New York State Route 440

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NY Route 440

Length:

12.73 mi^[1] (20.49 km)

Formed:

1976^[1]

South end:

NJ 440 in Richmond Valley

Major
junctions:

I-278 in Graniteville and Bulls Head

North end:

NJ 440 in Port Richmond

Counties:

Richmond

Numbered highways in New York
< NY 438		NY 441 >
Interstates - U.S. Routes - State Routes

New York State Route 440 is a New York state highway located entirely on Staten Island. The route acts as a connector between the two segments of NJ 440, running from the Staten Island community of Richmond Valley to the south to Port Richmond to the north.

1 Route description
2 Communities along the route
3 Exit list
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Route description

NY 440 begins at the Outerbridge Crossing near the southwestern region of the island, where it connects with the Middlesex County segment of NJ 440.

It traverses the island's largely unpopulated meadowlands along its western flank as a freeway called the West Shore Expressway until it joins with the Staten Island Expressway (Interstate 278) near the northwest corner of the island. There are nine exits from the Outerbridge Crossing to the Staten Island Expressway, if the interchanges with both the Richmond Parkway and the latter are included; however, two of the exits can only be accessed from one direction. The section between the Richmond Parkway and Arthur Kill Road opened in 1972, and the rest of the expressway opened in 1976. The entire expressway spans 7.7 miles (12.4 km) and was ceremonially designated the Pearl Harbor Memorial Expressway by New York State Governor George Pataki in 1999; however, the expressway's official name did not change.

Approximately 1¼ miles (2 km) to the east, it breaks from the Staten Island Expressway and continues northward for another 2.6 miles (4.2 km) as the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway until it reaches the Bayonne Bridge. Opened in 1964 under the name Willowbrook Expressway, it was renamed for the slain civil rights leader in 1990. There are three exits in this section, one of which is accessible to southbound traffic only. Initially, the route was to run south of the Staten Island Expressway for 5 miles (8 km) as the Willowbrook Parkway to Great Kills Park (now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area) on the island's East Shore; however, opposition from both local property owners and environmental activists prevented construction of this spur, although its original route has never been formally demapped.

On the summit of the bridge, it becomes the Hudson County segment of NJ 440.

Prior to the construction of the expressways in the mid-1960s, the NY Route 440 designation applied to Richmond Avenue, north of Drumgoole Boulevard. The latter carried the designation to the Outerbridge Crossing. After Drumgoole Boulevard was transformed into the Richmond Parkway (now the Korean War Veteran's Parkway) in 1972, the parkway continued to carry the 440 designation. However, when the West Shore Expressway was completed in 1976, the designation shifted westward, as it stands today.

The West Shore Expressway, northbound, from Meredith Avenue.

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Expressway, southbound, from Walker Street.

[edit] Communities along the route

[edit] Exit list

Exits and intersections are listed from south to north. Mileposts derived from.^[2]

Mile	#	Destinations	Notes
becomes
	1	Page Avenue (North), Arthur Kill Road (South)
1.13	2	Korean War Veterans Parkway
	3	Woodrow Road (North), Bloomingdale Road (South)
3.73	4	Arthur Kill Road, Huguenot Avenue
	5	Muldoon Avenue, Arden Avenue	Southbound only.
6.37	7	Victory Boulevard	Former NY 439A.
7.29	8	South Avenue
	9	Glen Street	Northbound only.
9.33	9A	I-278	Exit 5 (I-278). Western terminus of duplex.
Exit Numbering System
	6	South Avenue	Southbound only.
	7	Richmond Avenue (via Fahy Avenue northbound)
	8	Victory Boulevard	Former NY 439A. Northbound only.
Exit Numbering System
10.43	10	I-278	Exit 9 (I-278). Eastern terminus of duplex.
	11	Victory Boulevard	Former NY 439A. Southbound only.
	12	Forest Avenue	Former NY 439.
	13	Richmond Terrace (via Trantor Place northbound), Morningstar Road (south)
becomes