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New York State Route 242
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New York State Route 242 is a state highway that runs across Cattaraugus County, New York, in the United States. Although signed as an east–west route, it takes a more northeast–southwest course across the county from NY394 near the hamlet of Randolph in the town of Coldspring to NY16 in Machias. The western end between Randolph and Little Valley was the half of the short-lived New York State Route 17H. The eastern half of NY 17H was the end of NY353 from Little Valley to Salamanca. NY242 begins at an intersection with NY394 just north of Stillson Pond in Coldspring, NY242 proceeds northeast through Coldspring on a two-lane rural road that crosses from Coldspring to the town of Napoli. The route winds northeast, intersecting with Jamestown Road, where it turns eastward, at Manley Hill Road, NY242 bends northeast into a junction with County Route 10. The surroundings along NY242 do not change much as it continues northeast, just south of the intersection of Kyler Hill Road, the route leaves Napoli and crosses into the town of Little Valley. Paralleling a nearby brook, NY242 crosses northeast through a portion of the town of Little Valley. Now named Fair Oak Street, NY242 crosses through the county seat into the center of the village, turning eastward along Fair Oak Street, NY242 becomes a two-lane residential street, reaching an intersection with NY353. At this junction, NY242 and NY353 become concurrent, turning southeast along Rock City Road, just west of the junction with Hill Street, the routes turn east and crosses over the Pat McGee Trail. Just east of the right-of-way, NY242 and NY353 fork in different directions, NY242 continues eastward, making a gradual bend to the north into a junction with CR88. Following the valley of Dublin Hollow, NY242 intersects with the terminus of CR15. Climbing a steep hill northeast, the route leaves Little Valley for the town of Mansfield, in Ellicottville, NY242 gains the moniker of West Washington Street, paralleling Sunset Hill Cemetery into downtown, where the route intersects with US219. US219 and NY242 become concurrent at the junction of Jefferson and Washington, at the junction with Mill Street, US219 and NY242 take East Washington Street northeast along Great Valley Creek, entering the town of Ellicottville. The route continues northeast out of Ashford, crossing the tracks a short distance from NY240. Making a more east-northeast progression, NY242 crosses into the town of Franklinville, after Devereaux, NY242 turns northward and crosses through swampland in Franklinville. Crossing into the hamlet of Bakerstand, the route intersects with the terminus of CR17. After Bakerstand, the route crosses into the town of Machias, after Bird, NY242 turns northeast near Very Road to an intersection with CR62
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New York State Route 17
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New York State Route 17 is a major east-west state highway that extends for 397 miles through the Southern Tier and Downstate regions of New York in the United States. From the Pennsylvania border to the city of Elmira and from Binghamton to Windsor, eventually, the entire east–west portion of NY17 from the Pennsylvania border to Woodbury will become I-86 as projects to upgrade the route to Interstate Highway standards are completed. At 397 miles, NY17 is the longest state route in New York and it serves 11 counties, passes through the cities of Salamanca, Olean, Corning, Elmira, and Binghamton, and enters the vicinity of several others, including Jamestown and Middletown. The portion of NY17 in the vicinity of Waverly is actually located in Pennsylvania, however, the route was assigned in 1924, extending from Westfield to Suffern via at-grade highways. It was moved onto the Quickway and the Southern Tier Expressway as sections of both were completed from the 1950s to the 1980s, two of NY 17s suffixed routes, NY 17C and NY 17M, follow substantial portions of NY 17s pre-freeway alignment. In 1998, all of NY17 between the Pennsylvania state line and Harriman was designated as Future I-86, NY17 begins at the point where Interstate 86 crosses the New York–Pennsylvania border in Mina, Chautauqua County. I-86 and NY17 continue eastward through the Southern Tier, encountering NY426 a short distance from the line prior to meeting NY76 south of Sherman. East of exit 8, I-86 and NY17 cross Chautauqua Lake and follow the lake shore eastward to Jamestown, where it connects to NY60 at exit 12 due north of the city. East of the city, the expressway meets U. S. Route 62 at exit 14 and is joined by the old Erie Railroad line, between exits 17 and 18, I-86 and NY17 cross the Allegheny Reservoir near its northernmost extent. Past NY280, the freeway runs adjacent to the extent of the Allegany State Park and follows the reservoir. Near downtown Salamanca, I-86 and NY17 meet US219, US219 joins the expressway east to exit 23 near Carrollton, where it splits from I-86 and NY17 and heads toward Bradford, Pennsylvania, forming the eastern edge of the state park as it heads south. Meanwhile, the expressway continues east to Olean, where it meets NY417 at exit 24 west of town, past Olean, the route drifts northward away from Pennsylvania toward Hornell, where I-86 and NY17 intersect NY36. To the east in Avoca, the Southern Tier Expressway meets I-390 at exit 36, I-86 and NY17 southeast from the junction, passing through Bath on its way an interchange with I-99 and US15 in Painted Post. Here, I-99 and US15 begin and head south toward Pennsylvania, while I-86, at exit 56, I-86 temporarily terminates as NY17 continues eastward toward Binghamton. From Elmira to Binghamton, NY17, the Erie Railroad and they follow the Chemung River to exit 60 and the Susquehanna River from east of exit 61 to Binghamton, on the latter section, both NY 17C and NY434 are old NY17. Between the two rivers, which intersect in Pennsylvania, the corridor runs just north of the state line in New York. Despite being in Pennsylvania, these roadways are maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation, near downtown Binghamton, NY17 goes around the side of Prospect Mountain at what is locally known as Kamikaze Curve. Heading eastbound, the freeway curves sharply left around the hillside, splits into ramps to I-81 north and south, from that point east and southeast about 5 miles, I-81 and NY17 run concurrently
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New York State Department of Transportation
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This transportation network includes, A state and local highway system, encompassing over 110,000 miles of highway and 17,000 bridges. A5,000 mile rail network, carrying over 42 million short tons of equipment, raw materials, manufactured goods, over 130 public transit operators, serving over 5.2 million passengers each day. Twelve major public and private ports, handling more than 110 million short tons of freight annually,456 public and private aviation facilities, through which more than 31 million people travel each year. It owns two airports, Stewart International Airport near Newburgh, and Republic Airport on Long Island, Stewart is currently leased to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Its regulations are compiled in title 17 of the New York Codes, Rules, in 1878, the Superintendent of Public Works took over the duties of the canal commissioners. In 1908, the New York State Department of Highways was established by the Highway Act and it was headed by a three-member Highway Commission, appointed in 1909. In 1911, the Highway Commission was abolished, and was succeeded by a State Superintendent of Highways, the department comprises 11 regional offices and 68 county transportation maintenance residencies. Tioga County was moved to adjacent region in August 2007, Wayne County was moved from Region 3 to Region 4 in the late 1990s, averell Harriman State Office Building Campus in Albany, NY. The TMC moved in September,2012 along with SP COMSEC to the new NYSP Troop G Headquarters located in Latham, New York City Department of Transportation Raymond T. Schuler Official website Department of Transportation in the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations 511ny. org
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U.S. Route 6 in New York
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U. S. Route 6 is a part of the U. S. Highway System that runs from Bishop, California, to Provincetown, Massachusetts. In New York, US6 extends 77.85 miles from the Pennsylvania state line at Port Jervis to the Connecticut state line east of Brewster. Near both ends, it runs in proximity to Interstate 84, which otherwise takes a more northerly route through Downstate New York. US6, meanwhile, skirts the northern fringe of the New York Metropolitan Area. Except for a section concurrent with the portion of New York State Route 17 and another brief, similar stretch in Peekskill. Two stretches are shared with US202 and it goes through three of New Yorks traffic circles, more than any other highway in the state, and is part of the only concurrency of three U. S. routes in the state. US6 is not as important a transportation artery in New York as it in other states. The route does, however, pass through some of the more memorable scenery, particularly the Hudson Highlands in the form of Harriman. It crosses the Hudson River at the historic Bear Mountain Bridge, other highlights include the Shawangunk Ridge in the west and New York Citys reservoirs in the east. The Hudson River roughly bisects New Yorks section of US6, despite its many curves and turns, the road stays in a generally east–west direction. US6 crosses the Delaware River into New York concurrent with US209, Matamoras via the Mid-Delaware Bridge, becoming Port Jervis almost seamlessly, becoming Pike Street. A few blocks north, at the Park Avenue traffic light, NY42 and NY97 begin to the left while US6 and US209 turn right. Two blocks later, the highways having not even come a mile from the state line, US6 continues to follow West Main past Port Jervis Middle School and Bon Secours Hospital, veering south to cross under the railroad tracks and then over the Neversink River. At a three-way junction with short County Route 15, US6 reaches the Port Jervis city limit, signs point to New Jersey Route 23, which begins a few hundred feet to the south, just past the I-84 overpass. From here traffic on US6 grows lighter as it parallels I-84 for the next 17 miles, trucks going through this stretch are limited to 10 tons. It slowly traverses up the Shawangunk Ridge alongside the Interstate Highway, just before exit 3, it crosses under I-84 again. At the hamlet of Slate Hill, NY284, another route down to New Jersey, US6 continues through very rural countryside through here. Shortly before Middletown, it crosses over I-84 and turns left onto NY 17M and this is US 6s last crossing of I-84 west of the Hudson River
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New York State Route 17M
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New York State Route 17M is an east–west state highway in Orange County, New York, in the United States. It extends for 26.63 miles from west of the city of Middletown to what is currently the north–south section of NY17 just southeast of the village of Harriman, the rest of the road is a two-lane rural route. Between New Hampton and Goshen, the overlaps with U. S. Route 6. The easternmost section of that overlap near Goshen is routed on the Quickway, most of NY 17M follows the course used by NY17 prior to the construction of the Quickway through the Catskill Mountains. The first section of the Quickway opened in 1951 and extended from Fair Oaks to Goshen, the portions of NY 17M that lie north and east of the city of Middletown are maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation. Within the Middletown city limits, NY 17M is city-maintained, County Route 76 becomes NY 17M when the highway passes through the site of a former interchange with the nearby Quickway in the town of Wallkill, located in northern Orange County. The junction was just north of the former right-of-way of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway, after 0.5 miles, the road reaches a signalized intersection with NY302, its first junction with another state highway. The junction currently serves as NY 302s southern terminus, however, the route seamlessly passes from Washington Heights to Middletown, where it becomes known as North Street. The street is initially fairly wide—featuring shoulders on each side—but it narrows in the residential neighborhoods closer to the citys center, upon reaching the northern edge of Middletowns central business district, the route turns right onto Wickham Avenue, which carries NY211 through northern Middletown. The resulting overlap between NY 17M and NY211 is a concurrency, NY 17M eastbound is concurrent with NY211 westbound. NY 17M and NY211 head west along the fringe of downtown, after seven blocks, Wickham Avenue merges into West Main Street, however, the roads surroundings remain unchanged. NY 17M and NY211 continue along West Main Street for another four blocks, both routes leave Main Street here, NY211 turns right, following the road northwest toward Otisville while NY 17M heads left, proceeding southeastward toward downtown. It continues through a commercial and residential area to Mill Street, at which point Monhagen Avenue becomes Fulton Street. This stretch continues for five blocks along the edge of downtown Middletown to Academy Avenue. After just two blocks, the route changes streets for the time in Middletown, veering left onto Dolson Avenue. As Dolson Avenue, NY 17M passes by a residential block before entering a linear commercial district that follows the highway to an interchange with I-84 roughly 1.5 miles to the south. The route initially remains two lanes wide, but widens to four lanes after crossing the Middletown and New Jersey Railway at-grade and this stretch of NY 17M also features a center left-turn lane to accommodate the traffic turning into the many commercial plazas on either side. The road remains within the Middletown city limits until a block before the intersection where US6 comes in from the west and joins NY 17M
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New York State Route 207
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New York State Route 207 is a state highway located entirely within Orange County, New York, in the United States. It serves as a connector between the village of Goshen and the city of Newburgh and it has for a long time provided the main access to Stewart International Airport. The highway follows the path of the old Goshen–Newburgh Turnpike and is a road through its entire length. It is also shared with New York State Bicycle Route 17, NY207 begins at exit 124 of the Quickway and a junction with NY 17M in the village of Goshen. Also present at the intersection is NY 17A, which terminates at the same junction, entering downtown Goshen, NY207 gains the Greenwich Avenue moniker, until reaching the junction with Church Street, where it turns onto Main Street. Once straightening to the north, the route crosses past the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame, near the junction with Victoria Terrace, NY207 leaves the village of Goshen, dropping the Main Street moniker as it winds north through the town of Goshen. A two-lane countryside roadway, NY207 reaches the hamlet of Kipps, bending northwest at a junction with Kipp Road, winding past the hamlet of Lagrange, the route starts passing multiple farms, passing the terminus of County Route 53. A short distance later, NY207 reaches a junction with CR77, a short distance after, the route crosses under the Port Jervis Line and into a junction with the southern terminus of NY416. At NY416, NY207 turns eastward through Hamptonburgh, entering the hamlet of Campbell Hall, crossing over the former Erie Railroad Montgomery Branch, continuing east through Campbell Hall, the route crosses the Otter Kill and turns northeast through Hamptonburgh as a two-lane road. After making another bend to the southeast, NY207 crosses south of the Otterkill Golf & Country Club, a short distance east of the CR33 junction, NY207 reaches a junction with NY208, forming a short concurrency through Hamptonburgh. After crossing a bridge over Smith Pond, NY207 and NY208 split, passing the hamlet of Burnside, NY207 turns east and leaves the town of Hamptonburgh for the town of New Windsor. Near the junction with West Green Road, the gains the moniker of Little Britain Road. Winding east through New Windsor, the route reaches the hamlet of Little Britain. Continuing past the ends of the grounds for Stewart International Airport. A short distance to the east, the route crosses under the New York State Thruway and into a junction with NY300. NY207 and NY300 become concurrent along Little Britain Road, reaching a junction with Temple Hill Road. Immediately after the junction, NY207 crosses Lake Washington and bypasses the hamlet of New Windsor to the north, the two-lane road winds northeast through New Windsor, soon leaving for the town of Newburgh. Still known as Little Britain Road, NY207 crosses northeast through Newburgh, at this junction, the route used to turn north onto Wisner, going two blocks north to a junction with NY 17K
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Goshen (village), New York
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Goshen is a village in and the county seat of Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 5,454 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. The village is within the Town of Goshen, some fifty miles northwest of New York City, on New York State Route 17 in the center of Orange County. Goshen is the home of the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame, and hosted harness racings top event, Racing is still held at the Historic Track, a National Historic Landmark in the center of the village. The village was settled in 1714 and incorporated in 1809, in 1727 it was declared the half-shire town of Orange County, a predecessor to its current status as county seat. It did not take on that status, however, until Rockland County was split from the county in 1798. Smith was hanged on January 22,1779, and exactly six months later, on July 22,1779, a militia from Goshen set out to stop Brant, engaging in the disastrous Battle of Minisink, in which 45 local militiamen were killed. A monument in the center of town marks the spot where their bones were buried in a mass grave 43 years after the battle, as early as the 1750s, residents used to race their horses along what is now Main Street in the villages downtown. In 1838, a track was built around a nearby circus ground. This was the first incarnation of the Historic Track, where races are held for one week each year. Later, the larger Good Time Park was built, which hosted the Hambletonian in later years, the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame near the track recognizes Goshens historic importance to the sport. In the early 20th century, the village was the home of the Interpines sanitarium, in 1950, Goshen had a population of 3,311 people. By 1990, the village had largely built out, and the number of people stood at 5,255, despite a building boom in the town. Goshens topography consists of a central area with gently rolling hills cresting at the village limits. The highest elevation is approximately 620 feet at the USGS Murray benchmark on the eastern border, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.2 square miles. None of the area is covered with water. The former station has been converted into the police headquarters. Passenger rail service is available today via the Metro-North Port Jervis commuter line a few north of the village at Campbell Hall. The railroad has been replaced as the villages main long-distance transportation connection by NY17 and it will eventually be re-designated as part of Interstate 86
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Tuxedo, New York
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Tuxedo is a town located in Orange County, New York along the Ramapo River. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 3,624. The town is in the part of the county in the Ramapo Mountains. New York State Route 17 and the New York State Thruway pass through the town, the name is derived from a Lenape word tucseto, which has several known meanings. The Lenape named the largest lake in the area Tucseto, meaning place of the bear or clear flowing water. European-American colonists later adopted that name for the town they developed, some Lenape stayed in villages in the Ramapo Mountains, having migrated west from Connecticut. They gradually intermarried with ethnic groups in what was long a relatively remote frontier. They maintained a culture and community of their own in this area on both sides of the border with New Jersey. The Ramapough Mountain Indians have been recognized by New Jersey as a Native American tribe, in the 18th century, ethnic English and German colonists settled in the area. The men mostly worked at the nearby Stirling Iron Works in neighboring Ringwood, New Jersey, Ringwood has been one of their centers of settlement. Several men from the Tuxedo area served in the Revolutionary War, in 1779 the rebel government built the Continental Road from Eagle Valley through the present-day village of Tuxedo Park to what is now Route 17 near Warwick Brook Road. The first industry in Tuxedo was the Augusta Forge at the falls on the Ramapo River, founded by Solomon Townsend in 1783, the town of Southfield was renamed Monroe in 1808. An iron forge was operated in this area, still known as Southfields, the oldest documented structure in Tuxedo is the Adam Belcher house. Dating from 1790, it is located in the Southfields area, by 1812, the Augusta Forge went out of business. Townsend sold the 7,000 acres Augusta Tract to Pierre Lorillard II, mining continued into the 1840s, until the iron ore was largely depleted. The Lorillards later used the tract for lumbering and it helped supply fuel for the wood-fired Erie Railroad, which was built in 1841. The southern part of Tuxedo, known as Eagle Valley, was devoted to farming, as were areas just south of Lake Mombasha, Helmsburg, in the northern part of town, in the area known as Arden, the Greenwood Furnace was established in 1810. During the American Civil War, this produced the iron for the famous Parrott rifles
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Orange County, New York
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Orange County is a county located in the U. S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 372,813 and this county was first created in 1683 and reorganized with its present boundaries in 1798. Orange County is included in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area and it is in the states Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The County Executive is Steve Neuhaus, as of the 2010 census the centre of population of New York state was located in Orange County, approximately three miles west of the hamlet of Westbrookville. Orange County was officially established on November 1,1683, when the Province of New York was divided into twelve counties. Each of these was named to honor a member of the British royal family, and Orange County took its name from the Prince of Orange, as originally defined, Orange County included only the southern part of its present-day territory, plus all of present-day Rockland County further south. The northern part of the county, beyond Moodna Creek, was then a part of neighbouring Ulster County. Due to its small population, the original Orange County was not fully independent and was administered by New York County. The first European settlers in the area of the county arrived in 1685. They were a party of around twenty-five families from Scotland, led by David Toshach, the Laird of Monzievaird, and his brother-in-law Major Patrick McGregor and they settled in the Hudson Highlands at the place where the Moodna Creek enters the Hudson River, now known as New Windsor. In 1709, a group of German Palatine refugees settled at Newburgh and they were Protestants from a part of Germany along the Rhine that had suffered during the religious wars. Queen Annes government arranged for passage from England of nearly 3,000 Palatines in ten ships, many were settled along the Hudson River in work camps on property belonging to Robert Livingston. A group of Dutch and English settlers arrived at Goshen in 1712, additional immigrants came from Ireland, they were of Scots and English descent who had been settled as planters there. In 1798, after the American Revolutionary War, the boundaries of Orange County changed and its southern corner was used to create the new Rockland County, and in exchange, an area to the north of the Moodna Creek was added, which had previously been in Ulster County. This caused a reorganization of the administration, as the original county seat had been fixed at Orangetown in 1703. The county court was established in 1801 and it was not until 1970 that Goshen was named as the sole county seat. Due to a dispute between New York and New Jersey, the boundaries of many of the southern towns of the county were not definitively established until the 19th century. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 839 square miles
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