New York State Route 22

NYS Route 22
Map of New York with NY 22 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT, NYCDOT, Clinton County, Westchester County and the cities of Mount Vernon and Plattsburgh
Length:	340.94 mi[1] (548.69 km)
Existed:	1924[2] – present
Major junctions
South end:	US 1 in The Bronx
	I-287 in White Plains US 6 / US 202 in Brewster I-84 / I-684 in Southeast US 44 in Amenia, then Millerton I-90 / New York Thruway in Canaan US 20 in New Lebanon US 4 in Whitehall US 9 near Keeseville I-87 in Plattsburgh US 11 in Mooers
North end:	Route 219 at the Canadian border in Mooers
Location
Counties:	Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington, Essex, Clinton
Highway system
Numbered highways in New York Interstate U.S. N.Y. (former) Reference County ← NY 21A NY 22A →

New York State Route 22 (NY 22) is a north–south state highway in eastern New York in the United States. It runs parallel to the state's eastern edge from the outskirts of New York City to the Canadian border. At 341 miles (549 km), it is the state's longest north–south route and the third longest overall, after NY 5 and NY 17.^{[fn 1]} Many of the state's major east–west roads intersect with Route 22 just before crossing the state line into the neighboring New England states.

Almost all of Route 22 is a two-lane rural road that only passes through small villages and hamlets. The exceptions are its southern end in the heavily populated Bronx and lower Westchester County, and a section of that runs through the city of Plattsburgh near the northern end. The rural landscape that the road passes through varies from horse country and views of the picturesque reservoirs of the New York City watershed in the northern suburbs of the city, to dairy farms further upstate in the hilly Taconics and Berkshires, to the undeveloped, heavily forested Adirondack Park along the shores of Lake Champlain. An 86-mile (138 km) section from Fort Ann to Keeseville is part of the All-American Road known as the Lakes to Locks Passage.

The southernmost section of the road was known as the White Plains Post Road in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a major highway connecting New York City to White Plains, the Westchester county seat. Route 22 in its modern form was established in 1930 as one of the principal routes from New York City to Canada.

Route description

Route 22 starts as an urban arterial road, passing through the most populous communities along its route within its first 15 miles (24 km). After running northerly from its origin in the Bronx it veers slightly to the northeast in the vicinity of a traffic circle near Kensico Dam before heading northward for good as a mostly two-lane rural route all the way to the Canadian border.

The majority of NY 22's 341-mile (549 km) routing is maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT); however, several sections are maintained by other jurisdictions. The southernmost of these is in the Bronx, where the entirety of NY 22 within the borough is maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT).^[3] In Westchester County, NY 22 is mostly locally maintained within the city of Mount Vernon and is county-maintained within the city of White Plains.^[4] In Clinton County, the route is locally maintained within the city of Plattsburgh and county-maintained from U.S. Route 11 (US 11) to the Canadian border.^[5]

Bronx to Kensico Dam

Route 22 starts as Provost Avenue at an intersection with U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in the Bronx, intersecting with East 233rd Street about 0.2 miles (0.3 km) later.^[6] It soon crosses the Westchester county line into Mount Vernon and becomes South Third Avenue, beginning a 30-mile (48 km) section in that county.^[7] Shortly after the county line, Route 22 makes a sharp turn to the right at the South Columbus Avenue intersection. It parallels the nearby Hutchinson River Parkway as it heads into the New York City suburbs of Bronxville and Tuckahoe. At Wilson Woods Lake, it crosses a pair of railroad tracks and becomes North Columbus Avenue, then has its first interchange with a limited-access road at the Cross County Parkway.^[4]

Two country clubs on either side herald NY 22's entry into the suburb of Eastchester.^[7] It makes a turn to the northeast, passing the Vernon Hills Shopping Center to the right. After leaving Eastchester, NY 22 continues north into the village of Scarsdale.^[7]

The route parallels the Bronx River Parkway (BRP) as it enters Westchester's county seat, White Plains.^[7] Within the city of White Plains, NY 22 is maintained by Westchester County with the unsigned designations of County Route 53 (CR 53) from the Scarsdale line to NY 125, CR 108 between NY 125 and Westchester Avenue, and CR 87 from Broadway to the North Castle line.^[4] NY 22 also intersects NY 125 and NY 119 in downtown White Plains, then bends to the northwest along North Broadway, eventually intersecting the Cross-Westchester Expressway (Interstate 287 or I-287). White Plains Rural Cemetery is visible to the west as NY 22 continues northward out of the city.^[7]

In North White Plains, the area that the road passes through becomes a little less developed as it goes over a gentle rise from which a short connector runs downhill to the traffic circle where the BRP ends and the Taconic State Parkway begins, just south of Kensico Dam.^[7]

Kensico Reservoir to Brewster

While the Taconic State Parkway continues along the northwest heading Route 22 had been following, Route 22 itself veers to the northeast along the reservoir's south shore towards a short concurrency with NY 120,^[7] just north of IBM's Armonk headquarters and the "Duke's Trees angle", the westernmost point in Connecticut.^[8] For the first time, NY 22 runs parallel to New York's eastern border, intersecting I-684 for the first of several times just north of the short portion of that highway in Connecticut. A short distance later, NY 433, one of the state's shortest highways, heads south from NY 22 into Greenwich.^[7]

After that junction, NY 22 bends back to the north, paralleling I-684 as a narrow, shaded meandering two-lane rural route through the Westchester countryside of large wooded lots and houses well-screened from the road. In downtown Bedford, the first settlement since White Plains, the highway overlaps with NY 172 for a few blocks, then intersects NY 121 at its southern terminus. Route 22 itself follows a due-north heading from the hamlet, passing the John Jay Homestead State Historic Site (the first National Historic Landmark along the highway), and Harvey School, before it briefly widens at a major intersection with NY 35 near Katonah.^[7] Two miles north of that junction, NY 22 becomes parallel to I-684 into the Town of Somers and the hamlet of Goldens Bridge. On the other side of the interstate, accessible via NY 138, is the Goldens Bridge train station on Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, which begins a long parallel alignment with NY 22 at this point.^[7]

The railroad's Purdy's station is a short distance west of the next junction, NY 116, after which NY 22 crosses under I-684, remaining between it and the railroad tracks. Turning left onto Hardscrabble Road, it follows the tracks away from the interstate to the site of the next station, North Salem's hamlet of Croton Falls. Just north of the hamlet, Route 22 crosses under the tracks, and is joined by US 202. Immediately afterward, the road crosses back under the railroad again and enters Putnam County, following the Croton River north past the spillway of East Branch Reservoir.^[7]

After paralleling the reservoir for almost two miles (3 km), a third route, US 6, joins the concurrency just east of the village of Brewster. The three routes cross under a high, long bridge carrying I-84, then veer east to an interchange with the north end of I-684. US 6 and 202 continue east for Danbury while NY 22 uses the northbound on-ramp of the I-684 roadway.^[7] The short expressway connector that carries northbound I-684 traffic to northbound NY 22 is NY 981B, an unsigned reference route.

Harlem Valley, Taconics and Berkshires

Route 22 continues heading northeast along a narrow strip of land between the East Branch and Bog Brook reservoirs. It then resumes its northward heading, following a much straighter course than it had up to this point, on two lanes through wooded areas of the town of Patterson, where two local state highways, NY 312 and 164, come in from the west. The highway gradually expands to three and sometimes four lanes as it passes through built-up areas of strip development. Shortly after intersecting a third state highway, NY 311, and passing another strip plaza, NY 22 crosses into Dutchess County.^[7]

After another supermarket strip to the east, a long, gentle divided bend in the road almost a mile long ends with an overpass where NY 55 comes in from the west. It joins NY 22 as the two routes, returning to two lanes, pass through the eastern fringe of the village of Pawling and then by Trinity-Pawling School. Past the village, the railroad tracks edge closer to the highway as NY 22 enters the scenic Harlem Valley, which lends its name to the railroad line.^[7] The road curves more gently and takes longer straightaways, with lower density of residential and commercial development. Two miles from Pawling, the Appalachian Trail crosses the road next to the line's Appalachian Trail station. The flag stop allows hikers access to the nearby Pawling Nature Preserve.

Routes 22 and 55 continue their long curve into the town of Dover, past the Harlem Valley–Wingdale station next to the road across from the now-closed buildings of Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center. The NY 55 concurrency ends when that road heads towards Connecticut at Wingdale. The road continues through Dover Plains and into Amenia, where an overlap with NY 343 begins. The railroad line ends at Wassaic, the most distant Metro-North station from the city in direct miles. Route 343 remains joined with Route 22 into the hamlet of Amenia, where it separates and heads towards state line. At the same junction, US 44 comes in from Millbrook to begin an overlap with Route 22.^[7] The valley opens up as the southern Taconics loom ahead. Shortly after crossing into the Town of North East, the highway passes by the large Coleman Station Historic District.

After intersecting with NY 199 at its eastern end, NY 22 and US 44 veer northeast into the small village of Millerton in the northern protrusion of Dutchess County's Oblong, an area once the subject of a boundary dispute between New York and Connecticut in the late 17th century. US 44 continues eastward towards Connecticut while NY 22 resumes its northward course into the shadow of the ridge ahead, where three states converge near the 2,311-foot (704 m) Brace Mountain, Dutchess County's highest, and Connecticut's highest point on Mount Frissell's southern slope. At another gentle curve, NY 22 slips into Columbia County and the town of Ancram.^[7] North of the county line, Massachusetts becomes the state behind Alander Mountain and the other peaks visible to the east. The southernmost route from New York to the Massachusetts state line, NY 344, leaves for Bashbish Falls State Park at the hamlet of Copake Falls.^[7]

The next major junction is in Hillsdale where NY 23 crosses NY 22 on its way to Catamount Ski Area, which straddles the New York–Massachusetts state line. At the hamlet of Green River, NY 71, the state's shortest two-digit route, begins at NY 22 heading east into Massachusetts. NY 22 then crosses into Austerlitz, where the surrounding terrain becomes much more wooded and the valleys become narrower. In the center of town, East Hill Road offers a short detour to Steepletop, the farm where Edna St. Vincent Millay lived. A short distance later, NY 22 intersects with NY 203 at its eastern end.^[7]

Route 22 then veers sharply to the northeast, resuming a northward direction only a short distance from the state line, a few hundred feet to the east. It then rounds a mountain and heads west, paralleling the New York State Thruway's Berkshire section (I-90) for a mile. NY 980D (an unsigned reference route) leaves to the east, where it becomes Massachusetts Route 102 at the state line. After Thruway exit B3, NY 22 resumes its northerly heading. From here it intersects NY 295, then passes Queechy Lake. NY 22 then straightens out to reach New Lebanon, where it intersects US 20. New York's longest east–west route (US 20) overlaps with its longest north–south route (NY 22) for a mile before the former continues to Pittsfield and the latter returns to the border-paralleling course, which takes it into Rensselaer County.^[7]

As NY 22 continues north, it remains, at first, within a mile of Massachusetts, moving to the east to intersect with NY 43 in Stephentown. North of that junction, it begins to run through a deep, isolated, lightly populated valley in the New York section of the Berkshires. Wide curves take the road through Berlin, where Berlin Mountain, the highest peak in the state outside of the Catskills and Adirondacks, caps the eastern skyline. Route 22 trends further west, then back east to where NY 2 crosses via an overpass at Petersburgh on its way to Petersburg Pass, the northernmost crossing of the New York–Massachusetts state line. The next road to head east from NY 22, NY 346 at North Petersburgh, enters Vermont.^[7]

Shortly afterward, the highway descends gently from the Berkshires to meet another major state road, NY 7, and overlaps with it for a short distance. Two miles after that concurrency ends, NY 22 follows the upper Hoosic River to Hoosick Falls, the first village it has passed through since Millerton. There are no other state routes here, but after another 2 miles (3.2 km), at North Hoosick, NY 67 comes in from the east and the two roads overlap as they leave Rensselaer County.^[7]

Washington County

Almost immediately after the joined roads cross the county line, NY 67 splits off to the west, crossing the Hoosick back into Rensselaer County, while NY 22 straightens out again to go due north. After 4 miles (6 km), it reaches Cambridge, where NY 313 forks off to the east. In the middle of town, NY 372, a local connector to Greenwich, ends.^[7]

North of Cambridge, the highway continues through a rolling landscape of fields and farms, the low transitional country between the Appalachians and the Adirondacks. Beyond NY 29's eastern terminus at Greenwich Junction, Route 22 heads eastward again through 18 miles (29 km) of countryside until, just before reaching Granville, it comes within 0.5 miles (800 m) of the state line, the closest it has come to that boundary since Austerlitz. At the village's south end, NY 22 intersects NY 149 and the two routes overlap for several blocks until NY 149 begins its short journey to Vermont. Just north of Granville, the first of NY 22's two suffixed routes, NY 22A, begins its route running closely parallel to the state line and then into Vermont, where it becomes Vermont Route 22A, paralleling the parent route for some distance on the other side of the state line.^[7]

Immediately after this junction, NY 22 begins a long curve away from the state line that has it running due west at the end of NY 40 in North Granville. It heads northwest a little further until, after passing between Great Meadows and Washington state prisons, it reaches US 4 and turns right to join it, resuming its northward course. The overlap with US 4, one of the few along Route 22 that pairs it with another north–south route, lasts for seven miles (11 km) along the base of the Adirondack foothills between the low country and Lake George, before ending in Whitehall, where US 4 leaves to assume the east–west course it takes across northern New England.^[7]

Adirondack Park and Lake Champlain

As NY 22 bends westward after leaving Whitehall, it rounds the north end of the ridge to the west, offering views into Vermont. Once again the Vermont state line is very near NY 22, but now it is separated from New York by water instead of land. The stream at the bottom of this valley, surrounded by the low lying Drowned Lands flood plain, is the inflow for Lake Champlain. The lake's South Bay, which the road crosses immediately after this turn, is also the Blue Line. Route 22 has now entered Adirondack Park, the 6,100,000-acre (25,000 km²) Forest Preserve and National Historic Landmark, and the largest state-level protected area in any state. Within the park, NY 22 mainly follows the lakeshore, closer to some of its more populated areas.^[7]

It continues along the hillside of Black Mountain, Washington County's highest peak, as it meanders north on the narrowing isthmus between Lakes Champlain and George. Near the northern end, it crosses the Essex County line. Two miles later, it reaches the first settlement along its length within the Adirondack Park, Ticonderoga. The highway skirts the northeastern edge of the village, the site of key battles in both the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars, as NY 74 comes in from the ferry to the east. This overlap lasts for almost two miles (3 km) until NY 74 goes straight ahead at the intersection with NY 9N, while NY 22 turns right to join NY 9N, the longest suffixed route in the state, and return to its northbound orientation.^[7]

At first, Routes 22 and 9N veer west, away from the lake, but then return to its shoreline to avoid a nearby mountain, just before Crown Point. NY 185, a small connector road, runs from 9N and 22 along the peninsula to become Vermont Route 17 (VT 17). They remain close to the widening lake for the next 15 miles (24 km) through Port Henry to Westport, where 9N leaves heading west for Elizabethtown. Beyond that junction, Route 22 again turns inland, going through the easy pass around Split Rock Mountain. At Bouquet, it makes an abrupt right turn to go due east back to the lakeshore and ferry landing at Essex. Here, the route connects to the Charlotte–Essex Ferry via Dock Street, which leads to VT F-5 on the opposite side of Lake Champlain.^[7]

At Willsboro, Route 22 heads to the northwest again, away from the lake, until it heads west and intersects US 9 in the town of Chesterfield, the other major north–south surface route up the state's eastern side. Routes 22 and 9 join together, closely parallel to the Adirondack Northway (I-87), the only other route in the state to directly connect New York City with Canada. The three routes, spread over many miles in the southern part of the state, run through a narrow corridor for two miles (3 km) until Routes 9 and 22 veer east again toward Keeseville.^[7]

Here, Route 9N ends and Routes 9 and 22 separate. The two will exchange corridors, with US 9 following the lake shore line while NY 22 remains mostly inland. NY 22 enters Clinton County just north of Keeseville, and then leaves Adirondack Park 2 miles (3.2 km) beyond at the Peru town line.^[7]

Clinton County

Just south of the hamlet of Peru, the short NY 442 terminates at Route 22. In the hamlet itself, after the Little Au Sable River crossing, NY 22's other suffixed route, NY 22B, branches off further inland. NY 22 continues north of Peru, and returns to the Northway's side again in a mile. After another five miles (8 km), it has its first exit on the Northway near the now-closed Plattsburgh Air Force Base. It continues northeastward, crossing the Saranac River into Plattsburgh,^[7] the first city and most populous community NY 22 has passed through since White Plains.

NY 22 runs along South Catherine Street for a few blocks, then divides into one-way couplets for the first time since Westchester County, with northbound traffic moving a block to the east to follow Oak Street, while southbound traffic comes down North Catherine Street. It parallels US 9 for a couple of blocks, intersecting NY 3 (Cornelia Street) just a block west of its eastern terminus at that highway. After Boynton Avenue, the separate streets reunite and turns northwest just before it has its second and final exit with the Northway. Just after the exit, NY 374 begins along the westbound route as NY 22 turns to the north once again.^[7]

The highway follows the railroad tracks into Beekmantown until it bears left at a fork, trending further west to Beekmantown Corners, where another short local road, NY 456, comes to its western end. After crossing into the next town, Chazy, NY 22 bears left again at another fork to drift further to the west.^[7] The terrain around the road becomes increasingly wooded, with long unbroken stretches of pine, in the northern portion of the town. This is briefly broken at another western terminus of a short local road, NY 191, in the hamlet of Sciota.^[9]

NY 22 continues past Sciota in a fairly straight north-northwesterly course through more woods with small home and farm clearings. Those yield to mostly fields just before the Great Chazy River, after which NY 22 enters the hamlet of Mooers.^[10][11] As signed, NY 22 comes to an end upon intersecting US 11;^[12] however, it officially overlaps with US 11 west to Hemmingford Road, where it turns north to follow Hemmingford Road north to the Canadian border.^[1] The highway continues north into the province of Quebec as Route 219.^[13]

History

Old roads

The road from the modern-day Bronx (then part of Westchester County) through White Plains to Bedford and points north was originally an old Indian path.^[14] This path was later used and widened by the first European settlers. During colonial times, the road was known as "the road to Bedford and Vermont".^[14] Further north, near Lake Champlain, the route now used by Route 22 was used by the St. Francis Indians of Canada as they went south to find warmer fishing areas.^[15] The old road was also used heavily during the American Revolution to transport iron south from the mines in the Adirondacks.^[15]

Once White Plains became the county seat of Westchester in 1759, the road between this village and the city of New York (then encompassing only Manhattan) became an important route and was established as the White Plains Post Road. Before 1797, the main road heading to points north and east out of Manhattan went via Kingsbridge along the old Boston Post Road.^[16] A new bridge over the Harlem River (the original Harlem Bridge) was opened in 1797, shortening the route out of Manhattan. This also relocated the Boston and White Plains Post roads to a new alignment along Third Avenue and Boston Road. The White Plains Post Road separated from the Boston Post Road in Bronxdale, with the road to Boston heading east and the road to White Plains heading north. The old White Plains Post Road roughly followed the alignment of modern-day White Plains Road, which was laid out in 1863.^[16] (The original post road was to the east of the modern-day avenue). The White Plains Post Road continued north through Olinville, Wakefield, and Mount Vernon, where the route shifted east to modern-day White Plains Post Road, going through Bronxville and Scarsdale to White Plains.^[17]

The stretch from Salem to the Vermont border in Granville was part of the old Northern Turnpike, which began in Lansingburgh and went along modern-day Route 40. The Northern Turnpike was chartered on April 1, 1799.^[18]

Public ownership

In 1868, the New York State Legislature formed a commission "to regulate, grade, widen, gravel, and improve the old White Plains Post Road", which was amended in 1870 to "macadamize the road"^[19] between Mount Vernon and White Plains. The post road south of Mount Vernon, which was part of New York City, was later widened between 1902 and 1908.^[16]

State highways were first formally defined by the state legislature in 1909 and given numeric designations,^[20] although these initial designations were not publicly signed. Portions of modern Route 22 were defined as part of legislative routes 1 and 22. Legislative route 1 went from the New York City line north along the White Plains Post Road to White Plains, then detoured to Harrison (via Westchester Avenue), before proceeding north to Armonk (via modern NY 120). Legislative route 1 continued north along modern NY 22 to Austerlitz, where it then turned northwest to Valatie (via modern NY 203 and NY 980B), then followed US 9 to Albany. Legislative route 22 had two segments. The southern segment began in Troy, following NY 7 to Hoosick, then went north along modern NY 22 up to Putnam Station (south of Ticonderoga).

Route 22 designation

In 1924, New York signed several major state roads with route numbers. Most of Legislative route 1 was designated as NY 22, but with a direct route between White Plains and Armonk. Also, instead of continuing to Valatie, NY 22 initially ended at Hillsdale (at the intersection with NY 23).^[2] By 1929, the road to Valatie had been improved and NY 22 was extended to US 9, with a length of 139 miles (224 km).^[21] The middle section of modern NY 22 was designated in 1924 as NY 24, running for 75 miles (121 km) from Stephentown to Comstock. The portion of modern NY 22 north of Whitehall remained unnumbered in 1924 but gained a designation in 1925 when NY 30, a route assigned in 1924 that linked Mechanicville to Whitehall, was extended north from Whitehall to the Canadian border north of Mooers.^[2][22] In the 1930 renumbering, the NY 24 and NY 30 designations were both reassigned elsewhere. The NY 22 designation was extended north along old NY 24 and NY 30,^[23] incorporating newly improved roads between Austerlitz and Stephentown, resulting in a route length of 370 miles (595 km).^[24] The segment of old NY 22 between Austerlitz and Valatie was renumbered to NY 203.^[23]

In December 1934, at the insistence of the Automobile Club of New York, several numbered routes were extended and signed within New York City, with NY 22 being one of these routes. NY 22 was extended south from the Mount Vernon line in the Bronx along White Plains Road, then it shifted via East 233rd Street to Webster Avenue until Fordham Road (US 1). From Fordham Road, it continued south along the Grand Concourse (overlapped with NY 100), crossing into Manhattan via East 149th Street to the 145th Street Bridge. In Manhattan, the NY 22/100 pair continued south along Lenox Avenue, 110th Street, Fifth Avenue, 96th Street, and Park Avenue, ending at Houston Street (NY 1A).^[25] By 1941, the alignment within Mount Vernon was shifted east to use Columbus Avenue and South 3rd Avenue (current NY 22), continuing its route to New York City via East 233rd Street as before.^[26] On January 1, 1970, the NY 22 designation was removed from Manhattan and most of the Bronx, and the short piece remaining in the city was realigned to meet US 1 at its current southern terminus.^[27]

U.S. Route 7

In the original plan for the U.S. Highway System, as approved by the Bureau of Public Roads in November 1926,^[28] US 7 was defined as beginning in New York City and designated on the alignment of NY 22 to Amenia, where it shifted northeast into Sharon, Connecticut to use old New England Route 4 through Massachusetts and Vermont all the way to the Canadian border. Apparently New York State did not approve this plan, and by mid-1927 the official route log published by AASHO (now known as AASHTO) had been amended so that the southern end of US 7 began in Norwalk, Connecticut instead.^[29]

State Route 9N concurrency

In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the stretch from Ticonderoga to Keeseville (now concurrent with NY 9N) was designated solely as Route 22. The north end of NY 47 was also located at an intersection with Route 22 in Ticonderoga. At Westport, NY 22 connected to NY 195, an east–west highway leading to Elizabethtown. At the time, Route 9N only stretched from Elizabethtown to Keeseville.^[23] NY 9N was extended southward to Lake George c. 1936, supplanting NY 47 and NY 195 and becoming concurrent with NY 22 between Ticonderoga and Westport.^[30][31]

NY 8 originally extended eastward from Hague to a ferry across Lake Champlain at Putnam when it was assigned as part of the renumbering. In between the two locations, the route utilized modern NY 9N, Montcalm Street, NY 22, and Wrights Ferry and Wrights roads.^[32] It was realigned in the early 1930s to continue east from Ticonderoga on what is now NY 74 to another ferry across the lake.^[32][33] NY 8 was altered again c. 1934 to follow NY 22 north from Ticonderoga to Crown Point, where it turned off the highway onto Bridge Road (now NY 185).^[33][34] Route 8 remained intact along this routing until c. 1968, when Route 8 was truncated southwestward to NY 9N in Hague.^[35][36]

Realignments

Over the course of many years, several sections of NY 22 were straightened, realigned to new roads, or both. Some old alignments are still either county-maintained or state-maintained. Several of these are in Dutchess County. In Dover Plains, the southern leg of NY 22's junction with NY 343 is maintained by the state as NY 980G, a reference route.^[31][37] To the north in the town of Amenia, a 4.03-mile (6.49 km)^[38] long loop off NY 22 between Wassaic and Amenia is designated as CR 81. Another former routing of NY 22 in the town of Dover exists as CR 6, a loop route between the hamlets of Wingdale and Dover Plains that runs along the west bank of the Ten Mile River.^[31][37] Within the 44/22 concurrency, the intersection with CR 5 south of Millerton is also a former alignment of Route 22.^[39]

Before the construction of I-684, NY 22 continued northeast along Sodom Road north of Brewster on what is now CR 50, a dead-end road maintained by Putnam County.^[40] Modern NY 22 joins the I-684 roadway at exit 10 (the northern terminus of I-684) and connects to the surface road on the opposite side of the Croton River via the NY 981B connector. South of Copake Falls, the state also still maintains an old alignment designated as NY 980F. North of Copake Falls, the northern half of the original alignment was designated as an extension of NY 344.^[41][42]

Mooers area

The segment of NY 22 north of US 11, named Hemmingford Road, was state-maintained until September 1, 1988, when ownership and maintenance of that part of the route was transferred to Clinton County as part of a highway maintenance swap between the county and the state of New York.^[43] Following the swap, it was co-designated as CR 34 by Clinton County.^[5] In 2008, the signed northern terminus of NY 22 was moved to the east end of its overlap with US 11 in Mooers.^[12][44] The official alignment of NY 22 was not changed, however, as the New York State Department of Transportation still considers the Canadian border to be NY 22's northern terminus as of March 2010.^[5]

The road is celebrated and described in Benjamin Swett's 2007 photographic travelogue, Route 22.^[45]

Suffixed routes

NY 22 has two suffixed routes, both in the North Country.

• NY 22A (10.61 miles or 17.08 kilometres) is a spur connecting NY 22 to the Vermont state line south of Fair Haven.^[1] Once in Vermont, the route becomes VT 22A.^[46] The route was assigned in the early 1940s.^[47][48]
• NY 22B (10.90 miles or 17.54 kilometres) is a bypass around the southern and western extents of Plattsburgh. NY 22B begins at NY 22 in Peru and continues north through Schuyler Falls to Morrisonville, where it terminates at NY 3 near Clinton County Airport.^[1] It was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.^[23]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Bronx	Eastchester	0.00	0.00	US 1 (Boston Road)- New Rochelle, Bronx Zoo	Southern terminus
Westchester	Mount Vernon	2.79	4.49	Cross County Parkway-Whitestone Bridge, Yonkers	Exit 8 on the Cross County Parkway
	White Plains	11.15	17.94	NY 125 south (Mamaroneck Avenue)	Northern terminus of NY 125
		11.57	18.62	NY 119 west (Hamilton Avenue)	Eastern terminus of NY 119
		12.30	19.79	I-287 – Tappan Zee Bridge	Exit 6 on I-287
	North White Plains	13.28	21.37	Central Westchester Parkway south to I-287 – Port Chester, Tappan Zee Bridge	Northern terminus of the Central Westchester Parkway
	North Castle	13.81	22.23	To Bronx River Parkway south / Taconic Parkway north	Southbound exit and northbound entrance to Kensico Circle
				Bridge over the Kensico Reservoir
		17.47	28.12	NY 120 south – Rye	Southern terminus of concurrency with NY 120
		17.79	28.63	NY 120 north – Chappaqua	Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 120
		18.94	30.48	NY 128 north – Armonk	Southern terminus of NY 128
		19.57	31.49	I-684 – White Plains, Brewster	Exit 3 on I-684
		19.97	32.14	NY 433 south	Northern terminus of NY 433
	Town of Bedford	25.80	41.52	NY 172 west to I-684 – Mount Kisco	Western terminus concurrency with NY 172
		26.83	43.18	NY 172 east – Pound Ridge, Stamford, CT	Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 172
		27.21	43.79	NY 121 north – Cross River	Southern terminus of NY 121
		32.10	51.66	NY 35 to I-684 – Katonah, Cross River
	Lewisboro	34.25	55.12	To NY 138	Grade-separated interchange
	North Salem	36.76	59.16	NY 116 west to I-684 south – Somers	Southern terminus of concurrency with NY 116
		36.83	59.27	NY 116 east – North Salem	Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 116
		38.13	61.36	Hardscrabble Road (CR 138) to I-684
	Somers	38.84	62.51	US 202 west – Mahopac	Southern terminus of concurrency with US 202
Putnam	Brewster	43.29	69.67	US 6 west – Carmel	Southern terminus of concurrency with US 6
	Southeast	44.20	71.13	I-684 south to I-84 – White Plains, Newburgh, Danbury, CT	Exit 10 on I-684; northern terminus of I-684
		44.20	71.13	US 6 east / US 202 east / Starr Ridge Road	Northern terminus of concurrency with US 6 / US 202
		47.18	75.93	NY 312 west	Eastern terminus of NY 312
	Patterson	50.36	81.05	NY 164 west	Eastern terminus of NY 164
		53.53	86.15	NY 311 south	Northern terminus of NY 311
Dutchess	Town of Pawling	56.02	90.16	NY 55 west – Poughkeepsie	Interchange; southern terminus of concurrency with NY 55
	Wingdale	62.90	101.23	NY 55 east – Gaylordsville, CT	Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 55
	Dover Plains	71.32	114.78	NY 343 west	Southern terminus of concurrency with NY 343
	Hamlet of Amenia	78.71	126.67	US 44 west / NY 343 east – Millbrook, Sharon, CT	Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 343; southern terminus of concurrency with US 44
	North East	85.71	137.94	NY 199 west – Pine Plains	Eastern terminus of NY 199
	Millerton	87.30	140.50	US 44 east – Lakeville	Northern terminus of concurrency with US 44
Columbia	Copake	100.12	161.13	NY 344 east – Copake Falls, Taconic State Park	Western terminus of NY 344
	Hillsdale	104.16	167.63	NY 23 to Taconic Parkway – Great Barrington, MA
		111.42	179.31	NY 71 east – Great Barrington, MA	Western terminus of NY 71
	Austerlitz	115.07	185.19	NY 203 north – Spencertown, Chatham	Southern terminus of NY 203
	Canaan			To Route 102 (via Albany Street / NY 980D)
		120.33	193.65	Berkshire Connector / I-90 – Albany, Mass Pike, Boston	Exit B3 (I-90 / NYST)
		123.18	198.24	NY 295 to Taconic Parkway – Chatham, Pittsfield, MA
	New Lebanon	128.12	206.19	US 20 west – Albany	Southern terminus of concurrency with US 20
		128.86	207.38	US 20 east – Pittsfield, MA	Northern terminus of concurrency with US 20
Rensselaer	Stephentown	134.86	217.04	NY 43
	Petersburgh	150.26	241.82	NY 2 – Petersburgh	Grade-separated; access via local roads
		155.55	250.33	NY 346 east	Western terminus of NY 346
	Hoosick	157.78	253.92	NY 7 west – Troy	Western terminus of concurrency with NY 7
		158.11	254.45	NY 7 east – Bennington, VT	Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 7
		164.16	264.19	NY 67 east – North Bennington, VT	Southern terminus of concurrency with NY 67
Washington	White Creek	166.65	268.20	NY 67 west – Valley Falls	Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 67
	Village of Cambridge	171.65	276.24	NY 313 east – Arlington, VT	Western terminus of NY 313
		171.98	276.77	NY 372 west – Greenwich	Eastern terminus of NY 372
	Town of Salem	181.00	291.29	NY 29 west – Greenwich	Eastern terminus of NY 29
	Town of Granville	199.49	321.05	NY 149 west – Hartford	Southern terminus of concurrency with NY 149
		199.56	321.16	NY 149 east – Granville	Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 149
		202.27	325.52	NY 22A north – Middle Granville	Southern terminus of NY 22A
		206.71	332.67	NY 40 south – Hartford	Northern terminus of NY 40
	Town of Fort Ann	210.96	339.51	US 4 south – Fort Ann	Southern terminus of concurrency with US 4
	Village of Whitehall	217.67	350.31	US 4 north – Rutland, VT	Northern terminus of concurrency with US 4
Essex	Hamlet of Ticonderoga	242.52	390.30	NY 74 east – Fort Ticonderoga, Ferry to Vermont	Southern terminus of concurrency with NY 74
	Town of Ticonderoga	244.12	392.87	NY 9N south / NY 74 west – Ticonderoga, Schroon Lake	Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 74; southern terminus of concurrency with NY 9N
	Crown Point	255.43	411.07	NY 185 north to VT 17 – Bridge to Vermont	Southern terminus of NY 185
	Westport	269.60	433.88	NY 9N north to I-87	Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 9N
	Chesterfield	295.80	476.04	I-87 south / US 9 – Elizabethtown	Southern terminus of concurrency with US 9; exit 33 (I-87)
Clinton	Keeseville	300.37	483.40	US 9 north / NY 9N – Ausable Chasm, Plattsburgh	Northern terminus of concurrency with US 9; southern terminus of concurrency with NY 9N; northern terminus of NY 9N
		300.64	483.83	NY 9N south to I-87 / A-15 – Ausable Forks, Whiteface Mountain	Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 9N
	Town of Peru	306.22	492.81	NY 442 east to I-87	Western terminus of NY 442
	Community of Peru	306.45	493.18	NY 22B north	Southern terminus of NY 22B
	Town of Plattsburgh	312.58	503.05	I-87	Exit 36 (I-87)
	City of Plattsburgh	316.98	510.13	NY 3 (Cornelia Street)
	Town of Plattsburgh	318.17	512.04	I-87 – Albany	Exit 38 (I-87)
		318.50	512.58	NY 374 west to Tom Miller Road – Dannemora, Saranac Lake	Eastern terminus of NY 374
	Beekmantown	323.17	520.09	NY 456 east to I-87	Western terminus of NY 456
	Chazy	332.39	534.93	NY 191 east to I-87	Western terminus of NY 191
	Community of Mooers	337.26	542.77	US 11 north – Champlain	Signed northern terminus of NY 22; southern terminus of unsigned concurrency with US 11
		337.53	543.20	US 11 south – Malone	Northern terminus of unsigned concurrency with US 11
	Town of Mooers	340.94	548.69	Route 219 north	Moores–Hemmingford Crossing; continuation into Quebec
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

See also

• New York State Bicycle Route 22
• U.S. Route 7, which runs parallel to 22 across the state line in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont

County route systems containing a former alignment

• List of county routes in Clinton County, New York
• List of county routes in Dutchess County, New York
• List of county routes in Putnam County, New York
• List of county routes in Westchester County, New York

Notes

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to New York State Route 22.

• New York State Route 22 at Alps' Roads • New York Routes • New York State Highway Termini
• NY 22 Travelogue @ Empire State Roads
• NY 22 (Greater New York Roads)

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