HENRY HUDSON PARKWAY

The 'Henry Hudson Parkway' is an long parkway in New York City. The southern terminus is at West 72nd Street in Manhattan, where the parkway continues south as the West Side Highway. The northern terminus is at the Bronx-Westchester County boundary, where it continues north as the Saw Mill River Parkway. All of the parkway is designated 'New York State Reference Route 907V', an unsigned reference route; however, all but the northernmost mile of the road is also designated as part of the signed New York State Route 9A. It is named after Henry Hudson.

Contents

Route description

History

Future

Exit list

References

External links

Route description

It crosses the Harlem River from Manhattan to the Bronx over the Henry Hudson Bridge.

History

The Parkway was completed on October 12, 1937, under New York master builder Robert Moses. It cost $109 million, twice as expensive as the $49 million Hoover Dam that was built in the same period. The Parkway was part of Moses's "West Side Improvement" and included covering the New York Central train line. The covered portion is partially used for the highway and also expands the Riverside Park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
On May 12,2005 a retaining wall collapsed onto the northbound lanes of the parkway, just north of the George Washington Bridge, shutting it down in the middle of rush hour. The clean-up quickly began, and the road re-opened on May 15.

Future

The Henry Hudson Parkway is a candidate for designation as a New York State Scenic Byway, the first in New York City. At the request of the Henry Hudson Parkway Task Force, in 2005 the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council approved funding to develop a comprehensive corridor management plan, a requirement for its designation.

Exit list

County	Location	Mile1	#	Destinations	Notes
New York	Riverside Park	Henry Hudson Parkway southbound becomes NY 9A/West Side Highway
		0.00	9	West 72nd Street/Riverside Drive	Northbound entrance and exit
		0.35	10E-W	West 79th Street/Riverside Drive	Single exit 10 southbound
		1.29	11	West 95th Street/West 96th Street
		2.47	12	Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Blvd (West 125th Street)
		4.22	13	West 158th Street
	Fort Washington Park	4.92	14	I-95/US 1/US 9 (Trans-Manhattan Expressway) – George Washington Bridge	Northbound exit only; southbound exit is joined with exit 15 and is a left exit
			15	Riverside Drive	Left exit southbound; southbound access to I-95
			16	Park Drive – Fort Tryon Park	Northbound entrance and exit
	Inwood Hill Park	6.78	17	Dyckman Street to US 9	Southbound exit only; left exit
	Henry Hudson Bridge over the Harlem River. $2.25 toll, both ways (E-ZPass accepted with discounts). Bronx/Manhattan border.
Bronx	Spuyten Duyvil		18	Kappock Street
			19	West 232nd Street
			20	West 237th Street/West 239th Street
			21	West 246th Street/West 250th Street
	Riverdale	9.64	22	Riverdale Avenue
		10.05	23A-B		Single exit 23 southbound; NY 9A leaves northbound and joins southbound
	Van Cortlandt Park	10.62	24	Mosholu Parkway South	Exit is unnumbered southbound
		Henry Hudson Parkway northbound becomes Saw Mill River Parkway at milepost 11.05

References

1. Traffic Data Report - NY 427 to NY 908F

External links

★ Background on the parkway's history and the scenic byway initiative