County Route 99 (Suffolk County, New York)
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| County Route 99 |
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| Woodside Avenue | |||||||||
| Length: | 6.9 mi[1] (11.1 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1970 | ||||||||
| West end: |  CR 19 in Holtsville |
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| Major junctions: |
 CR 19 in Patchogue Highlands NY 112 North Patchogue CR 101 in Yaphank |
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| East end: |  CR 16 in Yaphank |
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Suffolk County Road 99 is a county road in southern Suffolk County, New York. It runs east and west from Suffolk CR 19 in Holtsville to Suffolk CR 16 near Yaphank and Brookhaven.
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[edit] Route description
Woodside Avenue was officially designated as Suffolk County Road 99 on October 27, 1970, and widened to four lanes and extended during the mid-1970s. The western end is a four-lane divided highway that contains a partial interchange with Waverly Avenue, and a full interchange with Buckley Road. It also includes an underpass for a driveway to the Holtsville Branch of the I.R.S. near the Waverly Avenue interchange. This status is reduced northwest of Cannan Lake. Much of the road is a four-lane undivided highway with a center-left-turn lane used for residents and local intersections, except at the intersections of Suffolk CR 83, Old Medford Avenue, and New York State Route 112, where small concrete dividers run along the median of the road. The center-left-turn lane was previously a painted divider. From west of Old Medford Avenue to west of Patchogue-Yaphank Road, Suffolk CR 99 borders Medford to the north and North Patchogue and East Patchogue to the south. Radio station WLIM (1580 AM) is located at the northeast corner of CR 99 and Pennsylvania Avenue.
After the intersection of Hospital Road, a street which leads to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital, Suffolk CR 99 runs along the south side of a section of Medford known as "The Pines," which includes a local recreational area known as Twelve Pines Park on the northeast corner of Sipp Avenue, and northwest of Pine Gate. The eastern end is also divided with a concrete barrier beginning west of Suffolk County Road 101, and a wider divider east of Bellport Avenue(or Station Road), where it resumes it's status as a major highway. One last intersection with a housing development that replaced a former dirt road leading to the Village of Bellport can be found before CR 99 approaches the Town of Brookhaven Landfill and curves left before terminating at an incomplete at-grade interchange with Suffolk CR 16(Horse Block Road) in Brookhaven.
[edit] Former sections
West Woodside Avenue runs west of the north end of Canaan Lake.
[edit] Proposed extensions
At the west end of Suffolk CR 99, there were originally stubs built for a new ramp and a possible extension beyond Suffolk County Road 19, to either Nicolls Road or Veterans Memorial Highway.
East of Horse Block Road, there were plans to upgrade the interchange into a limited-access one, and extend the road into Suffolk County Road 21(Yaphank Avenue). The Suffolk County Department of Public Works' official list of County Roads still included the eastern extension as part of the highway in 1986.
[edit] References
- Old Hagstroms Maps and atlases.
- Other old maps and atlases.
