New York State Route 27

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NY Route 27
Maintained by NYSDOT
Length:	120.58 mi[1] (194.05 km)
Formed:	1920s[2]
West end:	I-278 in Brooklyn
Major junctions:	Southern Pkwy in Howard Beach I-678/NY 878 in South Ozone Park Southern Pkwy in Laurelton Meadowbrook Pkwy in Freeport Wantagh Pkwy in Wantagh Robert Moses Cswy in West Islip Southern/Heckscher in Islip Terrace NY 24 in Hampton Bays
East end:	Montauk Point State Park in Montauk
Counties:	Kings, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
Numbered highways in New York < NY 26A NY 27A > Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 27 (abbreviated NY 27) is a 122.28 mile long state highway extending from Interstate 278 in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to Montauk Point State Park on Long Island, New York, United States. Its two most prominent components are Sunrise Highway and Montauk Highway.

East of the interchange with the Heckscher State Parkway in Islip Terrace, NY 27 acts as the primary east-west highway on southern Long Island.

The entire route in Suffolk, Nassau, and Queens was designated by the New York State Senate as the POW/MIA Memorial Highway.

On the South Shore, nearly every town is accessible through Sunrise Highway.

Contents 1 Route description 1.1 New York City 1.2 Sunrise Highway 1.3 The Shinnecock Squeeze 1.4 Montauk Highway 2 History 2.1 Older interchanges and crossings 2.1.1 Copiague 2.1.2 West Islip 2.1.3 Islip Terrace 2.1.4 Patchogue area 2.1.5 South Haven 2.2 The Atlantic Expressway 2.3 East of the Shinnecock Canal 2.4 Former segments 3 NY 27A 4 Major intersections 4.1 Brooklyn to Massapequa 4.2 Massapequa to Shinnecock Hills 4.3 Shinnecock Hills to Montauk 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Route description

Communities
New York City Valley Stream Rockville Centre Merrick Copiague West Babylon West Islip East Patchogue Shirley Hampton Bays East Hampton Montauk

[edit] New York City

Route 27 begins at Interstate 278 (Gowanus Expressway) in Brooklyn and uses the Prospect Expressway to the end of the expressway, where the road continues south as Ocean Parkway. NY 27 makes its way east to Linden Boulevard via Caton Avenue. Eastbound traffic exits at Fifth Street and makes a left onto Caton Avenue, crossing over the Prospect Expressway, while westbound NY 27 turns south on Coney Island Avenue and west on Church Avenue to meet the expressway's south end. Eastbound trucks are directed to exit earlier, at 10th Avenue, and take McDonald Avenue south to Caton Avenue.

Linden Boulevard enters Queens and merges into Conduit Avenue. Conduit Avenue soon splits as frontage roads for the Belt Parkway, running east past the north end of John F. Kennedy International Airport. Near the city line, the Belt Parkway turns north, and NY 27 becomes the Sunrise Highway.

[edit] Sunrise Highway

The Sunrise Highway begins in eastern Queens as a six to eight lane arterial, becomes a six-lane expressway with two two lane service roads in western Suffolk, and is reduced to a four-lane expressway in Patchogue, New York.

[edit] The Shinnecock Squeeze

Route 27 abruptly becomes a three-lane highway east of the Shinnecock Canal in Southampton. This has been called the "Shinnecock Squeeze". At this point, the road becomes County Road 39. The "squeezed" lane was the east bound where two lanes became one.

In 2006 and 2007 Suffolk and Southampton officials began using traffic cones to adjust the lanes to accommodate peak travel in what was called the "traffic cone program." At the end of the 2007 summer, work began on adding another east bound lane to the North Sea Road. With a completion scheduled to just before the 2008 summer, the road will be a four-lane to just east of Southampton village where it becomes a two-lane.^[3] The construction snarled traffic on 39 and the LIRR added three trains each way going from Speonk to East Hampton during the construction.^[4]

[edit] Montauk Highway

The Montauk Highway is the designation just east of Southampton (village), New York by the Princess Diner to the east side of Montauk, New York where it becomes the Montauk Parkway, a Robert Moses design leading to Montauk Point State Park. The entire section with the exception of four-lane section in hamlets and the village of East Hampton.

[edit] History

NY 27 was signed as early as 1926 on its current alignment (excluding realignments) from the New York City line to Amagansett. East of Amagansett, the modern routing of NY 27 was unnumbered.^[2] Between 1926 and 1930, NY 27 was extended eastward to its current terminus at Montauk Point.^[2][5] In December 1934, the route was extended west into New York City.^[6]

The Montauk Highway was the original name for the route to the east end. The original Montauk Highway route has been designated New York State Route 27A and runs roughly a mile to the south of NY 27 for most of its length.

NY 27A once included what is now Suffolk County Routes 80 and 85, which assume the Montauk Highway name after NY 27A's eastern terminus at NY 27 in Oakdale. The interchange between NY 27 and NY 27A at this point is dubbed the "Oakdale Merge", and is known as a bottleneck for local traffic.

Sunrise Highway is built over the Brooklyn Waterworks aqueduct.^[7]. Said aqueduct goes past Aqueduct Racetrack.

[edit] Older interchanges and crossings

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[edit] Copiague

Plans to construct a cloverleaf interchange with Suffolk County Route 2 (Straight Path) have existed for some time. However, in recent years, planners have realized that such an interchange would be too close to the cloverleafs with Suffolk County Route 47 (Great Neck Road) to the west and Suffolk County Route 3 (Wellwood Road) to the east. To further complicate matters, a widened Suffolk County Route 28 was extended to Sunrise Highway near the Straight Path intersection in the late-1980s. No interchange has been built yet for this area.

[edit] West Islip

The original interchange with the Robert Moses Causeway 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.

[edit] Islip Terrace

Islip Avenue (New York State Route 111) and Carleton Avenue (Suffolk County Route 17) originally had parkway-style bridges crossing over Sunrise Highway that were accessible by side roads and connecting intersections used as on-off ramps. This section of Sunrise Highway wasn't even divided. Today, both have much more modern bridges over service roads, and the old cross streets connect to those service roads and other side roads instead. Islip Avenue connects to NY 27 at exit 45 while Carleton Avenue interchanges with the Sunrise Highway at exit 46.

[edit] Patchogue area

While none of the interchanges north of Patchogue were built until the period between 1988 and 1993, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) had known the need for them and planned them decades before their eventual construction.

• Waverly Avenue (Suffolk County Route 19) was originally proposed as a cloverleaf interchange. Today, exit 52 with CR 19 is a diamond interchange instead.^{[8] [9]}
• North Ocean Avenue (Suffolk County Route 83) was originally proposed to be accessible via connecting ramps to side streets such as Austin Avenue along the eastbound lane and Sinn Street along the westbound lane. Today, exit 53A is a half-diamond interchange while Austin Avenue and Howard Avenue are dead end streets. Sinn Street never reached North Ocean Avenue.
• Maple Avenue crossed the median on NY 27 between North Ocean Avenue and NY 112 until 1975. This road could also have been used as potential connecting ramps to both roads. Today, the north section only intersects the westbound service road, while the south section was convered into a dead end street north of Austin Avenue.
• New York State Route 112 was originally proposed to be accessible via connecting ramps to side streets such as Franklin Avenue along the eastbound lane^[10] and an extension of Sinn Street along the westbound lane. Sinn Street was acquired by NYSDOT east of Route 112 in the early-1960s, and was gradually abandoned.^[11] Today, exit 53 is a diamond interchange instead, and Sinn Street, Austin Avenue, and Franklin Avenue are dead end streets.
• Washington Avenue and Phyllis Drive were also originally proposed to be accessible via connecting ramps to side streets such as Franklin Avenue along the eastbound lane and an extension of Sinn Street along the westbound lane. Phyllis Drive was actually part of NY 27 until Sunrise Highway was extended to Eastport in 1957. Today, both roads are only accessible to the service roads. Some residents have been waiting for a potential pedestrian bridge connecting the two ends of Washington Avenue.

[edit] South Haven

West of the Carmans River near South Haven County Park, there was once a plan to combine the eastbound service road with the Montauk Highway.

[edit] The Atlantic Expressway

Robert Moses developed plans for an elevated expressway along Sunrise Highway through Nassau County which was to feature 10 to 12 lanes. The downtown villages along the route effectively put a stop to the idea. This expressway would have provided a vital truck link for the South Shore of Long Island, however, it would have been devastating to the downtown areas along the route.

[edit] East of the Shinnecock Canal

First proposals for an extension came in the 1950s. In 1969, the New York Legislature approved a $160 million plan for the extension for the limited access route to be flanked by bicycle and equestrian trails. The eastbound and westbound roadways were to be separated by wide wooded medians. For the most part, the road would have run a mile or two to the north of existing Route 27, thus avoiding the populated centers through which it now goes.

The exits would be:

• EXIT 67: Suffolk County Road 39 (County Road) and Suffolk CR 38 (North Sea Road)
• EXIT 68: Suffolk County Road 79 (Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Road)
• EXIT 69: New York State Route 114 (East Hampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike)
• EXIT 70: Suffolk County Road 40 (Three Mile Harbor Road)
• EXIT 71: Suffolk County Road 45 (Amagansett-Springs Road)
• EXIT 72: existing New York State Route 27 (Montauk Highway)

The plan failed and Governor Hugh Carey cancelled it in 1975. Other suggestions have included building a limited access road on either side of the Long Island Rail Road Montauk Branch.

[edit] Former segments

Former segments include Old Sunrise Highway (NY 900D), between the western terminus of NY 27A in Massapequa and NY 110 in Amityville, and Suffolk County Route 36 (South Country Road) between East Patchogue, New York and Brookhaven, New York, which was part of Montauk Highway until July 19, 1932. This segment runs through the downtown section of the historic village of Bellport, New York.^[2] Other old NY 27's include former segments of Montauk Highway and local streets that connected Sunrise and Montauk Highways such as Phyllis Drive in East Patchogue and Suffolk CR 51 in Eastport.

[edit] NY 27A

NY 27A (17.31 miles (27.86 km)^[12]) is an alternate route of NY 27 across southern Long Island from Massapequa Park to Oakdale, accessing Babylon and Islip.

[edit] Major intersections

[edit] Brooklyn to Massapequa

County	Location	Mile[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Kings	Brooklyn	0.00	I-278	Exit 24 (I-278)
Queens	Howard Beach	9.03	Southern Parkway	Exit 17 (Belt Parkway)
	South Ozone Park	11.51	I-678 / NY 878	Southern terminus of I-678; northern terminus of NY 878
	Laurelton	14.71	Southern Parkway	Exit 23B (Belt Parkway)
Nassau	Freeport	23.89	Meadowbrook Parkway	Exit M8 (MSP)
	Wantagh	26.73	Wantagh	Exit W5 (WSP)
	Seaford	27.93	NY 135	Exit 2 (NY 135)
	Massapequa	28.83	NY 107

[edit] Massapequa to Shinnecock Hills

County	Location	Mile[1]	#	Destinations	Notes
Nassau	Massapequa Park	NY 27 continues west as an at-grade highway.
		31.04		NY 27A - Jamaica, West Amityville	Western terminus of NY 27A
Suffolk	Amityville	32.07		NY 110 - Amityville, Huntington
	Copiague	32.94		CR 47 (Great Neck Road) - Copiague, Farmingdale
	North Lindenhurst	34.17		CR 3 (Wellwood Avenue) Lindenhurst, Melville	Pinelawn National Cemetery, North Exits
		35.32	37	NY 109 - Babylon, Farmingdale
	West Babylon	36.45	38	Little East Neck Road/Belmont Avenue
		36.93	39	Hubbards Path
	North Babylon	38.26	40	NY 231 - Babylon, Huntington
	West Islip	39.75	41	Robert Moses Causeway - Robert Moses Park, Sunken Meadow Park	Exit RM1 (RMC)
	Brightwaters		42	Manor Lane	Westbound exit, eastbound entrance
		41.13	43	CR 13 (Fifth Avenue) - Bay Shore, Brentwood
	Bay Shore	42.40	44	Brentwood Road - Brentwood, Bay Shore
	Islip	44.06	45	NY 111 - Islip, Smithtown
	East Islip	45.74	46	CR 17 (Carleton Avenue) - East Islip, Central Islip Heckscher Pkwy/Southern St. Pkwy – Heckscher State Park Connetquot Avenue - Great River, Islandia	Exit 44 (SSP/HSP); eastern terminus of Southern State Parkway; western terminus of Heckscher State Parkway
		47.41	46A	NY 27A/CR 85 - Oakdale, Great River	Eastbound exit only; eastern terminus of NY 27A; western terminus of CR 85.
	Oakdale		47	Pond Road south	Eastbound exit only
			47A	Oakdale-Bohemia Road - Bohemia, Oakdale	Eastbound exit, westbound entrance
		50.16	48	Locust Avenue - Bohemia, Oakdale
	Bohemia	51.06	49	CR 93 (Lakeland Avenue) - Ronkonkoma, Sayville	To ISP Airport via Johnson Avenue
			50A	Johnson Avenue - Sayville, Bohemia	Westbound exit only; to ISP Airport; former routing of CR 112.
			50	Lincoln Avenue - Ronkonkoma; Sayville	Westbound exit only
	Bayport	52.44	51	NY 454/CR 97 (Nicolls Road) - Blue Point, Stony Brook	No access to NY 454 eastbound; eastern terminus of NY 454; to ISP Airport
	Patchogue	54.07	52	CR 19 (Waverly Avenue) - Holbrook, Patchogue
		54.82	52A	CR 83 (North Ocean Avenue) - Mount Sinai, Patchogue	Eastbound exit, westbound entrance
		55.31	53	NY 112 (Medford Avenue) - Port Jefferson, Patchogue	To CR 83 (North Ocean Avenue) (westbound NY 27)
		56.72	54	Hospital Road - East Patchogue	Brookhaven Memorial Hospital
	Bellport	57.48	55	CR 101 (Sills Road) - East Patchogue, Yaphank
		58.42	56	Station Road - Bellport, Yaphank
	Brookhaven	60.47	57N-S	CR 21 (Yaphank Avenue) - Yaphank CR 16 (Horse Block Road) - Farmingville, Ronkonkoma	Partial cloverleaf at Horse Block Road; east-to-south off-ramp and south-to-west on-ramp at Yaphank Avenue
	Shirley	62.65	58N-S	CR 46 (William Floyd Parkway) - Mastic Beach, Wading River	Smith Point County Park - exit 58S; Brookhaven Airport, Brookhaven National Laboratory - exit 58N
	Moriches	66.35	59	Wading River Road - Wading River, Center Moriches	Former routing of CR 25
		67.28	60	Railroad Avenue - Chapman Boulevard, Center Moriches; Manorville	Westbound exit, eastbound entrance
	Eastport	69.60	61	CR 51 - East Moriches, Riverhead CR 55 - Eastport, Manorville	Eastbound exit, westbound entrance
		70.96	62	CR 111 - Manorville	Formerly proposed Port Jefferson-Westhampton Beach Highway; originally planned as a cloverleaf interchange with collector/distributor roads
	N of Quogue	75.47	63N-S	CR 31 (Old Riverhead Road) - Westhampton Beach, Riverhead	FOK Airport - exit 63S
		76.95	64N-S	CR 104 - Quogue, Riverhead	Former routing of NY 113
	Hampton Bays	81.15	65N-S	NY 24 (Riverhead-Hampton Bays Road) - Hampton Bays, Riverhead
		82.94	66	CR 39 (North Highway) - Shinnecock Canal	Quarter-cloverleaf interchanges
		NY 27 continues east as an at-grade highway. / CR 39 concurrency begins here and ends north of Montauk Highway.

[edit] Shinnecock Hills to Montauk

County	Location	Mile[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Suffolk	East Hampton	100.17	NY 114	Southern terminus of NY 114
	Montauk	120.58	Montauk Point State Park

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The traffic circle at the eastern terminus of New York State Route 27, at Montauk Point
• NYC Roads article on New York State Route 27
• NY 27 (Greater New York Roads)
• Oakdale Merge @ Empire State Roads.com
• New York Routes - New York State Route 27

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