HUTCHINSON RIVER PARKWAY

The 'Hutchinson River Parkway' (also known as 'The Hutch') is an long parkway in downstate New York. The southern terminus is at the massive Bruckner Interchange in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx, where the roadway continues south as the Whitestone Expressway (I-678). The northern terminus is at the New York/Connecticut state line at Rye Brook, where the parkway continues into Greenwich, Connecticut as the Merritt Parkway. The road is designated 'New York State Reference Route 908A' within the Bronx and 'Reference Route 907W' within Westchester County. Both designations are unsigned reference routes. The parkway, and the river that gives the road its name, are named after Anne Hutchinson.
Like the Bronx River Parkway, the reference route designation of the Hutch in Westchester County violates the numbering scheme used by NYSDOT. The second digit of a reference route designation typically indicates its region. While other reference routes in the county carry a second digit of "8", as Westchester County is located in region 8, the "0" in 907W is indicative of Regions 10 and 11, containing New York City and Long Island, respectively.

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History

Exit list

References

History

Between 1941 and 1946, The Hutchinson River Parkway was designated 'New York State Route 1X'.³
Originally, the parkway was built and designated all the way to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. However, the original parkway designs did not allow for commercial traffic. When the bridge was designated I-678, the section between the Bruckner Interchange and the Bronx Whitestone Bridge had to be converted to Interstate Highway standards. Once that was completed, that section was assigned the I-678 designation and renamed part of the Whitestone Expressway.
The claim has been made, most notably in Robert Caro's biography, ''The Power Broker'', that master builder Robert Moses deliberately designed the parkways to have low bridges to prevent low income families from traveling by bus to destinations outside of New York City.^[2]
Originally, there was a toll located between exits 7 and 8. The toll was removed on October 31, 1994 as part of a major reconstruction project.^[3]

Exit list

County	Location	Mile1	#	Destinations	Notes
Bronx	New York City	Hutchinson River Parkway southbound becomes Interstate 678.
		0.00	1	Bruckner Boulevard west to	Bruckner Interchange.
			2	East Tremont Avenue/Westchester Avenue
		1.93	3	Pelham Parkway
		2.36	4A		Exit 9 (I-95). Southbound exit only.
			4B	Baychester Avenue	Southbound exit only.
		3.35	5	Orchard Beach Road
		4.29	6		Exit 14 (I-95). Northbound exit only.
Westchester	Pelham Manor	4.74	7
			8	Sandford Boulevard	Southbound exit and entrance.
	Pelham	5.47	9	Wolfs Lane	Northbound exit and entrance.
			10	East Third Street	Southbound exit only.
	Pelham/Mount Vernon line	6.39	12	East Lincoln Avenue
		6.77	13	Cross County Parkway west	Exit 9 (Cross County Parkway). Northbound exit, southbound entrance.
		7.21	14	Hutchinson Boulevard (south) Pelhamdale Avenue/Eastchester Road (north)
	Eastchester		15	Cross County Parkway west	Eastern terminus of Cross County Parkway. Southbound exit, northbound entrance.
	New Rochelle		16	Webster Avenue	No southbound exit.
		9.21	17	North Avenue	Northbound exit and entrance.
			18	Mill Road	Southbound exit and entrance.
			19	Wilmot Road	Southbound exit, northbound entrance.
	Scarsdale	11.23	20		Southbound exit and entrance.
			21		Northbound exit and entrance.
		12.25	22	Mamaroneck Road
	White Plains/Harrison line	13.19	23S-N	Mamaroneck Avenue
		14.77	25
	Harrison	15.89	26		Exit 9 (I-287).
		16.19	26A		Exit 1 (I-684). Northbound exit only.
		16.60	27
		17.43	28	Lincoln Avenue
	Rye Brook	18.15	29	Ridge Street
		18.72	30		Signed as exit 27 on the Merritt Parkway.
		18.78	New York/Connecticut state line. Hutchinson River Parkway northbound becomes the Merritt Parkway.

References

1. Traffic Data Report - NY 427 to NY 908F
2. DeWan, George. "The Master Builder: How planner Robert Moses transformed Long Island for the 20th Century and beyond", ''Newsday''. Accessed June 4, 2007. "Although he denied it, the bridges on the parkways had been built too low to accommodate buses so that poor people without cars, especially minorities, could not get to parks and beaches. Caro said that he was told this privately by one of Moses' right-hand men, Sid Shapiro, who later himself became head of the park commission."
3. Hutchinson River Parkway at NYCRoads.com