New York Roads - NY 59


NY 59 is a multilane divided arterial that parallels the New York Thruway and can be a useful detour when traffic backs up. It runs east-west between the N-S portion of NY 17 and US 9W.


NY 59 isn't yet multilane, west of Suffern on what was NY 17 until the completion of Thruway Exit 15A. Here at the old beginning of the route there are still NY 17 reference markers (little green squares like on the advance Hillburn sign) on the quarter-mile of extended 59, regardless of what it may be now, and those state highway markers continued onto the now-town maintained Bypass for a number of years until it was remade.


Right after its historic beginning, NY 59 has this nice truss bridge over the railroad. I crossed it heading westbound, and the side view is south from Rockland CR 95, Torne Valley Rd.


WB across the Ramapo River next to another old truss, this time on the railroad itself.

The only old sign I found along NY 59, Monsey Heights Rd. NB.


An imaginative use of green signs when the white ones inside them would do just fine.

Lou Corsaro found these at the exit to a strip mall.


I found these on NY 304 SB. 2/10? You mean 1/5? Why not use 1/4?


These, I found on West Nyack Rd., old NY 59 in West Nyack. I then headed west under the Palisades Interstate Pkwy.


These NY 303 shields are not at all the same. I think the one on the left is more correct, but who's to say?


I think the red stone is a small piece of original milepost, at the Nyack/Central Nyack border by Mountainview Ave.


Broadway, Nyack, NB at Main St., which becomes NY 59 as it heads west.

To I-87
To I-87/287
To NY 17
Onto CR 33
To the Palisades Interstate Parkway
To US 9W
To I-287 alone
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