New York State Route 22 (NY 22) is a north–south
state highway
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that parallels the eastern border of the U.S. state of
New York
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, from the outskirts of
New York City
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to the hamlet of
Mooers in
Clinton County Clinton County may refer to:
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near the
Canadian border
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. At , it is the state's longest north–south route and the third longest state route overall, after
NY 5
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and
NY 17. Many of the state's major east–west roads intersect with, and often
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, NY 22 just before crossing into the neighboring
New England
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states, where
U.S. Route 7
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(US 7), which originally partially followed NY 22's alignment, similarly parallels the New York state line.
Almost all of NY 22 is a two-lane rural road through small villages and hamlets. The exceptions are its southern end in the heavily populated
Bronx
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and lower
Westchester County
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, and a section that runs through the city of
Plattsburgh
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near the northern end. The rural landscape that the road passes through varies from horse country and views of the reservoirs of the
New York City watershed in the northern suburbs of the city, to
dairy farm
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s further
upstate in the
Taconic and
Berkshire
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mountains, to the undeveloped, heavily forested
Adirondack Park
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along the shores of
Lake Champlain
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. An section from
Fort Ann to
Keeseville is part of the
All-American Road
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known as the
Lakes to Locks Passage
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.
The oldest portions of today's NY 22, in Westchester County and along the Lake Champlain shoreline, were
Native American trails.
Dutch
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People E ...
, and after them English, settlers continued to use the road to get their farm products to market, with the southernmost portion eventually becoming the White Plains Post Road in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the early 20th century, as automobile use became widespread, the state paved the more heavily used sections and built new roads to create the current highway, first designated as NY 22 in 1930. In its early years the highway began in
Manhattan
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; until 2008 its northern end was the Canadian border.
Route description
NY 22 starts as an urban arterial road, passing through the most populous communities along its route within its first . After running northerly from its origin in the Bronx it veers slightly to the northeast in the vicinity of a
traffic circle
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near
Kensico Dam
The Kensico Reservoir is a reservoir spanning the towns of Armonk (North Castle) and Valhalla ( Mount Pleasant), New York, located 3 miles (5 km) north of White Plains. It was formed by the original earth and gravel Kensico Dam constructed in 1885 ...
before heading northward for good as a mostly two-lane rural route all the way to the state's
North Country.
The majority of NY 22's routing is maintained by the
New York State Department of Transportation
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(NYSDOT); however, several sections are maintained by other jurisdictions. The southernmost of these is in
the Bronx
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, where the entirety of the highway within the
borough
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History
In the Middle Ag ...
is maintained by the
New York City Department of Transportation
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(NYCDOT).
In
Westchester County
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, NY 22 is mostly locally maintained within the city of
Mount Vernon
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and is county-maintained within the city of
White Plains.
In
Clinton County Clinton County may refer to:
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, the route is locally maintained within the
city of Plattsburgh.
During its course, NY 22 intersects or
runs concurrently with 46 other designated routes: one
state parkway, five
Interstate Highways
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, and seven
U.S. Highways
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not counting its own termini. Of the surface road intersections, 18 terminate at NY 22 and 15 are concurrencies shared with the crossing routes, accounting for , or 21.5% of the highway's total length.
The Bronx to Kensico Dam
![NY 22 in Mount Vernon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/NY_22_in_Mount_Vernon.JPG)
NY 22 starts as Provost Avenue at an intersection with
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in the
Eastchester section of
the Bronx
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, intersecting with
East 233rd Street
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about to the north. It soon crosses the
Westchester county line into
Mount Vernon
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and becomes South Third Avenue, beginning a section in that county.
Shortly after the county line, NY 22 makes a sharp turn to the east at the South Columbus Avenue intersection, soon passing
St. Paul's Church National Historic Site on its north, then curving back to that direction. It parallels the nearby
Hutchinson River Parkway
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as it passes through the suburbs of
Bronxville
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and
Tuckahoe. At Wilson Woods Lake, it crosses under a railroad bridge on the
Metro-North
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New Haven Line
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and becomes North Columbus Avenue, then has its first interchange with a
limited-access road
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at the
Cross County Parkway
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.
Country club
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s on either side bracket NY 22's entry into
Eastchester.
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.
Paralleling the
Bronx River Parkway
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(BRP), enters Westchester's
county seat
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,
White Plains.
NY 22 also intersects
NY 125 and
NY 119
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in downtown White Plains, then bends to the northwest along North Broadway, eventually intersecting the
Cross-Westchester Expressway (
Interstate 287 or I-287). The
White Plains Rural Cemetery
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is visible to the west as NY 22 continues northward out of the city.
In
North White Plains, the surrounding area becomes less developed as it goes over a gentle rise from which a short connector runs downhill to the
traffic circle
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where the BRP ends and the
Taconic State Parkway
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begins, just south of
Kensico Dam
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.
Kensico Reservoir to Brewster
While the Taconic State Parkway continues along the northwest heading NY 22 had been following, NY 22 itself veers to the northeast along the reservoir's south shore. After crossing a small bridge over one of the reservoir's bays, NY 22 becomes a four-lane divided highway and begins a thousand-foot ()
concurrency
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, the first of 15 along its length, with
NY 120.
The combined roads pass just west of
IBM's
Armonk
Armonk is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of North Castle, located in Westchester County, New York, United States.
The corporate headquarters of IBM are located in Armonk.
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headquarters and the "Duke's Trees angle", the westernmost point in
Connecticut
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.
For the first time, NY 22 runs parallel to New York's eastern border, intersecting
I-684
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for the first of several times just north of the short portion of that highway in Connecticut, after which NY 22 reverts to two lanes. A short distance later,
NY 433, one of the state's shortest highways, heads south from NY 22 into
Greenwich
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Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich ...
.
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
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, the first settlement since White Plains, the highway overlaps with
NY 172 for a mile (1.6 km), its first concurrency with an east–west route, then veers back to the northwest at the center of town. Just to the north,
NY 121, the only north–south state highway whose route is entirely east of NY 22, forks off from its southern terminus. Another mile past that, NY 22 returns to a due-north heading, passing the
John Jay Homestead State Historic Site
The John Jay Homestead State Historic Site is located at 400 Jay Street in Katonah, New York. The site preserves the 1787 home of Founding Father and statesman John Jay (1745–1829), one of the three authors of ''The Federalist Papers'' and the ...
a
National Historic Landmark
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, where it turns west briefly, and
Harvey School
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, where it curves to the northwest again. After the
Katonah Museum of Art
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The museum was foun ...
it widens briefly at a major intersection with
NY 35.
north of that junction, NY 22 becomes parallel with 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 station
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on
Metro-North Railroad
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's
Harlem Line
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, which begins a long parallel alignment with NY 22 at this point.
![I-84 bridge over US 6-US 202-NY 22 and Croton River](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/I-84_bridge_over_US_6-US_202-NY_22_and_Croton_River.jpg)
The railroad's
Purdy's station is a short distance west of the next junction,
NY 116. At another traffic light to the north, NY 116 goes east to
Titicus Reservoir
Titicus Reservoir is a reservoir located in the Town of North Salem in Westchester County, 30 miles (48 km) north of New York City. One of twelve in the NYC water supply's Croton Watershed, it has been supplying the system since 1893.
At f ...
at the northern intersection, the highway crosses under I-684, remaining between it and the railroad tracks. Just past the Interstate, NY 22 turns west onto Hardscrabble Road, which soon turns north again to follow the tracks to
the next station,
North Salem's hamlet of
Croton Falls. Just north of the hamlet, NY 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
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north past the
spillway
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of
East Branch Reservoir
East Branch Reservoir, is a reservoir in the town of Southeast, New York, near the village of Brewster. Part of the New York City water supply system, it was formed by impounding the East Branch of the Croton River. Forming part of the Croton W ...
.
After paralleling the reservoir for almost , a third route,
US 6, joins the concurrency just east of the village of
Brewster, forming the only three-route overlap along NY 22. The three routes cross under a high, long bridge carrying
I-84
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* Interstate 84 (Pennsylvania–Massachusetts)
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, then veer east to an interchange with the north end of I-684. US 6 and 202 continue east for
Danbury
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Danbury is nicknamed the "Hat City ...
while NY 22 uses the northbound on-ramp of the I-684 roadway. The next thousand feet (300 m) of NY 22, along the brief extension of I-684, is the highway's only expressway section; the roadways merge and narrow to two lanes after they cross the Croton's East Branch.
Harlem Valley, Taconics and Berkshires
![NY 22 with Harlem Valley view](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/NY_22_with_Harlem_Valley_view.jpg)
NY 22 continues heading northeast along a narrow strip of land between the East Branch and
Bog Brook
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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
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* Patterson (surname)
Places
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, where two local state highways,
NY 312 and
164
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, 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
Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 295,911. The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. The county was created in 1683, one of New York's first twelve counties, and later organ ...
.
After another supermarket strip to the east, a long, gentle
divided
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At an elementary level the division of two natural numb ...
bend in the road almost a mile long ends with an overpass where
NY 55
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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
Trinity-Pawling School, founded in 1907, is an independent college and preparatory boarding school for boys from 7th grade to 12th grade. The 230 acre campus is situated in Pawling, New York, a small hamlet in southern Dutchess County. It is lo ...
. Past the village, the railroad tracks edge closer to the highway as NY 22 enters the scenic Harlem Valley, near the lower end of the
Taconic Mountains
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.
The road curves more gently and takes longer straightaways, with lower density of residential and commercial development. from Pawling, the
Appalachian Trail
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crosses the road next to the line's
similarly named station.
NY 22 and NY 55 continue their long curve into the town of
Dover
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, past the
Harlem Valley–Wingdale station next to the road across from the now-closed buildings of
Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center
Harlem Valley State Hospital, south of the hamlet of Wingdale, New York, Wingdale in the town of Dover, New York, Dover, was a New York State psychiatric hospital that operated from 1924 to 1994.
History
The grounds were originally slated to be ...
. The NY 55 concurrency ends when that road forks off east towards Connecticut at the hamlet of
Wingdale. The road continues through
Dover Plains
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...
and into
Amenia, where an overlap with
NY 343 begins. The railroad line ends at
Wassaic. NY 343 remains joined with NY 22 into
the hamlet of Amenia, where it separates and heads towards
Sharon, Connecticut
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. At the same junction,
US 44 comes in from
Millbrook to begin an overlap with NY 22.
The valley opens up as the southern
Taconics
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loom ahead. Shortly after crossing into the Town of
North East, the highway passes by the large
Coleman Station Historic District
The Coleman Station Historic District is located around the former New York Central Railroad Coleman's station in the Town of North East, New York, United States, a short distance south of the village of Millerton. It is a rural area including ...
.
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
Lakeville, Connecticut
Lakeville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States, close to Dutchess County, New York. It is within the town of Salisbury, but has its own ZIP Code (06039). As of the 2010 census, the population of Lak ...
, only a mile (1.6 km) east at this point, while NY 22 resumes its northward course into the shadow of the ridge ahead, where
Brace Mountain
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, Dutchess County's highest peak,
dominates the view. At another gentle curve, NY 22 slips into
Columbia County and the town of
Ancram.
North of the county line,
becomes the state behind
Alander Mountain
Alander Mountain is a prominent peak of the south Taconic Mountains; it is located in southwest Massachusetts and adjacent New York. Part of the summit is grassy and open and part is covered with scrub oak and shrubs; the sides of the 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 just west of the hamlet of
Copake Falls.
![NY 22 at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale, NY](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/NY_22_at_Falcon_Ridge_Folk_Festival%2C_Hillsdale%2C_NY.jpg)
The next major junction is at
Hillsdale, where
NY 23
New York State Route 23 (NY 23) is an east–west state highway in the eastern portion of New York in the United States. It extends for from an intersection with NY 26 in the Central New York town of Cincinnatus in Cortland County ...
, the longest east–west state highway not to overlap with NY 22, intersects at a traffic light just east of downtown. At Green River,
NY 71, the state's shortest two-digit route, begins it short eastward course into Massachusetts. NY 22 then crosses into
Austerlitz Austerlitz may refer to:
History
* Battle of Austerlitz, an 1805 victory by the French Grand Army of Napoleon Bonaparte
Places
* Austerlitz, German name for Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic, which gave its name to the Battle of Austerlitz a ...
, where the surrounding terrain becomes much more wooded and the valleys become narrower. In the center of town, the historic hamlet of Old Austerlitz, East Hill Road offers a short detour to
Steepletop
Steepletop, also known as the Edna St. Vincent Millay House, was the farmhouse home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband Eugen Jan Boissevain, in Austerlitz, New York, United States. Her former home and gardens a ...
, the farm where
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of he ...
lived, another National Historic Landmark. A short distance later, NY 22 intersects with
NY 203
New York State Route 203 (NY 203) is a state highway in the Capital District of New York in the United States. It begins at an intersection with NY 22 in the Columbia County hamlet of Austerlitz and ends at a junction with U.S. ...
at its eastern end.
NY 22 then veers sharply to the northeast, resuming a northward direction within of the state line, the highway's closest approach to it along its entire length. It then rounds a mountain and heads west, paralleling the
New York State Thruway
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's Berkshire section (
I-90
Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It begins in Seattle, Washington, and travels through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, Great Plains, Midwest, and ...
) 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
Queechy Lake is a lake in Canaan, Columbia County, New York. Situated near the Massachusetts state border, the lake is deep and contains a surface area of .
The name comes from the Native American Mahican name Quis-sich-kook, of unknown meaning.
...
. NY 22 then straightens out to reach
New Lebanon, where it intersects
US 20. Ending a stretch with no concurrencies, the longest on NY 22, 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
Pittsfield is the largest city and the county seat of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the principal city of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Berkshire County. Pittsfield ...
and the latter returns to the border-paralleling course, which takes it into
Rensselaer County
Rensselaer County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 161,130. Its county seat is Troy. The county is named in honor of the family of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the original Dutch owner of the la ...
.
![Downtown Hoosick Falls, NY](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Downtown_Hoosick_Falls%2C_NY.jpg)
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
The Berkshires () are a highland geologic region located in the western parts of Massachusetts and northwest Connecticut. The term "Berkshires" is normally used by locals in reference to the portion of the Vermont-based Green Mountains that ex ...
. Wide curves take the road through the town of
Berlin
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. NY 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
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
.
Shortly afterward, the highway descends gently from the Berkshires to meet another major east–west state road,
NY 7. After turning northeast to join it at a traffic light, NY 22 overlaps with Route 7 for , then forks off to the north just before crossing the
Hoosic River
The Hoosic River, also known as the Hoosac, the Hoosick (primarily in New York) and the Hoosuck (mostly archaic), is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed October 3, 2011 tri ...
. NY 22 follows the river for to
Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls is a village in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 3,501 at the 2010 census. During its peak, in 1900, the village had a population of approximately 7,000.
The village of Hoosick Falls is near the center ...
, the first village it has passed through since Millerton. There are no other state routes here, but after another , at North Hoosick,
NY 67 comes in from the east and the two roads overlap as they leave Rensselaer County.
Washington County
The next of NY 22 traverse
Washington County, the longest portion of the highway in a single county.
Almost immediately after the joined roads cross the 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 , it reaches
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
, where
NY 313 forks off to the east. In the middle of town,
NY 372, a local connector to
Greenwich
Greenwich ( , ,) is a town in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London. It is situated east-southeast of Charing Cross.
Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich ...
, ends.
North of Cambridge, the highway continues through a rolling landscape of fields and farms, the low transitional country between the
Appalachians
The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, (french: Appalaches), are a system of mountains in eastern to northeastern North America. The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. They ...
and the
Adirondacks
The Adirondack Mountains (; a-də-RÄN-dak) form a massif in northeastern New York with boundaries that correspond roughly to those of Adirondack Park. They cover about 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2). The mountains form a roughly circular d ...
. Beyond
NY 29
New York State Route 29 (NY 29) is a state highway extending for across the eastern portion of the U.S. state of New York. The western terminus of the route is at NY 28 and NY 169 in Middleville, Herkimer County. The easte ...
's eastern terminus at Greenwich Junction, NY 22 heads eastward again through of countryside until, just before reaching
Granville, it comes within 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 until Route 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 (VT 22A), paralleling the parent route for some distance on the other side of the state line.
![NY 22 N of Whitehall](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/NY_22_N_of_Whitehall.jpg)
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
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
state prisons, it reaches
US 4 and turns right to join it, resuming its northward course. At this point the highway is from the state line, the farthest west it has gotten from it since southern Westchester County. The overlap with US 4, the first to pair NY 22 with another north–south route since the short concurrency with NY 120, lasts for along the base of the Adirondack foothills between the low country and
Lake George, before ending in
Whitehall
Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London. The road forms the first part of the A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea, London, Chelsea. It is the main ...
, where US 4 leaves to assume the east–west course it takes across northern New England.
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
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...
, is the inflow for
Lake Champlain
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, coords =
, type =
, ...
. The lake's South Bay, which the road crosses immediately after this turn, is also the
Blue Line. NY 22 has now entered the
Adirondack Park
The Adirondack Park is a part of New York's Forest Preserve in northeastern New York, United States. The park was established in 1892 for “the free use of all the people for their health and pleasure”, and for watershed protection. The park ...
, the
Forest Preserve
A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or o ...
and
National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...
, and the largest publicly
protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
in the
contiguous United States
The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the Federal District of the United States of America. The term excludes the only two non-contiguous states, Alaska and Hawaii ...
.
Within the park, NY 22 mainly follows the lakeshore, closer to some of its more populated areas.
![NY 22 in northern Washington County during winter](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/NY_22_in_northern_Washington_County_during_winter.jpg)
It climbs through rock cuts as it meanders north on the narrowing
isthmus
An isthmus (; ; ) is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated. A tombolo is an isthmus that consists of a spit or bar, and a strait is the sea counterpart of an isthmu ...
between Lakes Champlain and George. Near the northern end, it crosses the
Essex County line. into the county, 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
A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates a revolution. The term ''revolutionary'' can also be used as an adjective, to refer to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.
...
Wars, as
NY 74 comes in from the ferry to the east, the first intersecting state route since Whitehall, ending the longest such break on NY 22 at . The two routes overlap for almost until NY 74 goes straight ahead at the intersection with
NY 9N
New York State Route 9N (NY 9N) is a north–south state highway in northeastern New York in the United States. It extends from an intersection with U.S. Route 9 (US 9), NY 29, and NY 50 in the city of Saratoga Sp ...
, while NY 22 turns right to join NY 9N, the longest suffixed route in the state, and return to its northbound orientation for the longest of its concurrencies, at .
At first, NY 22 and NY 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 NY 9N and NY 22 along the peninsula to become
VT 17. The road remains close to the widening lake for the next , with the tracks of the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
The Delaware and Hudson Railway (D&H) is a railroad that operates in the Northeastern United States. In 1991, after more than 150 years as an independent railroad, the D&H was purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). CP operates D&H ...
, used today by
CSX
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...
for freight and
Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...
for
passenger service between New York and
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...
, sometimes immediately to the east. After passing through
Port Henry
Port Henry is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,194 at the 2010 census.
Port Henry lies on the eastern side of the town of Moriah and is approximately one hour's drive (52 miles ...
to
Westport, where 9N leaves heading west for
Elizabethtown. Beyond that junction, NY 22 again turns inland, going through the easy pass around Split Rock Mountain, going northwest to
Wadhams Wadhams is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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* Edgar Philip Prindle Wadhams, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg
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where it turns northeast to
Whallonsburg, then north. At Boquet, it makes an abrupt turn to go due east back to the lakeshore and ferry landing at
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
, where it connects to the
Charlotte–Essex Ferry
The Lake Champlain Transportation Company (LCTC or LCT) is a vehicle ferry operator that runs three routes across Lake Champlain between the US states of New York and Vermont. From 1976 to 2003, the company was owned by Burlington, Vermont, busi ...
via Dock Street, leading to
VT F-5 on the opposite side of Lake Champlain.
![NY 22 view to Vermont near Essex](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/NY_22_view_to_Vermont_near_Essex.jpg)
The highway again follows the lakeshore to
Willsboro, where NY 22 heads to the northwest again, inland, through dense forest, until it heads west and intersects
US 9 in the town of
Chesterfield
Chesterfield may refer to:
Places Canada
* Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261, Saskatchewan
* Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut United Kingdom
* Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a market town in England
** Chesterfield (UK Parliament constitue ...
, the other major north–south surface route up the state's eastern side. NY 22 and US 9 join, closely parallel to the Adirondack Northway (
I-87
Interstate 87 may refer to either of two unconnected Interstate Highways in the United States:
* Interstate 87 (New York), a highway running from New York City north to the Canadian border in Champlain, New York.
* Interstate 87 (North Carolina) ...
), 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 until US 9 and NY 22 veer east again toward
Keeseville.
Here, NY 9N ends and US 9 and NY 22 separate, ending the last concurrency along the latter. The two will exchange corridors, with US 9 following the lake shore line while NY 22 remains mostly inland. NY 22 enters
Clinton County Clinton County may refer to:
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**Clinton County, New York
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*Counties named for DeWitt Clinton, s ...
just north of Keeseville, and then leaves Adirondack Park beyond at the
Peru
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town line.
Clinton County
Just south of the
hamlet of Peru, the short
NY 442 terminates at NY 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 , it has its first exit on the Northway near the now-closed
Plattsburgh Air Force Base
Plattsburgh Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) base covering 3,447 acres (13.7 km²) in the extreme northeast corner of New York, located on the western shore of Lake Champlain opposite Burlingto ...
. It continues northeastward, crossing the
Saranac River
Saranac River ( moh, Tsi ietsénhtha) is an river in the U.S. state of New York. In its upper reaches is a region of mostly flat water and lakes. The river has more than three dozen source lakes and ponds north of Upper Saranac Lake; the highes ...
into
Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh ( moh, Tsi ietsénhtha) is a city in, and the seat of, Clinton County, New York, United States, situated on the north-western shore of Lake Champlain. The population was 19,841 at the 2020 census. The population of the surrounding ...
,
the first city and most populous community NY 22 has passed through since White Plains.
![New York State Route 22 New York State Route 22 (35881145086)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/New_York_State_Route_22_New_York_State_Route_22_%2835881145086%29.jpg)
NY 22 runs along South Catherine Street for a few blocks, then divides into
one-way couplet
A one-way pair, one-way couple, or couplet refers to that portion of a bi-directional traffic facilitysuch as a road, bus, streetcar, or light rail linewhere its opposing flows exist as two independent and roughly parallel facilities.
Descriptio ...
s 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.
The highway follows the railroad tracks into
Beekmantown
Beekmantown is a town in Clinton County, New York, United States. The population was 5,545 at the 2010 census. The town name is that of William Beekman, an original landowner. It is on the eastern border of the county, just north of Plattsburgh ...
until it bears left at a fork, trending further west to Beekmantown Corners, where another short local road, County Route 58, formerly
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.
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, County Route 23, formerly
NY 191, in the hamlet of Sciota.
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
Chazy River is the name of two tributaries of Lake Champlain in Clinton County, New York in the United States.
The more northerly river is the Great Chazy River, which empties into Lake Champlain at King Bay in the Town of Champlain.
The more so ...
, after which NY 22 enters the
hamlet of Mooers.
NY 22 comes to an end upon intersecting
US 11.
History
In popular culture
The road is celebrated and described in
Benjamin Swett's 2007 photographic travelogue, ''Route 22''.
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
Native American path.
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".
[ Further north, near Lake Champlain, the route now used by NY 22 was used by the St. Francis Indians of Canada as they went south to find warmer fishing areas.] The old road was also used heavily during the American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolut ...
to transport iron south from the mines in the Adirondacks
The Adirondack Mountains (; a-də-RÄN-dak) form a massif in northeastern New York with boundaries that correspond roughly to those of Adirondack Park. They cover about 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2). The mountains form a roughly circular d ...
.[
Once White Plains became the county seat of Westchester in 1759, the road between the village and the city of New York (then encompassing only ]Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
) 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
Kingsbridge is a market town and tourist hub in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two electoral wards bear the name of ''Kingsbridge'' (East & North). Their combined population at the abo ...
along the old Boston Post Road
The Boston Post Road was a system of mail-delivery routes between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts that evolved into one of the first major highways in the United States.
The three major alignments were the Lower Post Road (now U.S. Ro ...
. A new bridge over the Harlem River
The Harlem River is an tidal strait in New York, United States, flowing between the Hudson River and the East River and separating the island of Manhattan from the Bronx on the New York mainland.
The northern stretch, also called the Spuyte ...
(the original Harlem Bridge
The Third Avenue Bridge carries southbound road traffic on Third Avenue over the Harlem River, connecting the borough (New York City), boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City. It once carried southbound New York State Route 1A. Th ...
) 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
Third Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, as well as in the center portion of the Bronx. Its southern end is at Astor Place and St. Mark's Place. It transitions into Cooper Square ...
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
White Plains Road is a major north-south thoroughfare which runs the length of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It runs from Castle Hill and Clason Point in the south to Wakefield in the north, where it crosses the city line and becomes ...
'', which was laid out in 1863.[ (The original post road was to the east of the modern-day avenue). The White Plains Post Road continued north through Olinville, ]Wakefield
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, and Mount Vernon
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, where the route shifted east to modern-day White Plains Post Road, going through Bronxville
Bronxville is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States, located approximately north of Midtown Manhattan. It is part of the town of Eastchester. The village comprises one square mile (2.5 km2) of land in its entirety, ...
and Scarsdale to White Plains.
The stretch from Salem to the Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
border in Granville was part of the old Northern Turnpike, which began in Lansingburgh
Lansingburgh was a village in the north end of Troy. It was first laid out in lots and incorporated in 1771 by Abraham Jacob Lansing, who had purchased the land in 1763. In 1900, Lansingburgh became part of the City of Troy.
Demographics
Lansi ...
and went along modern-day NY 40. The Northern Turnpike was chartered on April 1, 1799.
Public ownership
In 1868, the New York State Legislature
The New York State Legislature consists of the two houses that act as the state legislature of the U.S. state of New York: The New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly. The Constitution of New York does not designate an official ...
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" 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.[
]State highway
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s were first formally defined by the state legislature in 1909 and given numeric designations, although these initial designations were not publicly signed. Portions of modern NY 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
Armonk is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of North Castle, located in Westchester County, New York, United States.
The corporate headquarters of IBM are located in Armonk.
Geography and climate
As of the 2010 census, Ar ...
(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
New York State Route 203 (NY 203) is a state highway in the Capital District of New York in the United States. It begins at an intersection with NY 22 in the Columbia County hamlet of Austerlitz and ends at a junction with U.S. ...
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).
NY 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
Armonk is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of North Castle, located in Westchester County, New York, United States.
The corporate headquarters of IBM are located in Armonk.
Geography and climate
As of the 2010 census, Ar ...
. Also, instead of continuing to Valatie, NY 22 initially ended at the NY 23
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intersection in Hillsdale. By 1929, the road to Valatie had been improved and NY 22 was extended to US 9, with a length of . The middle section of modern NY 22 was designated in 1924 as NY 24, running for from Stephentown to Comstock. The portion of modern NY 22 north of Whitehall remained unnumbered in 1924 but the next year NY 30, a route assigned in 1924 that linked Mechanicville to Whitehall, was extended north from Whitehall to the Canadian border north of Mooers. In the 1930 renumbering, the NY 24 and NY 30 designations were both reassigned elsewhere. NY 22 was then extended north along their former routes, incorporating newly improved roads between Austerlitz Austerlitz may refer to:
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and Stephentown, creating the route that existed until 2008. The segment of old NY 22 between Austerlitz and Valatie was renumbered to NY 203
New York State Route 203 (NY 203) is a state highway in the Capital District of New York in the United States. It begins at an intersection with NY 22 in the Columbia County hamlet of Austerlitz and ends at a junction with U.S. ...
.
In 1934, at the insistence of the Automobile Club of New York, several numbered routes were extended and signed within New York City
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, with NY 22 among them. It was extended south from the Mount Vernon line in the Bronx along White Plains Road
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, then following East 233rd Street
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to Webster Avenue
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until Fordham Road
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( US 1). From there, it continued south along the Grand Concourse (then overlapped with NY 100), crossing into Manhattan via East 149th Street to the 145th Street Bridge
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. In Manhattan, the NY 22/100 concurrency
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continued south along Lenox Avenue
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, 110th Street
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, Fifth Avenue
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, 96th Street, and Park Avenue
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, ending at Houston Street
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( NY 1A). 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. 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 NY 22's current southern terminus.
U.S. Route 7
In the original plan for the U.S. Highway System
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, as approved by the Bureau of Public Roads in November 1926, 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
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, to use old New England Route 4 through Massachusetts and Vermont all the way to the Canadian border
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. Apparently New York did not approve this plan, and by mid-1927 the official route log published by the American Association of State Highway Officials
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had relocated the southern end of US 7 to Norwalk, Connecticut
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.
NY 9N concurrency
In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the stretch from Ticonderoga to Keeseville now concurrent with NY 9N
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was designated solely as NY 22. The north end of NY 47 was also located at an intersection with NY 22 in Ticonderoga. At Westport, NY 22 connected to NY 195, an east–west highway leading to Elizabethtown. At the time, Route 9N only extended from there to Keeseville. NY 9N was extended southward to Lake George , supplanting Routes 47 and 195 and becoming concurrent with NY 22 between Ticonderoga and Westport.
NY 8 originally extended eastward from Hague
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to a ferry across Lake Champlain
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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. It was realigned in the early 1930s to continue east from Ticonderoga on what is now NY 74 to another ferry across the lake. NY 8 was altered again to follow NY 22 north from Ticonderoga to Crown Point, where it turned off the highway onto Bridge Road (now NY 185). Route 8 remained intact along this routing until , when Route 8 was truncated southwestward to NY 9N at Hague
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.
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
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. In Dover Plains
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...
, the southern leg of NY 22's junction with NY 343 is maintained by the state as NY 980G, a reference route. To the north in the town of Amenia, a loop off NY 22 between Wassaic and Amenia is designated as CR 81. Another former routing of NY 22 in the town of Dover
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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. Within the 44/22 concurrency, part of CR 5 (and its short spur 5S), a mile-long (1.6 km) loop west of the highway south of Millerton, is also a former alignment of NY 22.
Before the construction of I-684
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, NY 22 continued northeast along Sodom Road north of Brewster on what is now CR 50, a dead-end road maintained by Putnam County. 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
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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.
Mooers area
The segment of NY 22 north of US 11, named Hemmingford Road, was state-maintained until 1988, when ownership and maintenance of that part of the route was transferred to Clinton County Clinton County may refer to:
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as part of a highway maintenance swap between the county and the state of New York. Following the swap, it was co-designated as CR 34 by Clinton County. In 2008, the signed northern terminus of NY 22 was moved to the eastern end of its overlap with US 11 in Mooers. The official alignment of NY 22 was not changed, however, as the New York State Department of Transportation
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still considered the Canadian border to be NY 22's northern terminus until 2014.
Major intersections
Suffixed routes
NY 22 has two suffixed routes, both in the North Country.
* NY 22A () is a spur connecting NY 22 to the Vermont
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state line south of Fair Haven. Once in Vermont, the route becomes VT 22A. The route was assigned in the early 1940s.
* NY 22B
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() is a bypass around the southern and western extents of Plattsburgh
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. NY 22B begins at NY 22 in Peru
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and continues north through Schuyler Falls
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to Morrisonville, where it terminates at NY 3 near Clinton County Airport
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. It was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.
See also
* New York State Bicycle Route 22
County route systems containing a former alignment
* List of county routes in Clinton County, New York
County routes in Clinton County, New York, were not signed in any form, until 2015 when it began adding the blue pentagon route shields, serving as little more than references for inventory purposes. CR 45–56 served as spurs to the count ...
* List of county routes in Dutchess County, New York
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* List of county routes in Putnam County, New York
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Most of the county road numbers, which are all two-digits, are signed with th ...
* List of county routes in Westchester County, New York County routes in Westchester County, New York, are maintained by the Westchester County highway department. They provide additional interconnections between state highways within the county. Some portions of state highways in Lower Westchester Count ...
Notes
References
External links
NY 22 Travelogue @ Empire State Roads
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Transportation in Washington County, New York
Transportation in Essex County, New York
Transportation in Clinton County, New York
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