New York State Route 27A

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NY Route 27A
Length: 17.31 mi[1] (27.86 km)
Formed: By 1941[2]
West end: NY 27 in Massapequa
Major
junctions:		 Robert Moses Cswy in West Islip
Heckscher Pkwy in East Islip
East end: NY 27 in Oakdale
Counties: Nassau, Suffolk
Numbered highways in New York
< NY 27 NY 28 >
Spur of NY 27
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 27A (NY 27A) is a state highway extending from Massapequa in Nassau County to Oakdale in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, United States. Its two most prominent components are Merrick Road and Montauk Highway.

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[edit] Route description

NY 27A starts out at the intersection of Sunrise Highway, Old Sunrise Highway and Carman Mill Road in eastern Massapequa. Once at the intersection, NY 27A travels south (east on the route shield) along Carman Mill Road for 6/10 of a mile to Merrick Road. Once at Merrick Road, NY 27A makes a left, heading eastbound as an unsigned route to the Nassau/Suffolk County border. Once in Suffolk County, NY 27A is a full-fledged state route with reassurance shields and reference markers. NY 27A remains Merrick Road through Amityville until it reaches Copiague, where it becomes Montauk Highway to its terminus in Oakdale. Along the route, Montauk Highway is also called South Country Road and Main Street. East of Heckscher State Parkway, NY 27A is lined with parkway style lampposts. At its terminus at NY 27 in Oakdale, NY 27A becomes County Route 85, then Main Street in Patchogue, and County Route 80 east of Patchogue.

Communities

Geographically, NY 27A is the southernmost state route that, under normal state laws, can be employed by trucks. However, some parts of Long Island's barrier beaches are south of this road and can only be reached by accessing the parkways, which trucks cannot normally use. Because of this, a conditional exemption is in place. A truck making a delivery to the beaches may employ the parkways, but only if they enter and exit no farther north than this road or its Nassau counterpart, former Nassau County Route 27A.

[edit] History

NY 27A existed as early as 1941 and, at the time, began at the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn. The route followed Grant Street, Bushwick Avenue, Jamaica Avenue and Ridgewood Avenue in Brooklyn,[2] and Rockaway Avenue, Balsley Boulevard, and Merrick Road in Queens.[3] NY 27A remained on Merrick Road into Nassau County, meeting NY 27 in Rockville Centre. Past NY 27, NY 27A continued on Merrick Road to Carman Mill Road in Massapequa, where NY 27A joined its current alignment.[4] In Oakdale, NY 27A ended at NY 27, as the route does today; however, at the time, NY 27 continued eastward on the Montauk Highway.[5] By 1946, NY 27A had been rerouted within Brooklyn and Queens, departing NY 27 at Atlantic Avenue and following Atlantic Avenue, Hicks Street, and Hamilton Avenue to the Gowanus Parkway, at which point NY 27A followed the Gowanus, Shore and Southern Parkways through southern Brooklyn and Queens. NY 27A, concurrent to NY 27 from the western extent of the Southern Parkway, then followed NY 27 and the Sunrise Highway to Rockville Center in Nassau County.[6]

By 1960, NY 27A was extended to Manhattan via the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.[7] Between 1967 and 1989, it was truncated to its present western terminus in Massapequa.[8][9]

[edit] Bay Shore Split

Realizing that traffic would increase along NY 27A, the Suffolk County Planning Department proposed a major reconstruction project of Downtown Bay Shore in cooperation with the New York State Department of Transportation that would reroute eastbound and westbound traffic around the current NY 27A, and transform it into a pedestrian mall, with parking garages at key locations.[10] This plan was scrapped by public opposition, as many proposed highway projects were during the late-20th century.

[edit] Truck 27A


In 1958, Suffolk County transformed Frowein Road between Moriches and East Moriches into the Moriches Bypass. This was designated as New York State Truck Route 27A, but it was also Suffolk County Route 98. When the NY 27A designation was deleted east of Great River, the County Road 98 designation became more prominent.[11]


Also in the early 1970s, a reconstruction project of NY 27A took place between Hampton Bays and Shinnecock Hills, creating a route known as Temporary Truck NY 27A, which ran between NY 24, then along NY 27 between exits 65 and 66, and then to North Road south of NY 27.[citation needed]

[edit] Major intersections

County Location Mile[1] Roads intersected Notes
Nassau Massapequa Park 0.00 NY 27
Suffolk Amityville 1.57 NY 110 Southern terminus of NY 110
Village of Babylon 6.41 NY 109 Eastern terminus of NY 109
7.30 NY 231 Southern terminus of NY 231
West Islip 8.87 Robert Moses Causeway Exit RM2 (RMC)
Islip 13.95 NY 111 Southern terminus of NY 111
East Islip CR 17 (Carleton Avenue) Former routing of NY 111
Islip Terrace 15.90 Heckscher State Parkway Original terminus of the Heckscher State Parkway
Great River CR 50
Oakdale 17.31 NY 27

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Traffic Data Report - NY 23 to NY 32 (PDF). NYSDOT (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
  2. ^ a b New York 1941 (Manhattan-Brooklyn). Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
  3. ^ New York 1941 (Queens). Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
  4. ^ New York 1941 (Nassau). Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
  5. ^ New York 1941 (Western Suffolk). Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
  6. ^ Rand McNally Road Atlas. Rand McNally (1946).
  7. ^ New York 1960 (Manhattan-Queens-Bronx). Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
  8. ^ Gousha Road Atlas. Gousha (1967). Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
  9. ^ Rand McNally Road Atlas. Rand McNally (1989). Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
  10. ^ Proposed 1969 Realignment in Bay Shore (Suffolk County DPW)
  11. ^ NYCRoads.com - Suffolk CR 76-100
  • Suffolk County Department of Public Works.
  • Old Hagstroms Long Island and Suffolk County Maps.

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