Albany Post Road

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The Albany Post Road was a post road - a road used for mail delivery - in the U.S. state of New York. It connected New York City and Albany along the east side of the Hudson River, a service now performed by US 9.

The rough route was as follows:

• US 9, New York to Ossining (split from the Boston Post Road in Kingsbridge)
• Old Albany Post Road and NY 9A, Ossining to Peekskill
• Sprout Brook Road and Old Albany Post Road, Peekskill to near Nelsonville
• US 9, near Nelsonville to Wappingers Falls
• Main Street and NY 9D through Wappingers Falls
• US 9, Wappingers Falls to Poughkeepsie
• South Avenue and Washington Street (partly NY 9G) through Poughkeepsie
• US 9, Poughkeepsie to Humphreysville
• NY 9H and Hudson Street, Humphreysville to Kinderhook
• Albany Avenue, Old Post Road, US 9 and Old Post Road, Kinderhook to Schodack Center, where it met the road from Boston to Albany
• U.S. Route 9/U.S. Route 20, Schodack Center to Greenbush, ending at "the ferry at Crawlier"

Minor old alignments exist all along the current through route.

[edit] References

• New York and Albany post road, from Kings Bridge to "the ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany"

[edit] See also

• Boston Post Road
• Broadway (New York City)