New York State Route 27

New York State Route 27

New York State Route 27

New York State Route 27 is a highway extending from Brooklyn to New York State's eastern most point at Montauk Point State Park.

Although its sections have various names its two most prominent components are the Sunrise Highway (which it totally includes) and the Montauk Highway (which it includes about half).

Segments

Brooklyn and Nassau County

Route 27 begins as the Prospect Expressway in Brooklyn, It changes to Linden Boulevard and Conduit Avenue in Brooklyn and Queens,

Sunrise Highway

The Sunrise Highway begins in eastern Queens, Nassau, travels to western and central Suffolk County, North Highway in Southampton.

The Shinnecock Squeeze

Route 27 abruptly becomes a two-lane highway near the Shinnecock Canal in Southampton (town), New York. This has been called the "Shinnecock Squeeze."

Efforts to create a limited access route from this spot to Amagansett, New York have been successfully fought by local interests even though traffic on the road is often a crawl. Successful fights have centered on an argument that it would encourage too many people to visit the Hamptons.

First proposals for the extension came in the 1950s. In 1969 the New York Legislature approved a $160 million plan for the extension for the limited access route to be flanked by bicycle and equestrian trails. The eastbound and westbound roadways were to be separated by wide wooded medians. For the most part the road would have run a mile or two to the north of existing Route 27 thus avoiding the populated centers through which it now goes.

Exits would be:

• EXIT 67: Suffolk CR 39 (County Road) and Suffolk CR 38 (North Sea Road)
• EXIT 68: Suffolk CR 79 (Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Road)
• EXIT 69: NY 114 (East Hampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike)
• EXIT 70: Suffolk CR 40 (Three Mile Harbor Road)
• EXIT 71: Suffolk CR 45 (Amagansett-Springs Road)
• EXIT 72: existing NY 27 (Montauk Highway)

The plans failed and ultimately Governor Hugh Carey cancelled it in 1975. Other suggestions have included building a limited access road on either side of the Long Island Railroad.

Montauk Highway

The Montauk Highway is the designation just east of Southampton (village), New York to the east side of Montauk, New York where it becomes the Montauk Parkway -- a Robert Moses -- design leading to Montauk Point State Park.

The entire route in Suffolk, Nassau, and Queens was designated by the New York Senate as the POW/MIA Memorial Highway.

The Montauk Highway was the original name for the route to the east end. The original Montauk Highway route has been designated NY-27A and for the most part runs about a mile south of Route 27.

NY 27A begins in Massapequa as Carmans' Mill Road, continues through Amityville as Merrick Road, and alternates between Montauk Highway, South Country Road in Brightwaters and Main Street in Babylon Village, Bay Shore and Islip. This route once included Suffolk County Road 80 and 85, which assume the Montauk Highway name after NY 27A's eastern terminus at NY 27 in Oakdale. This interchange is referred to as the Oakdale Merge, and is known as a bottleneck for local traffic.

On the South Shore, nearly every town is accesible through Sunrise Highway

Interesting fact

It is part of the chorus in the song "Your Name Here (Sunrise Highway)" by Straylight Run.

Former segments include Suffolk CR 36(South Country Road) between East Patchogue, New York and Brookhaven, New York, which was part of Montauk Highway until July 19, 1932. This segment runs through the historic village of Bellport, New York.

External links

• The traffic circle at the eastern terminus of Sunrise Highway, at Montauk Point
• NYC Roads article on Highway

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