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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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Numbered highways in New York
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The New York State Department of Transportation is responsible for the establishment and classification of a state highway network which includes Interstate Highways, U. S. Highways, and state routes. U. S. and Interstate Highways are classified as state routes in New York, however, as a result, there is apparent duplication between U. S. Routes, Interstate Highways and state routes. The New York state highway system is supplemented by the county route system. While neighboring New Jersey employs a statewide numbering system, no system exists in New York. Instead, each county numbers its highways independently of other counties, as a result, county routes typically change numbers when they cross county lines. In some cases, the highway and county highway systems overlap. More specifically, some portions of U. S, Routes and state routes in New York are signed as U. S. Routes or state routes but are maintained by the county that the lies within. These county-maintained segments also carry a county route designation that may or may not be posted alongside the U. S. or state designation, some state routes, such as New York State Route 148 in Niagara County, are entirely county-maintained. Highways maintained by the New York State Thruway Authority lack any signed numbers apart from Interstate Highway designations, there are no standard NYSDOT reference markers on any of the highways, instead, the Thruway Authority posts their own mileposts, which bear special Thruway codes. See the Thruway article for details, Transportation in New York List of New York State Bicycle Routes New York State Department of Transportation
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Parkways in New York
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A handful of other roads in the Hudson Valley and on Long Island are also known as parkways but are not part of the state system. The state parkway system introduced the concept of limited-access roads and these highways were not divided and allowed no driveway cuts, but did have intersections for some of the streets they crossed. The individual parkways vary widely in composition, some, such as the Sprain Brook Parkway, are functionally equivalent to a freeway, others, like Seven Lakes Drive, are a two-lane undivided surface road. The majority of parkways are located in downstate New York, where the parkway system originated in the early 20th century. The states parkway system originally began as a series of then-high-speed four-lane roads that were created to provide a way into, out of. The first section of this opened in 1908. Most of the roads have been replaced and redesigned to address higher speed requirements. In later sections north of New York City, the roadways were typically divided by a landscaped median and provided service areas along the way that offered fuel. Most are now maintained, if not owned, by NYSDOT outside New York City, today, the state parkways are for the most part equivalent to expressways and freeways built in other parts of the country, except for a few oddities. Second, because designers focused more on making routes scenic rather than efficient, the parkways are meandering, often built to follow a river, and so contain many turns. Finally, because most use low, decorative stone-arch overpasses that would trap trucks, commercial vehicles, trucks, some regions of New York have parkways that are not owned or maintained by a state agency
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New York State Route 17B
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New York State Route 17B is a state highway located entirely within Sullivan County, New York, in the United States. It connects the hamlet of Callicoon at its end with the Monticello area in the east. NY 17B begins at an intersection with NY97 in the hamlet of Callicoon, known as Mill Street for the first block, NY 17B proceeds downhill and meets an intersection with the eastern end of County Route 133. After merging with CR133, NY 17B proceeds east along the East Branch of Callicoon Creek, the mainly rural roadway winds east for several miles, reaching the southern end of the hamlet of Hortonville. Passing the intersection with CR121, the route crosses through Hortonville before turning southeast, bending further south, NY 17B continues paralleling the East Branch, passing multiple farms before making several jaunts to the southeast. A short distance later, the route bends east and then northeast, at this junction, NY 17B becomes county-maintained and designated CR117. NY 17B and CR117 bend southeast again, reaching a junction with NY52 in the town of Cochecton, NY 17B and NY52 become concurrent, proceeding southward past multiple farms before reaching the hamlet of Fosterdale. At this junction, NY52 forks southward at an intersection with CR114 while NY 17B turns eastward, NY 17B passes south of Fosterdale Cemetery, passing rows of homes on the northern side of the roadway. Now in the town of Bethel, NY 17B continues eastward, the route crosses through the hamlet of Odell, passing north of Chestnut Ridge Pond and reaching the hamlet of Bethel. Passing several cemeteries east of Bethel, the route reaches the White Lake area, intersecting with NY55. Running along the shore of White Lake, NY 17B and NY55 proceed east into the hamlet of White Lake. A short distance into White Lake, NY55 forks north onto CR14 north towards Swan Lake, NY 17B continues east out White Lake, returning to the rural areas of the town of Bethel. The route bypasses the hamlet of Smallwood, reaching an intersection with CR183, NY 17B makes a short dart to the southeast before straightening east again and crossing over the Mongaup River. After a short parallel with the Mongaup, NY 17B continues east, a short distance outside of Coopers Corners, the route crosses into Maplewood, entering the town of Thompson. The route intersects with CR59 before reaching Valet Road, which is the road to Monticello Raceway. The route soon passes the stables for the raceway, passing West Broadway, the route soon turns northeast again, crossing Jefferson Street and entering exit 104 of NY17, which marks the eastern end of NY 17B. The route continues northwest alongside NY17 as CR174, between Fosterdale and Monticello, NY 17B follows the route of the old Newburgh–Cochecton Turnpike, elsewhere followed by the main NY17 and, closer to Newburgh, NY 17K. This accounts for the straight, wide route much more amenable to modern vehicular use than the other state highways in this half of the county
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State highway
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Depending on 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 state is used in its sense of a nation. By this meaning a state highway is a maintained and numbered by the national government rather than local authorities. Australias State Route system covers urban and inter-regional routes that are not included in the National Route or the National Highway systems and these routes are marked with a blue shield. Sometimes a state route may be formed when a national route is decommissioned. Most states and territories have introduced an alphanumeric numbering system. Brazil is another country that is divided into states and has state highways, canada is divided into provinces and territories, each of which maintains its own system of provincial or territorial highways. Canadas federal National Highway System is a dual system which includes the Trans-Canada Highway network. Italys Strade Statali extend for some 18,000 km, overseen by the Azienda Nazionale Autonoma delle Strade founded in 1946, State highways in India are numbered highways that are laid and maintained by state governments. Mexicos State Highway System 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 – the word state in this sense means government or public, New Zealands 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 is 100 km/h, with reductions when one passes through a populated area. The highways in New Zealand were originally designated on a system, national and provincial, with national highways having a higher standard. Now all of them are state highways, and the network consists of SH1 running the length of main islands, SH 2–5 and 10–58 in the North Island, and SH 6–8. National and provincial highways are numbered north to south. State Highway 1 runs the length of both islands, local highways are the next important roads under the National highways
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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New York State Route 94
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New York State Route 94 is a state highway entirely within Orange County in southern New York. The western terminus is at the New York–New Jersey state line and its eastern terminus is located at U. S. Route 9W in New Windsor. From Warwick to Florida, NY94 is concurrent with NY 17A, the entirety of NY94 is known as the 94th Infantry Division Memorial Highway. NY94 was originally designated as NY45 in 1930 and it was renumbered to NY94 on January 1,1949. The portion of the route between Warwick and Florida was part of NY55 during the late 1920s, NY94 begins at the New Jersey–New York state line in the town of Warwick as a continuation of NJ94. NY94 proceeds northeast through a section of Warwick, soon crossing into a residential neighborhood after crossing the Double Kill. Paralleling the Wayawanda Creek, the route enters the hamlet of New Milford, where it junctions with the terminus of County Route 21. North of the junction with Grand Street, NY94 and NY 17A cross the St. Anthony Community Hospital, now outside of the village, the routes continue north as a two-lane residential road, winding south of Glenemere Lake and gaining the moniker of Seward Highway. Shortly after gaining the moniker, NY94 and NY 17A cross into the village of Florida, through Florida, NY94 and NY 17A remain a residential village street, reaching the center of the village near Bridge Street. Leaving the village of Florida, NY94 enters the town of Goshen, crossing through the hamlet of Randelville, winding eastward out of Randelville, NY94 crosses into the town of Chester, gaining the moniker of Summerville Way. The two-lane road becomes a mix of rural and residential, soon reaching the village of Chester, after a turn at West Avenue, NY94 bends into exit 126 of NY17 and US6. After crossing the interchange with the Quickway, NY94 crosses a junction with NY 17M. Darting east for two blocks on Academy Avenue, NY94 turns north at Main Street and crosses through a section of the village. Turning into High Street, NY94 crosses over the alignment of the Erie Railroad main line. Turning northeast, the crosses over Cromline Creek and reaches a junction with CR51. Crossing northeast through the town of Blooming Grove, NY94 parallels Saatterly Creek, remaining a residential roadway, the route turns north and crosses over Moodna Creek into the village of Washingtonville. Crossing over the branch, NY94 gains the moniker of West Main Street. At the junction with South Street, NY94 reaches a junction with NY208, NY94 now turns east along East Main, remaining a two-lane residential street through Washingtonville along Moodna Creek
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Warwick, New York
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Warwick is a town in the southwest part of Orange County, New York, in the United States. Its population was 32,065 at the 2010 census, the town contains three villages and eight hamlets. Warwick is the home of the annual Applefest, the Summer Arts Festival, The Black Dirt Feast, the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival, the region has been referred to as Warwick since the early eighteenth century, the town of Warwick was officially created in 1788. During the American War for Independence, Warwick was the site of a Continental Army encampment, the Hudson River Chain was forged at Stirling Iron Works in Warwick, preventing the British Navy from sailing up the Hudson River. In 1783, George Washington traveled through Warwick, stopping at Bairds Tavern, Warwick is situated along a freight rail line, which, along with many other towns in Orange County, contributed to the growth of the area. The nineteenth-century writer and naturalist Henry William Herbert, writing as Frank Forrester, popularized the area with his 1845 book, today the town of Warwick is a rural community with many agricultural pursuits that stimulate its economy. The town of Warwick comprises the southern tip of Orange County and it borders the townships of Vernon and West Milford to the south, both in the state of New Jersey. To its north, Warwick is bordered by Chester via Sugar Loaf, Orange Countys oldest hamlet, to its east, Warwick is bordered by the town of Tuxedo, home of the New York Renaissance Faire and the hamlet of Tuxedo Park. Greenwood Lake is Orange Countys largest lake, and is bisected by the border between New Jersey and New York, glenmere Lake, an extremely critical endangered species habitat, is bisected by Warwick and Chester. Warwick is served by Warwick Municipal Airport and two state highways, New York State Route 17A and NY94. The Appalachian Trail passes through Warwick, which has designated an Appalachian Trail Community. As of the census of 2000, there were 30,764 people,10,868 households, the population density was 302.6 people per square mile. There were 11,818 housing units at a density of 116.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 91. 06% White,4. 51% Black or African American,0. 31% Native American,0. 85% Asian,0. 05% Pacific Islander,1. 60% from other races, and 1. 61% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 47% of the population,22. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.74 and the family size was 3.25. In the town, the population was out with 27. 2% under the age of 18,5. 6% from 18 to 24,31. 3% from 25 to 44,24. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 100.7 males
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Florida, Orange County, New York
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Florida is a village in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 2,833 at the 2010 census estimates 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 located in the town of Warwick, with two northern portions in the town of Goshen. Florida is at the convergence of Routes 17A,25, and 94, Florida has its own school district consisting of Golden Hill Elementary School and S. S. Seward Institute. The mascot for S. S. Seward Institute is a Spartan, the current mayor is James R. Pawliczek, Sr. who was elected in March 2002. The area had been occupied by indigenous peoples for thousands of years, the village was founded by Anglo-European colonists in 1760. Florida is in an area known for the vast onion fields in the nearby Black Dirt Region. WTBQ, Orange Countys only independent radio station, was located in Florida from 1984 to 2007, the village is west of Glenmere lake and east of Warwick, New York. Florida is located at 41°19′52″N 74°21′33″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.9 square miles, all land. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,571 people,951 households, the population density was 1,361.8 people per square mile. There were 974 housing units at a density of 515.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 93. 04% White,2. 53% African American,0. 51% Native American,0. 62% Asian,1. 87% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 50% of the population. 21. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.17. In the village, the population was out with 26. 7% under the age of 18,6. 2% from 18 to 24,30. 2% from 25 to 44,24. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 90.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.0 males, the median income for a household in the village was $54,893, and the median income for a family was $61,406. Males had an income of $45,577 versus $32,232 for females. The per capita income for the village was $22,138, about 5. 5% of families and 7. 3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6. 7% of those under age 18 and 3. 5% of those age 65 or over
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Greenwood Lake, New York
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Greenwood Lake is a village in Orange County, New York, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, the population was 3,514. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, the Village of Greenwood Lake is in the south part of the Town of Warwick. The Village of Greenwood Lake was settled by Europeans as a community in the 1700s in the area of an earlier village occupied by the Munsee Indians. The Munsees, considered a branch of the Lenape people, were Algonquian speakers who called the lake Quampium. Some of the farms at the head of the lake were purchased by the Morris Canal and Banking Company in 1837 and it greatly increased the size of the lake to its current condition. The enlarged lake attracted tourists, and a hotel operated by Theron Felter was operating within the area of the Village by at least 1851. The development of the dates to 1856, when most of the available land was purchased by Solomon Caldwell. He divided the land for sale as “hotels, villa sites and town lots. ”Subsequent plot plans suggested renaming the community the “Town of Avington” in 1884, and “Montelac Park” in 1890, but it remained Greenwood Lake, becoming incorporated as a village in 1924. In the ensuing years many prominent people, such as baseball star Babe Ruth and actress Greta Garbo, in July 2011, director Rob Reiner began shooting a movie in the Village of Greenwood Lake. The movie, The Magic of Belle Isle starred Morgan Freeman, Virginia Madsen, the movie was shot in existing homes on the lake. Most of the cast and crew rented homes in the village, a special free premiere showing was held for all residents of Greenwood Lake in the summer of 2012 at the Thomas P. Morahan Waterfront Park. Greenwood Lake is located at 41°13′21″N 74°17′23″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.5 square miles, of which,2.0 square miles of it is land and 0.4 square miles of it is water. The lake is 9 miles long, the village is at the north end of a lake called Greenwood Lake, which straddles the New York State and New Jersey border. The northern junction of NY-210 is at NY-17A in the village, as of the census of 2000, there were 3,411 people,1,332 households, and 880 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,668.0 people per square mile, there were 1,534 housing units at an average density of 750.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 95. 57% White,0. 76% African American,0. 26% Native American,0. 85% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,0. 82% from other races, and 1. 70% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 04% of the population,26. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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New York State Route 210
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New York State Route 210 is a state highway in Orange County, New York, in the United States. The route was truncated to its current length in 1982, prior to becoming NY210 in 1930, the road alongside Greenwood Lake was part of NY55, a route connecting New Jersey to Goshen, in the 1920s. NY210 commences at the New York–New Jersey state line in the town of Warwick, like CR511 in New Jersey, NY210 is the primary lakeside roadway along Greenwood Lake, an interstate lake located roughly equally in New Jersey and New York. The route continues on to the village of Greenwood Lake. NY210 enters the center from the west on Jersey Avenue. It follows the street for four blocks to Windermere Avenue. The route terminates nine blocks later upon intersecting NY 17A north of the village center, from 1930 to 1982, NY210 extended eastward into Rockland County. This 20-mile extension was made up of several highways that were previously part of a privately maintained road. On March 10,1824, the New York State Legislature passed a law incorporating the Monroe and Haverstraw Road Company. The new company was tasked with building a turnpike from the hamlet of Monroe east to the town of Haverstraw, the turnpike company ceased to exist on April 28,1870, when the legislature passed a law repealing the 1824 document that created the turnpike company. The highway was sold off in order to pay off the debts of the company. When Harriman State Park opened in 1910, the Monroe–Haverstraw highway was renamed Southfields Road, three years later, a portion of the route became part of Seven Lakes Drive, a major highway built to traverse the park. In 1916, Rockland County numbered its highways for the first time, the Rockland County section of the former Monroe and Haverstraw Road was designated as CR416 at this time. From 1919 to 1920, the highway was reconstructed and rebuilt to state standards. In the late 1920s, what is now NY210 was originally designated as part of NY55, a connector between NY17 in Goshen and the New Jersey state line south of the village of Greenwood Lake. In the 1930 renumbering of highways in New York, NY55 was incorporated into two longer routes, NY210 from New Jersey to Greenwood Lake and NY 17A from Greenwood Lake to Goshen. Initially, NY 17A ended in Greenwood Lake while NY210 continued east to U. S. Route 9W on the banks of the Hudson River in West Haverstraw, from Greenwood Lake to Southfields, NY210 was routed on modern NY 17A. By 1933, NY 17A was extended eastward along NY210 to Southfields, completing the loop of NY17
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Concurrency (road)
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A concurrency in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers. When two freeways share the same right-of-way, it is called a common section or commons. Other terminology for a concurrency includes overlap, coincidence, duplex, triplex, multiplex, concurrent numbering can become very common in countries that allow it. In some countries, however, concurrent numbering is avoided by posting only one number on road signs. Criticism of concurrencies include environmental intrusion, as well as being considered a factor in road accidents, most concurrencies are simply a combination of two route numbers on the same physical road. This is often advantageous as well as economically advantageous, it may be better for two route numbers to be combined into one along riverways or through mountain valleys. Some nations allow for concurrencies to occur, however, some nations specifically do not allow it to happen, in those nations which do permit concurrencies, it can become very common. In these countries, there are a variety of concurrences which can occur, an example of this is the concurrency of I-70 and I-76 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in western Pennsylvania. A triple Interstate concurrency is found north of Madison, Wisconsin, with I-39, I-90, Wisconsin has another triple Interstate concurrency along the five-mile section of I-41, I-43, and I-894 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The concurrency of I-41 and I-43 on this roadway is an example of a wrong-way concurrency, the longest Interstate highway concurrency is I-80 and I-90 for 265 miles across Indiana and Ohio. There are examples of eight-way concurrencies, I-465 around Indianapolis and Georgia State Route 10 Loop around downtown Athens, Georgia. Portions of the 53-mile I-465 overlap with I-74, US31, US36, US40, US52, US421, SR37, seven of the eight other designations overlap between exits 46 and 47 to create an eight-way concurrency. In the United States, concurrencies are simply marked by placing signs for both routes on the same or adjacent posts, the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices prescribes that when mounting these adjacent signs together that the numbers will be arranged vertically or horizontally in order of precedence. The order to be used is Interstate Highways, U. S. Highways, state highways, and finally county roads, several states do not officially have any concurrencies, instead officially ending routes on each side of one. There are several circumstances where unusual concurrencies exist along state borders, one example occurs along the Oklahoma–Arkansas state line. At the northern end of this border Oklahoma State Highway 20 runs concurrently with Arkansas Highway 43, concurrencies are also found in Canada. In Manitoba, the Trans-Canada Highway from Winnipeg to Portage la Prairie is concurrently signed with Yellowhead Highway, in Ontario, the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 403 run concurrently between Burlington and Oakville, forming the provinces only concurrency between two 400-series highways. In the United Kingdom, routes do not run concurrently with others, where this would normally occur, the roadway takes the number of only one of the routes, while the other routes are considered to have a gap and are signed in brackets
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Traffic light
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The worlds first, manually operated gas-lit traffic signal was short lived. Installed in London in December 1868, it exploded less than a month later, Traffic control started to seem necessary in the late 1890s and Earnest Sirrine from Chicago patented the first automated traffic control system in 1910. It used the words STOP and PROCEED, although neither word lit up, Traffic lights alternate the right of way accorded to users by displaying lights of a standard colour following a universal colour code. In the typical sequence of phases, The green light allows traffic to proceed in the direction denoted, if it is safe to do so. The amber light warns that the signal is about to change to red, in a number of countries – among them the United Kingdom – a phase during which red and yellow are displayed together indicates that the signal is about to change to green. A flashing amber indication is a warning signal, in the United Kingdom, a flashing amber light is used only at pelican crossings, in place of the combined red–amber signal, and indicates that drivers may pass if no pedestrians are on the crossing. The red signal prohibits any traffic from proceeding, a flashing red indication is treated as a stop sign. In some countries traffic signals will go into a flashing mode if the Conflict Monitor detects a problem, the signal may display flashing yellow to the main road and flashing red to the side road, or flashing red in all directions. Flashing operation can also be used during times of day when traffic is light, before traffic lights traffic police controlled the flow of traffic, a well-documented example being that on London Bridge in 1722. Three men were given the task of directing traffic coming in, each officer would help direct traffic coming out of Southwark into London and he made sure all traffic stayed on the west end of the bridge. A second officer would direct traffic on the east end of the bridge to control the flow of people leaving London and going into Southwark. The main reason for the light was that there was an overflow of horse-drawn traffic over Westminster Bridge which forced thousands of pedestrians to walk next to the Houses of Parliament. The design combined three semaphore arms with red and green gas lamps for use, on a pillar. The gas lantern was manually turned by a police officer. The signal was 22 feet high, at night a red light would command Stop and a green light would mean use Caution. Although it was said to be successful at controlling traffic, its life was brief. It exploded on 2 January 1869, as a result of a leak in one of the gas lines underneath the pavement, injuring or killing the policeman who was operating it. In the first two decades of the 20th century semaphore traffic signals, like the one in London, were in use all over the United States with each state having its own design of the device, One good example was from Toledo, Ohio in 1908
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Pochuck Mountain
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Pochuck Mountain is a ridge in the New York-New Jersey Highlands region of the Appalachian Mountains. The ridge marks the edge of the Great Appalachian Valley. The two rivers meet at Pochuck Neck, marking the terminus of the ridge, the name Pochuck is a Lenape word meaning out-of-the-way place. It may have named so because it is an outlier of the New York-New Jersey Highlands and this separation gives Pochuck Mountain an unusually high prominence of approximately 695 feet. Pochuck Mountain and Wawayanda Mountain to the east form the borders of the Vernon Valley, immediately to the northwest of the ridge lies the Black Dirt Region, which is drained by the Wallkill River. Both valleys are part of a lowland region known as the Great Appalachian Valley that divides the Appalachian Mountains for hundreds of miles. Due to the positioning of Pochuck Mountain relative to the neighboring mountains. As the entire mountain is drained by the Wallkill River and its tributary Pochuck Creek, the Wallkill River flows northeast until it joins Rondout Creek near Rifton, New York. Rondout Creek then tributes the Hudson River in Kingston, New York, the Hudson River ultimately drains into the Atlantic Ocean via the New York Harbor. Lakes on Pochuck Mountain include Lake Glenwood, Lake Pochung, Lake Wallkill, Pleasant Valley Lake, Tall Timbers Lake, Lake Panorama, Louemma Lake and their waters are used for a variety of recreational purposes including fishing, swimming, boating and ice skating. Lake Pochung Road separates the summit from the ridges southwestern peaks, CR565 separates the summit from the ridges northern peaks. CR641 separates the summit from the ridges northeastern peaks, Glenwood Mountain Road separates several of the ridges northeastern peaks. The Appalachian Trail runs over the top of the ridge within Wawayanda State Park, Pochuck Mountain is part of the Reading Prong of the New England Uplands subprovince of the New England province of the Appalachian Highlands. In fact, it is the northernmost ridge of the Reading Prong in New Jersey, the rocks that form Pochuck Mountain are comprised from the same belt that make up nearby Wawayanda Mountain. This belt consists of ancient crystalline metamorphic rocks, as such, the New England province as a whole, along with the similarly composed Blue Ridge province further south, are often together referred to as the Crystalline Appalachians. The Crystalline Appalachians are distinct from the parallel Sedimentary Appalachians which run from Georgia to New York, the nearby Kittatinny Mountains are representative of these sedimentary formations. Portions of the Reading Prong in New Jersey are known to contain Uranium deposits, the naturally occurring Radon is a product of the decay chain of the Uranium isotope 238U. Mammals inhabiting Pochuck Mountain include black bear, white-tailed deer, opossum, foxes, raccoons, squirrels, skunk, bats, chipmunks, groundhogs and field mice
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High Point (New Jersey)
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High Point, in Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, in the Skylands Region, is the highest elevation in the state at 1,803 feet. It is southeast of Port Jervis, New York, High Point is the highest peak of the Kittatinny Mountains. Three states – New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania – can be seen from the top, at the peak is the High Point Monument, a 220-foot obelisk, built in 1930 as a war memorial. The mountain is in the 14,193 acre High Point State Park, route 23 skirts the park and carries visitors from the New Jersey suburbs and from points in New York State. The park is administered by the New Jersey Division of Parks, entrance fees are charged from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day. The land for High Point State Park, donated by Colonel Anthony R. and Susie Dryden Kuser of Bernardsville, the pleasant landscaping was designed by the Olmsted Brothers of Boston, a prominent landscape architectural firm run by the sons of Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted. To the south the Appalachian Trail follows a ridge which offers many scenic views of the valleys. To the north, the trail drops off the ridge through hemlock gorges into former agricultural fields with a view of the surrounding countryside, during the winter, portions of the parks trails are used for cross-country skiing. The Monument on High Point was built by Kuser to honor war veterans, master mason Michael Maddaluna began construction of the 220 foot tower – which has a base which is 34 feet square – in 1928 and completed it in 1930. The outside is made of New Hampshire granite and also Shawangunk quartz, the Monument is an obelisk monument similar to other war monuments, such as the one on Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Plans were made to close the park as of July 1,2008 under Gov. Jon Corzines budget plan for 2009, veterans groups, who have held an annual memorial at the site, expressed their opposition to the proposal, which was ultimately removed from the final budget. New Jersey portal National Register of Historic Places listings in Sussex County, New Jersey Outline of New Jersey Index of New Jersey-related articles List of U. S
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New Jersey
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New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state but the 11th-most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States. New Jersey lies entirely within the statistical areas of New York City. New Jersey was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, in the early 17th century, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements. New Jersey was the site of decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century. In the 19th century, factories in cities such as Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, around 180 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, New Jersey bordered North Africa. The pressure of the collision between North America and Africa gave rise to the Appalachian Mountains, around 18,000 years ago, the Ice Age resulted in glaciers that reached New Jersey. As the glaciers retreated, they left behind Lake Passaic, as well as rivers, swamps. New Jersey was originally settled by Native Americans, with the Lenni-Lenape being dominant at the time of contact, scheyichbi is the Lenape name for the land that is now New Jersey. The Lenape society was divided into clans that were based upon common female ancestors. These clans were organized into three distinct phratries identified by their animal sign, Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf and they first encountered the Dutch in the early 17th century, and their primary relationship with the Europeans was through fur trade. The Dutch became the first Europeans to lay claim to lands in New Jersey, the Dutch colony of New Netherland consisted of parts of modern Middle Atlantic states. Although the European principle of ownership was not recognized by the Lenape. The first to do so was Michiel Pauw who established a patronship called Pavonia in 1630 along the North River which eventually became the Bergen, peter Minuits purchase of lands along the Delaware River established the colony of New Sweden. During the English Civil War, the Channel Island of Jersey remained loyal to the British Crown and it was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that Charles II of England was proclaimed King in 1649, following the execution of his father, Charles I. The North American lands were divided by Charles II, who gave his brother, the Duke of York, the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony. James then granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River to two friends who had remained loyal through the English Civil War, Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton, the area was named the Province of New Jersey. Since the states inception, New Jersey has been characterized by ethnic, New England Congregationalists settled alongside Scots Presbyterians and Dutch Reformed migrants
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Shawangunk Ridge
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This ridge constitutes the western border of the Great Appalachian Valley. The ridgetop, which widens considerably at its end, has many public. Its only settlement of consequence is unincorporated Cragsmoor, in the past, the ridge was chiefly noted for mining and logging and a boom-era of huckleberry picking. Fires were regularly set to burn away the undergrowth and stimulate new growth of huckleberry bushes, today the ridge has become known for its outdoor recreation, most notably as one of the major rock climbing areas of North America. Also known for its biodiversity and scenic character, the ridge has been designated by The Nature Conservancy as a significant area for its conservation programs. The English name, Shawangunk, derives from the Dutch Scha-wan-gunk, Lenape linguist Raymond Whritenour reports that schawan is an inanimate intransitive verb meaning it is smoky air or there is smoky air. Its noun-like participle is schawank, meaning that which is smoky air, adding the locative suffix gives us schawangunk in the smoky air. Whritenour has suggested that the name derives from the burning of a Munsee fort by the Dutch at the base of the ridge in 1663. Use of the spread quickly, and it was recorded in numerous land deeds. Fried also notes that the names swift spread in the record suggests it was in use as a proper name before the Bruyn purchase. Shawangunk appears nowhere in reference to the fort in the extensive, Shawangunk became associated with the ridge during the 18th century. European colonists began to truncate Shawangunk into Shongum, Shongum was mistakenly identified as the Munsee pronunciation by the Reverend Charles Scott writing on Shawangunks etymology for the Ulster County Historical Society in 1861. The error has been reinforced in ethnographic sources and ridge literature, and by historians, librarians, both Shawangunk and Shongum are popular usages among locals native to the region. The Gunks is also a widely used term for the ridge and has been in use at least since the mid-19th century. In a letter dated August and postmarked August 8,1838, Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole corresponding with painter A. B. Durand writes, I hope you will find every thing there your heart can wish. The Shawangunks, particularly around Lake Mohonk, were the subject for several Hudson River School painters and these mountains mark the western and northern edge of the Great Appalachian Valley. The ridge is widest near the end and narrow in the middle. The ridge rises above a broad, high plain which stretches to the Hudson River to the east and these adjacent valleys are underlain by relatively weak sedimentary rock
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Catskill Mountains
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The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a large area in the southeastern portion of the U. S. state of New York. They are located approximately 100 miles north-northwest of New York City and 40 miles southwest of Albany, the Catskills occupy much or all of five counties, with some areas falling into the boundaries of southwestern Albany, eastern Broome, northwestern Orange, and southern Otsego counties. Foothills are also found in southeastern Chenango, southern Montgomery, northern Otsego, geologically, the Catskills are a mature dissected plateau, a once-flat region subsequently uplifted and eroded into sharp relief by watercourses. The Catskills form the end of, and highest-elevation portion of. Climatically, the Catskills lie within the Allegheny Highlands forests ecoregion, the regions many large resorts gave countless young stand-up comedians an opportunity to hone their craft. In addition, the Catskills have long been a haven for artists, musicians, nicolaes Visscher Is 1656 map of New Netherland located the Landt van Kats Kill at the mouth of Catskill creek. While the meaning of the name and the namer are settled matters, exactly how, theories, The most common, and easiest, explanation is that bobcats were seen near Catskill creek and the present-day village of Catskill, and the name followed from there. Mountain lions were known to have been in the area when the Dutch arrived in the 17th century and it was named for Dutch poet Jacob Cats, who was also known for his real estate prowess, profiting from speculation in lands reclaimed from the sea. A ship named The Cat had gone up the Hudson shortly before the name was first used, in nautical slang of the era, cat could also mean a piece of equipment, or a particular type of small vessel, called a catboat. It has also suggested that it refers to lacrosse, which Dutch visitors had seen the Iroquois natives play. The Mohicans roamed the woods of New England during the 18th century, a Mohican tribe supposedly inhabited the area known as the Catskills today, led by a Mohican chief named Cat. The supposed Indian name for the range, Onteora, was created by a white man in the mid-19th century to drum up business for a resort. It, too, persists today as the name of a school district, the locals preferred to call the range the Blue Mountains, to harmonize with Vermonts Green Mountains and New Hampshires White Mountains. It was only after Washington Irvings stories that Catskills won out over Blue Mountains, at the eastern end of the range, the mountains begin quite dramatically with the Catskill Escarpment rising up suddenly from the Hudson Valley. The western boundary is far less certain, as the mountains decline in height. The Poconos, to the immediate southwest in Pennsylvania, are technically a continuation of the Catskills under a different name, the Catskills contain more than 30 peaks above 3,500 feet and parts of six important rivers. The Catskill Mountain 3500 Club is an organization whose members have climbed all the peaks in the Catskills over 3,500 feet, the highest mountain, Slide Mountain in Ulster County, has an elevation of 4,180 feet. The history of the Catskill Mountains is a story come full circle, from erosion, deposition and uplift
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Warwick Village Historic District
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The Warwick Village Historic District is located in the center of the village of Warwick in the U. S. state of New York. It takes up an irregularly-shaped 130 acres of residential and commercial neighborhoods centered on NY94 and it was designated as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district begins at the intersection of Oakland and Galloway avenues, here the neighborhoods are almost all residential, except along Oakland where older houses have become restaurants and bed and breakfasts. On the west side it remains along Oakland until Campbell Road, the Galloway Avenue boundary continues to Clinton Avenue, including all properties on the street to South Street but then excluding most of Belmar Court before returning to South. At the railroad tracks the district Oakland becomes Main Street and the boundaries include only it. Here the street lined with stores and multistory buildings, culminating in the village hall, at this busy four-way junction, Main becomes Maple Avenue. All property on the side to the villages northeastern boundary is included in the district. West of the intersection, at Pine Island Turnpike, the takes in the properties associated with St. Anthonys Hospital, Cherry Street. It meets the boundary again at Robin Brae. The Shingle House, built in 1764 and the oldest house in the village, is located at 7 Forester Avenue, bairds Tavern, a stone structure with a gambrel roof built in 1766, is located nearby at 103-105 Main Street. Other buildings in this area, particularly the Old Baptist Meeting House, built in 1810 by a Connecticut congregation that had migrated west, date to the early 19th century. The area along Main Street to the south reflects the explosive growth of the village in the latter half of the 19th century. Early industrial development in the Town of Warwick had passed the village by, but the coming of the Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad in 1862 changed that. Half of the buildings were built between 1860 and 1900. Other city residents came to take advantage of the fresh air, the houses and bungalows from this period can be found along the northern and southern ends of the district and its side streets, such as the Warwick Inn on Oakland. Some of these residences were designed by two architects, Clinton Wheeler Wisner, and Ernest George Washington Dietrich. Wisners Warwickshire at 12 Linden Place is his most significant house within the village, the onset of the Great Depression in 1930 curtailed further resort development, and by the end of that decade passenger rail service to the village ended. The rise of the automobile after World War II opened up areas to weekend travelers
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Appalachian Trail
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The trail is about 2,200 miles long, though the exact length changes over time as parts are modified or rerouted. More than 2 million people are said to do at least one day-hike on the each year. The idea of the Appalachian Trail came about in 1921, the trail itself was completed in 1937 after more than a decade of work, although improvements and changes continue. It is maintained by 31 trail clubs and multiple partnerships, and managed by the National Park Service, United States Forest Service, the majority of the trail is in forest or wild lands, although some portions traverse towns, roads and farms. The trail conservancy claims that the Appalachian Trail is the longest hiking-only trail in the world. It passes through 14 states, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Many books, memoirs, websites, and fan organizations are dedicated to these pursuits, other separate extensions continue the southern end of the Appalachian range in Alabama and continue south into Florida, creating what is known as the Eastern Continental Trail. The Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Pacific Crest Trail form what is known as the Triple Crown of Hiking in the United States. The trail was conceived by Benton MacKaye, a forester who wrote his original plan—called An Appalachian Trail, macKayes idea detailed a grand trail that would connect a series of farms and wilderness work/study camps for city-dwellers. The idea was adopted by the new Palisades Interstate Park Trail Conference as their main project. On October 7,1923, the first section of the trail, from Bear Mountain west through Harriman State Park to Arden, MacKaye then called for a two-day Appalachian Trail conference to be held in March 1925 in Washington, D. C. This meeting inspired the formation of the Appalachian Trail Conference, a retired judge named Arthur Perkins and his younger associate Myron Avery took up the cause. Andersons efforts helped spark renewed interest in the trail, and Avery was able to bring other states on board, upon taking over the ATC, Avery adopted the more practical goal of building a simple hiking trail. He and MacKaye clashed over the ATCs response to a commercial development along the trails path, MacKaye left the organization. Avery reigned as Chairman of the ATC from 1932 to 1952, Avery became the first to walk the trail end-to-end, though not as a thru-hike, in 1936. In August 1937, the trail was completed to Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine, the ATCs trail crews and volunteer trail-maintaining clubs have relocated or rehabilitated miles of trail since that time. The completed thru-hike was much later recorded and accepted by the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association, in 1948, Earl Shaffer of York, Pennsylvania, brought a great deal of attention to the project by publicizing the first claimed thru-hike. The claim was criticized for the hikes omission of significant portions due to short-cuts
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County Route 106 (Orange County, New York)
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County Route 106 in the county of Orange County, New York was a continuation of two routes, New York State Route 17A at its western terminus and Rockland CR106 at the eastern terminus. Route 106 began at an intersection with NY 17A and its parent route, the route went eastward through Harriman State Park, crossing Seven Lakes Drive before entering nearby Rockland County, New York. There it became Rockland County Route 106 and heads all the way to Stony Point, CR106 was originally a part of NY210. During a maintenance swap in 1980, NY210 was truncated all the way back to NY 17A north of Greenwood Lake, CR106 in Orange County was decommissioned on January 1,2014, when maintenance of the road was transferred to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. Much of CR106 was mountainous, with peaks reaching as high as 1,200 feet, the road is also very scenic, passing many hiking trails in Harriman State Park as well as several lakes. CR106 was only one of two routes in Orange County to retain their Rockland County designation when crossing the border, the other was County Route 72 northeast of Sloatsburg. Route 106 begins at an interchange with NY17 and NY 17A in the hamlet of Southfields, Route 106 heads eastward, crossing over the Ramapo River and passing below the New York State Thruway before entering the mountainous regions of Harriman State Park. The highway heads into Harriman as Lake Kanawauke Road, passing to the south of Green Pond Mountain, much of the route heads in different directions, with constant curves. Route 106 heads south of Lake Stahahe, a lake in Harriman. After leaving the lake and mountain behind, Route 106 makes several turns, one to the north. After another curve, this time to the east, Route 106 passes to the north of Tom Jones Mountain, soon after, the road parallels the shore of Little Long Pond. Route 106 crosses Lake Kanawauke after leaving the shore of Little Long Pond, soon afterwards, the highway intersects with Seven Lakes Drive at a roundabout. Just after the roundabout, Route 106 crosses the county border into Rockland County, the highway that would later become part of CR106 originated in 1824. That is when the road was chartered as the New Turnpike, which stretched from what is now Southfields to a fork in the road, when the park opened in 1910, CR106 was known as Southfields Road. In 1913, it part of Seven Lakes Drive, with another designation coming three years later as County Highway 416. During the period of 1919 and 1920, the road was reconstructed, a new route was assigned that year making up the old Warwick Turnpike as NY 17A. Route 210 was assigned over the current CR106 alignment in the 1930 New York State Route renumbering, the route then stretched from County Route 511 south of Greenwood Lake, all the way up to NY 17A, where the two routes became concurrent. At the interchange for NY17, Route 17A ended, with 210 continuing eastward into Harriman, Route 210 headed eastward, into Rockland County, ending in Stony Point
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County Route 106 (Rockland County, New York)
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County Route 106 is a 7. 8-mile east–west county route in Rockland County, New York, in the United States. It serves as a continuation of Kanawauke Road, extending from the Orange County line to U. S. Route 9W. CR106 intersects with several county highways in Rockland County along the way, the route was only one of two in Rockland County to keep its numbering from Orange County, with the other being CR72. CR106 had one route, CR 106A, which was recently decommissioned. The route was originally designated County Highway 416 in the 1920s and 1930s, in 1930, it became the easternmost part of New York State Route 210, a state highway continuing westward into Orange County. In 1982, NY210 was truncated to end in Greenwood Lake, CR106 in Orange County was decommissioned on January 1,2014, when maintenance was transferred to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. CR106 begins at the Orange County line in Harriman State Park as a continuation of that countys CR106, the route is only one of two county routes that have the same number in both Rockland and Orange counties, the other is CR72. CR106 proceeds east from here providing a border between Harriman State Park and Bear Mountain State Park and it then intersects Lake Welch Parkway, a seasonal road which provides a route to Lake Welch Beach on the northern side of the lake. Then, CR106 splits Lake Welch in two different locations on the side of the lake. CR106 then begins its trek out of Harriman State Park, immediately after entering Stony Point, CR106 intersects CR98 where CR106 makes a left turn. CR106 then proceeds east toward its intersection with the Palisades Parkway and this is at exit 15 and is the last residential exit northbound on the PIP, with everything north of this point being exits within Harriman and Bear Mountain. Just after its intersection with the PIP, the road intersects two former Rockland County Routes, also, at this point CR106 enters the village limits of Stony Point, and becomes a 55-mile-per-hour, highway with extra lanes in some places. The highway intersects CR108, CR47, and CR33 as Central Drive, CR106 comes to an end shortly after these intersections at US 9W and US202 in downtown Stony Point, about a mile west from the Hudson River and the Stony Point Marina. CR106 originated in 1824, when the road was chartered for the New Turnpike, back in the 1820s, what is now Southfields was known as Monroe. The New Turnpike started at a factory in Monroe to a crossing over the Ramapo River. The turnpike continued eastward, meeting the Old Turnpike at a fork in the road, at the fork, part of the road became NY210 in the 1930 New York State Route renumbering. In 1910, when the park opened, the became known as the Southfields Road. Three years later, it part of the Seven Lakes Drive
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U.S. Route 9W
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U. S. Route 9W is a north–south U. S. Highway in the states of New Jersey and New York. As its W suffix indicates, US 9W is a alternate route of US9 between the two locations. US 9W directly serves three cities—Newburgh, Kingston, and Albany—and enters the vicinity of several others, as the route heads north, it connects to several highways of regional importance, including I-84, US209, New York State Route 23, and US20. Much of US 9W parallels the New York State Thruway and NY32, additionally, for much of its length, Route 9W is a two-lane surface road. However, some stretches in New York widen to four lanes, heading north on Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee, US 9W occupies the right-of-way of the Palisades Interstate Parkway to Lemoine Avenue, the northern terminus of Route 67. US 9W exits the right-of-way, turning north onto Lemoine Avenue, later Sylvan Avenue, in Englewood Cliffs, where it passes the headquarters of Ferrari of North America, Unilever, and CNBC. It continues to parallel the PIP to its west as they progress northward along the west bank of the Hudson River until reaching the border with New York State, both roads run very near the top of the Palisades, occasionally offering views of New York City and the river. Near Norwood, just south of the line, Route 9W crosses under the parkway. Before the construction of the PIP, Route 9W used to follow a route through the State Line Lookout at the New Jersey–New York border which is now only from the parkway. The entire route of US 9W in New Jersey is within Bergen County, across the state line, US 9W continues in Palisades as Highland Avenue, a two-lane road through mostly residential suburban surroundings. It passes Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and then Tallman Mountain State Park, bending westward to Sparkill, it meets NY340. It returns to the riverside at Piermont, where it takes the name Broadway Avenue, running due north, it enters Nyack and meets with the New York State Thruway just west of the Tappan Zee Bridge. It then runs along the Thruway to the east terminus of NY59 in downtown Nyack, North of Upper Nyack, it passes Rockland Lake thru Valley Cottage and then Rockland Lake State Park. Alongside the park, it crosses town lines again, NY303 reaches its north end just after the park, and after a tight curve NY304, reaches its eastern terminus as well. US 9W then returns to the riverside briefly, trending away from it into Haverstraw under the name Congers Avenue, the village is followed immediately by West Haverstraw, where US202 comes in at an oblique angle and joins US 9W, creating the first concurrency along the route. The combined highways head north from the Haverstraws as South, then North, Liberty Drive and they return to the Hudson at Tomkins Cove, where the Hudson River National Defense Reserve Fleet was moored from 1947 to 1971. At Jones Point the road curves and bends above the river as it works its way around Dunderberg Mountain, the Orange County line is crossed just before Bear Mountain Circle. The circle marks the terminus of the Palisades Parkway and the junction with US6
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U.S. Route 202 in New York
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U. S. Route 202 is a part of the U. S. Highway System that runs from New Castle, Delaware, to Bangor, Maine. In the U. S. state of New York, US202 extends 55.57 miles from the New Jersey state line near Suffern to the Connecticut state line east of Brewster. While most of US202 is signed north–south, the portion within New York is signed east–west and it drifts north slowly as it crosses southern New York. US202 is the road to cross New York between New Jersey and Connecticut and not pass through New York City on the way. Its course along the Hudson River takes it first north up the west side, over the historic Bear Mountain Bridge and it takes in many scenic areas, such as the Ramapo Mountains and Hudson Highlands, and two New York City reservoirs. Its circuitous path across the state puts it on many concurrencies—only 14.5 miles, or 26%, among the roads it joins are three U. S. highways and two state routes. It forms four three-route conurrencies, including the only grouping of three U. S. routes in the state, again in Peekskill. US 202s New York stretch is roughly bisected by the Hudson River and it is mostly a two-lane road, expanding to four in some busier sections, with a brief limited-access stretch in Peekskill. In the shadow of the New York State Thruway, it meets its first New York state highway, NY59, and has a brief wrong-way concurrency with it. It remains a two-lane route at the edge of development past Pomona and Montebello, at the foot of the Ramapo Mountains, the headwaters of the Mahwah River parallel closely. At Ladentown, the terminus of NY306, the road begins to curve to the east. Route 202 widens as it cuts across the county, still a little less developed here, towards Mount Ivy, the Long Path hiking trail also crosses here. Here the Appalachian Trail crosses under the road to its lowest elevation in the nearby Trailside Zoo, after ten miles, the US 9W concurrency comes to an end at Bear Mountain Circle, also the Palisades Parkways north end. This puts US202 very briefly in Orange County, and US6 replaces US 9W as the two join the AT in going through the tollbooths and crossing the Bear Mountain Bridge, after a brief re-entry into Rockland County, the roads cross into Westchester County. In most of northern Westchester, US202, primarily as part of concurrencies, serves as a road between the towns it passes through. It skirts the one Putnam County village along its path, and is mostly a rural road in that county, at the end of the bridge the AT leaves with NY 9D, which begins to follow the river north to Beacon and Wappingers Falls here. Routes 6 and 202 turn right to follow Bear Mountain Bridge Road, three and a half miles US6 and US202 descend to river level again and, after passing the entrance to the New York National Guard base at Camp Smith, reach Annsville Circle. At the second exit in Peekskill, the two routes leave US9, NY35 begins here and replaces it in the overlap, following Main Street across the city
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Stony Point, New York
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Stony Point is a triangle-shaped town in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area, the town is located north of the town of Haverstraw, east and south of Orange County, New York, and west of the Hudson River and Westchester County. The population was 15,059 at the 2010 census, the name of the town is derived from a prominent projection into the Hudson River. The town is in the northeast part of the county, U. S. Route 9W, U. S. Route 202, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway are major north-south routes through the town. Stony Point is included in the North Rockland Central School District and it is the most rural out of the 5 towns in Rockland County. The Americans were unable to hold the fort for more than a few days and this may or may not have contributed to Anthony Wayne earning his nickname of Mad Anthony Wayne. The economy of the town increased upon the rediscovery of limestone deposits in the 19th century, the town of Stony Point was founded in 1865 from the northern part of the town of Haverstraw. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 31.6 square miles, of which 27.6 square miles is land and 4.0 square miles. The western town line is the border of Orange County, New York, as of the census of 2000, there were 14,245 people,4,832 households, and 3,802 families residing in the town. The population density was 511.7 people per square mile, there were 4,951 housing units at an average density of 177.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 94. 33% White,1. 27% Black or African American,0. 19% Native American,1. 29% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,1. 66% from other races, and 1. 24% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 84% of the population,17. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.92 and the family size was 3.33. In the town, the population was out with 26. 1% under the age of 18,6. 6% from 18 to 24,30. 6% from 25 to 44,24. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.0 males, the median income for a household in the town was $71,940, and according to CNN Money the median income for a family was $97,633. Males had an income of $55,727 versus $36,424 for females. The per capita income for the town was $28,244, in comparison, the average salary in 2010 for a full-time Stony Point police officer was $126,895
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Rockland County, New York
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Rockland County is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U. S. state of New York, part of the New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is New City, the name derives from rocky land, as the area was described by early Dutch and English settlers. Rockland County is the smallest county by area in New York State outside of New York City and it comprises five towns and nineteen incorporated villages, with numerous unincorporated villages and hamlets. Rockland County is designated as a Preserve America Community, and roughly one-third of the county is parkland, the county has the largest Jewish population per capita of any U. S. county, with 31. 4%, or 90,000 residents, being Jewish. Rockland also ranks 9th on the list of counties by median household income in the United States with $75,306 according to the 2000 census. In 2015, Suffern was named as the best place to start a business in New York by NerdWallet, NerdWallet also included the villages of Haverstraw, West Haverstraw and Spring Valley in their report. On February 14,2017 Edwin J. Day, County Executive of Rockland County proclaim February 14,2017 as Rockland County Local History Day, the area that would become Rockland County was originally inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Aboriginals, including Munsees, or Lenni Lenape. The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in the area and these settlers, eager to escape city life, moved from Manhattan to Rockland. A number of unique Dutch-style red sandstone houses still stand, when the Duke of York established the first twelve counties of New York in 1683, present-day Rockland County was part of Orange County known then as Orange County South of the Mountains. Orangetown was created at the time under a royal grant. Around this time, as the English began to colonize Nyack and Tappan, the natural barrier of the Ramapo Mountains and the size of the county made it difficult to carry out governmental activities. At one point there were twin governments, one on side of the Ramapo Mountains. For this reason, Rockland split off from Orange in 1798 to form its own county and that same year the county seat was transferred from Tappan to New City, where a new courthouse was built. Haverstraw was separated from Orangetown in 1719 and became a town in 1788, it included the present-day Clarkstown, Ramapo, Clarkstown and Ramapo became towns in 1791, followed by Stony Point in 1865. George Washington had headquarters for a time at John Sufferns tavern, British Major John André met with American traitor Benedict Arnold near Stony Point to buy the plans for the fortifications at West Point. André was captured with the plans in Tarrytown on his way back to the British lines, he was brought to Tappan for trial in the Tappan church, found guilty, two days later Washington visited Sir Guy aboard a British war vessel. On this day the Kings Navy fired its first salute to the flag of the United States of America, in the decades following the Revolution, Rockland became popular for its stone and bricks. These products, however, required quarrying in land that many believed should be set aside as a preserve
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Chester, Orange County, New York
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Chester is a town in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 11,981 at the 2010 census, Chester contains a village, also called Chester. Chester is the birthplace of Philadelphia-style cream cheese, the town was first settled in the 1700s by Europeans. The economy of the town was based on dairy products, particularly milk, which was brought on by the completion of the Erie Railroad. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 25.2 square miles. Conjoined NY-17 and US-6 cross the north part of Chester, NY-94 crosses NY-17 south of Chester village. As of the census of 2000, there were 12,140 people,3,848 households, the population density was 482.2 people per square mile. There were 3,984 housing units at a density of 158.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 87. 18% White,6. 62% Black or African American,0. 34% Native American,2. 66% Asian,0. 05% Pacific Islander,1. 93% from other races, and 1. 22% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10. 14% of the population,16. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 4. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.92 and the family size was 3.31. In the town, the population was out with 27. 4% under the age of 18,5. 6% from 18 to 24,33. 8% from 25 to 44,25. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 111.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 112.0 males, the median income for a household in the town was $69,280, and the median income for a family was $75,222. Males had an income of $53,528 versus $36,673 for females. The per capita income for the town was $25,900, about 2. 7% of families and 7. 2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4. 9% of those under age 18 and 3. 7% of those age 65 or over. Camp Monroe – a multi denominational Jewish sleepaway summer camp founded in 1941 near the border with the Town of Monroe. Chester – A village located on NY-94, east Chester – A hamlet southeast of Chester village
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Warwick (village), New York
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Warwick is a village in Orange County, New York, United States, one of three villages in the Town of Warwick. The 2010 census population was 6,731 at the 2010 census and it is part of the New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. The Village of Warwick is in the southeast part of the Town of Warwick and is north of the state line. The village was incorporated in 1867 and it was originally a major passenger railroad stop, but in the latter half of the 20th century, all passenger traffic has been discontinued and has been replaced entirely by freight. Many of the colonial houses which were built when the village began have now been converted to bed and breakfasts, with one being turned into a bank. During the American War for Independence British General Burgoyne and his army camped on the outskirts of the village after their defeat at the Battle of Saratoga, also during the American Revolution, Martha Washington stayed at Bairds Tavern, now located on Main street in the village. Also for the past 20 years, the village holds an annual fair and bazaar, aptly named Applefest, due to the abundance of orchards in. Merchants, craftsmen, food vendors, musicians and a plethora of other assortments from around the region and it attracts over 30,000 people from across the Tri-State Area and from around the country. One of the Hudson Valleys few remaining independent radio stations in located in Warwick, studios are on Sanfordville Road, just south of the village. One hundred and thirty acres along Routes 94 and 17A in the center of the village are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Warwick Village Historic District. Buildings there range from the oldest in the village, the 1764 Shingle House, Warwick is located at 41°15′11″N 74°21′24″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 2.2 square miles. None of the area is covered with water, nY-94 and NY-17A intersect in the center of the village and connect Warwick to the village of Florida as well as the village of Greenwood Lake. County Highways 1A, 1B, and 13 lead into the village also, on the northern end of the village is St. Anthony Medical Center. With the termination of the railroad, the only form of public transportation to New York City is NJ Transit buses. The former Mid-Orange Correctional Facility was located on Kings Highway, northeast of the village, the state line between New York and New Jersey is four miles West of the village. Hamlets surrounding the Village of Warwick include, Amity, Bellvale, Edenville, Greenwood Forest Farms, Little York, New Milford, Pine Island, and Sterling Forest. As of the census of 2000, there were 6,412 people,2,523 households, the population density was 2,870.5 people per square mile
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West Milford, New Jersey
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West Milford is a township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. West Milford started out as New Milford in what was then western Bergen County in the 18th century, having been settled by disenchanted Dutch from Milford and these same Dutch also built a town of New Milford in eastern Bergen County. On February 7,1837, Passaic County was created from portions of both Bergen County and Essex County, with West Milford as the end of the newly formed county. The township was named for Milford, Connecticut, Newfoundland is divided by the Pequannock River, which divides Passaic and Morris Counties, a small part of Newfoundland lies within Jefferson Township. A large part of the township, including the New City Village area, is property owned by the City of Newark in Essex County for its water supply. Greenwood Lake is a lake approximately 9 miles long and covering 1,920 acres. It was originally called Long Pond and it was dammed up to increase the size of the lake for water power down stream. During the resort era, several steamboats operated on the lake and these steamboats met the trains and took passengers to the various resorts around the lake in both states. There is an area on Greenwood Lake, a few large marinas. A public airport called Greenwood Lake Airport is located just south of the lake on top of a ridge and has two landing strips, one is long enough to handle small jets. There is one airport in the township on a private estate. After World War II and for the next 20 years the area underwent a change from a resort area to year-round residences. Before there were houses, the summer residence of Cecil B. Road maps of the 1950s showing the population on the backside said 2,000 winter and 10,000 summer. Jeremiah Jerry Goodfellow, a white German shepherd and the canine member of the New Jersey Search. Jerry lives with his owner and trainer, Sue Lavoie, on Union Valley Road in West Milford. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had an area of 80.316 square miles. Glen Lake, Macopin, Matthews Lake, Moe, Mount Laurel Lake, Newfoundland, Oak Ridge, the township borders the municipalities of Bloomingdale, Butler and Ringwood in Passaic County, Kinnelon in Morris County, and Warwick in Orange County, New York
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Sloatsburg, New York
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Sloatsburg is a village in the town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York, United States. Located east of Orange County, it is at the entrance to Harriman State Park. The population was 3,152 at the 2010 census, the village is named after Stephen Sloat, an early European landowner. The area was the site of a major Indian path through the Ramapo Mountains, the path was later improved as the New York to Albany road and, in 1800, the Orange Turnpike. It remains an important thoroughfare today as the New York State Thruway, New York State Route 17, wynant Van Gelder, an ethnic Dutch colonist, purchased the area from the Minsi in 1738. In 1747, he gave it to his father-in-law, Isaac Van Deusen, when his daughter Marritge Van Deusen married Stephen Sloat, Isaac gave the couple the land in 1763. They built a house on the property and operated a tavern. During the American Revolution, the Sloat House was headquarters for American troops stationed in the Ramapo Pass. The house is a residence, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There he established Sloats Tavern. Sloatsburg, originally Pothat, was named after the Sloat family, during the American Revolutionary War, the stage route became an important military route and the Ramapo pass an important strategic point, occupied by American troops throughout the war. George Washington traveled through the several times and stayed in Sloats Tavern at least once. After the war, the Sloats added a tannery and a cotton mill, one of the sons, Jacob Sloat, was a gifted mechanic. He opened a mill in 1815 for making cloth, importing cotton from the South. He successfully turned to making exclusively cotton twine after patenting a process for dressing it in 1840, at peak, he produced around 8,000 pounds of twine per week. The family operated the mill until the Civil War, when it temporarily for lack of cotton. It was one of numerous mills near New York City that produced cotton textiles, the mill ceased operations in 1878, after the South developed its own textile mills. In the early 19th century, Abram Dater built a forge on the Ramapo River, and a grist mill. Between 1836 and 1841, the Erie Railroad built a line through Sloatsburg, resulting in an increase in the population
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Harriman State Park (New York)
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At 47,527 acres, Harriman State Park is the second largest state park in New York. Located in Rockland and Orange counties 30 miles north of New York City, the park is also known for its 31 lakes, multiple streams, public camping area, and great vistas. The parks hiking trails are maintained by volunteers from the New York - New Jersey Trail Conference. On its northeastern edge, Harriman State Park borders the 5, 000-acre Bear Mountain State Park as well as the United States Military Academys 16, to the southwest, it partly borders the state-owned 18, 000-acre Sterling Forest reserve. These areas, together with the states Storm King forest reserve of 1,900 acres, edward Harriman and Mary Averell Harriman owned 30,000 acres in Arden, New York as part of their estate. They opposed the decision to build a prison at Bear Mountain. A year after the death of her husband in 1909, Mary Harriman proposed to Governor Charles Evans Hughes that she would donate 10,000 acres of land and $1 million for the creation of a new state park. As part of the deal, the state would do away with the plan to build the prison, appropriate an additional $2.5 million to acquire additional land and construct park facilities. The state agreed and on October 29,1910, W. Averell Harriman presented a deed for the land, in 1913, Major William A. Welch started construction on the road from Bear Mountain to Sloatsburg, known today as the Seven Lakes Drive. In 1962 a new road from the Southfields section of Tuxedo to Kanawake Circle was opened, there were also numerous other roads completed around Bear Mountain and Dunderberg Mountain in order to make it easier for people to reach the new park. In addition, there was service from Manhattan offering round-trip tickets for 85 cents for adults and 45 cents for children. The park received an influx of free labor during the Great Depression. The Civilian Conservation Corps offered thousands of men work such as building roads, trails, camps. Projects completed by the CCC in the park included Pine Meadow, Wanoksink, Turkey Hill, Welch, Silvermine, in 1993, the World Orienteering Championships were held at Harriman State Park. There are more than forty marked hiking trails in Harriman, and another 57 unmarked trails, in winter some of the trails are open for cross-country skiing. The hiking trails are maintained by the New York - New Jersey Trail Conference, the park lies within the Northeastern coastal forests ecoregion. There are 32 lakes and ponds in Harriman, officially, they are the only locations in the park besides the parks designated campgrounds where overnight camping is allowed. No reservations are required for these shelters as they operate on a first-come, Harriman Trails, A Guide and History, The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, New York, N. Y.1999
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