New York State Route 25

NYS Route 25
Maintained by NYSDOT
Length:	105.07 mi[1] (169.09 km)
Formed:	1920s[2][3]
West end:	Queensboro Bridge in New York City
Major junctions:	I-278 in Woodside I-495 in Elmhurst Jackie Robinson Pkwy in Kew Gardens I-678 in Kew Gardens I-295 / NY 24 in Queens Village Cross Island Pkwy in Bellerose Terrace Northern Pkwy in Mineola I-495 in Westbury Sunken Meadow Pkwy in Commack I-495 in Calverton
East end:	Orient Point ferry landing in Orient Point
Counties:	New York, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
Numbered highways in New York < NY 24 NY 25A > Interstate – U.S. – N.Y. (former) – Reference

New York State Route 25 is a major east-west road running from east midtown Manhattan, New York City, to the Cross Sound Ferry terminal at Orient Point on the end of the North Fork of Long Island.

NY 25 has many names. In the borough of Queens, it is called Braddock Avenue, Hillside Avenue and finally Queens Boulevard. In Nassau and Western Suffolk counties, Route 25 is referred to as Jericho Turnpike. Moving east, the highway changes names to Main Street in Smithtown, Middle Country Road in Central Suffolk, Main Street again in Riverhead and finally Main Road in Eastern Suffolk.

NY 25 is carried from Queens to Manhattan over the East River via the double-decked Queensboro Bridge. The bridge is sometimes referred to as the 59th Street Bridge. The bridge is the only double-decked portion of NY-25.

Two alternate routings exist bearing the designation "Truck Route 25", both along the North Fork of Long Island. One is between Laurel and Mattituck (or Aldrich Lane), and the other is directly within Greenport itself along Moore's Lane.

Route description

New York City

Route 25 begins near Second Avenue at the western end of the double-decked Queensboro Bridge over the East River and Roosevelt Island in New York City. East of the bridge, Route 25 becomes Queens Boulevard at the intersection with New York State Route 25A at Long Island City in the borough of Queens. Queens and Queensboro Plazas are based on this section of the road. In Long Island City, Route 25 runs southeast beneath the elevated tracks of the IRT Flushing Line. At Thompson Avenue, the route turns to run eastward as the multi-lane divided Queens Boulevard. In Woodside, Route 25 interchanges Interstate 278, at exit 39. In Corona, the road intersects Interstate 495 and the northern terminus of Woodhaven Boulevard. Throughout most of its route in New York City, Route 25 is one of the most important to commuters in the borough of Queens.

Outside of Rego Park, Route 25 turns slightly southeast towards Forest Hills and Jamaica. In Kew Gardens, the route is connected to the westbound and eastbound roadways of Union Turnpike and passes over the Jackie Robinson Parkway without access. Near Jamaica, the road partially interchanges with Interstate 678, at exit 9. Three blocks southeast of I-678, Route 25 turns east and is known as Hillside Avenue. This roadway of Route 25 is undivided but has several lanes in the Jamaica-Hollis area. In Queens Village, the route interchanges the southern terminus of Interstate 295. East of I-295, Route 25 intersects the eastern termini of New York State Route 25B; 25 turns southeast onto Braddock Avenue while 25B continues as Hillside Avenue. In Bellerose, the roadway passes over the Cross Island Parkway and turns east onto Jericho Turnpike. This section until just before 257^th Street is the border between the Bellerose and Floral Park neighborhoods of Queens to the north and the Village of Bellerose and Village of Floral Park in Nassau County to the south. The westbound lanes are in New York City while the eastbound lanes are in Nassau County.^[4]

Long Island east of New York City

State Route 25B and Hillside Avenue merge into Route 25 in Mineola.^[5] Route 25 continues as a divided highway again and parallels the Northern State Parkway along the northern portion of Long Island. Route 25 intersects with the Long Island Expressway once again in Jericho. State Routes 106 and 107 interchange with Route 25 in downtown Jericho, however the exit is not numbered.^[6]

NY 135 exit on Route 25.

The end of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway comes at Route 25 in Syosset. State Route 110 intersects at 32.76 miles (52.72 km) in Huntington. State Route 454 begins at an intersection with Route 25 in Commack.^[7] Just after the 454 intersection, the Sunken Meadow State Parkway interchanges with Route 25. State Route 25A, a spur of Route 25, becomes concurrent with Route 25 in Smithtown.^[8] In Village of the Branch, Route 25A leaves to the north when Route 111 intersects from the south.

State Route 347 intersects at 47.93 miles (77.14 km) in Nesconset. In Coram, Route 25 intersects with State Route 112. Route 25A comes to an end at Route 25 in Calverton, and four miles (6 km) later, the Long Island Expressway interchanges a final time. 20 miles (32 km) later, in Greenport, Route 25 intersects with Route 114 at its northern terminus.^[9] Route 25 continues on the northeastern end of Long Island for the final ten miles (16 km). Route 25 enters Orient and comes to an end at the Orient Point Ferry Landing. An attraction along Route 25 in Orient is Orient Beach State Park.^[10]

History

NY 25 was designated between 1924 and 1926 along what is now NY 25A from the New York City line to Smithtown and its current alignment (except for minor realignments) from Smithtown east to Greenport.^[2][3] By 1929, the current routing of NY 25 from New York City to Smithtown was designated as part of NY 25A.^[11] In the 1930 renumbering, the routings of NY 25 and NY 25A were flipped west of Smithtown, placing both routes on their current alignments.^[12]

NY 25 and 25A overlap in Smithtown.

NY 25 was extended west into New York City in December 1934^[13] and east to Orient Point by 1946.^[14] Although maps from the 1930s through the 1960s indicated that NY 25 continued across the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan,^[15][16] it did not officially do so until January 1, 1970.^[17]

Prior to September 2005, the section of NY 25 that forms the border between New York City and Nassau County was simultaneously named Jamaica Avenue on the westbound (Queens, New York City) side and Jericho Turnpike on the eastbound (Nassau County) side.^[18] Some map makers only showed one of the names. (As of April 2009, Mapquest still labels it Jamaica Avenue.)^[19] The confusion ends when the road wholly enters Nassau County and wholly becomes Jericho Turnpike. (West of Braddock Avenue, before it becomes Route 25, both sides of the road are known as Jamaica Avenue even though the south side is still the Nassau County border until 225^th Street.)

Former segments

Many former segments of the roads NY 25 follows exist along the current alignment, with most prefaced by the word "Old" in the road name. Within Jericho, Old Jericho Turnpike parallels the current road from a point east of the NY 106/NY 107 interchange and Marian Lane, where the old alignment merges with the current NY 25.^[6] In Coram, an old alignment of Middle Country Road (NY 25) extends from east of Paul's Path to Grant Smith Road.^[20] The road, however, is discontinuous at NY 112.^[21] At Middle Island, a former segment of Middle Country Road exists east of Church Lane and north of Bartlett Pond and runs to Robin Drive in Middle Island, where it rejoins NY 25. Another former segment used to dip south to avoid a small lake to the north.^[22] A small segment of the road remains intact as Old Middle Country Road from Picaso Way to Woodville Road.^[23] Prior to the construction of Picaso Way and the cluster developments it leads to, this section of Old Middle Country Road connected to the existing section at its west end, the stub of which can still be found.^[24]

Near Riverhead, Middle Country Road once followed a parallel roadway to the south of the current roadway between River Road and Forge Road.^[25] Although some of this section has been dismantled, a portion still exists as modern Forge Road from the Peconic River Bridge to Kroemer Avenue.^[26] In Mattituck, an old alignment of Main Road (NY 25) exists as Old Main Road from Gray Avenue to west of Sigsbee Road. Southwest of Southold, Main Road originally followed the length of Lower Road and Ackerly Pond Lane between Lower Road and Main Road.^{[citation needed]} To the northeast of the community, another former segment remains intact as Old Main Road between Budd's Pond and Mill Creek to Hashamomuck Pond.^[27]

East of Greenport, a former alignment of Main Road is located between the creek from Silver Lake and Silvermere Road.^[25] In Orient, two former routings of Main Road exist, both in the vicinity of Bight Road. The first, a loop connecting Grandview Drive to NY 25, is located west of Bight Road. The second, a loop providing access to Whalers Road from NY 25, is west of Charles Rose Airport.^[28]

Reconstruction and widening projects

In the early-1970s, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) wanted to install frontage roads along a divided Route 25 between Nesconset and Lake Grove as part of a proposed upgrade of NY 347 into the limited-access highway it was originally meant to be.^[29]

In the 1960s and 1970s, NYSDOT wanted to realign both Route 112 and Route 25 in Coram. The realignment and widening of NY 25 was to take place between NY 112 and Winfield Davis Road.^{[citation needed]}

Suffixed routes

NY 25 once had as many as four suffixed routes; two no longer exist.

• NY 25A (72.91 miles (117.34 km)^[1]) is an alternate route of NY 25 across northern Long Island. The route begins at the Queens Midtown Tunnel in Queens and ends at NY 25 in Calverton.
• NY 25B (7.25 miles (11.67 km)^[1]) is an alternate route of NY 25 between eastern Queens and Mineola, Nassau County.
• NY 25C was an alternate route of NY 25 along Union Turnpike and Marcus Avenue in the New York City borough of Queens and the county of Nassau.
• NY 25D was a connector between NY 25 in Queens and NY 25A in Nassau County.

Major intersections

County	Location	Mile[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
New York	Manhattan	0.00	2nd Avenue south, 60th Street west	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
			To FDR Drive / 1st Avenue north	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		0.48	Queensboro Bridge over the East River
Queens	Queens
			Jackson Avenue (NY 25A west)	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			NY 25A east (Northern Boulevard)	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		1.62	Queensboro Bridge upper roadway	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		1.62	NY 25A (Jackson Avenue, Northern Boulevard)	Turns only allowed from NY 25 west and to NY 25 east
		3.83	I-278	Exit 36 (I-278)
			I-495	Exit 20 (I-495)
			Jackie Robinson Parkway	Exit 7 (Jackie Robinson Pkwy)
		7.99	Union Turnpike	Former western terminus of NY 25C
		8.59	I-678	Exit 8 (I-678)
			I-295 / NY 24	Southern terminus of I-295; western terminus of the western segment of NY 24
		13.37	NY 25B	Western terminus of NY 25B
		14.43	Cross Island Parkway	Exit 27 (Cross Island Parkway)
Nassau	Garden City Park		Marcus Avenue	Former eastern terminus of NY 25C
	Mineola	20.27	Northern State Parkway	Exit 31 (Northern State Parkway)
		20.76	NY 25B	Eastern terminus of NY 25B
	Old Westbury		Wantagh	Formerly proposed Wantagh State Parkway Extension
	Westbury	24.54	I-495	Exit 40 (I-495)
	Jericho	25.40	NY 106 / NY 107	Cloverleaf interchange with no exit numbers
	Syosset	28.25	NY 135	Northern terminus of NY 135
			Caumsett	Formerly proposed Caumsett State Parkway
Suffolk	Huntington	32.76	NY 110 (Broad Hollow Road)
	Elwood		NY 231	Formerly proposed Babylon-Northport Expressway
	Commack	39.58	NY 454	Western terminus of NY 454
		39.88	Sunken Meadow State Parkway	Exit SM3 (SMSP)
	Smithtown	43.80	NY 25A west	Western terminus of overlap; site of the Smithtown Bull
	Village of the Branch	45.15	NY 25A east / NY 111	Eastern terminus of NY 25/25A overlap; northern terminus of NY 111
			CR 16 (Terry Road)
	Nesconset	47.93	NY 347 (Nesconset Highway)
	Centereach	51.92	CR 97 (Nicolls Road)	First single-point urban interchange in New York State[30]
	Selden	54.25	CR 83 (Patchogue-Mount Sinai Road)
	Coram	55.10	NY 112
	Middle Island		CR 8	Formerly proposed Yaphank Bypass
	Ridge	61.63	CR 46 (William Floyd Parkway)	Cloverleaf interchange with no exit numbers
			CR 111	Formerly proposed Port Jefferson-Westhampton Beach Road
	Calverton	66.85	NY 25A	Eastern terminus of NY 25A
			CR 94	Formerly proposed Nugent Drive Extension
		70.57	I-495	Exit 72 (I-495)
	CDP of Riverhead	73.85	To CR 104	Formerly NY 113
	Aquebogue	75.95	CR 105 (Cross River Drive)
	Greenport	95.68	NY 114	Northern terminus of NY 114
	Orient Point	105.07	Orient Point ferry landing	To Fisher's Island, New York and/or New London, Connecticut

References

New York portal

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: New York State Route 25

• Queensborough Bridge History from NYCROADS.com
• Queens Boulevard Expressway proposals from NYCROADS.com
• NY 25-25A concurrency (Gribblenation.net)
• Cross Sound Ferry Services
• New York Routes – New York State Route 25
• NY 25 (Greater New York Roads)
• NY 25 at Alps' Roads
• Termini of NY State Route 25