Playland Parkway is a 1.20-mile-long (1.93 km) parkway in Westchester County, New York, in the United States, and is assigned County Route 152. The short stretch of surface road and low-standard freeway connects Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 1 (US 1) with the Playland amusement park in Rye.
Playland Parkway approaching US 1 in Rye
Playland Parkway at its eastern terminus, Rye Playland
The majority of parkways in the US state of New York are part of a statewide parkway system owned by several public and private agencies but mostly maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). 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 roads of the state parkway system were among the first expressways to be constructed. These highways were not divided and allowed no driveway cuts, but did have intersections for some of the streets they crossed. A small section of the privately financed Long Island Motor Parkway was the first expressway to begin operation as a toll road and the first highway to use bridges and overpasses to eliminate intersections.
Sign informing truckers it is illegal to use a parkway in New York City.