New York State Route 27

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NY Route 27
Length: 122.28[1] mi (196.87 km)
West end: I-278 in Brooklyn
Major
junctions:		 Southern in Howard Beach
I-678/NY 878 in South Ozone Park
Southern in Laurelton
Meadowbrook in Freeport
Wantagh 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 26 NY 27A >
Interstates - U.S. Routes - State Routes

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.

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[edit] Route description

Communities

Primary locations on NY 27:

[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 in western Suffolk, and is reduced to a four-lane expressway in Patchogue, New York.

[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] The Shinnecock Squeeze

Route 27 abruptly becomes a two-lane highway near the Shinnecock Canal in Southampton. This has been called the "Shinnecock Squeeze". At this point, the road becomes County Road 39. It does not pick up the Montauk Highway designation until it meets Main Street in Southampton near the Princess Diner.

Efforts to create a limited access route from this spot to Amagansett, New York have been successfully fought by local interests, despite that traffic on the road is often at a crawl. Their best point is centered on an argument that this would encourage more tourism in the Hamptons.

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 plans failed and, ultimately, 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.

[edit] History

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[edit] Older interchanges and crossings

[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. Today, both have much more modern bridges over service roads, and the old cross streets connect to those service 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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. 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] Montauk Highway

The Montauk Highway is the designation just east of Southampton (village), New York 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 route in Suffolk, Nassau, and Queens was designated by the New York State Senate as the POW/MIA Memorial Highway.

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. This interchange is dubbed the "Oakdale Merge", and is known as a bottleneck for local traffic.

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

[edit] Miscellanea

It is part of the chorus in the song "Your Name Here (Sunrise Highway)" by Straylight Run.

Former segments include 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.

[edit] Major intersections

County Location Mile Road(s) Notes
Kings Brooklyn 0.0 I-278 Exit 24 (I-278).
Queens Howard Beach 9.0 Southern Exit 17 (Belt Parkway).
South Ozone Park 11.3 I-678
NY 878		 Southern terminus of I-678. Northern terminus of NY 878.
Laurelton 14.7 Southern Exit 23B (Laurelton Parkway).
Nassau Freeport 29.1 Meadowbrook Exit M8 (MSP).
Wantagh 32.1 Wantagh Exit W5 (WSP).
Seaford 33.2 NY 135 Exit 2 (NY 135).
Massapequa 34.1 NY 107  
Massapequa Park 36.3 NY 27A Western terminus of NY 27A.
Suffolk Amityville 31.6 NY 110 Interchange with no number
North Lindenhurst 34.9 NY 109 Exit 37 (NY 27).
North Babylon 37.9 NY 231 Exit 40 (NY 27).
Brightwaters 39.4 Robert Moses Cswy. Exit 41 (NY 27). Exit RM1 (RMC).
Islip 43.5 NY 111 Exit 45 (NY 27).
Islip Terrace 45.2 Southern
Heckscher		 Exit 46 (NY 27). Exit 44 (SSP/HSP). Eastern terminus of Southern State Parkway. Western terminus of Heckscher State Parkway.
Oakdale 46.9 NY 27A Eastern terminus of NY 27A.
Bayport 51.9 NY 454 Eastern terminus of NY 454. Part of Exit 51 along with Suffolk CR 97.
North Patchogue   NY 112 Exit 53 (NY 27).
Hampton Bays 80.4 NY 24 Exit 65 (NY 27). Southern terminus of NY 24 (Eastern Segment), at nearby Suffolk CR 80.
East Hampton 100.7 NY 114 Southern terminus of NY 114.
Montauk 122.3 Montauk Point State Park  
Legend
Crossing, no access Concurrency termini Decommissioned Unconstructed Closed

[edit] Exit list

A portion of NY 27 in eastern Nassau County and western and central Suffolk County (Sunrise Highway) is a limited-access highway. Exits are listed from west to east.

This section contains a table that is missing mileposts for one or more junctions. You can help by adding the missing mileposts.
County Location Mile # Destinations Notes
Nassau Massapequa NY 27 continues west as an at-grade highway.
NY 27A - Jamaica, West Amityville To Merrick Road.
Suffolk Amityville NY 110 - Amityville, Huntington
Copiague CR 47 (Great Neck Road) - Copiague, Farmingdale
Lindenhurst CR 3 - Wellwood Avenue - Lindenhurst, Melville Pinelawn National Cemetery, North Exits
37 NY 109 - Babylon, Farmingdale
West Babylon 38 Little East Neck Road, Belmont Avenue
39 Hubbards Path
North Babylon 40 NY 231 - Babylon, Huntington
West Islip 41 Robert Moses Causeway - Robert Moses Park, Sunken Meadow Park
Brightwaters 42 Manor Lane Westbound: exit only. Eastbound: entrance only.
43 CR 13 (Fifth Avenue) - Bay Shore, Brentwood
Bay Shore 44 Brentwood Road - Brentwood, Bay Shore
Islip 45 NY 111 - Islip, Smithtown
East Islip 46 CR 17 (Carleton Avenue) - East Islip, Central Islip
Heckscher Pkwy - Southern Pkwy, Heckscher Park
Connetquot Avenue - Great River, Islandia
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 only.
47A Oakdale-Bohemia Road - Bohemia, Oakdale Eastbound: exit only. Westbound: entrance only.
48 Locust Avenue - Bohemia, Oakdale
Bohemia 49 CR 93 (Lakeland Avenue) - Ronkonkoma, Sayville To ISP Airport via Johnson Avenue.
50A Johnson Avenue - Sayville, Bohemia Westbound exit only. To ISP Airport. Formerly CR 112.
50 Lincoln Avenue - Ronkonkoma; Sayville Westbound: exit only.
Bayport 51 CR 97 (Nicolls Road) - Blue Point, Stony Brook To NY 454, Commack. To ISP Airport.
Patchogue 52 CR 19 (Waverly Avenue) - Holbrook, Patchogue
52A CR 83 (North Ocean Avenue) - Mount Sinai, Patchogue Eastbound: exit only. Westbound: entrance only.
53 NY 112 (Medford Avenue) - Port Jefferson, Patchogue To CR 83 (North Ocean Avenue) (westbound NY 27).
54 Hospital Road - East Patchogue, Brookhaven Memorial Hospital
Bellport 55 CR 101 (Sills Road) - East Patchogue, Yaphank
56 Station Road - Bellport, Yaphank
Brookhaven 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 & south-to-west on-ramp at Yaphank Avenue.
Shirley 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 59 Wading River Road - Wading River, Center Moriches Formerly CR 25.
60 Railroad Avenue - Chapman Boulevard, Center Moriches; Manorville Westbound: exit only. Eastbound: entrance only.
Eastport 61 CR 51 - East Moriches, Riverhead
CR 55 - Eastport, Manorville		 Eastbound: exit only. Westbound: entrance only.
62 CR 111 - Manorville Formerly proposed Port Jefferson-Westhampton Beach Highway. Originally planned as a cloverleaf interchange with collector/distributor roads.
S of Riverhead 63N-S CR 31 (Old Riverhead Road) - Westhampton Beach, Riverhead FOK Airport - exit 63S.
64N-S CR 104 - Quogue, Riverhead Formerly NY 113.
Hampton Bays 65N-S NY 24 (Riverhead-Hampton Bays Road) - Hampton Bays, Riverhead
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] References

  1. ^ New York Routes - New York State Route 27

[edit] External links

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