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93-563: New York State Route 27 ( NY 27 ) is a 120.58-mile (194.05 km) long state highway that runs east–west from Interstate 278 (I-278) in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to Montauk Point State Park on Long Island , New York . Its two most prominent components are Sunrise Highway and Montauk Highway , the latter of which includes the Montauk Point State Parkway . NY 27 acts as

186-685: A county highway to connect Nicolls Road in Lake Grove through the Long Island MacArthur Airport, then on to the east end of the merge. As recently as 1981, the New York State Department of Transportation planned to add service roads and a proper interchange at both ends of the merge. Pressure from environmental groups seeking to avoid damaging the parkland stalled construction. NYSDOT eventually reconstructed Sunrise Highway in eastern Islip township into

279-596: A decade before construction began, of turning Coney Island from an island into a peninsula. The Gowanus Parkway, in part replacing the demolished Fifth Avenue Line , was built as an elevated structure over Third and Hamilton Avenues in order to avoid the active docks and industrial areas including Sunset Park, Brooklyn . Like most parkways in New York State , the parkways comprising the Belt System were closed to commercial traffic, including any vehicle with

372-512: A designated National Highway System , but the system is completely unsigned, aside from the Trans-Canada routes. This makes Canada unique in that national highway designations are generally secondary to subnational routes. In Germany , state roads ( Landesstraßen or Staatsstraßen ) are a road class which is ranking below the federal road network ( Bundesstraßen ). The responsibility for road planning, construction and maintenance

465-429: A freeway during the 1990s, resulting in the present configuration. The entrance to Connetquot River Park remained as an at-grade intersection, accessible only from the westbound lane. Former segments of Montauk Highway now exist on both sides of the interchange, and sections of both roads were converted into fishing areas owned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation . Numerous accidents occurred at

558-613: A junction with the JFK Expressway and the airport. Crossing under the Van Wyck, the Belt continues east through multiple underpasses and overpasses before reaching exit 21A, westbound side, which services 150th Street and Rockaway Boulevard . Crossing under Guy R. Brewer Boulevard, the Belt passes exit 21B, which connects to Farmers Boulevard and Guy R. Brewer Boulevard. Exit 22 services Springfield Boulevard , where

651-538: A large intersection with Kings Highway and Remsen Avenue, where it expands into a six-lane boulevard through Brooklyn with frontage roads. East of East 96th Street, NY 27 intersects Rockaway Parkway and then travels under the BMT Canarsie Line , winding through New Lots before turning northeast. After crossing under a nearby subway yard , the boulevard passes through the City Line neighborhood. Near

744-538: A new highway parallel to Merrick Road, and then Montauk Highway, between the New York City line and Massapequa connecting several local roads from Massapequa to Montauk Highway at Oakdale. The former routing of NY 27 from Massapequa to Oakdale became NY 27A , connecting to NY 27 in Massapequa by way of County Line Road. Sunrise Boulevard was extended eastward to Oakdale c.  1934 as

837-471: A non-passenger registration and all commercial trucking of any size. Originally even station wagons , which had "suburban" registrations, were excluded but they were later allowed, along with passenger-registered SUVs and vans. The Belt Parkway formed the southern portion of a system of parkways and highways that connected every borough except Staten Island . At its eastern end, the Belt Parkway became

930-776: A point on Southern Parkway, just east of the Rockaway division of the Long Island Railroad in Queens. Work on the conversion of the Sunrise Highway into a genuine parkway is already under way. This will be known as Southern Parkway. Construction began in 1934. New highway designs were implemented, including dark main roads and lighter-colored entrance and exit ramps. The parkway first opened on June 29, 1940, with most of Cross Island, Southern, and Shore Parkway sections completed. A 12-mile (19 km) bike path along

1023-530: A population of at least 10,000 inhabitants are urban roads (type D and E) under the jurisdiction of the relevant municipalities. The state highway that cross towns or villages with a population of less than 10,000 inhabitants are urban roads (type D and E) under the jurisdiction of the municipality, subject to authorization from ANAS . State highways in India are numbered highways that are laid and maintained by state governments . Mexico 's State Highway System

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1116-689: A realignment of NY 27. One portion of NY 27's former route between NY 27A in Massapequa and the Suffolk County line is known as Old Sunrise Highway, and remains state-maintained to this day as NY 900D, an unsigned reference route . Sunrise Highway was built over the Brooklyn Waterworks aqueduct, past the south side of Aqueduct Racetrack . In December 1934, the route was extended westward into New York City. NY 27 followed Sunrise Highway , Linden Boulevard , and Flatbush Avenue through Queens and Brooklyn to

1209-559: A seven-lane divided boulevard (four eastbound and three westbound). The route crosses Francis Lewis Boulevard and south of the Rosedale Long Island Rail Road station; just east of Hook Creek Boulevard, NY 27 enters Nassau County and becomes the Sunrise Highway. Sunrise Highway begins as a six to eight-lane arterial road in eastern Queens, directly paralleling the Atlantic and Montauk branches of

1302-632: A short distance to the south at exit 6 and Church Avenue. Eastbound NY 27 follows East 5th Street to Caton Avenue; westbound NY 27 leaves Caton Avenue at Coney Island Avenue, then follows Church Avenue to the Prospect Expressway. NY 27 runs along Caton Avenue near the south end of Prospect Park in Flatbush . A short distance east, the street merges into Linden Boulevard , crossing eastward through Brooklyn on Linden. NY 27 passes east through East Flatbush and reaches

1395-617: A three-digit number designation, preceded by D . Provincial roads ( Turkish : İl yolu ) are secondary roads, maintained by respective local governments with the support of the KGM. The roads have a four-digit numbering grouped as two pairs, pairs are separated by a dash. First pair represents the license number of that province . State highways are generally a mixture of primary and secondary roads, although some are freeways (for example, State Route 99 in California, which links many of

1488-750: Is 100 km/h, with reductions when one passes through a densely populated area. The highways in New Zealand are all state highways, and the network consists of SH 1 running the length of both main islands, SH 2–5 and 10–58 in the North Island, and SH 6–8 and 60–99 in the South Island. National and provincial highways are numbered approximately north to south. State Highway 1 runs the length of both islands. Local highways ( Korean :  지방도 ; Hanja :  地方道 ; RR :  Jibangdo ; MR :  Chipangdo ) are

1581-490: Is a system of urban and state routes constructed and maintained by each Mexican state. The main purpose of the state networks is to serve as a feeder system to the federal highway system. All states except the Federal District operate a road network. Each state marks these routes with a white shield containing the abbreviated name of the state plus the route number. New Zealand state highways are national highways –

1674-521: Is divided into states and has state highways. For example, the longest highway in the state of São Paulo , the Rodovia Raposo Tavares , is designated as SP-270 and SP-295 . Canada is divided into provinces and territories, each of which maintains its own system of provincial or territorial highways, which form the majority of the country's highway network. There is also the national transcontinental Trans-Canada Highway system, which

1767-483: Is free to choose a different marker, and most states have. States may choose a design theme relevant to its state (such as an outline of the state itself) to distinguish state route markers from interstate, county, or municipal route markers. Belt Parkway The Belt Parkway is the name given to a series of controlled-access parkways that form a belt-like circle around the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens . The Belt Parkway comprises three of

1860-421: Is known as Montauk Point State Parkway. NY 27's designation was assigned in the mid-1920s to a road extending from the New York City line to Amagansett . It began at the point where Merrick Road exited Queens and entered Nassau County . It mostly followed Merrick Road and Montauk Highway east to Amagansett. From East Patchogue to Brookhaven , NY 27 followed South Country Road, passing through

1953-605: Is marked by distinct signs, but has no uniform numeric designation across the country. In the eastern provinces, for instance, an unnumbered (though sometimes with a named route branch) Trans-Canada route marker is co-signed with a numbered provincial sign, with the provincial route often continuing alone outside the Trans-Canada Highway section. However, in the western provinces, the two parallel Trans-Canada routes are consistently numbered with Trans-Canada route markers; as Highways 1 and 16 respectively. Canada also has

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2046-568: Is not a road class. The Strade Statali , abbreviated SS, is the Italian national network of state highways. The total length for the network is about 25.000 km (15.534 mi). The Italian state highway network are maintained by ANAS . From 1928 until 1946 state highways were maintained by Azienda Autonoma Statale della Strada (AASS). The next level of roads below Strada Statali is Strada Regionale ("regional roads"). The routes of some state highways derive from ancient Roman roads , such as

2139-729: Is reduced to a four-lane freeway after passing the NY ;112 exit. Between County Route 16 (CR 16) in Brookhaven and CR 46 in Shirley , the median is lined with pine trees along South Haven County Park. The setting along these roads is similar to the one on the Southern State Parkway west of Belmont Lake State Park . The last exit with a state highway is near Hampton Bays , where it meets NY 24 . East of NY 24, Sunrise Highway crosses over

2232-744: Is split into exit 6N and exit 6S, also serving Stillwell Avenue . The parkway bends eastward and crosses over the Coney Island Complex , a large railroad yard for the New York City Subway . Just before passing exit 7, the eastbound lanes cross just north of the Neptune Avenue subway station . Exit 7 eastbound services Ocean Parkway , which is met by exit 7B proceeding westbound. Westbound, exit 7A services Shell Road in Gravesend. Paralleling

2325-592: Is two lanes wide, with the exception of the four-lane sections in the village of East Hampton . This section of NY 27 is concurrent with New York State Bicycle Route 27 . NY 27 heads generally northeastward to East Hampton village where it becomes Woods Lane, and later, Main Street. It has an intersection with the southern end of NY 114 before entering downtown. After passing Newtown Lane and North Main Street, NY 27's name changes to Pantigo Road, as it passes an eponymous historic district , listed on

2418-406: Is vested in the federal states of Germany. Most federal states use the term Landesstraße (marked with 'L'), while for historical reasons Saxony and Bavaria use the term Staatsstraße (marked with 'S'). The appearance of the shields differs from state to state. The term Land-es-straße should not be confused with Landstraße , which describes every road outside built-up areas and

2511-893: The Gateway Center shopping complex. Now crossing over the Old Mill Basin section of Jamaica Bay , the Belt Parkway continues northeast in the borough of Queens , entering exit 17N–S, Cross Bay Boulevard and Cohancy Street, which also connects to the Cross Bay Bridge and towards the Rockaways. Crossing into an interchange with NY 27 , the parkway travels under the IND Rockaway Line ( A train) and passes exit 18B, which connects to Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park . Now on

2604-681: The Gowanus Expressway in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn . Paralleling Third Avenue, the parkway turns west and crosses over the Long Island Rail Road Bay Ridge Branch , a freight-only line. Bypassing Bay Ridge, the Belt passes exit 1, which services 65th–67th Streets in Bay Ridge. Crossing south past Owl's Head Park , the parkway turns southward and enters Shore Road Park, paralleling

2697-744: The Long Island Rail Road . It heads east into Nassau County , passing through Valley Stream , Lynbrook , and Rockville Centre on its way to Merrick . There it connects to the Meadowbrook State Parkway by way of an interchange. NY 27 continues to Wantagh , where it has an interchange with the Wantagh State Parkway . One mile (1.6 km) later, the highway has an interchange with NY 135 in Seaford . In East Massapequa , NY 27 passes under

2790-543: The Manhattan Bridge , where it continued into Manhattan along Canal Street to a terminus at 6th Avenue (then- U.S. Route 1A and later NY 1A ). The route was realigned slightly in the early 1940s to follow Atlantic and Washington Avenues, Eastern Parkway, Buffalo Avenue, and Rockaway Avenue between Flatbush Avenue and Linden Boulevard. NY 27 was again altered in the mid-1960s to continue west on Linden Boulevard, Caton Avenue, and Church Avenue to

2883-657: The National Register of Historic Places . In the hamlet of Amagansett , NY 27's name changes back to Main Street, again returning to the Montauk Highway name. The road becomes Montauk Point State Parkway as it enters Hither Hills State Park in Napeague . The parkway, a Robert Moses -designed highway, carries NY 27 to its eastern terminus at Montauk Point State Park , on the east side of Montauk . The final 10 miles (16 kilometers) of NY 27

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2976-805: The Robert Moses Causeway in West Islip had two parkway-style arch bridges over two lanes of NY 27. When the service roads were built in Western Islip Township between 1969 and 1972, parkway-style bridges were added for them as well. The interchanges at Fifth Ave and Brentwood Road in Bay Shore had parkway-style arch bridges and cloverleaves. When the service roads were added, the parkway-style bridges were demolished and new ultilitarian structures built in their place. The original cloverleaves were also rebuilt to align with

3069-541: The Shinnecock Canal and has one last eastbound exit before merging with CR 39 . It changes names to North Highway, a four-lane surface road more commonly known as Southampton Bypass. The highway continues east near toward village of Southampton before ending at an intersection with Montauk Highway . NY 27 turns east at that junction, following Montauk Highway toward Water Mill and points east. The section of Montauk Highway over which NY 27 runs

3162-626: The Strada statale 7 Via Appia , which broadly follows the route of the Roman road of the same name . Other examples are the Strada statale 1 Via Aurelia ( Via Aurelia ) and the Strada statale 4 Via Salaria ( Via Salaria ). Since the reforms following the birth of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, the State took charge of the construction and maintenance of a primary network of roads for connections between

3255-700: The West Side Elevated Highway . On January 1, 1970, NY 27A was truncated eastward to its current western terminus in Massapequa while NY 27 was extended northward along NY 27A's former route to the Holland Tunnel, where it ends at I-78 and NY 9A . By 1973, NY 27 was cut back to its interchange with the Gowanus Expressway while I-478 was assigned to both the Battery Tunnel and all of

3348-475: The "Belt System". The four components of the Belt System are designated as New York State Route 907C (NY 907C), NY 907D, NY 907B, and NY 907A, respectively, by the New York State Department of Transportation . All four numbers are reference route designations and are not signed . Excluding the Cross Island Parkway, the other three segments are now known collectively as

3441-621: The Belt Parkway begins to parallel a Long Island Rail Road line through Laurelton . Westbound, exit 23A services North Conduit Boulevard (NY 27) and 225th Street, while eastbound, exit 23B services NY 27 and the Sunrise Highway . At this junction, the parkway turns northeast and joins the Laurelton Parkway segment, which connects to exit 24A, Merrick Boulevard (also known as Floyd H. Flake Boulevard ) in both directions, and Francis Lewis Boulevard on

3534-647: The Belt Parkway continues east through Floyd Bennett Field, crossing over the Mill Basin Drawbridge into Brooklyn Beach and passes the entrance to the Jamaica Bay Riding Academy , the only business served directly on the parkway. Crossing over another bridge, the parkway enters the Canarsie section of Brooklyn. The parkway, now running northeast, parallels a bicycle path, reaching Canarsie Pier and exit 13, which serves as

3627-798: The Belt Parkway crosses over the Southern State and becomes the Cross Island Parkway , which continues north through Queens, connecting to I-495 , the Grand Central Parkway and eventually I-678, the Whitestone Expressway. The Belt Parkway was proposed by public official and highway advocate Robert Moses on February 25, 1930 to provide highway access to Manhattan and to connect to, and use similar design principles to, parkways already constructed on Long Island and Westchester County, New York . At

3720-902: The Cross Island Parkway, which connected to the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge and the Hutchinson River Parkway in the east Bronx. At its western end, the Belt Parkway led to the Gowanus Parkway, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel , the West Side Elevated Highway , and the Henry Hudson Parkway to the west Bronx. The Henry Hudson and Hutchinson River parkways were connected in the Bronx via Van Cortlandt Park , Mosholu Parkway , and Pelham Parkway , all of which were service-level roads. Some portions of

3813-512: The LIRR and ends its stretch through Nassau. NY 27 then enters Suffolk County , where it veers to the northeast, bypassing Copiague . At the interchange with NY 109 in West Babylon , Sunrise Highway becomes a six-lane freeway with a two-lane service road on either side. The route then meets the Robert Moses Causeway near West Islip . In East Patchogue, New York , the highway

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3906-728: The Nassau Expressway splits off, NY 27 continues east along Conduit Avenue and remains a frontage road for multiple exits of the Belt Parkway . The route interchanges with I-678 (the Van Wyck Expressway) a short distance later. NY 27 remains a frontage road entering Springfield Gardens , crossing multiple exits of the Belt Parkway until entering Laurelton . In Laurelton, the Belt Parkway turns northward while NY 27 continues eastbound as South Conduit Avenue and westbound as Sunrise Highway, but stays

3999-576: The National Highway or National Route systems are marked under the State Route system. They can be recognised by blue shield markers. They were practically adopted in all states by the end of the 1980s, and in some states, some less important National Routes were downgraded to State Routes. Each state has or had its own numbering scheme, but do not duplicate National Route numbers in the same state, or nearby routes in another state. As with

4092-475: The National Routes and National Highways, State Routes are being phased out in most states and territories in favour of alphanumeric routes. However, despite the fact that Victoria has fully adopted alphanumeric routes in regional areas, state route numbers are still used extensively within the city of Melbourne as a part of its Metropolitan Route Numbering Scheme . Brazil is another country that

4185-429: The New York City Parks Department proposed the Belt Parkway in the following outline: The Circumferential Parkway begins at Owl's Head Park at the Narrows, and follows the Shore Drive through Fort Hamilton and Dyker Beach Park. The City of New York was vested title in an extension along Gravesend Bay to Bensonhurst Park, and is about to acquire the remaining rights-of-way up to Guilder Avenue, including sufficient land for

4278-435: The North Lindenhurst area, plans to construct a cloverleaf interchange with CR 2 (Straight Path) in Copiague have existed for some time. In recent years, planners have realized that such an interchange would be too close to the cloverleafs with CR 47 (Great Neck Road) to the west and CR 3 (Wellwood Road) to the east. To further complicate matters, a widened CR 28 was extended to Sunrise Highway near

4371-402: The Southern Brooklyn section of the Belt Parkway opened in 1941. The construction of Belt Parkway entailed: All the original parkways, except the Gowanus, were built on grassy rights-of-way with trees, in a more green surrounding than most highways of their time. To build sections between exits 7 and 8 in the 1930s parts of Coney Island Creek were filled in, finishing the process, begun over

4464-415: The Southern Parkway section of the Belt, the Belt continues eastward into exit 19, which connects to NY 878 (the Nassau Expressway) and indirectly with I-678 , the Van Wyck Expressway. This interchange also serves as access to John F. Kennedy International Airport . Now with North and South Conduit Avenues serving as westbound and eastbound frontage roads for the parkway, passing exit 20,

4557-507: The Straight Path intersection in the late-1980s. To date, no interchange has been built for this area. The Oakdale Merge is a convergence of Sunrise Highway and Montauk Highway between Great River and Oakdale abutting the southern edge of Connetquot River State Park . The Montauk Highway predates the Sunrise Highway in the area. When Sunrise Highway was extended east of Amityville in 1940, it terminated at Montauk Highway's entrance to Connetquot River State Park. In 1953, Sunrise Highway

4650-430: The West Side Elevated Highway south of the Lincoln Tunnel . Robert Moses developed plans for an elevated freeway featuring 10 to 12 lanes along Sunrise Highway through Nassau County. This freeway would have provided a truck link for the South Shore of Long Island but the downtown villages along the route effectively put a stop to the idea. The portion of Sunrise Highway between North Lindenhurst and East Patchogue

4743-454: The borough of Brooklyn in New York City . For the first stretch through Brooklyn, NY 27 runs along the Prospect Expressway — a sunken six-lane freeway through the Park Slope and Windsor Terrace neighborhoods — providing interchanges with Fourth Avenue , Seventh Avenue , and 11th Avenue . At exit 5, eastbound NY 27 leaves the Prospect Expressway; the highway interchanges with Ocean and Fort Hamilton Parkways before ending

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4836-404: The cities of the Central Valley , Route 128 in Massachusetts, or parts of Route 101 in New Hampshire). Each state has its own system for numbering and its own marker. The default marker is a white circle containing a black sans serif number (often inscribed in a black square or slightly rounded square), according to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). However each state

4929-454: The conversion of Guilder Avenue into a genuine parkway with service roads. It is proposed to acquire the rights-of-way for the extension of Guilder Avenue by means of a new parkway parallel to, and north of Emmons Avenue to the Marine Parkway extension, for which land is already in the possession of the City. It is proposed to carry the Circumferential Parkway from Flatbush Avenue where the Marine Parkway extension ends, along or near Jamaica Bay to

5022-460: The downtown section of the village of Bellport . The NY 27 designation was extended eastward along Montauk Highway to Montauk Point by 1930. On February 24, 1930, South Country Road was added to the Suffolk County highway system as CR 36 . NY 27 was subsequently realigned to follow Montauk Highway between East Patchogue and Brookhaven. NY 27 was realigned west of Oakdale c.  1931 to follow Sunrise Boulevard,

5115-468: The east end of the merge, resulting in its reconstruction in 1999. A new off-ramp to the service road for Pond Road was built, resulting in renumbering of exit 47 to exit 46A. While none of the interchanges north of Patchogue were built until 1988 to 1993, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) had known the need for them and had planned them decades before their eventual construction. As an example, Waverly Avenue ( CR 19 )

5208-401: The eastbound direction is now assisted by a signalized intersection at Flying Point Road, where eastbound NY 27 traffic makes a left turn onto Montauk Highway. This widening project eliminates the "Shinnecock Squeeze." The first proposals for an extension east of the Shinnecock Canal were made in the 1950s. In 1969, the New York Legislature approved a $ 160 million plan for the extension. It

5301-441: The eastbound lane and an extension of Sinn Street along the westbound lane. Sinn Street was acquired by NYSDOT east of NY 112 in the early-1960s, and was gradually abandoned. Today, exit 53 is a diamond interchange, and Sinn Street, Austin Street, and Franklin Street are now dead-end streets. Originally there were proposals to connect Washington Avenue and Phyllis Drive via ramps to side streets such as Franklin Street along

5394-435: The eastbound lane, and to an extension of Sinn Street along the westbound lane. Phyllis Drive was once part of NY 27 until Sunrise Highway was extended to Eastport in 1957. Today, both roads are only accessible via the service roads. Some residents are waiting for a potential pedestrian bridge connecting the two ends of Washington Avenue. West of the Carmans River near Southaven County Park in South Haven , there

5487-450: The eastbound lanes. Exit 24B on the eastbound lanes connects also to Merrick Boulevard and 130th Avenue and on the westbound lanes connect Francis Lewis Boulevard. Just after crossing under 130th Avenue, the Belt passes exit 25A–B. At this interchange, the Laurelton Parkway segment ends, with exit 25A connecting to the western terminus of the Southern State Parkway and exit 25B servicing Elmont Road. At this interchange,

5580-418: The existing Montauk Highway. The exits would have been sequentially numbered from 67 to 72. The plan failed, and Governor Hugh Carey canceled it in 1975. Other suggestions have included building a limited-access road on either side of Long Island Rail Road's Montauk Branch . As Sunrise Highway was upgraded during the 1970s and 1980s many interchanges were redesigned and replaced. The original interchange with

5673-485: The four parkways in what is known as the Belt System : the Shore Parkway , the Southern Parkway (not to be confused with the Southern State Parkway ), and the Laurelton Parkway . The three parkways in the Belt Parkway are a combined 25.29 miles (40.70 km) in length. The Cross Island Parkway makes up the fourth parkway in the system, but is signed separately. The Shore Parkway, Southern Parkway, Laurelton Parkway, and Cross Island Parkway are collectively known as

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5766-419: The highway abruptly became a three-lane highway east of the Shinnecock Canal , at the point where NY 27 is concurrent with CR 39 . This area was known as the "Shinnecock Squeeze" as traffic on the two-lane eastbound NY 27 was "squeezed" into a single lane. In 2006 and 2007 Suffolk County and Southampton officials began using traffic cones to adjust the lanes to accommodate peak travel in what

5859-429: The junction with Ruby Street, NY 27 enters the borough of Queens , but retains the Linden Boulevard name. Continuing northeast through Queens, NY 27 and Linden Boulevard enter Ozone Park and reach an interchange with Conduit Avenue , where Linden Boulevard ends. NY 27 then continues eastward along the divided Conduit Avenues. This portion of the route becomes a controlled access highway, coterminous with

5952-441: The longest highway on Long Island. Except for a short stretch in Oakdale, NY 27 has service roads that parallel the highway continuously from North Lindenhurst to Patchogue, and intermittently to the east into Southampton . They are officially designated, but not signed, as New York State Route 906C eastbound and New York State Route 906D westbound. NY 27 begins at exit 24 of I-278 (the Gowanus Expressway ) in

6045-429: The main cities; in 1865 the Lanza law introduced the classification of roads between national, provincial and municipal (see Annex F, art.10) and the Royal Decree of 17 November 1865, n. 2633 listed the first 38 national roads. Italian state highways are identified by a number and a name. In road signs and maps the number is preceded by the acronym SS, an acronym for strada statale ("state road"). The nomenclature of

6138-429: The median on NY 27 between North Ocean Avenue and NY 112 until 1975. This road could also have been used as a connecting ramp to both roads. Today, the north section only intersects the westbound service road , while the south section was converted into a dead-end street north of Austin Street. NY 112 was originally proposed to be accessible via connecting ramps to side streets such as Franklin Street along

6231-499: The namesake Neptune Avenue, the parkway enters Sheepshead Bay and connections to Coney Island . At exit 8, the Belt Parkway connects to Coney Island Avenue , approaching the namesake bay as it continues east. Paralleling Emmons Avenue through Sheepshead Bay, the parkway passes exit 9A eastbound, which connects to Knapp Street and exit 9B, which is a ramp to the eastern end of Emmons Avenue. Westbound, exit 9 services Knapp Street. Crossing south of Gerritsen Beach ,

6324-500: The new service roads. As with interchanges to the west, Islip Avenue ( NY 111 ) and Carleton Avenue ( CR 17 ) in Islip Terrace originally had parkway-style bridges crossing over Sunrise Highway. However, only Islip Ave had a partial cloverleaf on the west side of the bridge. The eastern side of the bridge used side streets for access, as did both sides of the Carleton Ave bridge. This section of Sunrise Highway wasn't divided. Since 1983, both areas have more modern bridges over

6417-427: The next important roads under the National highways . The number has two, three, or four digits. Highways with two-digit numbers routes are called State-funded local highways. State roads ( Turkish : Devlet yolu ) are primary roads, mostly under the responsibility of General Directorate of Highways (KGM) except in metropolitan city centers where the responsibility falls into the local government. The roads have

6510-491: The official "Belt Parkway". It is designated an east–west route, and its exit numbering system begins, in standard fashion, at the western terminus of the Shore Parkway, the westernmost parkway in the system. The numbering increases as the parkway proceeds eastward, and continues onto the Cross Island at the eastern terminus of the Belt Parkway. The north–south parkway retains the numbering scheme to its northern terminus. The Belt Parkway begins at an interchange (exit 22) with

6603-399: The original system were converted to expressways , which could be used by commercial traffic. The Gowanus Expressway replaced the Gowanus Parkway in 1950 and became part of the Interstate Highway System as I-278. The Whitestone Parkway was expanded into the Whitestone Expressway starting in 1957; it also became an Interstate Highway and is signed as part of I-678 . In the late 1940s,

6696-477: The park, the Belt begins to parallel Cropsey Avenue and passes another parking area before reaching exit 5, a junction with Bay Parkway . This marks the eastern end of Dyker Beach Park, and the route begins to parallel shoreline strip malls before reaching Calvert Vaux Park . Now in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, the Belt passes exit 6, which connects to Cropsey Avenue. Westbound, this junction

6789-613: The parkway passes south of the Plum Beach Channel and passes a small rest area on the eastbound lanes. Turning northeast through the Floyd Bennett Field area, the parkway bends north and passes a service area with gas services in the median. Just north of the service area, the Belt passes exit 11N–S, a cloverleaf interchange which connects to Flatbush Avenue and the Rockaways . After exit 11N,

6882-474: The parkway was removed in 1972. In the 1980s, the viaduct carrying traffic over the Coney Island Yard was reconstructed. In September 2002, Exit 15 was opened to serve the nearby Gateway Center commercial development. in 2005, a project to reconstruct Exit 17 was competed. The old cloverleaf interchange was demolished, and a new Dimond interchange with wider deacceleration lanes and gentler turns

6975-581: The parkway was widened in its entirety. In 1969, the New York City Council co-named the Belt Parkway Leif Ericson Drive between exit 2 and exit 9, to recognize the large Scandinavian population in Bay Ridge. By 1970, signage on much of the parkway's length (except for the Cross Island Parkway section) had been replaced by signs reading "Belt Parkway". The segment of NY 27A that ran concurrently with

7068-810: The primary east–west highway on southern Long Island east of the interchange with the Heckscher State Parkway in Islip Terrace . The entire route in Suffolk , Nassau , and Queens counties were designated by the New York State Senate as the POW/MIA Memorial Highway . The highway gives access to every town on the South Shore . NY 27 is the easternmost state route in the state of New York, as well as

7161-519: The service roads, and the old cross streets connect to those service roads or other side roads instead. Islip Avenue connects to NY 27 at exit 45 while Carleton Avenue meets the Sunrise Highway at exit 46. Besides the replacement of interchanges in Western Suffolk County, Sunrise Highway has had proposed interchanges and crossings that were either never built or were built according to alternate design specifications. In

7254-606: The shore of the Upper New York Bay . The eastbound lanes of the Belt Parkway pass several small parking areas that serve as viewing spots for the bay. Connections across the parkway to Bay Ridge are also present at these parking areas. Beginning the bend to the southeast, the parkway passes Andrew Lehman Field . Just east of the field, the Belt Parkway comes within the shadows of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and passes exit 2, which serves as

7347-545: The south end of the Prospect Expressway. There, the route turned north, following the freeway to its end at the Gowanus Expressway (then-NY 27A), where NY 27A now ends. The Prospect Expressway was planned by Robert Moses , and was constructed during the 1950s. Prior to 1970, NY 27A continued north to the Holland Tunnel in Manhattan by way of the Gowanus Expressway, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel , and

7440-561: The southern end of Rockaway Parkway . Crossing over another bridge over Spring Creek, the parkway passes exit 14, which connects to Pennsylvania Avenue in Starrett City . The interchange is adjacent to the former Pennsylvania Avenue Landfill . After crossing another waterway, Hendrix Creek, the Belt passes the former Fountain Avenue Landfill and passes exit 15, a diamond interchange with Erskine Street leading to

7533-509: The southern terminus of Fourth Avenue . After crossing under the bridge, the westbound lanes enter exit 3 which connects to the Verrazzano. Eastbound, the lanes from the bridge connecting to the Belt merge in, as the road enters Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course . During a short gap away from the shore, the Belt passes a parking area for Dyker Beach Park, entering exit 4, which services Bay 8th Street and 14th Avenue. Continuing along

7626-640: The state highways managed by ANAS generally follows the SS n scheme, where n is a number ranging from 1 ( Aurelia ) up to 700 (of the Royal Palace of Caserta ) depending on the date of establishment of the state highway. Newly built ANAS roads, not yet classified, are identified by the acronym NSA, an acronym for nuova strada ANAS ("new ANAS road"). State highways can be technically defined as main extra-urban roads (type B road) or as secondary extra-urban roads (type C road). State highways that cross towns with

7719-416: The state, "state highway" may be used for one meaning and "state road" or "state route" for the other. In some countries such as New Zealand , the word "state" is used in its sense of a sovereign state or country. By this meaning a state highway is a road maintained and numbered by the national government rather than local authorities. Australia 's important urban and inter-regional routes not covered by

7812-506: The time, the Belt project was referred to as the "Marginal Boulevard". The Belt system was part of a "Metropolitan Loop" running through all five boroughs of New York City as well as New Jersey , proposed by the Regional Plan Association in 1929. Other highways proposed in this loop included the future Cross Bronx Expressway and Staten Island Expressway . In a 1937 report titled "New Parkways in New York City",

7905-467: The western portion of Nassau Expressway ( NY 878 ) starting at Cross Bay Boulevard until Aqueduct Road. (When constructed, the portion from Linden Boulevard until what is now Aqueduct Road, was designated Sunrise Highway. This is not to be confused with present Sunrise Highway, which is at the other end of Queens. Sunrise became Conduit at 111th Street, which no longer exists, but is approximately where Aqueduct Road currently crosses over Route 27.) When

7998-530: The word "state" in this sense means "government" or "public" (as in state housing and state schools ), not a division of a country. New Zealand's state highway system is a nationwide network of roads covering the North Island and the South Island . As of 2006, just under 100 roads have a "State Highway" designation. The NZ Transport Agency administers them. The speed limit for most state highways

8091-627: Was a limited-access route, flanked by bicycle and equestrian trails. The eastbound and westbound roadways were to be separated by wide wooded medians. For the most part, the road was to run a mile or two north of existing NY 27, thus avoiding the populated centers through which it now passes. The extended Sunrise Highway would have had interchanges with CR 38 (North Sea Road) and CR 39 (County Road), CR 79 (Bridgehampton–Sag Harbor Road), NY 114 (East Hampton–Sag Harbor Turnpike), CR 40 (Three Mile Harbor Road), and CR 45 (Amagansett–Springs Road) before merging back into

8184-554: Was a plan to combine the eastbound service road with Montauk Highway , similar to the Oakdale Merge . NY 27A (17.31 miles or 27.86 kilometres) is an alternate route of NY 27 across southern Long Island from Massapequa Park to Oakdale , accessing Babylon and Islip . It was designated NY 27A c.  1931 . State highway Roads maintained by a state or province include both nationally numbered highways and un-numbered state highways. Depending on

8277-513: Was called the "traffic cone program". At the end of summer 2007, another eastbound lane was added, heading eastward to North Sea Road. The construction snarled traffic on CR 39. The Long Island Rail Road added three trains each way between Speonk and East Hampton during the construction. In April 2008, the three-lane segment from North Sea Road to Flying Point Road was reconfigured from one eastbound and two westbound lanes to two eastbound and one westbound lane. The merge from two lanes to one in

8370-589: Was constructed in its place. In October 2009, NYCDOT launched the first phase of a capital project to reconstruct seven obsolete bridges along the Belt Parkway. The first phase included the reconstruction of an overpass ramp from Guider Avenue, as well as the replacement of the Paerdegat Basin and Rockaway Parkway bridges, which was completed in 2012. In 2021, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority proposed widening

8463-535: Was extended to East Patchogue; a 0.5 mi (0.80 km) overlap of NY 27 and NY 27A was created, with at-grade intersections connecting the highways. A segment of this alignment remains south of the eastern interchange. NY 27A was truncated east of the overlap in 1972. Plans to upgrade the interchange have existed since its creation. During the early-1960s, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works considered designating

8556-487: Was gradually upgraded to a freeway from the late 1960s until the late 1990s, while the portion between East Patchogue and Shinnecock Hills was built as one from the start, and not upgraded from a surface road like the North Lindenhurst to East Patchogue segment was. The freeway portion of Sunrise Highway between North Lindenhurst and Shinnecock Hills was completed in full in 1998. At the east end of NY 27

8649-519: Was originally proposed as a cloverleaf interchange. Today, exit 52 with CR 19 is a diamond interchange instead. North Ocean Avenue ( CR 83 ) was originally proposed to be accessible via connecting ramps to side streets including Austin Street along the eastbound lane and Sinn Street along the westbound lane. Today, exit 53A is a half-diamond interchange while Austin Street and Howard Street are now dead-end streets, and Sinn Street never reached North Ocean Avenue. Maple Avenue had crossed

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