New York State Route 22

"NY 22" redirects here. The term may also refer toNew York's 22nd congressional district.

"White Plains Post Road" redirects here. For the road of a similar name wholly in the Bronx, seeWhite Plains Road.

New York State Route 22
NY 22 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained byNYSDOT,NYCDOT,Clinton County,Westchester County,and the cities ofMount VernonandPlattsburgh
Length	337.26 mi(542.77 km)
Existed	1924–present
Tourist routes	Lakes to Locks Passage(from Whitehall to Keeseville)
Major junctions
South end	I-95/US 1inThe Bronx
Major intersections	Cross County ParkwayinMount Vernon I-287inWhite Plains Bronx River Parkway/Taconic State ParkwayinNorth Castle I-684inArmonk I-84/I-684/US 6/US 202inSoutheast US 44fromAmeniatoMillerton I-90/Berkshire ConnectorinCanaan US 20inNew Lebanon US 4inWhitehall I-87inChesterfield
North end	US 11inMooers
Location
Country	United States
State	New York
Counties	Bronx,Westchester,Putnam,Dutchess,Columbia,Rensselaer,Washington,Essex,Clinton
Highway system
New York Highways Interstate US State Reference Parkways
←NY 21A →NY 22A

New York State Route 22(NY 22) is a north–southstate highwaythat parallels the eastern border of the U.S. state ofNew York,from the outskirts ofNew York Cityto the hamlet ofMooersinClinton Countynear theCanadian border.At 337 miles (542 km), it is the state's longest north–south route and the third longest state route overall, afterNY 5andNY 17.Many of the state's major east–west roads intersect with, and oftenjoin,NY 22 just before crossing into the neighboringNew Englandstates, whereU.S. Route 7(US 7), which originally partially followed NY 22's alignment, similarly parallels the New York state line.

Almost all of NY 22 is a two-lane rural road through small villages and hamlets. The exceptions are its southern end in the heavily populatedBronxand lowerWestchester County,and a section that runs through the city ofPlattsburghnear the northern end. The rural landscape that the road passes through varies from horse country and views of the reservoirs of theNew York City watershedin the northern suburbs of the city, todairy farmsfurtherupstatein theTaconicandBerkshiremountains, to the undeveloped, heavily forestedAdirondack Parkalong the shores ofLake Champlain.An 86-mile (138 km) section fromFort AnntoKeesevilleis part of theAll-American Roadknown as theLakes to Locks Passage.

The oldest portions of today's NY 22, in Westchester County and along the Lake Champlain shoreline, wereNative Americantrails.Dutch,and after them English, settlers continued to use the road to get their farm products to market, with the southernmost portion eventually becoming theWhite Plains Post Roadin the 18th and 19th centuries. In the early 20th century, as automobile use became widespread, the state paved the more heavily used sections and built new roads to create the current highway, first designated as NY 22 in 1930. In its early years the highway began inManhattan;until 2008 its northern end was the Canadian border.

Route description

NY 22 starts as an urban surface road, passing through the most populous communities along its route within its first 15 miles (24 km). After running northerly from its origin in the Bronx it veers slightly to the northeast in the vicinity of atraffic circlenearKensico Dambefore heading northward for good as a mostly two-lane rural route all the way to the state'sNorth Country.

The majority of NY 22's 337-mile (542 km) routing is maintained by theNew York State Department of Transportation(NYSDOT); however, several sections are maintained by other jurisdictions. The southernmost of these is inthe Bronx,where the entirety of the highway within theboroughis maintained by theNew York City Department of Transportation(NYCDOT).InWestchester County,NY 22 is mostly locally maintained within the city ofMount Vernonand is county-maintained within the city ofWhite Plains.InClinton County,the route is locally maintained within thecity of Plattsburgh.

During its course, NY 22 intersects orruns concurrentlywith 46 other designated routes: onestate parkway,fiveInterstate Highways,and sevenU.S. Highwaysnot counting its own termini. Of the surface road intersections, 18 terminate at NY 22 and 15 are concurrencies shared with the crossing routes, accounting for 72.6 miles (116.8 km), or 21.5% of the highway's total length.

The Bronx to Kensico Dam

NY 22 northbound in Mount Vernon, just north of the East 233rd Street intersection in the Bronx

NY 22 starts as Provost Avenue atInterstate 95(I-95) andU.S. Route 1(US 1) in theEastchestersection ofthe Bronx,intersecting withEast 233rd Streetabout 0.2 miles (320 m) to the north.It soon crosses theWestchestercounty line intoMount Vernonand becomes South Third Avenue, beginning a 30-mile (48 km) section in that county.Shortly after the county line, NY 22 makes a sharp turn to the east at the South Columbus Avenue intersection, soon passingSt. Paul's Church National Historic Siteon its north, then curving back to that direction. It parallels the nearbyHutchinson River Parkwayas it passes through the suburbs ofBronxvilleandTuckahoe.At Wilson Woods Lake, it crosses under a railroad bridge on theMetro-NorthNew Haven Lineand becomes North Columbus Avenue, then has its first interchange with afreewayat theCross County Parkway.

Country clubson either side bracket NY 22's entry intoEastchester.It makes a turn to the northeast, passing the Vernon Hills Shopping Center to the right. After leaving Eastchester, NY 22 continues north into the village ofScarsdale.Paralleling theBronx River Parkway(BRP), enters Westchester'scounty seat,White Plains.NY 22 also intersectsNY 125andNY 119in downtown White Plains, then bends to the northwest along North Broadway, eventually intersecting theCross Westchester Expressway(Interstate 287or I-287). TheWhite Plains Rural Cemeteryis visible to the west as NY 22 continues northward out of the city.InNorth White Plains,the surrounding area becomes less developed as it goes over a gentle rise from which a short connector runs downhill to thetraffic circlewhere the BRP ends and theTaconic State Parkwaybegins, just south ofKensico Dam.

Kensico Reservoir to Brewster

While the Taconic State Parkway continues along the northwest heading NY 22 had been following, NY 22 itself veers to the northeast along the reservoir's south shore, becoming a four-lane undividedexpressway.After crossing a small bridge over one of the reservoir's bays, NY 22 begins a thousand-foot (300 m)concurrency,the first of 15 along its length, withNY 120.The combined roads pass just west ofIBM'sArmonkheadquarters and the "Duke's Trees angle", the westernmost point inConnecticut,after which NY 22 becomes a four-lane divided expressway.For the first time, NY 22 runs parallel to New York's eastern border, intersectingI-684for the first of several times just north of the short portion of that highway in Connecticut. A short distance later,NY 433,one of the state's shortest highways,heads south from NY 22 intoGreenwich.

After that junction, NY 22 bends back to the north, paralleling I-684 as a two-lane surface road through the Westchester countryside of large wooded lots and houses well-screened from the road. In downtownBedford,the first settlement since White Plains, the highway overlaps withNY 172for a mile (1.6 km), its first concurrency with an east–west route, then veers back to the northwest at the center of town. Just to the north,NY 121,the only north–south state highway whose route is entirely east of NY 22, forks off from its southern terminus. Another mile past that, NY 22 returns to a due-north heading, passing theJohn Jay Homestead State Historic SiteaNational Historic Landmark,where it turns west briefly, andHarvey School,where it curves to the northwest again. After theKatonah Museum of Artit widens briefly at a major intersection withNY 35.Two miles (3.2 km) north of that junction, NY 22 becomes parallel with I-684 into theTown of Somersand the hamlet ofGoldens Bridge.On the other side of the Interstate, accessible viaNY 138,is theGoldens Bridge stationonMetro-North Railroad'sHarlem Line,which begins a long parallel alignment with NY 22 at this point.

I-84 overpass north of Brewster

The railroad'sPurdy'sstation is a short distance west of the next junction,NY 116.At another traffic light 400 feet (120 m) to the north, NY 116 goes east toTiticus Reservoirat the northern intersection, the highway crosses under I-684, remaining between it and the railroad tracks. Just past the Interstate, NY 22 turns west onto Hardscrabble Road, which soon turns north again to follow the tracks tothe next station,North Salem's hamlet ofCroton Falls.Just north of the hamlet, NY 22 crosses under the tracks, and is joined byUS 202.Immediately afterward, the road crosses back under the railroad again and entersPutnam County,following theCroton Rivernorth past thespillwayofEast Branch Reservoir.

After paralleling the reservoir for almost two miles (3.2 km), a third route,US 6,joins the concurrency just east of the village ofBrewster,forming the only three-route overlap along NY 22. The three routes cross under a high, long bridge carryingI-84,then veer east to an interchange with the north end of I-684. US 6 and 202 continue east forDanburywhile NY 22 uses the northbound on-ramp of the I-684 roadway. NY 22 then briefly becomes a four-lanefreewaybefore becoming a two-lane surface road after it cross the Croton's East Branch.

Harlem Valley, Taconics and Berkshires

NY 22 looking north into the Harlem Valley from Patterson

NY 22 continues heading northeast along a narrow strip of land between the East Branch andBog Brookreservoirs. It then resumes its northward heading, following a much straighter course than it had up to this point, on two lanes through wooded areas of the town ofPatterson,where two local state highways,NY 312and164,come in from the west. The highway gradually expands to three and sometimes four lanes as it passes through built-up areas of strip development. Shortly after intersecting a third state highway,NY 311,and passing another strip plaza, NY 22 crosses intoDutchess County.

After another supermarket strip to the east, a long, gentledividedbend in the road almost a mile long ends with an overpass whereNY 55comes in from the west. It joins NY 22 as the two routes, returning to two lanes, pass through the eastern fringe of the village ofPawlingand then byTrinity-Pawling School.Past the village, the railroad tracks edge closer to the highway as NY 22 enters the scenic Harlem Valley, near the lower end of theTaconic Mountains.The road curves more gently and takes longer straightaways, with lower density of residential and commercial development. Two miles (3.2 km) from Pawling, theAppalachian Trailcrosses the road next to the line'ssimilarly named station.

NY 22 and NY 55 continue their long curve into the town ofDover,past theHarlem Valley–Wingdalestation next to the road across from the now-closed buildings ofHarlem Valley Psychiatric Center.The NY 55 concurrency ends when that road forks off east towards Connecticut at the hamlet ofWingdale.The road continues throughDover Plainsand intoAmenia,where an overlap withNY 343begins. The railroad line ends atWassaic.NY 343 remains joined with NY 22 intothe hamlet of Amenia,where it separates and heads towardsSharon, Connecticut.At the same junction,US 44comes in fromMillbrookto begin an overlap with NY 22.The valley opens up as the southernTaconicsloom ahead. Shortly after crossing into the Town ofNorth East,the highway passes by the largeColeman Station Historic District.

After intersecting withNY 199at its eastern end, NY 22 and US 44 veer northeast into the small village ofMillertonin the northern protrusion of Dutchess County's Oblong, an area once the subject of a boundary dispute between New York and Connecticut in the late 17th century. US 44 continues eastward towardsLakeville, Connecticut,only a mile (1.6 km) east at this point, while NY 22 resumes its northward course into the shadow of the ridge ahead, where 2,311-foot (704 m)Brace Mountain,Dutchess County's highest peak,dominates the view. At another gentle curve, NY 22 slips intoColumbia Countyand the town ofAncram.North of the county line,Massachusettsbecomes the state behindAlander Mountainand the other peaks visible to the east. The southernmost route from New York to the Massachusetts state line,NY 344,leaves forBashbish Falls State Parkjust west of the hamlet ofCopake Falls.

NY 22 passing theFalcon Ridge Folk Festivalnorth of Hillsdale

The next major junction is atHillsdale,whereNY 23,the longesteast–west state highway not to overlap with NY 22, intersects at a traffic light just east of downtown. At Green River,NY 71,the state's shortest two-digit route,begins it short eastward course into Massachusetts. NY 22 then crosses intoAusterlitz,where the surrounding terrain becomes much more wooded and the valleys become narrower. In the center of town, the historic hamlet of Old Austerlitz, East Hill Road offers a short detour toSteepletop,the farm whereEdna St. Vincent Millaylived, another National Historic Landmark. A short distance later, NY 22 intersects withNY 203at its eastern end.

NY 22 then veers sharply to the northeast, resuming a northward direction within 150 feet (46 m) of the state line, the highway's closest approach to it along its entire length. It then rounds a mountain and heads west, paralleling theNew York State Thruway's Berkshire section (I-90) for a mile.NY 980D(an unsigned reference route) leaves to the east, where it becomesMassachusetts Route 102at the state line. After Thruway exit B3, NY 22 resumes its northerly heading. From here it intersectsNY 295,then passesQueechy Lake.NY 22 then straightens out to reachNew Lebanon,where it intersectsUS 20.Ending a 41.8-mile (67.3 km) stretch with no concurrencies, the longest on NY 22, New York's longest east–west route (US 20)overlaps with its longest north–south route (NY 22) for a mile before the former continues toPittsfieldand the latter returns to the border-paralleling course, which takes it intoRensselaer County.

NY 22 northbound past NY 346 in Petersburgh

As NY 22 continues north, it remains, at first, within a mile of Massachusetts, moving to the east to intersect withNY 43inStephentown.North of that junction, it begins to run through a deep, isolated, lightly populated valley in the New York section of theBerkshires.Wide curves take the road through the town ofBerlin.NY 22 trends further west, then back east to whereNY 2crosses via an overpass atPetersburghon its way to Petersburg Pass, the northernmost crossing of the New York–Massachusetts state line. The next road to head east from NY 22,NY 346at North Petersburgh, entersVermont.

Shortly afterward, the highway descends gently from the Berkshires to meet another major east–west state road,NY 7.After turning northeast to join it at a traffic light, NY 22 overlaps with Route 7 for 1,500 feet (460 m), then forks off to the north just before crossing theHoosic River.NY 22 follows the river for 2 miles (3.2 km) toHoosick Falls,the first village it has passed through since Millerton. There are no other state routes here, but after another two miles (3.2 km), at North Hoosick,NY 67comes in from the east and the two roads overlap as they leave Rensselaer County.

Washington County

The next 73 miles (117 km) of NY 22 traverseWashington County,the longest portion of the highway in a single county.Almost immediately after the joined roads cross the line, NY 67 splits off to the west, crossing the Hoosick back into Rensselaer County, while NY 22 straightens out again to go due north. After four miles (6.4 km), it reachesCambridge,whereNY 313forks off to the east. In the middle of town,NY 372,a local connector toGreenwich,ends. North of Cambridge, the highway continues through a rolling landscape of fields and farms, the low transitional country between theAppalachiansand theAdirondacks.BeyondNY 29's eastern terminus at Greenwich Junction, NY 22 heads eastward again through 18 miles (29 km) of countryside until, just before reachingGranville,it comes within 0.5 miles (800 m) of the state line, the closest it has come to that boundary since Austerlitz. At the village's south end, NY 22 intersectsNY 149and the two routes overlap for 400 feet (120 m) until Route 149 begins its short journey to Vermont. Just north of Granville, the first of NY 22's two suffixed routes,NY 22A,begins its route running closely parallel to the state line and then into Vermont, where it becomesVermont Route 22A(VT 22A), paralleling the parent route for some distance on the other side of the state line.

View to the Drowned Lands at the south end of Lake Champlain from near Whitehall

Immediately after this junction, NY 22 begins a long curve away from the state line that has it running due west at the end ofNY 40in North Granville. It heads northwest a little further until, after passing betweenGreat MeadowsandWashingtonstate prisons, it reachesUS 4and turns right to join it, resuming its northward course. At this point the highway is 8 miles (13 km) from the state line, the farthest west it has gotten from it since southern Westchester County. The overlap with US 4, the first to pair NY 22 with another north–south routesince the short concurrency with NY 120, lasts for seven miles (11 km) along the base of the Adirondack foothills between the low country andLake George,before ending inWhitehall,where US 4 leaves to assume the east–west course it takes across northern New England.

Adirondack Park and Lake Champlain

As NY 22 bends westward after leaving Whitehall, it rounds the north end of the ridge to the west, offering views into Vermont. Once again the Vermont state line is very near NY 22, but now it is separated from New York by water instead of land. The stream at the bottom of this valley, surrounded by the low lying Drowned Landsflood plain,is the inflow forLake Champlain.The lake's South Bay, which the road crosses immediately after this turn, is also theBlue Line.NY 22 has now entered theAdirondack Park,the 6.1-million-acre (25,000 km²)Forest PreserveandNational Historic Landmark,and the largest publiclyprotected areain thecontiguous United States.Within the park, NY 22 mainly follows the lakeshore, closer to some of its more populated areas.

NY 22 in Washington County north of Whitehall

It climbs through rock cuts as it meanders north on the narrowingisthmusbetween Lakes Champlain and George. Near the northern end, it crosses theEssex Countyline. Two miles (3.2 km) into the county, it reaches the first settlement along its length within the Adirondack Park,Ticonderoga.The highway skirts the northeastern edge of the village, the site ofkey battlesin both theFrench and IndianandRevolutionaryWars, asNY 74comes in from the ferry to the east, the first intersecting state route since Whitehall, ending the longest such break on NY 22 at 24.9 miles (40.1 km). The two routes overlap for almost two miles (3.2 km) until NY 74 goes straight ahead at the intersection withNY 9N,while NY 22 turns right to join NY 9N, the longest suffixed route in the state, and return to its northbound orientation for the longest of its concurrencies, at 25.5 miles (41.0 km).

At first, NY 22 and NY 9N veer west, away from the lake, but then return to its shoreline to avoid a nearby mountain, just beforeCrown Point.NY 185,a small connector road, runs from NY 9N and NY 22 along the peninsula to becomeVT 17.The road remains close to the widening lake for the next 15 miles (24 km), with the tracks of theDelaware and Hudson Railroad,used today byCSXfor freight andAmtrakforpassenger servicebetween New York andMontreal,sometimes immediately to the east. After passing throughPort HenrytoWestport,where 9N leaves heading west forElizabethtown.Beyond that junction, NY 22 again turns inland, going through the easy pass around Split Rock Mountain, going northwest toWadhamswhere it turns northeast toWhallonsburg,then north. At Boquet, it makes an abrupt turn to go 3 miles (4.8 km) due east back to the lakeshore and ferry landing atEssex,where it connects to theCharlotte–Essex Ferryvia Dock Street, leading toVT F-5on the opposite side of Lake Champlain.

View of Vermont and Lake Champlain near Essex

The highway again follows the lakeshore toWillsboro,where NY 22 heads to the northwest again, inland, through dense forest, until it heads west and intersectsUS 9in the town ofChesterfield,the other major north–south surface route up the state's eastern side. NY 22 and US 9 join, closely parallel to the Adirondack Northway (I-87), the only other route in the state to directly connect New York City with Canada. The three routes, spread over many miles in the southern part of the state, run through a narrow corridor for two miles (3.2 km) until US 9 and NY 22 veer east again towardKeeseville.

Here, NY 9N ends and US 9 and NY 22 separate, ending the last concurrency along the latter. The two will exchange corridors, with US 9 following the lake shore line while NY 22 remains mostly inland. NY 22 entersClinton Countyjust north of Keeseville, and then leaves Adirondack Park two miles (3.2 km) beyond at thePerutown line.

Clinton County

Just south of thehamlet of Peru,the shortNY 442terminates at NY 22. In the hamlet itself, after the Little Au Sable River crossing, NY 22's other suffixed route, NY 22B, branches off further inland. NY 22 continues north of Peru, and returns to the Northway's side again in a mile. After another five miles (8.0 km), it has its first exit on the Northway near the now-closedPlattsburgh Air Force Base.It continues northeastward, crossing theSaranac RiverintoPlattsburgh,the first city and most populous community NY 22 has passed through since White Plains.

Northern terminus of NY 22 at US 11 in Mooers

NY 22 runs along South Catherine Street for a few blocks, then divides intoone-way coupletsfor the first time since Westchester County, with northbound traffic moving a block to the east to follow Oak Street, while southbound traffic comes down North Catherine Street. It parallels US 9 for a couple of blocks, intersectingNY 3(Cornelia Street) just a block west of its eastern terminus at that highway. After Boynton Avenue, the separate streets reunite and turns northwest just before it has its second and final exit with the Northway. Just after the exit,NY 374begins along the westbound route as NY 22 turns to the north once again.

The highway follows the railroad tracks intoBeekmantownuntil it bears left at a fork, trending further west to Beekmantown Corners, where another short local road, County Route 58, formerlyNY 456,comes to its western end. After crossing into the next town,Chazy,NY 22 bears left again at another fork to drift further to the west.The terrain around the road becomes increasingly wooded, with long unbroken stretches of pine, in the northern portion of the town. This is briefly broken at another western terminus of a short local road, County Route 23, formerlyNY 191,in the hamlet of Sciota.

NY 22 continues past Sciota in a fairly straight north-northwesterly course through more woods with small home and farm clearings. Those yield to mostly fields just before theGreat Chazy River,after which NY 22 enters thehamlet of Mooers.NY 22 comes to an end upon intersectingUS 11.

History

In popular culture

The road is celebrated and described inBenjamin Swett's 2007 photographic travelogue,Route 22.

Old roads

The road from the modern-day Bronx (then part of Westchester County) through White Plains to Bedford and points north was originally an oldNative Americanpath.This path was later used and widened by the first European settlers. During colonial times, the road was known as "the road to Bedford and Vermont".Further north, near Lake Champlain, the route now used by NY 22 was used by theSt. Francis Indiansof Canada as they went south to find warmer fishing areas.The old road was also used heavily during theAmerican Revolutionto transport iron south from the mines in theAdirondacks.

OnceWhite Plainsbecame the county seat ofWestchesterin 1759, the road between the village and the city of New York (then encompassing onlyManhattan) became an important route and was established as the White Plains Post Road. Before 1797, the main road heading to points north and east out of Manhattan went viaKingsbridgealong the oldBoston Post Road.A new bridge over theHarlem River(the originalHarlem Bridge) was opened in 1797, shortening the route out of Manhattan. This also relocated the Boston and White Plains Post roads to a new alignment alongThird AvenueandBoston Road.The White Plains Post Road separated from the Boston Post Road in Bronxdale, with the road to Boston heading east and the road to White Plains heading north. The old White Plains Post Road roughly followed the alignment of modern-dayWhite Plains Road,which was laid out in 1863.(The original post road was to the east of the modern-day avenue). The White Plains Post Road continued north throughOlinville,Wakefield,andMount Vernon,where the route shifted east to modern-day White Plains Post Road, going throughBronxvilleandScarsdaletoWhite Plains.

The stretch from Salem to theVermontborder inGranvillewas part of the oldNorthern Turnpike,which began inLansingburghand went along modern-dayNY 40.The Northern Turnpike was chartered on April 1, 1799.

Public ownership

A picture of State Road in Patterson, which would later become part of 22

In 1868, theNew York State Legislatureformed a commission "to regulate, grade, widen, gravel, and improve the old White Plains Post Road", which was amended in 1870 to "macadamize the road"between Mount Vernon and White Plains. The post road south of Mount Vernon, which was part of New York City, was later widened between 1902 and 1908.

State highwayswere first formally defined by the state legislature in 1909 and given numeric designations,although these initial designations were not publicly signed. Portions of modern NY 22 were defined as part of legislative routes 1 and 22. Legislative route 1 went from the New York City line north along the White Plains Post Road to White Plains, then detoured to Harrison (via Westchester Avenue), before proceeding north toArmonk(via modernNY 120). Legislative route 1 continued north along modern NY 22 to Austerlitz, where it then turned northwest to Valatie (via modernNY 203and NY 980B), then followedUS 9to Albany. Legislative route 22 had two segments. The southern segment began in Troy, followingNY 7to Hoosick, then went north along modern NY 22 up to Putnam Station (south of Ticonderoga).

NY 22 designation

Original NY 22 shield, adopted in 1927

In 1924, New York signed several major state roads with route numbers. Most of Legislative Route 1 was designated as NY 22, but with a direct route between White Plains andArmonk.Also, instead of continuing to Valatie, NY 22 initially ended at theNY 23intersection inHillsdale.By 1929, the road to Valatie had been improved and NY 22 was extended to US 9, with a length of 139 miles (224 km).The middle section of modern NY 22 was designated in 1924 as NY 24, running for 75 miles (121 km) fromStephentowntoComstock.The portion of modern NY 22 north of Whitehall remained unnumbered in 1924 but the next year NY 30, a route assigned in 1924 that linkedMechanicvilleto Whitehall, was extended north from Whitehall to the Canadian border north ofMooers.In the1930 renumbering,the NY 24 and NY 30 designations were both reassigned elsewhere. NY 22 was then extended north along their former routes,incorporating newly improved roads betweenAusterlitzandStephentown,creating the 370-mile (600 km) route that existed until 2008.The segment of old NY 22 between Austerlitz and Valatie was renumbered toNY 203.

View down Lenox Avenue from West 124th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard. This was once part of NY 22 in Manhattan

In 1934, at the insistence of the Automobile Club of New York, several numbered routes were extended and signed withinNew York City,with NY 22 among them. It was extended south from the Mount Vernon line in the Bronx alongWhite Plains Road,then followingEast 233rd StreettoWebster AvenueuntilFordham Road(US 1). From there, it continued south along theGrand Concourse(then overlapped withNY 100), crossing into Manhattan via East 149th Street to the145th Street Bridge.In Manhattan, the NY 22/100concurrencycontinued south alongLenox Avenue,110th Street,Fifth Avenue,96th Street,andPark Avenue,ending atHouston Street(NY 1A).By 1941, the alignment within Mount Vernon was shifted east to use Columbus Avenue and South 3rd Avenue (current NY 22), continuing its route to New York City via East 233rd Street as before.On January 1, 1970, the NY 22 designation was removed from Manhattan and most of the Bronx, and the short piece remaining in the city was realigned to meet US 1 at NY 22's current southern terminus.

U.S. Route 7

In the original plan for theU.S. Highway System,as approved by the Bureau of Public Roads in November 1926,US 7was defined as beginning in New York City and designated on the alignment of NY 22 toAmenia,where it shifted northeast intoSharon, Connecticut,to use oldNew England Route 4through Massachusetts and Vermont all the way to theCanadian border.Apparently New York did not approve this plan, and by mid-1927 the official route log published by theAmerican Association of State Highway Officialshad relocated the southern end of US 7 toNorwalk, Connecticut.

NY 9N concurrency

In the1930 renumbering of state highways in New York,the stretch fromTiconderogatoKeesevillenow concurrent withNY 9Nwas designated solely as NY 22. The north end ofNY 47was also located at an intersection with NY 22 in Ticonderoga. At Westport, NY 22 connected toNY 195,an east–west highway leading toElizabethtown.At the time, Route 9N only extended from there to Keeseville.NY 9N was extended southward to Lake Georgec. 1936,supplanting Routes 47 and 195 and becoming concurrent with NY 22 between Ticonderoga andWestport.

NY 8 originally extended eastward fromHagueto a ferry acrossLake ChamplainatPutnamwhen it was assigned as part of the renumbering. In between the two locations, the route utilized modern NY 9N, Montcalm Street, NY 22, and Wrights Ferry and Wrights roads.It was realigned in the early 1930s to continue east from Ticonderoga on what is nowNY 74to another ferry across the lake.NY 8 was altered againc. 1934to follow NY 22 north from Ticonderoga to Crown Point, where it turned off the highway onto Bridge Road (nowNY 185).Route 8 remained intact along this routing untilc. 1968,when Route 8 was truncated southwestward to NY 9N atHague.

Realignments

Dutchess CR 81, a realigned section of NY 22

Over the course of many years, several sections of NY 22 were straightened, realigned to new roads, or both. Some old alignments are still either county-maintained or state-maintained. Several of these are inDutchess County.InDover Plains,the southern leg of NY 22's junction withNY 343is maintained by the state as NY 980G, areference route.To the north in thetown of Amenia,a 4.03-mile-long (6.49 km)loop off NY 22 betweenWassaicandAmeniais designated as CR 81. Another former routing of NY 22 in the town ofDoverexists as CR 6, a loop route between the hamlets of Wingdale and Dover Plains that runs along the west bank of theTen Mile River.Within the 44/22 concurrency, part ofCR 5(and its short spur 5S), a mile-long (1.6 km) loop west of the highway south ofMillerton,is also a former alignment of NY 22.

Before the construction ofI-684,NY 22 continued northeast along Sodom Road north ofBrewsteron what is now CR 50, a dead-end road maintained byPutnam County.Modern NY 22 joins the I-684 roadway at exit 10 (the northern terminus of I-684) and connects to the surface road on the opposite side of theCroton Rivervia the NY 981B connector. South ofCopake Falls,the state also still maintains an old alignment designated as NY 980F. North of Copake Falls, the northern half of the original alignment was designated as an extension ofNY 344.

Mooers area

The segment of NY 22 north of US 11, named Hemmingford Road, was state-maintained until 1988, when ownership and maintenance of that part of the route was transferred toClinton Countyas part of a highway maintenance swap between the county and the state of New York.Following the swap, it wasco-designatedas CR 34 by Clinton County.In 2008, the signed northern terminus of NY 22 was moved to the eastern end of its overlap withUS 11in Mooers.The official alignment of NY 22 was not changed, however, as theNew York State Department of Transportationstill considered the Canadian border to be NY 22's northern terminusuntil 2014.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
The Bronx	Eastchester	0.00	0.00	I-95(New England Thruway) /US 1(Boston Road)	Southern terminus; access to I-95 via Conner Street; exit 13 on I-95
Westchester	Mount Vernon	2.79	4.49	Cross County Parkway	Exit 8 on Cross County Parkway
	Town of Eastchester			ToBronx River Parkway	Access via Brook Street;hamletofEastchester
	White Plains	11.15	17.94	NY 125south (Mamaroneck Avenue)	Northern terminus of NY 125
				ToI-287(Cross Westchester Expressway)	Access via Westchester Avenue; formerNY 119
		11.57	18.62	NY 119west (Hamilton Avenue)	Eastern terminus of NY 119
		12.30	19.79	I-287(Cross Westchester Expressway) toBronx River Parkway–Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge	Access to Bronx River Parkway via Cemetery Road; exit 6 on I-287
	Town of North Castle	13.28	21.37	ToI-287–Port Chester,Tappan Zee Bridge	Access viaCentral Westchester Parkway;no southbound entrance
				Bronx River Parkwaysouth /Taconic State Parkwaynorth	Kensico Circle; access via North Broadway
				Southern end of limited-access section
		13.81	22.23	Bronx River Parkwaysouth /Taconic State Parkwaynorth	Kensico Circle; southbound exit and northbound entrance
				Bridge over theKensico Reservoir
		17.47	28.12	NY 120south –Rye	At-grade intersection;southern end of NY 120 concurrency
		17.79	28.63	NY 120north –Chappaqua	At-grade intersection; northern end of NY 120 concurrency
		18.94	30.48	NY 128north –Armonk	At-grade intersection; southern terminus of NY 128; hamlet ofArmonk
		19.57	31.49	I-684–White Plains,Brewster	Exit 3 on I-684
		19.97	32.14	Northern end of limited-access section
				NY 433south –Glenville	Northern terminus of NY 433; formerNY 128
	Town of Bedford	25.80	41.52	NY 172west toI-684–Mount Kisco	Western end of NY 172 concurrency
		26.83	43.18	NY 172east –Pound Ridge,Stamford, CT	Eastern end of NY 172 concurrency; hamlet ofBedford
		27.21	43.79	NY 121north –Cross River	Southern terminus of NY 121
		32.10	51.66	NY 35toI-684–Katonah,Cross River
	Town of Lewisboro	34.25	55.12	NY 138toI-684south	Interchange; hamlet ofGoldens Bridge
	Town of North Salem	36.76	59.16	I-684south /NY 116west –Somers	Southern end of NY 116 concurrency; exit 7 on I-684; hamlet ofPurdys
		36.83	59.27	NY 116east –North Salem	Northern end of NY 116 concurrency; hamlet of Purdys
		38.13	61.36	ToI-684	Access via Hardscrabble Road; hamlet ofCroton Falls
		38.68	62.25	ToUS 202west –Mahopac	Access via Croton Falls Road
		38.84	62.51	US 202west –Mahopac	Southern end of US 202 concurrency
Putnam	Brewster	43.29	69.67	US 6west –Carmel	Southern end of US 6 concurrency
	Town of Southeast	44.20	71.13	Southern end of freeway section
				I-84/I-684south /US 6east /US 202east –White Plains,Newburgh,Danbury, CT	Northern terminus and exit 10 on I-684; northern end of US 6/US 202 concurrency
				Northern end of freeway section
		47.18	75.93	NY 312west –Carmel	Eastern terminus of NY 312; formerNY 52;hamlet ofSears Corners
	Town of Patterson	50.36	81.05	NY 164west –Towners,Lake Carmel	Eastern terminus of NY 164
		53.53	86.15	NY 311west –Patterson,Lake Carmel	Northern terminus of NY 311
Dutchess	Town of Pawling	56.02	90.16	NY 55west –Poughkeepsie	Interchange; southern end of NY 55 concurrency
	Town of Dover	62.90	101.23	NY 55east –Gaylordsville, CT	Northern end of NY 55 concurrency; hamlet ofWingdale
		70.32	113.17	ToNY 343west –Millbrook	Access viaNY 980G;former routing of NY 22; hamlet ofDover Plains
	Town of Amenia	71.32	114.78	NY 343west –Millbrook	Southern end of NY 343 concurrency; former routing of NY 22
		74.25	119.49	CR 81(South Amenia Road)	HamletofWassaic;former routing of NY 22
		78.71	126.67	US 44west /NY 343east –Millbrook,Sharon, CT	Northern end of NY 343 concurrency; southern end of US 44 concurrency; hamlet ofAmenia
	North East	85.71	137.94	NY 199west –Pine Plains	Eastern terminus of NY 199
	Millerton	87.30	140.50	US 44east –Lakeville, CT	Northern end of US 44 concurrency
Columbia	Town of Copake	99.62	160.32	ToNY 344east –Copake Falls,Taconic State Park	Access viaNY 980F;former routing of NY 22; hamlet ofCopake Falls
		100.12	161.13	NY 344east –Copake Falls,Taconic State Park	Western terminus of NY 344; hamlet of Copake Falls
	Town of Hillsdale	104.16	167.63	NY 23–Great Barrington, MA	Hamlet of Hillsdale
		108.20	174.13	CR 21west	FormerNY 217;hamlet of North Hillsdale
		111.42	179.31	NY 71east –Great Barrington, MA	Western terminus of NY 71; hamlet ofGreen River
				ToNY 71east –Great Barrington, MA	Access via NY 980E; hamlet of Green River
	Austerlitz	115.07	185.19	NY 203north toTaconic State Parkway–Spencertown,Chatham	Southern terminus of NY 203
	Canaan	119.57	192.43	Route 102east –Stockbridge,West Stockbridge	Access viaNY 980D
		120.33	193.65	I-90/Berkshire ConnectortoMass Pikeeast –Albany,Boston	Exit B3 on I-90 / Thruway
		123.18	198.24	NY 295–Chatham,Pittsfield, MA
	New Lebanon	128.12	206.19	US 20west –Albany	Southern end of US 20 concurrency; hamlet of New Lebanon
		128.86	207.38	US 20east –Pittsfield, MA	Northern end of US 20 concurrency; hamlet ofLebanon Springs
Rensselaer	Stephentown	134.86	217.04	NY 43–Williamstown
	Petersburgh	150.26	241.82	NY 2toI-87/I-787–Petersburgh,Troy,Watervliet	Interchange; access viaNY 914A;hamlet ofPetersburg
		155.55	250.33	NY 346east	Western terminus of NY 346; hamlet ofNorth Petersburg
	Hoosick	157.78	253.92	NY 7west toI-87/I-787south –Troy	Western end of NY 7 concurrency
		158.11	254.45	NY 7east –Bennington, VT	Eastern end of NY 7 concurrency
		164.16	264.19	NY 67east –North Bennington, VT	Southern end of NY 67 concurrency; hamlet ofNorth Hoosick
Washington	White Creek	166.65	268.20	NY 67west toI-87–Valley Falls,Mechanicville,Malta,Ballston Spa	Northern end of NY 67 concurrency
	Village of Cambridge	171.65	276.24	NY 313east –Arlington, VT	Western terminus of NY 313
		171.98	276.77	NY 372west –Greenwich	Eastern terminus of NY 372
	Town of Salem	181.00	291.29	NY 29west toI-87–Greenwich,Schuylerville,Saratoga Springs	Eastern terminus of NY 29
	Town of Granville	199.49	321.05	NY 149west toI-87–Hartford,Fort Ann,Queensbury,Lake George	Southern end of NY 149 concurrency
		199.56	321.16	NY 149east –Granville	Northern end of NY 149 concurrency
		202.27	325.52	NY 22Anorth –Middle Granville	Southern terminus of NY 22A; hamlet ofMiddle Granville
		206.71	332.67	NY 40south –Hartford	Northern terminus of NY 40; hamlet ofNorth Granville
	Town of Fort Ann	210.96	339.51	US 4south toI-87/Lakes to Locks Passage–Fort Ann,Queensbury,Lake George	Southern end of US 4 concurrency; hamlet ofComstock
	Village of Whitehall	217.67	350.31	US 4north –Rutland, VT	Northern end of US 4 concurrency
				Bridge over South Bay
Essex	Ticonderoga	242.52	390.30	NY 74east –Fort Ticonderoga,Ferry to Vermont	Southern end of NY 74 concurrency; hamlet ofTiconderoga
		244.12	392.87	NY 9Nsouth /NY 74west toI-87–Ticonderoga,Schroon Lake	Northern end of NY 74 concurrency; southern end of NY 9N concurrency
	Crown Point	255.43	411.07	NY 185north toVT 17–Bridge to Vermont	Southern terminus of NY 185
	Westport	269.60	433.88	NY 9Nnorth toI-87–Elizabethtown	Northern end of NY 9N concurrency; hamlet ofWestport
	Chesterfield	295.80	476.04	I-87/US 9south –Elizabethtown	Southern end of US 9 concurrency; exit 33 on I-87; to I-87 viaNY 915K
		300.37	483.40	US 9north /NY 9N/Lakes to Locks Passage–Ausable Chasm,Plattsburgh	Northern end of US 9 concurrency; southern end of NY 9N concurrency; northern terminus of NY 9N; hamlet ofKeeseville
Clinton	Au Sable	300.64	483.83	NY 9Nsouth toI-87/A-15–Au Sable Forks,Whiteface Mountain	Northern end of NY 9N concurrency; hamlet of Keeseville
	Peru	306.22	492.81	NY 442east toI-87	Western terminus of NY 442; hamlet ofPeru
		306.45	493.18	NY 22Bnorth –Schuyler Falls	Southern terminus of NY 22B; hamlet of Peru
	Town of Plattsburgh	312.58	503.05	I-87	Exit 36 on I-87
	City of Plattsburgh	316.98	510.13	NY 3(Cornelia Street)
	Town of Plattsburgh	318.17	512.04	I-87–Albany,Montreal	Exit 38 on I-87
		318.50	512.58	NY 374west / Tom Miller Road –Dannemora,Saranac Lake	Eastern terminus of NY 374
	Beekmantown	323.17	520.09	CR 58east toI-87	FormerNY 456
	Chazy	332.39	534.93	CR 23east toI-87	FormerNY 191;hamlet ofSciota
	Mooers	337.26	542.77	US 11toI-87/A-15north –Champlain,Malone	Northern terminus; hamlet ofMooers
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrencyterminus Electronic toll collection Incomplete access

Suffixed routes

NY 22 has two suffixed routes, both in theNorth Country.

• NY 22A(10.61 miles or 17.08 kilometers) is a spur connecting NY 22 to theVermontstate line south ofFair Haven.Once in Vermont, the route becomesVT 22A.The route was assigned in the early 1940s.
• NY 22B(10.90 miles or 17.54 kilometers) is a bypass around the southern and western extents ofPlattsburgh.NY 22B begins at NY 22 inPeruand continues north throughSchuyler FallstoMorrisonville,where it terminates atNY 3nearClinton County Airport.It was assigned as part of the1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.

See also

• New York State Bicycle Route 22

County route systems containing a former alignment

• List of county routes in Clinton County, New York
• List of county routes in Dutchess County, New York
• List of county routes in Putnam County, New York
• List of county routes in Westchester County, New York

External links

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• New York State Route 22 atAlps' Roads•New York Routes
• NY 22 Travelogue @ Empire State Roads
• NY 22 (Greater New York Roads)