County Route 11 (Suffolk County, New York)

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County Route 11
Pulaski Road, East Northport Road
Length:	11.16 mi (18 km)
Formed:	1930 (1961)
West end:	NY 108 in Cold Spring Harbor Station
Major junctions:	NY 110 in Huntington Station Sunken Meadow Pkwy in Kings Park
East end:	NY 25A in Kings Park
County routes in New York < CR 10 CR 12 > Suffolk County

Suffolk County Road 11, mostly known as Pulaski Road is a county road in northwestern Suffolk County, New York. It runs east and west between Cold Spring Harbor and Kings Park, New York. Most of the road is two lanes wide, although there are some areas where it opens up to four lanes, or simply allows center-left-turn lanes.

Within western Suffolk County, Suffolk CR 11 provides the closest access to the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, since it runs roughly parallel to the tracks throughout it's span.

[edit] Route description

Suffolk CR 11 begins at the Nassau-Suffolk County Line and the intersection of New York State Route 108. In Nassau County, the road is Woodbury Road(unmarked Nassau County Road 12). Suffolk CR 11 interrupts Woodbury Road, rather than replaces it. Shortly after this intersection, Woodbury Road moves north towards Huntington, while Pulaskl Road moves east.

In Huntington Manor Suffolk CR 11 intersects with the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road at an at-grade crossing before reaching the intersection of New York State Route 110 in Huntington Station. Also in Huntington Station, you'll find the intersection of Suffolk CR 35 which has become a connection between the North Shore and New York State Route 231, since the cancellation of the proposed Babylon-Northport Expressway.

East of this point, much of the road is dotted with town houses and condominiums built along frontage roads. In Greenlawn the road intersects with Suffolk CR 9(Cuba Hill Road), and Suffolk CR 86(Broadway-Greenlawn Centerport Road). Greenlawn Park is a local baseball field that runs along all three streets, and no others. The park is located along the south side of Pulaski, Road, east side of Cuba Hil Road, and west side of Broadway. In East Northport the road winds left near Oswego Drive. This was where the formerly proposed Babylon-Northport Expressway was intended to have an interchange. From there it intersects Suffolk CR 10(Elwood Road), and then Larkfield Road.

Crossing over the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road a second time, Pulaski Road takes a steep drop down a hill far below the level of the tracks, where it encouters the intersection of Suffolk CR 4, leaves the Town of Huntington, and enters the Town of Smithtown.

Sunken Meadow State Parkway was built underneath Pulaski Road in the 1950s. It shares a cloverleaf interchange, which has the southernmost ramps squeezed tightly between the train tresle carrying the LIRR Port Jefferson line. From there on, the name of the road is immediatley changed to East Northport Road. Suffolk County Road 11 ends at New York State Route 25A just two blocks west of County Road 14. Northeast of NY 25A the road turns into Old Dock Road and runs along the west side of the former Kings Park State Hospital until reaching the Nissequogue River.

[edit] Former suffixed sections

• Suffolk CR 11A: Pulaski Road between Suffolk CR 86 and Suffolk CR 10 from November 26, 1931 to September 21, 1966.
• Suffolk CR 11B: Pulaski Road between NY 110 and Suffolk CR 86 from December 28, 1931 to September 21, 1966.
• Suffolk CR 11C: Pulaski Road between NY 108 and NY 110 from November 27, 1933 to September 21, 1966.

[edit] North Shore Expressway?

From the 1940s through 1960s New York State Department of Transportation considered acquiring the road as part of a proposed North Shore Expressway which was to include the realignment of New York State Route 25A. Like many other proposed highway projects, it was thwarted by public opposition in the 1970s.