New York State Route 32

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NY Route 32
Maintained by NYSDOT Map of NY 32 highlighted in red
Length:	176.73 mi[1][2] (284.42 km)
Formed:	1930[3]
South end:	NY 17 in Harriman
Major junctions:	I-84 / NY 52 in Newburgh US 44 / NY 55 in Modena I-587 / NY 28 in Kingston I-87 / Thruway in Saugerties NY 23 in Cairo US 20 in Albany US 4 near Troy NY 67 in Mechanicville NY 29 in Schuylerville US 9 / NY 9L in Glens Falls
North end:	NY 196 in Hudson Falls
Counties:	Orange, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Saratoga, Warren, Washington
Numbered highways in New York < NY 31F NY 32A > Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference
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New York State Route 32 is a north–south state highway that extends for 176.73 miles (284.42 km) through eastern New York, United States. A local road for its entire route, it starts at NY 17 near Harriman, and it ends at NY 196 near Hudson Falls. It connects the Hudson Valley village of Harriman and the city of Newburgh to the Capital District cities of Albany, Glens Falls and Hudson Falls.

In Newburgh, NY 32 joins with U.S. Route 9W for slightly more than 1 mile (1.6 km). Farther north, NY 32 shares a routing with U.S. Route 4 from Waterford (north of Albany) to Stillwater (southeast of Saratoga Springs), a distance of 14 miles (23 km). The road passes through the scenic Catskills and Hudson Highlands mountain ranges as well as historic communities. It is one of the longest state highways in New York and parallels Interstate 87 for most of its route.

NY 32 was once part of several privately-maintained turnpikes including the Orange Turnpike, which enhanced the growth of settlements along the corridor. In the 1920s, NY 32 was part of the alignment of NY 58. NY 32 has had three suffixed routes in its lifetime. All of NY 32 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering.

Contents 1 Route description 1.1 Harriman to Newburgh 1.2 Newburgh to New Paltz 1.3 New Paltz to Kingston 1.4 Kingston and Saugerties 1.5 The Catskills to Albany 1.6 Albany to Hudson Falls 2 History 2.1 Old roads 2.2 Designation 2.3 Reroutings 3 Suffixed routes 4 Major intersections 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Route description

[edit] Harriman to Newburgh

Route 32 begins where NY 17 leaves the Quickway overpass west of the New York State Thruway toll barrier, just north of the Harriman village line. On the right is Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, opposite the Central Valley Elementary School of the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District.^[4] Beyond the mall, site of many major traffic jams,^[5] NY 32 descends into downtown Central Valley. Two miles (3.2 km) north is another of the Town of Woodbury's hamlets, Highland Mills. Beyond Highland Mills the road bends slightly west upon reaching the southwestern foot of Schunemunk Mountain, the highest in the county.

Shortly after Highland Mills, the Port Jervis Line, operated by Metro-North Railroad, crosses over on a high trestle. After crossing over Woodbury Creek and under the Thruway, NY 32 runs along the eastern side of the narrow valley between Schunemunk and the Hudson Highlands.^[4] This section of highway runs through mostly wooded terrain as it leaves Woodbury for Cornwall. Just north of Mountainville and the north end of Schunemunk, the road crosses Moodna Creek downstream from the Woodbury Creek confluence. The light at Orrs Mills Road, and the intersection with Angola Road a quarter-mile to the south, were once the beginning and end of a brief concurrency with the former NY 307. Today these are county roads, with Orrs Mills leading up to Storm King Art Center.^[4]

The road climbs gently out of the creek valley and enters development. At 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of Angola Road, it crosses the New Windsor town line and reaches the complicated five-way intersection at the center of Vails Gate, intersecting NY 94 and the beginning of NY 300. The next 2 miles (3.2 km) include a middle turn lane as NY 32 becomes New Windsor's main commercial strip. This section ends at Temple Hill Avenue, with Snake Hill to the west. The road remains heavily commercial as it enters the city of Newburgh as the wide Lake Street.^[4]

At Broadway (NY 17K), Newburgh's main street, NY 32 turns east. The brief, unsigned concurrency ends where 17K terminates at US 9W (Robinson Avenue), at the historic Broadway School. NY 32, however, turns north again, beginning the first of several concurrencies with US 9W.

The two highways remain joined for the next 1.2 miles (1.9 km) as they pass the Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux-designed Downing Park and reach the city limit, where Interstate 84 and NY 52 cross the highway heading towards the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. Immediately beyond that junction, NY 32 separates from US 9W and heads northwest.^[4]

[edit] Newburgh to New Paltz

Newburgh has a commercial strip north of the city, featuring the Mid-Valley Mall and another large shopping plaza built around a supermarket anchor. This development ends after 1 mile (1.6 km) when 32 passes the Town of Newburgh's Cronomer Hill Park on the south, near a short drive to the summit observation tower.^[4] Two miles (3.2 km) more brings Route 32 to the center of the hamlet of Cronomer Valley and an unusual junction with NY 300. At what seems to be a conventional four-way intersection regulated by a traffic light, both highways turn, and it is necessary to turn to the right to stay on NY 32 headed north. Traffic that goes straight at this intersection flows onto Route 300.^[4]

From this intersection, NY 32 passes Chadwick Lake, the town's reservoir, and continues straight north through much less-developed, mostly wooded countryside for 4 miles (6.4 km) to the Ulster County line, almost the point at which the woods diminish.^[4] Barely 1 mile (1.6 km) into Plattekill, the highway crosses the Thruway again. It curves northwards shortly thereafter, retaining a slightly westward trend through mostly open fields near the Shawangunk Ridge. At 4.5 miles (7.2 km) from the Thruway, NY 32 intersects US 44 and NY 55 in the center of another Town of Plattekill hamlet, Modena.^[4] A short distance beyond, the highway crosses into Gardiner, taking a wide bend around Locust Lawn, the Federal-style home of early 19th-century politician Josiah Hasbrouck.^[6]

North of Modena, the surrounding area becomes slightly more wooded near where NY 32 crosses into the Town of New Paltz. The highway curves before entering the village next to the campus of State University of New York at New Paltz. Two blocks north of campus, at New Paltz Middle School, it turns west at a traffic signal to join NY 299 as the village's Main Street.^[4]

[edit] New Paltz to Kingston

While NY 32 officially remains concurrent with NY 299 all the way to the traffic light at the northern terminus of NY 208, a sign at the Elting Memorial Library, just before the center of downtown, directs northbound traffic on the highway down North Front Street. This shortcut allows that traffic to skip an often busy intersection and head out of the village on North Chestnut Street.^[4] Once past the village, the Ulster Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) building comes up on the west and the town hall along the east. NY 32 then becomes mostly rural again.^[4]

Over the next 5 miles (8.0 km), the road trends easterly until NY 213 joins it from the east right before the bridge over the Wallkill. Now concurrent, 32 and 213 bend away from the Thruway and pass through the hamlet of Tillson and then descend to cross Rondout Creek at the former village of Rosendale. Just after the crossing, at the Stewart's, NY 213 leaves to the west along the creek, ending a 2.5 mi (4.0 km) concurrency.^[4]

From Rosendale, NY 32 climbs up out of the Rondout valley and veers east into the hamlet of Maple Hill, where it crosses over the Thruway once again. It resumes a northerly course through Bloomington, and several miles further on crosses the Kingston city line.^[4]

[edit] Kingston and Saugerties

On its route through Kingston, NY 32 frequently changes streets and directions. It enters town as Boulevard and meanders to just past Washington Avenue, where it splits onto the more easterly Greenkill Avenue for several blocks. NY 213 returns, merging from the south as Wilbur Avenue. The joined routes then turn onto Clinton Avenue for two blocks, then east onto Henry Street for about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to Broadway, where NY 32 turns north and NY 213 ends.^[4]

Another 0.5 miles (0.80 km) brings Broadway to the wide junction where Interstate 587 and NY 28 both terminate. NY 32 follows Albany Avenue northeast to Flatbush Avenue, where it turns to assume an eastward course. This finally bends slightly north to East Chester Street near the city limit, where US 9W again comes in from the south to begin a brief wrong-way concurrency in which NY 32 north is US 9W south. It ends, unsigned, after 1,500 feet (460 m) with US 9W's turn onto Frank Koenig Boulevard.^[4]

Continuing as Flatbush Road into the Town of Ulster, NY 32 is for the first time along its route east of US 9W and closer to the river. It then has an interchange with NY 199 immediately east of the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge. Soon after, it passes Kingston-Ulster Airport. It remains on a northerly heading until 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Saugerties, where it veers west and merges with US 9W again.^[4] The two routes cross Esopus Creek and enter the village, where Partition Street gives way to Main Street. At that T intersection, US 9W turns to continue north, while NY 32 picks up the new NY 212 and heads west out of town.^[4]

[edit] The Catskills to Albany

After one block of Main Street, NY 32 and NY 212 turn onto Market Street, then east onto Ulster Avenue after another block. As it crosses the railroad tracks and leaves the village, the road widens and becomes a commercial highway just before reaching a Thruway exit. This, the fourth time NY 32 has crossed the Thruway, is the first time it does so at an exit. Beyond the overpass, the concurrency ends when NY 32 turns and heads north once again. A tight nearby on-ramp provides access to the southbound Thruway.^[4] NY 32 does not enter the Catskills but provides access to them along this stretch.^[4]

At this point, the distance between NY 32 and the Thruway begins to widen.^[4] At the junction with Malden Turnpike (Ulster County 34), Route 32 turns westward, toward the escarpment, and starts climbing through some rock cuts. When Blue Mountain Road (Ulster County 35) comes in from the south, NY 32 resumes heading north, parallel to the ridge. One mile (1.6 km) from that junction, its only suffixed route, NY 32A, splits off to the west to provide direct access via NY 23A and Kaaterskill Clove to Tannersville and Hunter.^[4]

After crossing into Greene County, the road intersects NY 23A at an undeveloped junction. NY 32 remains in its straight course through the lowlands below the escarpment, passing around the north side of Cairo Roundtop before it joins with NY 23 at Cairo. After 1.5 miles (2.4 km), NY 32 leaves the divided highway to once again strike north as a two-lane route. It trends west to its westernmost point until turning to the north-northeast just south of Freehold.^[4]

The landscape gets hillier at another hamlet, Greenville, where it crosses NY 81. One mile (1.6 km) further on, NY 32 enters Albany County via Westerlo near the Basic Creek Reservoir, and then passes through Coeymans. After sharing 2 miles (3.2 km) of road with NY 143, crossing the northern end of Alcove Reservoir and descending the southern end of the Helderberg Escarpment, the road veers eastward toward Albany.^[4] To get there, it crosses into New Scotland and passes the northern end of the busy Selkirk rail yard, intersects NY 335 on the southern fringe of Delmar and crosses under the Thruway for the last time before reaching its final concurrency with US 9W at Kenwood. NY 32 enters Albany as it crosses over I-787.^[4]

[edit] Albany to Hudson Falls

Within Albany, NY 32 is routed on Pearl Street, intersecting US 9 and 20 near the approach to the Dunn Memorial Bridge. Near the city limits, NY 32 passes under Interstate 90. Upon crossing into neighboring Menands, NY 32 bears onto Wolfert Avenue to access Broadway. Broadway, a business thoroughfare originating in downtown Albany, is designated New York State Route 910C, an unsigned reference route, for 0.06 miles (0.10 km) south of Wolfert Avenue to the Albany city line.^[7] NY 32 occupies Broadway north of Wolfert Avenue, paralleling I-787 into Watervliet.^[4]

At 13th Street, NY 32 leaves Broadway and follows 13th two blocks west to an intersection with 2nd Avenue. Here, NY 155 begins and occupies 13th to the west of 2nd while NY 32 turns north onto 2nd. NY 32 continues in the vicinity of I-787 and its continuation, NY 787, through Watervliet and Green Island to Cohoes, where NY 787 ends at NY 32 near the convergence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers. Past NY 787, NY 32 crosses both the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal before intersecting U.S. Route 4 in Waterford. The two routes merge, forming an overlap northward along the Hudson River.^[4]

In Mechanicville, US 4 and NY 32 briefly overlap NY 67. Farther north, the two routes split north of Stillwater at the southern edge of the Saratoga National Historical Park. While US 4 straddles the park to the east, NY 32 follows the southern and western extents of the park before rejoining US 4 south of Schuylerville. In Schuylerville, the two routes are concurrent with NY 29 for a short distance before exiting the village. To the north of the village in Northumberland, NY 32 separates from US 4 and heads northwest to Gansevoort, where it meets NY 50. NY 32 continues north on the right-of-way of NY 50 to South Glens Falls, where U.S. Route 9 joins NY 32 northward across the Hudson River into Glens Falls.^[4]

Shortly after entering the city, NY 32 turns onto Warren Street, splitting from US 9 and following the Hudson River east toward Hudson Falls. At Highland Avenue, NY 32 turns east, following Highland past Quaker Road (NY 254) to Dix Avenue, where it merges east onto Dix. NY 32 remains on Dix into Hudson Falls, intersecting US 4 one last time north of the village before continuing through the intersection onto Burgoyne Avenue. The route remains on Burgoyne around the northeastern portion of Hudson Falls to NY 196, where NY 32 terminates.^[4] The highway continues as Washington County Route 37 south to US 4 in Hudson Falls.

[edit] History

[edit] Old roads

Route 32 was once made up of several privately-owned turnpikes that stretched throughout New York. A stretch from Catskill to Cairo was once part of the Susquehanna Turnpike. Created in April 1800, the Susquehanna Turnpike began in Catskill and ended in Unadilla.^[8] The Susquehanna Turnpike aided the growth of Greene County, which until then had depended on steamboats on the Susquehanna River and Catskill Creek. The turnpike attracted business from the New England states, made shipping easier for the county's farmers, and improved shipping from New York City. In 1820, Catskill Point built a short causeway to an island named Bomptjes Hoeck.^[9]

The turnpike closed its doors after 1899. In 1974, the turnpike was added to the National Register of Historic Places.^[10] Route 32 was also part of the Orange Turnpike, which stretched from the New Jersey line to Newburgh. The turnpike, created three days after the Susquehanna Turnpike, follows the current routes of NY 17 and NY 32.^[8]

[edit] Designation

In 1924, the segment of modern NY 32 between Albany and Mechanicville was designated as part of NY 6. From Mechanicville to Hudson Falls, the current routing of NY 32 became part of NY 30.^[11] By 1926, the portion of what is now NY 32 from Harriman to Newburgh was designated New York State Route 58.^[12] From Newburgh to Albany, NY 32 remained unnumbered at the time.^[13] When U.S. Routes were first assigned in New York in 1927, the portion of NY 6 from Albany to Waterford was designated as the northernmost portion of U.S. Route 9W. In Waterford, US 9W merged with U.S. Route 9E and continued north as U.S. Route 9 to Mechanicville, where US 9 turned west onto modern NY 67.^[14]

In the 1930 renumbering, US 9W was truncated to Albany while US 9 was rerouted to follow a new stretch between Albany and Round Lake. The former routing of both routes along the Hudson River between Albany and Mechanicville, as well as the entirety of NY 58 and the portion of NY 30 from Schuylerville to Hudson Falls was integrated into the new NY 32, which followed its current routing between Harriman and the Stillwater community of Bemis Heights and from Schuylerville to Hudson Falls.^[15] Between Bemis Heights and Schuylerville, the original routing of NY 32 is unclear. In some contemporary maps, such as the one accompanying a 1930 The New York Times article detailing the 1930 renumbering of state routes in New York, the former routing of NY 30 between Bemis Heights and Schuylerville is shown as "New York State Route 32A"^[3][16] with NY 32 following the modern routing of US 4 along the Hudson River.^[16] Others, however, place NY 32 on its current routing and show NY 32A on the riverside roadway. Regardless of NY 32's rerouting, U.S. Route 4, which previously ended in Glens Falls, was rerouted south of Hudson Falls to end in East Greenbush.^[15] From Northumberland to Waterford, the route used what is now NY 32.^[16]

By 1947, NY 32A was removed from contemporary maps of the area while the routing of NY 32 between Bemis Heights and Schuylerville was shown as being identical to that of US 4; namely, via Quaker Springs and Victory Mills.^[17][18] US 4 was later rerouted onto the riverside roadway between Bemis Heights and Schuylerville between 1956 and 1962.^[19][20]

[edit] Reroutings

Route 32 has had several minor reroutings in its 75+ year lifetime. New York State Route 910A in Albany is a rerouting of NY 32, which was moved off Feura Bush Road, a two-lane highway, to a road farther north as a four-lane arterial boulevard. Feura Bush Road was then replaced by Route 910A.^[21]

Within Queensbury and Hudson Falls, NY 32 was originally routed on Boulevard Street and Feeder Avenue.^[22] On April 1, 1980, ownership and maintenance of Boulevard Street between Highland Avenue and the Washington County line was transferred from New York State to Warren County in exchange for control over Highland and Dix Avenues between Warren Avenue and the Washington County line. The portion of Boulevard Street in Hudson Falls, as well as the segment of Feeder Street south of Boulevard, was given to Washington County on April 1 of the following year in return for ownership and maintenance over all of Dix and Burgoyne Avenues north of NY 196.^[23] NY 32 was rerouted to follow Highland, Dix, and Burgoyne Avenues shortly afterward.^[24]

[edit] Suffixed routes

Originally, NY 32 had two suffixed routes, NY 32A and NY 32B, that were absorbed by other routes. The NY 32A designation has since been revived for a short connector in the Hudson Valley.

• NY 32A is a 1.92-mile (3.09 km)^[25] connector between NY 32 and NY 23A in Ulster and Greene counties. The NY 32A designation was previously assigned to an alternate route of NY 32 between Bemis Heights and Schuylerville in Saratoga County. This NY 32A was assigned in 1930^[3] and may have later become part of NY 32 itself.
• NY 32B was an alternate route between Northumberland and Glens Falls in Saratoga, Washington, and Warren counties. It was assigned in 1930^[3] and later superseded by U.S. Route 4 south of Hudson Falls and by NY 254 and NY 32 west of Hudson Falls.

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile[1][2]	Roads intersected	Notes
Orange	Harriman	0.00	NY 17	To I-87/Thruway Junction is just outside village limits in the Town of Woodbury
	Orrs Mill	9.72	CR 107	Former routing of NY 307
	Vails Gate	11.48	NY 94 NY 300	Southern terminus of NY 300
	City of Newburgh	15.08	NY 17K west (Broadway)	Western terminus of overlap
		15.31	US 9W south NY 17K	Eastern terminus of NY 17K/32 overlap; southern terminus of US 9W Eastern terminus of NY 17K
		16.61	I-84 east/NY 52 east	Exit 10 (I-84/NY 52 EB) Junction at northern city line
	Town of Newburgh	16.67	US 9W north (Plank Road)	Northern terminus of overlap
		16.89	I-84 west/NY 52 west	Exit 10 (I-84/NY 52 WB)
	Cronomer Valley	19.87	NY 300
Ulster	Modena	29.07	US 44/NY 55
	Village of New Paltz	34.95	NY 299 east (Main Street)	Southern terminus of overlap
		35.46	NY 208 NY 299 west	Northern terminus of NY 32/299 overlap; northern terminus of NY 208
	Rosendale	40.28	NY 213 east	Southern terminus of overlap Junction at town line with Esopus
		42.83	NY 213 west	Northern terminus of overlap
	City of Kingston	49.69	NY 213 west	Southern terminus of overlap
		50.01	NY 213	Northern terminus of overlap; northern terminus of NY 213
		50.34	I-587/NY 28	Southern terminus of I-587; southern terminus of NY 28
		51.87	US 9W north	Southern terminus of overlap
		52.15	US 9W south	Northern terminus of overlap
	Ulster	54.54	NY 199
	Town of Saugerties	60.14	US 9W south	Southern terminus of overlap
	Village of Saugerties	62.36	US 9W north NY 212	Northern terminus of US 9W/NY 32 overlap; eastern terminus of NY 32/212 overlap Eastern terminus of NY 212
	Town of Saugerties	63.62	I-87/Thruway	Exit 20 (I-87/Thruway)
		63.70	NY 212 west	Western terminus of overlap
	Saxton	69.74	NY 32A	Eastern terminus of NY 32A
Greene	Town of Catskill	72.42	NY 23A
	Town of Cairo	80.02	NY 23 east	Southern terminus of overlap
		81.14	NY 23 west	Northern terminus of overlap
	Town of Greenville	89.87	NY 81
Albany	Westerlo	96.05	NY 143 west	Southern terminus of overlap
	Coeymans	98.36	NY 143 east	Northern terminus of overlap
	Bethlehem	110.29	NY 335
		112.33	US 9W south	Western terminus of overlap
		112.72	US 9W north	Eastern terminus of overlap; to I-87/Thruway
		113.36	NY 144	Northern terminus of NY 144
	Albany	114.89	I-787	Exit 2 (I-787)
		115.54	US 20 east (Madison Avenue)	Southern terminus of overlap
		115.62	US 20 west	Northern terminus of overlap; to Dunn Memorial Bridge
		115.84	NY 5 (State Street)	Not a signed intersection; left turns prohibited
		116.18	US 9 (Clinton Avenue)
	Menands	118.69	I-787	Exit 6 (I-787)
		119.74	NY 378	Grade separated interchange, partial cloverleaf
	Watervliet	121.85	NY 155	Eastern terminus of NY 155
		122.32	NY 2 (19th Street)	To Congress Street Bridge
	Cohoes	125.37	NY 470 (Ontario Street)	To 112th Street Bridge Access to NY 7 via I-787
			NY 787	Northern terminus of NY 787
Saratoga	Village of Waterford	127.20	US 4 south	Southern terminus of overlap
	Halfmoon	134.48	NY 146	Eastern terminus of NY 146
	Mechanicville	136.01	NY 67 west	Southern terminus of overlap
		136.11	NY 67 east	Northern terminus of overlap
	Town of Stillwater	141.32	US 4 north	Northern terminus of overlap
		143.61	NY 423	Eastern terminus of NY 423
	Schuylerville	153.65	US 4 south	Southern terminus of overlap
			CR 338	Former eastern terminus of NY 338
		153.84	NY 29 east	Southern terminus of overlap
		154.13	NY 29 west	Northern terminus of overlap
	Northumberland	155.92	US 4 north	Northern terminus of overlap
	Gansevoort	163.39	NY 50	Northern terminus of NY 50
	Moreau	167.68	NY 197
	South Glens Falls	170.26	US 9 south	Southern terminus of overlap
Warren	Glens Falls	171.76	US 9 north NY 9L	Northern terminus of overlap
	Queensbury	173.65	NY 254
Washington	Hudson Falls	175.62	US 4	Junction just outside village limits in the Town of Kingsbury
		176.73	NY 196 CR 37	Junction just outside village limits in the Town of Kingsbury

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• NY 32 @ State Ends.com
• New York Routes - New York State Route 32

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