New York State Route 24 (NY 24) is a east–west
state highway
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on
Long Island
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in the U.S. state of
New York
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. The highway is split into two segments, with the longest and westernmost of the two extending from an
interchange with
Interstate 295 (I-295, named the Clearview Expressway) and
NY 25 (Hillside Avenue) in the
Queens Village section of the
New York City borough of
Queens
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to an
intersection
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with
NY 110 in
East Farmingdale
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in the
Suffolk County town of
Babylon
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. The shorter eastern section, located in eastern Suffolk County, extends from an interchange with
I-495 in
Calverton to an intersection with
County Route 80 (CR 80) in
Hampton Bays.
NY 24 is one of three highways in New York that are split into two segments; the others are
NY 42
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in the
Catskills and
NY 878 in Queens and
Nassau County. Like NY 42, NY 24 was a continuous route when it was assigned as part of the
1930 renumbering of state highways in New York. The highway was split into two pieces in the mid-1930s. For a brief period during the late 1950s and early 1960s, NY 24 was routed on the
Long Island Expressway
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from
Manhattan
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to
East Hills while its original surface routing was designated New York State Route 24A.
Most of the route is known as Hempstead Turnpike.
Western segment
Queens Village to Nassau Coliseum
NY 24 begins at an intersection with the southern end of
I-295 (the Clearview Expressway) and a junction with
NY 25 (Hillside Avenue) in the
Queens Village section of
Queens
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. NY 24 proceeds southeast along two one-way couplets along
Hollis Court Boulevard and 212th Street through dense housing for several blocks (the only unsigned section of the route). At the intersection with 91st Avenue, the couplets bend southward, entering an intersection with
Jamaica Avenue
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, where NY 24 turns off Hollis Court and 212th and follows Jamaica Avenue eastbound for a block. At the
junction with Hempstead Avenue, NY 24 turns off Jamaica for Hempstead, crossing under the
Long Island Rail Road
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(LIRR) main line through Queens Village.
Passing a Long Island Rail Road substation, NY 24 proceeds southeast along the four-lane commercial strip of Hempstead Avenue, intersecting with
Springfield Boulevard as it crosses through Queens Village. A short distance later, the route enters a
partial cloverleaf interchange
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with the
Cross Island Parkway
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's exit 26B. After crossing the Cross Island Parkway, NY 24 enters
Nassau County, changing names to Hempstead Turnpike and passing south of
Belmont Park Racetrack and the
Belmont Park LIRR station, along with
UBS Arena, the home of the
New York Islanders
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of the
National Hockey League
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. Now a six-lane boulevard through the town of
Hempstead, NY 24 crosses several parking lots used for Belmont Park Racetrack and UBS Arena, paralleling the grounds to the south for several blocks.
After crossing into the
Elmont neighborhood of Hempstead, NY 24 reduces to four lanes, crossing through a long commercial strip east of the racetrack. The route crosses through East Elmont before entering Floral Park Crest, where the roadway bends northeast through Hempstead. After crossing an intersection with Covert and Meacham Avenues, NY 24 straightens eastward once again, crossing a long commercial strip through town. The route soon makes a short bend to the southeast, crossing an intersection with
New Hyde Park Road and Franklin Avenue later into
West Hempstead
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. In West Hempstead, NY 24 crosses over the former connection between the Long Island Railroad
West Hempstead Branch
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and
Hempstead Branch before entering an intersection with
NY 102 (Front Street).
At this intersection, NY 24 drops the Hempstead Turnpike moniker, changing to Fulton Avenue. NY 24 then proceeds northeast through downtown Hempstead, remaining a four-lane commercial street through the city, bending south of a local park. At the junction with Clinton Street, NY 24 bends east for a block, turning northeast again at
Peninsula Boulevard. Paralleling NY 102, NY 24 returns to its northeastern progression, regaining the Hempstead Turnpike moniker in front of
Hofstra University
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. At Oak Street on the western end of the campus, NY 24 becomes a four-lane
divided highway
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through Hempstead, passing south of Hofstra University Stadium and past several parking lots for the campus. East of Hofstra Boulevard, the road widens to six lanes. Just after Earle Ovington Boulevard, the route continues east in to
Uniondale and runs alongside the parking lots for
Nassau Coliseum
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, the former home of the Islanders from their 1972 founding until 2015, then 2018 until 2021, when they moved west down the pike to UBS Arena.
Nassau Coliseum to Farmingdale
At the junction with
Glenn Curtiss
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Boulevard, NY 24 passes the main entrance to the Coliseum's parking lots before passing north of
Rexcorp Plaza. Just after Rexcorp Plaza, NY 24 enters an interchange (exits M4 and M5) with the
Meadowbrook State Parkway
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. After the Meadowbrook, NY 24 enters
East Meadow
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, remaining a six-lane boulevard past Merrick Avenue, passing south of Eisenhower Park. While the park runs along the westbound lanes, several commercial businesses line the eastbound lanes. After Bly Road, the park changes over to more businesses and a short distance later, NY 102 terminates at NY 24 at Front Street. After Carman Avenue, the route passes south of
Nassau University Medical Center before returning to the commercial businesses that have surrounded the roadway.
Just to the east of Nassau University Medical Center, NY 24 enters an intersection with
NY 106 (North Newbridge Road), and four blocks later, exit W3 of the
Wantagh State Parkway. Continuing east through the town of Hempstead, NY 24 remains a six-lane divided boulevard, crossing north of the Levittown Public Library as the route crosses into
Levittown, intersecting with Jerusalem Avenue at the western end of the community. NY 24 continues east along a commercial strip into an intersection with North Wantagh Avenue, bending southeast into an intersection with
NY 107 (Hicksville Road). The route then crosses into the town of
Oyster Bay. Retaining the Hempstead Turnpike name, NY 24 enters the
Plainedge
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The area was once known as Turkeyville.
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Acc ...
neighborhood of Oyster Bay.
After passing St. Joseph's Hospital, NY 24 crosses through Plainedge and into a large
cloverleaf interchange
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(exit 7) with the
Seaford–Oyster Bay Expressway (NY 135). Three blocks to the east, NY 24 condenses to four lanes, entering a partial cloverleaf interchange with the
Bethpage State Parkway (exit B3). After crossing over the Bethpage, the route proceeds northeast through the town of Oyster Bay, crossing into the town of
Farmingdale. After crossing under a line of the Long Island Rail Road, the route crosses Merritt Avenue at-grade, entering a junction with
NY 109 (Fulton Street). Past the junction with NY 109, NY 24 changes monikers to Conklin Street, crossing through Farmingdale as a four lane street.
For several blocks, NY 24 passes residential homes, before becoming a two-lane commercial street. A short distance to the east, the route intersects with Secatogue Avenue, which connects to the
Farmingdale station
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to the northwest. Re-expanding to four lanes, NY 24 crosses through Farmingdale on Conklin before crossing the county line into
Suffolk County. Now in the town of
Babylon
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, retaining the Conklin Street moniker before entering an at-grade junction with
NY 110 (Broad Hollow Road) in front of Airport Plaza. This junction serves as the eastern terminus of NY 24's western segment.
As of October 2014, NY 24's Farmingdale section between its junction with New York State Route 109 and the eastern terminus at New York State Route 110 has been reduced to a two lane street.
Eastern segment
The eastern segment of NY 24 begins at exit 71 of the
Long Island Expressway
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(I-495) in the
Calverton section of
Brookhaven just east of the former
Calverton station. NY 24 proceeds eastward along Edwards Avenue, concurrent with
County Route 94 (CR 94) before changing monikers at the corner of South River Road. NY 24 bends northeast along Nugent Drive as a four-lane arterial through Brookhaven. NY 24 and CR 94 cross through
Peconic Bog County Park, crossing into the town of
Southampton
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. After leaving Peconic Bog County Park, the routes bend northeast along Nugent, paralleling the
Peconic River past the Suffolk County jail and into a traffic circle just south of
Riverhead.
At this traffic circle, NY 24 passes north of county offices for Suffolk County, leaving the concurrency with CR 94, which proceeds north into Riverhead. Meanwhile, in the town of Southampton, NY 24 enters another traffic circle, this time the northern terminus of
CR 51 (Center Drive South). A short distance further east, NY 24 enters a third traffic circle in Southampton, this time serving the terminus of
CR 104 (Riverleigh Avenue) and
CR 63 (Lake Avenue / Peconic Avenue). After this traffic circle, NY 24 continues east along Flanders Road, which parallels the Peconic River. The route soon bends southeast through Southampton, crossing an at-grade intersection with
CR 105 (Cross River Drive).
NY 24 soon turns eastward into the hamlet of
Flanders
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, becoming a two-lane residential street through the community. At Wood Road Trail, NY 24 bends southeast through Flanders, paralleling the eastern end of
Reeves Bay. Making a large bend along Reeves Bay, the route passes several bayside marinas and the
Big Duck
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, a building on the westbound side of NY 24 designed in the shape of a
duck
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. After Pleasure Drive, NY 24 winds eastward through Southampton, working out of the Reeves Bay area for a large dense area of trees to the east. A short distance later, the route enters Sears Bellows County Park, soon changing monikers to Riverhead–Hampton Bays Road. At Bellows Pond Road, NY 24 leaves the county park, passing south of Red Creek Park before bending southeast into an interchange with Sunrise Highway (
NY 27) at exit 65. Just after the cloverleaf, NY 24 ends at an intersection with
CR 80 (West Montauk Highway) in the community of
Hampton Bays.
History
NY 24 was originally a continuous route between the
New York City
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limits and
Hampton Bays when it was assigned as part of the
1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.
The route was extended into New York City in mid-December 1934. It entered the city on Hempstead Avenue and followed 212th Street, Hillside Avenue, and Queens Boulevard to Skillman Avenue (
NY 25). NY 24 joined NY 25 here,
overlapping NY 25 (and
NY 25A west of Northern Boulevard) along Queens Boulevard and across the
Queensboro Bridge
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into
Manhattan
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. The three routes continued west for several more blocks along
2nd Avenue and
57th Street to
Park Avenue
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(then
NY 22 and
NY 100), where NY 24, NY 25, and NY 25A all ended. The section of NY 24 between
Farmingdale and
Riverhead was removed , splitting NY 24 into two pieces.
New York City and vicinity
The overlap with NY 25 was extended twice over the next decade. In the late 1930s, NY 25 was realigned to follow Queens Boulevard (NY 24) from Skillman Avenue to Horace Harding Boulevard.
It was altered again in the early 1940s to use the section of Queens Boulevard between Horace Harding Boulevard and
Union Turnpike.
The concurrency was reduced slightly in the mid-1940s, however, as NY 24 was rerouted to follow the Crosstown Connecting Highway (now the right-of-way of
I-278
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) and Midtown Highway (
I-495) to the
Queens–Midtown Tunnel
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. It then continued through the tunnel to end at
NY 1A in
Manhattan
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.
The Crosstown Connection Highway and the Midtown Highway were upgraded into the first portions of the
Brooklyn–Queens Expressway
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(BQE) and the
Queens Midtown Expressway, respectively, in the early 1950s. At the time, the Queens Midtown Expressway ended at 61st Street.
By 1956, the highway had been renamed the
Long Island Expressway
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(LIE) and extended east to Queens Boulevard. Although NY 24 intersected the highway twice—where it left the LIE at the BQE and at Queens Boulevard—NY 24 still followed the BQE and Queens Boulevard. The portion of the LIE from Queens Boulevard to the
Northern State Parkway (now exit 38) was completed in the late 1950s, at which time NY 24 was rerouted to follow the LIE between Manhattan and
East Hills. The original routing of NY 24 from the BQE to Farmingdale was then redesignated as NY 24A. However, unlike NY 24 before it, NY 24A left NY 25 at the junction of Queens Boulevard and Hillside Avenue and followed Queens Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue through Queens.
The portion of NY 24 from Manhattan to the
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was co-signed as I-495 by 1960.
NY 24 was removed from the LIE and shifted southward to replace NY 24A . However, NY 24 was truncated to begin at the LIE instead.
On January 1, 1970, NY 24 was truncated again to the junction of Queens Boulevard and Hillside Avenue. This eliminated its overlap with NY 25, which was altered to follow NY 24's former routing through Queens.
NY 24 was rerouted once more between 1977 and 1981 to follow 212th Street once again to end at NY 25 and
I-295.
Suffolk County
In Riverhead, NY 24 initially had a brief overlap with the northernmost portion of
CR 104 (then
NY 113) between Riverleigh Avenue (CR 103) and Main Street (NY 25), where both terminated. This concurrency was eliminated by 1970 as NY 113 was truncated to end at NY 24.
On July 1, 1972, NY 24 was extended westward along a new
divided highway
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following the course of the
Peconic River. The roadway began at the Long Island Expressway and ended just south of Riverhead.
This segment of NY 24 is maintained by
Suffolk County and is
co-signed as
CR 94. It is one of three locally maintained sections of NY 24; the others are in Queens, where the route is maintained by the
New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), and in the village of Hempstead, where the route is maintained by Nassau County as CR 107 from North Franklin Street to Truro Lane.
In the 1960s, there was a proposal to build a bypass around the current eastern terminus of the western segment of NY 24. The highway, named the "Republic Bypass", would begin at NY 24 midway between the
Nassau
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–Suffolk County line and
NY 110 and would parallel Conklin Street along its north side to Wellwood Avenue, where the bypass would merge with Long Island Avenue. The bypass was part of a plan to re-link the western and eastern segments. Other proposed extensions built by Suffolk County were Suffolk Avenue (
CR 100), Furrows Road, Peconic Avenue, and the formerly proposed Central Suffolk Highway (
CR 90). The right-of-way for the Central Suffolk Highway can be found beneath the bridge carrying
CR 101 bridge over the main line of the
Long Island Rail Road
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.
Major intersections
See also
*
List of county routes in Nassau County, New York
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References
External links
NY 24 (Greater New York Roads)
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