New York State Route 35

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This article is about the current alignment of NY 35. For other uses, see New York State Route 35 (disambiguation).
NY Route 35
Length: 24.63 mi[1] (39.64 km)
Formed: early 1940s
West end: US 6/9/202 in Peekskill
Major
junctions:		 Bear Mountain Pkwy in Cortlandt
Taconic Pkwy in Yorktown
I-684/Saw Mill Pkwy in Bedford
East end: CT Route 35 at Lewisboro
Counties: Westchester
Numbered highways in New York
< NY 34B NY 36 >
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 35 is the principal east-west highway in the northern part of Westchester County, New York, carrying average daily volumes of around 16,500 vehicles.[1] Its western terminus is at US 9 in Peekskill, while its eastern terminus is at the Connecticut state line in Lewisboro, where it becomes Connecticut Route 35.

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[edit] Route description

Signage for NY 35 on the Taconic State Parkway
Signage for NY 35 on the Taconic State Parkway

NY 35 begins in the city of Peekskill at the point where US 6 and US 202 leave US 9 near the upper end of the Croton Expressway. NY 35 travels east on Main Street (which also begins at that interchange), concurrent with both 6 and 202. US 202 and 35 depart from US 6 and turn onto South Division Street, then Crompond Road. The road within Peekskill is maintained by Westchester County.[2]

East of Peekskill, NY 35 and US 202 travel along the unfinished section of the Bear Mountain State Parkway, and, in a way, connect them. The routes meet the Taconic State Parkway at a newly widened diamond interchange which immediately precedes the southern terminus of NY 132 in Yorktown. In the hamlet of Yorktown Heights, 35 and 202 turn north onto Saw Mill River Road, picking up NY 118.

Shortly after Saw Mill River Road crosses into the town of Somers, Saw Mill River Road becomes Amawalk Road. NY 118 and US 202 depart 35 as they head north onto Tomahawk Street, while 35 heads east. After meeting NY 100 at the Pepsi Cola plant, the road name changes to Woods Bridge Road. In Katonah the road name changes to Cross River Road. Immediately after, there is an interchange with Interstate 684 and the Saw Mill River Parkway. Shortly thereafter is an intersection with NY 22.

In Cross River, 35 forms a short concurrency with NY 121, then meets with NY 124 and NY 123 in South Salem. At the New York/Connecticut state line (Westchester/Fairfield counties), NY 35 continues into Connecticut as Route 35, which connects with U.S. Route 7.

[edit] History

Modern NY 35 in Westchester County was established circa 1942.[3] The number 35 had previously been used for three other routes elsewhere in the state. Prior to 1930, the east-west road connecting Peekskill to Ridgefield, Connecticut was unnumbered.[4] In the 1930 state highway renumbering, various sections of the modern route were assigned state route designations. The section between NY 22 in the hamlet of Cross River and modern NY 123 was then signed as part of NY 123.[5] Another section between modern NY 132 and NY 22 in Katonah was then a part of NY 132.[5] The westernmost section between US 6 in Peekskill and NY 118 in Amawalk was then part of NY 116.[citation needed] In 1934, US 202 was created and routed along the Bear Mountain Parkway corridor and a portion of then NY 116 before turning north along modern NY 118 (then NY 116).[6] By 1944, NY 116, NY 132 and NY 123 were truncated to their current termini, while a new designation, NY 35, was assigned for the primary east-west corridor in Upper Westchester County.[3] The western terminus of NY 35 was set at US 9 in Peekskill, creating a long overlap with US 202 that still exists today. The number 35 was chosen to match the existing route number in Connecticut.[7] In the 1950s, several plans to build an expressway along the NY 35 corridor were studied, but none of these plans were built.[8]

[edit] Major intersections

County Location Mile[1] Roads intersected Notes
Westchester Peekskill 0.00 US 6 west / US 9 / US 202 west Western terminus of US 6/NY 35 and US 202/NY 35 overlaps
0.85 US 6 east Eastern terminus of overlap
Cortlandt 3.51 Bear Mountain State Parkway Western segment
Yorktown Bear Mountain State Parkway Eastern segment
6.13 Taconic State Parkway
6.83 NY 132 132 used to continue on 35 eastward
8.55 Baldwin Road Former eastern terminus of NY 132A
8.86 NY 118 south Southern terminus of overlap
Somers 10.33 US 202 east / NY 118 north Eastern terminus of US 202/NY 35 overlap; northern terminus of NY 35/118 overlap
13.77 NY 100
Town of Bedford Woods Bridge Road Former routing of NY 117
15.34 I-684
Saw Mill River Parkway		 Exit 6 (I-684); northern terminus of Saw Mill River Pkwy
15.74 NY 22
Lewisboro 19.18 NY 121 south Western terminus of overlap
19.84 NY 121 north Eastern terminus of overlap
21.86 NY 124
24.42 NY 123 123 used to continue on 35 westward
24.63 CT 35 Continuation into Connecticut

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c 2006 Traffic Data Report for New York State (PDF) pp. 171–172. New York State Department of Transportation (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2008-05-01.
  2. ^ New York State Department of Transportation. Peekskill Quadrangle - New York [map]. (1990) Retrieved on 2008-05-01.
  3. ^ a b The road is shown as NY 35 in a 1944 USGS topographic map of Bedford. A July 1942 article in the New York Times describes an accident occurring on Route 35 in South Salem.
  4. ^ Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1930/31 edition, (Scarborough Motor Guide Co., Boston, 1930). The 1930/31 edition shows New York state routes prior to the 1930 renumbering
  5. ^ a b Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1931/32 editions, (Scarborough Motor Guide Co., Boston, 1931)
  6. ^ U.S. Route 202 was established in 1934 according to an article in the FHWA Infrastructure website. The alignment of US 202 is shown in Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1938/39 edition, (W.A. Thibodeau, 1938).
  7. ^ Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1938/39 edition, (W.A. Thibodeau, 1938)
  8. ^ NYC Roads - Northern Westchester Expressway

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