| Saw Mill River Parkway | |
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| Route information | |
| Length: | 29.83 mi[1] (48.01 km) |
| Existed: | 1954 – present |
| Major junctions | |
| South end: | Henry Hudson Parkway at Bronx-Westchester border |
| Cross County Parkway in Yonkers I-87 / Thruway in Greenburgh I-287 in Elmsford Sprain Brook Parkway / Taconic Parkway in Hawthorne |
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| North end: | I-684 in Bedford |
| Location | |
| Counties: | Westchester |
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The Saw Mill River Parkway is a north–south parkway that extends for 28.93 miles (46.56 km) through Westchester County, New York, in the United States. It begins at the border between Westchester County and the Bronx, where it continues into New York City as the Henry Hudson Parkway, and heads generally northeastward to an interchange with Interstate 684 (I-684) and New York State Route 35 (NY 35). At its north end, the parkway serves as a collector/distributor road for both highways as it passes east of the hamlet of Katonah. The parkway is named for the Saw Mill River, which the highway parallels for most of its length.
The Saw Mill serves as an important connection from the Taconic State and Sprain Brook parkways to the Tappan Zee Bridge and New York State Thruway. It is not a limited-access highway as several of its exits are signalized at-grade intersections. However, most of the road has a high speed limit in spite of this fact. The Saw Mill River Parkway is inventoried by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) as New York State Route 987D, an unsigned reference route designation.
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The Saw Mill Parkway started construction in 1926. By 1930, it had reached Route 119 in Elmsford. Construction had only reached Chappaqua by 1940 when World War II halted any further progress. The Saw Mill Parkway was constructed along the Saw Mill River, as a sort of flood control project that never really worked right.[2] The full length of the parkway was opened in 1955.
The Parkway once fed into the accident-prone Hawthorne Circle, a former roundabout at the intersection of the Taconic Parkway extension from the Bronx River Parkway, Taconic State, and Saw Mill River parkways. In 1972 the circle was rebuilt as a three-level interchange.
NYSDOT has maintained the Saw Mill River Parkway since 1980. Under NYSDOT, the 25¢ toll between exits 3 and 4, which was originally implemented by Westchester County in 1936, was removed on October 31, 1994.[3]
For several years, right up until the closing of the toll, Robert Roberts, a dead ringer for Santa Claus, collected tolls. During each holiday season Mr. Roberts would don a Santa Claus suit and collect tolls. As the toll booth's tenure came to an end around Halloween in 1994, Mr. Roberts donned his Santa Claus outfit one more time, much to the pleasure of commuters.
The entire route is in Westchester County.
| Location | Mile[1] | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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| Yonkers | 0.00 | Henry Hudson Parkway | Continuation into the Bronx | |
| 3 | McLean Avenue – Yonkers | Southbound exit and entrance | ||
| 1.73 | 4 | Cross County Parkway to Hutchinson River Parkway – Whitestone Bridge | ||
| 4A | Rumsey Road | No northbound exit | ||
| 5 | Yonkers Avenue – Yonkers | No southbound exit to Yonkers Avenue eastbound | ||
| 2.60 | 5A | Palmer Road – Yonkers | ||
| 6 | Lockwood Avenue | Southbound exit and entrance | ||
| 7 | Tuckahoe Road – Yonkers | Northbound exit and entrance; southbound entrance from Nepperhan Avenue | ||
| 4.45 | 9 | Executive Boulevard | At-grade intersection except for northbound exit | |
| 10 | Hearst Street | At-grade intersection | ||
| 11 | Tompkins Avenue | At-grade intersection | ||
| Hastings-on-Hudson | 12 | Farragut Parkway | At-grade intersection | |
| 13 | Farragut Avenue | At-grade intersection; median closed | ||
| 14 | Clarence Avenue | Southbound at-grade intersection | ||
| 15 | Cliff Street | Southbound at-grade intersection | ||
| Dobbs Ferry | 16 | Lawrence Street | At-grade intersection | |
| 17 | Ashford Avenue – Dobbs Ferry, Ardsley | |||
| Cyrus Field Road | Southbound at-grade intersection | |||
| Greenburgh | 20 | I-87 north / Tappan Zee Bridge | Northbound exit and entrance; southbound entrance from I-87 south | |
| Mountain Road | Southbound at-grade intersection | |||
| Elmsford | 21 | NY 119 – Elmsford, Tarrytown | Signed as exits 21E (east) and 21W (west) northbound; Access to NY 119 west from southbound parkway | |
| 22 | I-287 west to I-87 (New York State Thruway) | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
| Greenburgh | 13.10 | 23 | Saw Mill River Road – Eastview | |
| Mount Pleasant | 14.17 | 25 | NY 9A to NY 100 – Hawthorne | Northbound exit and entrance |
| 15.71 | 26 | Taconic Parkway – Albany | Hamlet of Hawthorne; northbound exit and southbound entrance | |
| Sprain Brook Parkway / Bronx River Parkway – New York City | Hamlet of Hawthorne; southbound exit and northbound entrance | |||
| 27 | Marble Avenue – Thornwood | Hamlet of Thornwood; at-grade intersection | ||
| Pleasantville | 18.04 | 28 | Bedford Road – Pleasantville | Northbound exit only |
| 29 | NY 117 (Manville Road) – Pleasantville | Southbound exit and entrance | ||
| 30 | Grant Street | At-grade intersection; no southbound turns or northbound left turn | ||
| New Castle | 20.40 | 32 | NY 120 – Chappaqua | Hamlet of Chappaqua |
| 33 | Readers Digest Road / Roaring Brook Road | At-grade intersection | ||
| Mount Kisco | 24.42 | 34 | NY 133 – Mount Kisco | |
| 36 | Croton Avenue | Southbound exit and entrance | ||
| 37 | Kisco Avenue | |||
| Bedford | 38 | Green Lane | Northbound exit and entrance; southbound at-grade intersection | |
| 27.30 | 39 | NY 117 – Bedford Hills | Hamlet of Bedford Hills; signed as exits 39S (south) and 39N (north) southbound | |
| 42 | NY 117 / Harris Road – Katonah | NY 117 not signed northbound | ||
| 43 | NY 117 | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
| 29.83 | I-684 | Northbound exit from northbound I-684, southbound entrance from southbound I-684 | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | ||||
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