New York State Route 120

NYS Route 120
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT and the city of Rye
Length: 18.03 mi[2] (29.02 km)
Existed: 1930[1] – present
Major junctions
South end: US 1 in Rye
  Hutchinson River Parkway in Harrison
Saw Mill Parkway in New Castle
North end: NY 100 in New Castle
Location
Counties: Westchester
Highway system

Numbered highways in New York
Interstate • U.S. • N.Y. (former) • Reference • County

← NY 119 NY 120A →

New York State Route 120 (NY 120) is a state highway in southern Westchester County, New York, United States. It begins in the city of Rye at an intersection with U.S. Route 1 and runs for about 18 miles (29 km) north to the hamlet of Millwood, where it ends at a junction with NY 100. The route intersects with several limited-access highways, including Interstate 684 and the Saw Mill River Parkway, and serves the Westchester County Airport in North Castle.

NY 120 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, but only to the portion of its routing north of Westchester Avenue. It was extended south to Rye ca. 1938, then rerouted to follow Westchester Avenue east to Port Chester by the following year. Most of NY 120's former routing to Rye became part of New York State Route 119A at that time. NY 120 was rerouted to serve Rye again ca. 1961, replacing NY 119A.

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Route description

NY 120 begins in the city of Rye at U.S. Route 1 as Purchase Street. It heads north, crossing under Interstate 95 without a junction. The route continues into the village of Harrison—specifically, the community of Purchase—where it has junctions with Interstate 287 and the Hutchinson River Parkway. An alternate route, NY 120A, begins near the junction of NY 120 and I-287. NY 120 continues north through Purchase, passing east of Manhattanville College and west of the State University of New York at Purchase and the Westchester County Airport. At the airport, NY 120 connects to Interstate 684.

North of the airport, NY 120 crosses into the town of North Castle, where it meets up with the other end of NY 120A at King Street. Although NY 120A terminates here, the King Street name turns north onto NY 120. Like the NY 120A portion of King Street, the NY 120 segment closely follows the Connecticut state line for just over 1 mile (1.6 km), mostly due to the presence of the Kensico Reservoir to the west. Along this stretch, NY 120 passes over I-684 and connects to a large industrial building in an otherwise inaccessible area of Greenwich, Connecticut.

Now separate from the state line, NY 120 crosses the Delaware Aqueduct and briefly overlaps with NY 22 as it heads northwestward through the northeast corner of the town of Mount Pleasant and into the town of New Castle. In the hamlet of Chappaqua, NY 120 meets NY 117 just east of an interchange with the Saw Mill River Parkway. King Street ends here; however, NY 120 continues northwest on Quaker Road. East of Millwood, NY 120 intersects NY 133. The two routes converge and head east into the hamlet, where NY 133 leaves NY 120 at Station Place. NY 120 ends a 0.25 miles (0.40 km) later at a junction with NY 100.

History

The segment of modern NY 120 between Westchester Avenue and the north end of the overlap with NY 22 was originally designated as part of Route 1, an unsigned legislative route, by the New York State Legislature in 1908. Route 1 approached Purchase Street from the west on Westchester Avenue and continued north from Armonk on what is now NY 22.[3][4] NY 120, meanwhile, was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York to the portion of its modern alignment north of the junction of Purchase Street and Westchester Avenue (then NY 119) in Harrison.[1] It was extended south to U.S. Route 1 in Rye ca. 1938 by way of Purchase Street and Highland Road.[5][6]

NY 120 was altered again by the following year to follow NY 119 east along Westchester Avenue to US 1 in Port Chester. Most of NY 120's former routing south of Westchester Avenue became part of NY 119A, a new route assigned to all of Purchase Street between NY 119 and NY 120 in Harrison and US 1 in Rye.[7] Ca. 1961, NY 120 was realigned once more to follow Purchase Street south to Rye, supplanting NY 119A. At the same time, NY 119 was truncated on its east end to Purchase Street while the portion of Westchester Avenue that had carried NY 119 and NY 120 between Purchase Street and Port Chester became an extension of NY 120A.[8][9]

Suffixed routes

NY 120 once had two suffixed routes; only one still exists.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Westchester County.

Location Mile[2] Destinations Notes
City of Rye 0.00 US 1
Harrison 1.82 Polly Park Road (CR 104)
2.15 NY 120A (Westchester Avenue) Southern terminus of NY 120A; western terminus of NY 120 / NY 120A overlap (northbound)
2.23 NY 120A north (Westchester Avenue) Eastern terminus of NY 120 / NY 120A overlap (northbound)
2.49 I-287 (Cross Westchester Expressway) Exit 10 (I-287)
3.50 Hutchinson River Parkway Exit 27 (Hutchinson River Parkway)
4.51 Anderson Hill Road (CR 18)
6.59 Lake Street (CR 32)
North Castle 7.59 I-684 Exit 2 (I-684) via CR 135
7.97 NY 120A Northern terminus of NY 120A
9.44 NY 22 south Southern terminus of NY 22 / NY 120 overlap
9.76 NY 22 north Northern terminus of NY 22 / NY 120 overlap
New Castle 13.99 NY 117 south (Bedford Road) Southern terminus of NY 117 / NY 120 overlap
14.05 NY 117 north (Bedford Road) Northern terminus of NY 117 / NY 120overlap
14.73 Saw Mill Parkway Exit 32 (Saw Mill Parkway)
16.65 Seven Bridges Road (CR 21)
17.30 NY 133 east (Millwood Road) Eastern terminus of NY 120 / NY 133 overlap
17.83 NY 133 west (Station Place) Western terminus of NY 120 / NY 133 overlap
18.03 NY 100 (Saw Mill River Road)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. ^ a b c Standard Oil Company of New York (1930). Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. 
  2. ^ a b c "2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. pp. 245–246. https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/NYSDOT_Traffic_Data_Report_2008.pdf. Retrieved November 19, 2009. 
  3. ^ State of New York Department of Highways (1909). The Highway Law. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 53. http://books.google.com/books?id=jZ0AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA53. Retrieved June 10, 2010. 
  4. ^ New York State Department of Highways (1920). Report of the State Commissioner of Highways. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 495–496. http://books.google.com/books?id=Sj4CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA495. Retrieved June 10, 2010. 
  5. ^ Standard Oil Company (1937). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. 
  6. ^ Thibodeau, William A. (1938). The ALA Green Book (1938–39 ed.). Automobile Legal Association. 
  7. ^ a b Standard Oil Company (1939). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. 
  8. ^ Gulf (1960). New York and New Jersey Tourgide Map (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
  9. ^ Sunoco (1961). New York and Metropolitan New York (Map). Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company (1961–62 ed.). 
  10. ^ Kendall Refining Company (1931). New York (Map). Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company. 
  11. ^ Texas Oil Company (1932). Texaco Road Map – New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
  12. ^ Esso (1938). New York Road Map for 1938 (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. 

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