Reference Routes are New York State Highways that the New York State Department of Transportation has determined are too minor to have a signed number, or highways that have a signed name (mainly parkways). They are signed on Reference Markers, located every tenth-mile on the side of the road.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_New_York_State_Reference_Routes&action=edit).
Aerial view of the Triborough Bridge (left) and the Hell Gate Bridge (right) The Triborough Bridge is a complex of three bridges connecting the New York City boroughs of the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens, using what were two islands, Wards Island and Randalls Island as intermediate right-of... The Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge (originally Cross Bay Bridge) wholly in New York City, is a toll bridge that crosses Beach Channel in Jamaica Bay to Rockaway Peninsula, and is located in Queens. ... Lawrence is a village located in Nassau County, New York. ... The Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge in New York City (originally Marine Parkway Bridge) is a toll bridge that crosses Rockaway Inlet and connects Rockaway Peninsula, in Queens, with Brooklyn. ... Cross Island Parkway is part of the Belt Parkway system that runs around the perimeter of Queens County in New York City. ... The Bronx River Parkway was one of the earliest limited access automobile highways. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of [[New Bronx from the island of Manhattan. ... The Henry Hudson Parkway is a New York City parkway that stretches from West 72nd Street in Manhattan to the Bronx-Westchester County boundary, where it meets the Saw Mill River Parkway. ... The Hutchinson River Parkway, also called The Hutch, is a parkway that runs through Westchester County, New York and the Bronx in New York City. ... Westchester County is a suburban county with about 940,000 residents located in the U.S. state of New York. ... The Hutchinson River Parkway, also called The Hutch, is a parkway that runs through Westchester County, New York and the Bronx in New York City. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of [[New Bronx from the island of Manhattan. ... Loop Parkway is the western most part of Ocean Parkway which connects to Meadowbrook Parkway and Wantagh Parkway and ends in Babylon at Captree State Park and the beautiful scenery of the Robert Moses Causeway or Captree Causeway Bridges crossing the Great South Bay to West Islip, NY. Loop Parkway... The Brooklyn Bridge in 1890, seven years after its opening Kings County in New York State Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. ... The Robert Moses Causeway connects Robert Moses State Park in Fire Island to the north-south parkway corridor from Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park. ... The Richmond Parkway is a freeway that traverses the South Shore of Staten Island, New York, USA from northwest to southeast. ... There is also a Town of Nassau. ... For other places named Suffolk, see Suffolk (disambiguation). ...
External links
Empire State Roads - Reference Routes (http://www.empirestateroads.com/sr/index.html)
On the east the state is bordered by Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
NewYork, commonly known as NewYork City, is the largest city.
These provinces are: the Atlantic Coastal Plain, a subdivision of the Coastal Plain; the New England Upland province, the Piedmont Plateau, the Ridge and Valley province, the Appalachian Plateaus, the Adirondack province, and the St. Lawrence Valley province, all subdivisions of the Appalachian Region; and the Central Lowland, a sub-division of the Interior Plains.
In 1957, the Suffolk County Planning Department proposed to the NewYorkState DPW that NY 114 be widened into a divided, four-lane arterial highway.
Proposed in the 1960's by NewYorkState, the Setauket Bypass was designed to avoid congestion along NY 25A in Setauket, East Setauket and Port Jefferson.
The Nassau County segment of NY 878 is separated from the Queens segment by the unsigned Rockaway Boulevard in Queens, and Rockaway Turnpike in Nassau County.
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