New York State Route 9X (NY 9X) was a
state highway
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located within
New York City
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. It served as an alternate route of
U.S. Route 9 (US 9) through
Manhattan
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and
the Bronx
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. The southern terminus of the route was in the Manhattan neighborhood of
Inwood; its northern terminus was in the Bronx neighborhood of
Kingsbridge. NY 9X was assigned in April 1935; however, the road had been signed as a numbered highway since 1934. The designation was removed entirely in the 1940s.
Route description
NY 9X began at the intersection of West 207th Street and
Broadway (
US 9) in the
Manhattan
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neighborhood of
Inwood. The route headed to the southeast, following 207th Street for five blocks through Inwood prior to crossing over the
Harlem River on the
University Heights Bridge
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. On the opposite side of the river in
the Bronx
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, within the community of
University Heights, NY 9X became Fordham Road and continued east to a junction with Sedgwick Avenue. While Fordham Road continued on to meet
US 1, located just three blocks to the east, NY 9X turned north to follow Sedgwick Avenue along the Harlem River.
The route changed streets again just two blocks later as it veered onto Bailey Avenue, another north–south street that continued Sedgwick Avenue's course along the riverside. NY 9X proceeded north along the Harlem River to the
Kingsbridge neighborhood, where the river turned westward to delimit the northern edge of Manhattan. The route remained on a northward course until West 230th Street, where it turned west for one block to rejoin US 9 at an intersection with Broadway. NY 9X ended at this point, located just northeast of where the route began in Inwood.
History
Although
US 9 was signed in the state of
New York
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in 1927,
[ This edition shows U.S. Routes as they were first officially signed in 1927.] it, like all other routes within the
New York City
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limits, was not signed within the city until 1934. In mid-December of that year, US 9, as well as several other routes that passed through the city limits (such as
US 1), were posted in New York City for the first time. Several routes were also extended into the city or created within the city limits, including US 9X, an alternate route of US 9 through northern
Manhattan
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and the lower
Bronx
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along 207th Street, Bailey Avenue, and 230th Street.
Although the termini of the route never changed, it was redesignated as NY 9X in April 1935,
before being removed completely in the 1940s.
Major intersections
See also
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References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:New York State Route 009x
009X
Streets in the Bronx
U.S. Route 9