New York State Route 25

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NY Route 25
Length:	114.07[1] mi (183.65 km)
West end:	FDR Drive in New York City
Major junctions:	I-278 in Woodside I-495 in Elmhurst Jackie Robinson in Kew Gardens I-678 in Kew Gardens I-295/NY 24 in Queens Village Cross Island in Bellerose Terrace Northern in Mineola I-495 in Westbury Sunken Meadow in Commack I-495 in Calverton
East end:	Orient Point ferry landing in Orient Point
Counties:	New York, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
New York State Routes < NY 24 NY 25A >

New York State Route 25 is a major east-west road running from east midtown Manhattan, New York City, to the Cross Sound Ferry terminal at Orient Point on the end of the North Fork of Long Island.

NY 25 has many names. In the borough of Queens, it is called Queens Boulevard, but more infamously known as the "Boulevard of Death," as it has the highest rate of pedestrian deaths in New York City. In Nassau and Western Suffolk counties, Route 25 is referred to as Jericho Turnpike. Moving east, the highway changes names to Main Street in Smithtown, Middle Country Road in Central Suffolk, Main Street again in Riverhead and finally Main Road in Eastern Suffolk.

NY 25 is carried from Queens to Manhattan over the East River via the double-decked Queensboro Bridge. The bridge is sometimes referred to as the 59th Street Bridge. The bridge is the only double-decked portion of NY-25.

Two alternate routings exist bearing the designation "Truck Route 25," both along the North Fork of Long Island. One is between Laurel and Mattituck, and the other is in Greenport.

Contents 1 Route description 2 Communities along the route 3 Major intersections 4 History 4.1 Former segments 5 Miscellanea 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Route description

[edit] Communities along the route

• New York City
• Hempstead
• Oyster Bay
• Huntington
• Smithtown
• Brookhaven
• Riverhead
• Southhold

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile	Road(s)	Notes
New York	New York	0.0	FDR Drive	Exit 8 (FDR Drive).
Queens	Queens	1.6	NY 25A	Jackson Avenue/Northern Boulevard.
		3.8	I-278	Exit 36 (I-278).
			I-495	Exit 20 (I-495).
			Jackie Robinson	Exit 7 (Jackie Robinson Pkwy).
		8.0	NY 25C	Union Turnpike
		8.6	I-678	Exit 8 (I-678).
		13.4	NY 25B	Western terminus of NY 25B.
		14.5	Cross Island	Exit 27 (Cross Island Pkwy).
Nassau	Garden City Park		NY 25C	Marcus Avenue Extension.
	Mineola	20.3	Northern	Exit 31 (NSP).
		20.8	NY 25B	Eastern terminus of NY 25B.
	Old Westbury		Wantagh	Formerly proposed Wantagh State Parkway Extension.
	Westbury	24.6	I-495	Exit 40 (I-495).
	Jericho	33.2	NY 106 NY 107	cloverleaf interchange with no exit numbers
	Syosset	34.1	NY 135	Northern terminus of NY 135.
			Caumsett	Formerly proposed Caumsett State Parkway.
Suffolk	Huntington	38.6	NY 110	Broad Hollow Road.
	Elwood		NY 231	Formerly proposed Babylon-Northport Expressway.
	Commack	45.2	NY 454	Western terminus of NY 454.
		49.1	Sunken Meadow	Exit SM3 (SMSP).
	Smithtown	50.5	NY 25A	Western terminus of duplex. Site of the Smithtown Bull.
	Village of the Branch	51.9	NY 25A	Eastern terminus of duplex. Shared intersection with NY 111.
		51.9	NY 111	Northern terminus of NY 111. Shared intersection with east end of NY 25-25A duplex.
			CR 16	Terry Road.
	Nesconset	43.5	NY 347	Smithtown Bypass/Nesconset Highway.
	Centereach		CR 97	Nicoll's Road. First Single Point Urban Interchange in New York State.
	Selden		CR 83	Patchogue-Mount Sinai Road.
	Coram	50.7	NY 112
	Ridge		CR 46	William Floyd Parkway. Cloverleaf interchange with no exit numbers.
			CR 111	Formerly proposed Port Jefferson-Westhampton Beach Road.
	Calverton	62.5	NY 25A	Eastern terminus of NY 25A.
		66.2	I-495	Exit 72 (I-495).
	Riverhead		NY 113	Former NY 113 now Suffolk CR 104
	Aquebogue		CR 105	Cross River Drive.
	Greenport	90.3	NY 114	Northern terminus of NY 114.
	Orient Point	114.1	Orient Point ferry landing	To Fisher's Island, New York and/or New London, Connecticut

Legend
Crossing, no access	Concurrency termini	Decommissioned	Unconstructed	Closed

[edit] History

[edit] Former segments

Jericho:

• Between Marian Road and somewhere west of NY 106-107 Interchange

Coram:

• From east of Paul's Path to Grant Smith Road.
• Between Coram-Mount Sinai Road & Winfield Davis Road.

Middle Island:

• Near Spring Lake.
• Between Lakeview Terrace & Curran's Road.
• From Artist's Lake to Woodville Road.

Riverhead:

• From River Road to Forge Road.
• Forge Road, from Peconic River Bridge to Kroemer Avenue.

Mattituck:

• From Gray Avenue to West of Sigsbee Road.

Peconic:

• Lower Road.
• Ackerly Pond Lane between Lower Road & Main Road.

Southold:

• Between Budd's Pond & Mill Creek to Hashamomuck Pond.

Greenport:

• Between the creek from Silver Lake & Silvermere Road.

Orient Point:

• West of Bight Road.
• Near former Charles Rose Airport.

[edit] Miscellanea

• The first series of lime green school zone signs in the United States were installed along a section of NY 25 in Westbury, New York.

• In the early-1970's, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) wanted to install frontage roads along a divided Route 25 between Nesconset and Lake Grove as part of a proposed upgrade of NY 347 into the limited-access highway it was originally meant to be.

• In the 1960's and 1970's, NYSDOT wanted to realign both Route 112 and Route 25 in Coram. The realignment and widening of NY 25 was to take place between NY 112 and Winfield Davis Road.

[edit] References

1. ^ New York Routes - New York State Route 25

[edit] External links

• Queensborough Bridge History from NYCROADS.com
• Queens Boulevard Expressway proposals from NYCROADS.com
• NY 25-25A Multiplex(Gribblenation.net)