends to the south, and the eastern segment of Bear Mountain Parkway branches off to the left to provide access to the Taconic State Parkway, the main north–south trunk route for automobile traffic on the east side of the Hudson. An exit here allows access to neighboring Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park.

Much of US 6 and US 202 from the bridge to US 9 winds sharply around Anthony's Nose.

NY 132, a short local road that leads north to Route 6, begins at Old Yorktown Road. After the next major intersection at Granite Springs Road, the concurrency turns to an almost due south heading for two miles (3 km), then bends southeast into the junction with Saw Mill River Road, NY 118. Both routes turn north here, forming the third three-route overlap along US 202 in New York.

The north heading becomes northeast, then east into the town of Somers to where NY 35 leaves US 202 and NY 118 at the southwest end of Amawalk Reservoir, the first of several in the New York City water supply system along the road. US 202 and NY 118 turn left onto Tomahawk Street, closely hugging the reservoir's north shore, and then east shore after two miles (3 km), putting the road on a northern course. After crossing a small inlet at the reservoir's northwest corner, US 202 turns right, leaving NY 118. For the first time since Haverstraw, 38 miles (61 km) back, US 202 is alone, as it stays along the reservoir, heading northeast, then east, dipping south after the reservoir to pass north of Anglebrook Golf Club.

The Elephant Hotel, at the junction of US 202 and NY 100 in Somers

At the club's northeast corner, it turns left, as Primrose Street, the road ahead, continues as NY 139. After a mile, it turns right onto Mill Street, which becomes Somers Road shortly afterwards and curves to the south. At Brick Hill Road, it turns to a more northeast heading again, then east. This takes it into the center of town, where NY 100, Westchester's long north–south road, comes to its northern end just opposite the Elephant Hotel, Somers' town hall and a National Historic Landmark due to its role as the birthplace of the American circus.

Now called Somerstown Turnpike, the highway resumes a due-northeast heading to where

Croton Falls. After crossing under the Harlem Line of the Metro-North Railroad, the two roads enter Putnam County
.

Putnam County

Spillway at East Branch Reservoir in Southeast

Routes 202 and 22 parallel the river and the railroad through similarly wooded country due northeast for the next two miles (3 km), with no intersections. The spillway of the lower section of East Branch Reservoir appears on the left, and then the road follows the reservoir in the same direction to the eastern outskirts of the village of Brewster. Here US 6 returns and gives US 202 its fourth three-way concurrency. Routes 6, 22 and 202 climb a small rise, cross under the Beacon Line and Maybrook Trailway and then pass through a developed area immediately south of the high quarter-mile bridge I-84 takes over the road and the river.

Just afterwards, the three routes turn right. The three-way overlap ends very soon afterwards at the next traffic light, where NY 22 turns left to pick up northbound traffic from I-684, which ends at the nearby junction with its parent route. The ramps to I-84 and I-684 also leave here.

The road ahead bends south and then east, a four-lane divided road making use of the thin land between I-84 and the northern section of East Branch. There is one flashing yellow light, at the northern terminus of NY 121, and then two miles (3 km) later, still next to the interstate, US 6 and US 202 cross into Danbury, Connecticut alongside it just before the Saw Mill Road exit.

History

Prior to 1934, the portion of modern US 202 within

NY 37. Although all of what became US 202 was state-maintained by this point, no other sections of the route were assigned a designation by 1926.[6]

Three portions of the route changed designations following the creation of the

Purdys while NY 118 followed modern US 202 northeast to Croton Falls.[9][10]

NY 61 was supplanted c. 1934 by

American Association of State Highway Officials in June 1934 that extended from Bangor, Maine, to State Road, Delaware, south of Wilmington.[2] In New York, US 202 continued north from Haverstraw to the Bear Mountain Bridge over US 9W and east to Connecticut by way of overlaps with US 6, NY 116, NY 118, and NY 22.[13] The overlap with NY 116 was eliminated c. 1938 when NY 116 was truncated to its current western terminus in Somers.[14][15]

While the portion of US 202 in New York has remained relatively unchanged since the route's assignment in 1934, the overlapping routes have changed over time. The alignments of NY 118 and

Amawalk became part of NY 35, an east–west route connecting Peekskill to Ridgefield, Connecticut.[20][21]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
RocklandSuffern0.000.00

 US 202 south / CR 507 south (Ramapo Valley Road) – Mahwah		Continuation into New Jersey
0.671.08
 NY 59 east – Spring Valley		Western terminus of NY 59 concurrency
0.721.16
I-287 / NY 17 north – Sloatsburg
Eastern terminus of NY 59 concurrency
Pomona7.3511.83
 NY 306 south – Monsey		Northern terminus of NY 306
hamlet of Mount Ivy
US 9W south – Nyack, Tappan Zee Bridge
Western terminus of US 9W concurrency
New York City, Harriman, Fort Montgomery, West Point
Bear Mountain Circle; eastern terminus of US 9W concurrency; western terminus of US 6 concurrency; northern terminus of the Palisades Parkway
Hudson River23.1637.27Bear Mountain Bridge (only tolled eastbound)
Accepts E-ZPass and Toll-by-Mail
US 202 Alt. east – Cold Spring, Beacon
Southern terminus of NY 9D
26.9743.40
US 202 Alt. west – Fishkill
Annsville Circle; western terminus of US 9 concurrency
Peekskill27.0243.48

 Bear Mountain State Parkway east to Taconic State Parkway – Yorktown		Western terminus of Bear Mountain Parkway
Western end of freeway section
27.7044.58
 US 9 south – Tarrytown, Peekskill Station

 NY 35 begins		Eastern terminus of US 9 concurrency; western terminus of NY 35
Eastern end of freeway section
28.5545.95
Carmel
Eastern terminus of US 6 concurrency
Cortlandt31.2150.23
 Bear Mountain State Parkway west – Bear Mountain Bridge, Fishkill		Eastern terminus of western segment of Bear Mountain Parkway
Yorktown32.8052.79


 Bear Mountain State Parkway east to Taconic State Parkway south		Western terminus of eastern segment of Bear Mountain Parkway; hamlet of Crompond
33.8354.44
New York City, Albany
Exit 17A on Taconic State Parkway
34.5355.57
 NY 132 north – Shrub Oak		Southern terminus of NY 132; hamlet of Jefferson Valley
36.2558.34Baldwin RoadFormer eastern terminus of
NY 132A
36.5658.84
 NY 118 south – Croton Reservoir		Western terminus of NY 118 concurrency; hamlet of Yorktown Heights
Somers38.0361.20
 NY 35 east – Katonah, Cross River, Katonah Station		Eastern terminus of NY 35 concurrency
40.8565.74
 NY 118 north – Mahopac		Eastern terminus of NY 118 concurrency
42.7168.74
 NY 139 south – Millwood		Northern terminus of NY 139
45.2372.79
 NY 100 south – Millwood		Northern terminus of NY 100
45.5473.29
Purdys, Purdys Station
Western terminus of NY 116
Purdys, White Plains, Croton Falls Station
Western terminus of NY 22 concurrency
PutnamBrewster51.5983.03
 US 6 west – Carmel, Brewster Station		Western terminus of US 6 concurrency
I-684 south / NY 22 north – White Plains, Pawling, Newburgh, Danbury
Eastern terminus of NY 22 concurrency; northern terminus and exit 10 on I-684; exit 68 on I-84
53.2785.73
I-84 east / NY 121 south – North Salem
Northern terminus of NY 121; exit 69 on I-84
55.5789.43

 US 6 east / US 202 east – Danbury		Continuation into Connecticut
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. pp. 183–184. Retrieved January 31, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c Weingroff, Richard (January 9, 2009). "U.S. 202 – Maine to Delaware". Highway History. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved April 13, 2010.
  3. ^ "Route Changes in State Listed". New York Post. March 30, 1935. p. 18. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  4. ^ Barry, Elise (April 29, 1982). "National Register of Historic Places nomination, Bear Mountain Bridge Road and Toll House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
  5. ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times. December 21, 1924. p. XX9.
  6. ^
    State of New York Department of Public Works
    . 1926.
  7. ^
    Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1927. This map shows U.S. Routes as they were first officially signed in 1927.
  8. ^ Weingroff, Richard F. (July 27, 2009). "U.S. 6 – The Grand Army of the Republic Highway". Highway History. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
  9. ^ a b c New York in Soconyland (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Standard Oil Company of New York. 1929.
  10. ^ Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Standard Oil Company of New York. 1930.
  11. ^
    Texas Oil Company
    . 1933.
  12. ^ a b Texaco Road Map – New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Texas Oil Company. 1934.
  13. Sun Oil Company
    . 1935.
  14. Shell Oil Company
    . 1937.
  15. ^ Thibodeau, William A. (1938). The ALA Green Book (1938–39 ed.). Automobile Legal Association.
  16. ^ New York Road Map for 1938 (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1938.
  17. Standard Oil Company
    . 1939.
  18. ^ Croton Falls Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1990. Retrieved March 31, 2010.
  19. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (October 2004). Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Bicycle Routes in New York State (PDF). Retrieved July 17, 2009.
  20. Gulf Oil Company
    . 1940.
  21. ^ New York with Pictorial Guide (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1942.

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