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Major Deegan Expressway and New York Thruway

More old shields courtesy Doug Kerr.


Whitestone? Throgs Neck? GWB? Deegan? Detour? Not much of a choice, here. The scene outside Yankees stadium, where there is construction on I-87 and associated feeder roads.


Somewhere up above the highway near Yankee Stadium. It's a small photo, but an original sign. (87 South: Deegan Expwy., Triboro Br., ←)


NB at and on Exit 7 in 1973, courtesy Michael Summa. Since this part of I-95 didn't open until 1964, these are definitely the original signs. And since they match most of the ones I've seen on I-95, I would venture to guess those are all originals too, even in 2008.


Entering the Bronx near Exit 13, the graffiti is especially ironic on this sign (plus, someone had to venture to the median to do it).


I-87 manages to go through three sets of exit numbers - one for each of the three freeways listed atop this page. The first picture marks the end of the Deegan and beginning of the Thruway. The second and third pictures are from the NB service road at Exit 4 (Cross County Parkway) - for some reason, NYSDOT likes forcing Westchester County interchanges to involve service roads (another example is the Hutchinson River Parkway at I-287). The third photo is on the EB CCP ramp - note how neither direction actually takes you to the highway. Well, in actuality, the left ramp is for the CCP, but you can only get to NY 22 and two other exits before running into the Hutch. The right ramp serves Exits 5-7 via the CCP's EB C-D road, including the Bronx (RIVER) Parkway.


The sign for the Exit 4 onramp from the service road, onto which you merged if you came from the Cross County.

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I-87/287, New York Thruway

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Above: NY 144 NB at I-87 Exit 22.


Signage from the brief I-87/NY 17 multiplex between Exits 15 and 15A, along with a spiffy Thruway shield. Follow the NY 17 link at the bottom of the page to see why I say this multiplex is a new development.


The other direction of the multiplex - the exit for NY 17 North is in fact on NY 17 South, unfortunately very shortly after a high-speed high-volume merge between 17 and I-87. That exit touches down at the Hillburn Bypass, former NY 17 (visit that page at the links below for more). New York tried its hand at a New Jersey shield here, and while they got the circle right, not only did they forget the background (forgivable) but they used their own Series E numerals inside (not as forgivable).


One sign that slipped through the cracks, at least for a few years. Courtesy HNTB.


The original style of Thruway advance signage, seen in the first photo possibly in 1973 and NB, and then definitely in 1977 with unknown direction, both courtesy Michael Summa.


The future high-speed E-ZPass gantry above the future Exit 17 trumpet interchange that will directly connect I-87 and I-84, instead of using NY 300 as an intermediary.


SB on the Thruway, courtesy Doug Kerr.


The only cutout milepost I or Doug Kerr know of (he took this photo), SB just south of I-787.


Non-reflective button copy past the tollbooth on Exit 23, the only remnant of such signage that I know of still on the Thruway. Take a close look at the "a"s, and then scroll up and look at some other signs - this is a genuine button-copy sign goof using the wrong style of lower-case letter.

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Northway

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Old Exit 20, CR 34

Exit 7 to I-95
Exit 4 to the Cross County Parkway
Exit 4 to the Bronx River Parkway
Exit 4 to the Hutchinson (River) Parkway
Exit 15 to I-287 in NJ
Exit 15 to NJ 17
Exit 15A or 16 to NY 17
Exit 15A to NY 59
Exit 16 to US 6
Exit 20 to NY 32
Exit 23 to I-787
Exit 23 to US 9W
Follow the NY Thruway to I-90
The Major Deegan Expressway and NY State Thruway on Steve Anderson's nycroads.com
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