New York State Route 119
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| NY Route 119 |
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| Length: | 6.06 mi[1] (9.75 km) | ||||||||||||
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| Formed: | 1930[2] | ||||||||||||
| West end: |  US 9 in Tarrytown |
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| Major junctions: |
 Saw Mill Pkwy in Elmsford |
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| East end: |  NY 22 in White Plains |
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| Counties: | Westchester | ||||||||||||
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New York State Route 119 is a state highway in Westchester County. The road starts in Tarrytown at U.S. Route 9 and comes to an end at an intersection with New York State Route 22 in White Plains. The road is a major throughfare in the county and provides access to the New York State Thruway, Saw Mill River Parkway, Sprain Brook Parkway and Bronx River Parkway, four of the major roads in the county. Route 119 has was assigned in the 1930 New York State Route renumbering and had a spur route, New York State Route 119A, which is now part of NY 120.
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[edit] Route description
NY 119 begins at US 9 in the village of Tarrytown, near an interchange with I-87/I-287. NY 119 passes through the town of Greenburgh, just outside the village of Elmsford, where it has an interchange with I-87 and I-287 at the eastern split of those two interstate highways. NY 119 continues into Elmsford, intersecting with the Saw Mill River Parkway and the Sprain Brook Parkway but with no junction with the latter.
NY 119 then continues through the rest of Greenburgh, meeting up with New York State Route 100 near the White Plains city line. After a short overlap with NY 100, it officially ends at New York State Route 22 (Post Road) within White Plains. East of the Bronx River, the eastbound and westbound directions are routed on two different one-way streets. Eastbound NY 119 is routed along Main Street and is maintained by the city of White Plains. Westbound NY 119 is routed on Hamilton Avenue and is county-maintained with unsigned designation County Route 52.[3]
NY 119 connects to I-287 and NY 127 at its eastern terminus via the 0.4-mile long, unsigned County Route 71 (known locally as Westchester Avenue),[3] which is erroneously labelled as NY 119 in some maps.
[edit] History
NY 119 was established after the 1930 state highway renumbering and originally ran 13 miles from Tarrytown through White Plains to Port Chester.[2] The old route east of White Plains continued east on Westchester Avenue, which is now designated as County Route 62 (between NY 127 and NY 120) and as NY 120A (east of NY 120). East of the intersection with Purchase Street (NY 120), Westchester Avenue used to carry both NY 119 and NY 120 up to U.S. Route 1 in Port Chester.[4] Purchase Street south of old NY 119 (current NY 120) was then known as NY 119A.[4] NY 119 was cut back to its present eastern terminus in White Plains after the Cross Westchester Expressway was opened at the beginning of 1961.[5]
[edit] NY 119A
NY 119A was a short spur off of NY 119 between US 1 in Rye and then-NY 119/NY 120 (now NY 120A) near Rye Brook. The route later became part of a realigned NY 120.
[edit] Major intersections
| County | Location | Mile[1] | Roads intersected | Notes |
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| Westchester | Tarrytown | 0.00 | US 9 |
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| Greenburgh | 1.41 | Benedict Avenue (CR 15) | ||
| 1.83 |    I-87/I-287/Thruway |
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| Elmsford | 2.33 | Saw Mill River Parkway |
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| 2.41 |  NY 9A |
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| 3.42 |  NY 100A |
Junction is at village line | ||
| Greenburgh | 4.11 |  NY 100B |
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| 4.24 |  NY 100 north |
Western terminus of overlap | ||
| I-287 |
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| White Plains | 4.73 | NY 100 south |
Eastern terminus of overlap | |
 Bronx River Parkway |
Access to southbound Bronx Pkwy only | |||
| 6.06 | NY 22 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Traffic Data Report - I-87 to NY 121 (PDF). NYSDOT (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2007-12-24.
- ^ a b Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1930/31 and 1931/32 editions, (Scarborough Motor Guide Co., Boston, 1930 and 1931). The 1930/31 edition shows New York state routes prior to the 1930 renumbering
- ^ a b Westchester County Dpeartment of Public Works: Map of County and State Roads and Parks
- ^ a b USGS topographic map, Glenville NY quadrangle, 1951
- ^ "Westchester expressway link opens soon, ahead of schedule", New York Times, 1960-12-02, p.31
