New York Roads - US 4 and 4/NY 32
and US 4/NY 32
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A snowy drive southbound on Old Mill Street in Troy, the cobblestoned original US 4.
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Southbound at the Troy-Menands Bridge, NY 378. The tapered arrow gives away how old this presumably non-reflective LGS is. The bridge opened in 1959, and this sign could in fact be that old - more likely it's from around the early 1970's.
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US 4 NB bears right on 4th St. as 1st St. continues nearly straight. Main St. crosses at this 5-point intersection to Winslow Ave.
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4th St. NB at Canal Ave., which is along a river named Poesten Kill. There is no canal but the river was given a manmade channel through the city. The second photo looks west at 3rd St., which carries US 4 SB on an 1875 stone arch.
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Since the sun's in the west, I took some photos of 3rd St. facing east on Canal Ave.
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Looking west along the unusual Green Island Bridge, just south of the NY 7 Collar City Bridge.
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The Troy-Waterford Bridge (gee, New York sure is creative), southbound across the Hudson River. A century ago, there was a covered bridge around here called the Waterford-Troy Bridge....
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On the NB side just after crossing the Troy-Waterford Bridge.
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3rd St., US 4/NY 32 SB in Waterford just before the break up in the center of town.
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The US 4/NY 32 SB (bottom) and NB (top) signs at former NY 338 in Schuylerville, Burgoyne St. The flat-top sign is the old New York standard for the bottom of an assembly like this.
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This equally old and similarly painted plaque is at the northwest corner of the same intersection.
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One more just north of those, SB at NY 29 in the same town, courtesy John Krakoff.
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Heading north across the Northumberland Bridge, away from the end of the NY 32/US 4 duplex. Nope, no center stripe for US 4.
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The North River Road bridge in Fort Miller, leading onto a manmade island by crossing the Delaware and Hudson Canal. I wonder how the clearance of a steel structure can change (in reality, it was probably adjusted for accuracy - i.e. to undercut the actual height by 6 inches instead of 9 or 12). These photos were taken heading off the island; this video was taken heading onto the island.
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Old-style historical marker along US 4/NY 32 NB.
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Shine enough morning and afternoon sun at the front and back of this Hudson Falls sign, and the lettering bleeds straight through the metal! That's mineral leaching for you.
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Older cracked sign, and then some very off-center US shields, northbound around a triangle just past NY 196.
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Heading north from NY 149. US 4 is east-west in other states, as its number suggests, but it would have to trade places with 149 to be an east-west route in this state.
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Courtesy Doug Kerr, these northbound shields should all be US 4. This error is repeated all the way to the Vermont border. According to Chris Jordan, these are all US 4 shields now.
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Big shield and fading signs as US 4 leaves NY 22. The turn to Whitehall is down Skenesborough Dr.
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Across the Champlain Canal, past Whitehall Armory, just about to the Vermont border. The armory is now an athletic club. Come work out in a castle!
If you missed it, cross the North River Road bridge in Fort Miller
NY 197 and 197/US 4
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Into Vermont on US 4
Onto NY 378
Into Troy
Into Green Island
Onto NY 29
Onto NY 22
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