New York State Route 135
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| NY Route 135 |
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| Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway | |||||||||||||
| Length: | 10.66 mi[1] (17.16 km) | ||||||||||||
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| Formed: | 1969 (completion date)[2] | ||||||||||||
| South end: | Merrick Road in Seaford | ||||||||||||
| Major junctions: |
 Southern Pkwy in Seaford I-495 in Syosset |
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| North end: |  NY 25 in Syosset |
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| Counties: | Nassau | ||||||||||||
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New York State Route 135, known locally as the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, or humorously abbreviated to SOB, is a six-lane expressway that connects Seaford with Syosset in Nassau County, New York. Also known as the Ralph J. Marino Expressway, it was originally planned to go through Oyster Bay Cove and over the Long Island Sound via a bridge, but the expressway currently has its northern terminus at Syosset with NY 25 (Jericho Turnpike), and its southern terminus at Merrick Road in Seaford.
The original plan for the expressway was to start at Wantagh Parkway in Seaford, and end at the beginning of the Rye-Oyster Bay Bridge, the bridge that was supposed to link Long Island with the Hudson Valley. This bridge was then to connect with the Cross-Westchester Expressway, and perhaps the entire route (including the bridge and this expressway) signed as Interstate 287. This bridge, originally proposed by Robert Moses in the 1960s, was to connect these two regions of New York State without having to drive through the New York City area (via the Bronx and Queens).
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NY 135 begins at a partially completed interchange in Seaford south of Merrick Road. After interchanging with the road, NY 135 proceeds north to an interchange with NY 27, Sunrise Highway. Further north, NY 135 encounters the northbound half of Exit 3. This half involves the use of Seamans Neck Road to interchange with NY 105, Jerusalem Avenue, while the southbound portion uses only a short portion of local roads to access NY 105.
Northeast of Exit 3 is a large cloverleaf interchange with the Southern State Parkway at Exit 4. As the route turns to the northeast, NY 135 interchanges with NY 107, Massapequa-Hicksville Road, and Boundary Avenue at Exits 5 and 6, respectively, before returning north to interchange with NY 24, Hempstead Turnpike, via another cloverleaf at Exit 7 in Bethpage.
Due north of NY 24 is an interchange with Powell Avenue and Plainview Road, the northern extension of the Bethpage State Parkway, at Exit 8. Between Exits 8 and 9, NY 135 runs along the western edge of the Bethpage State Park, separating from the park at Exit 9 with Broadway.
Continuing north is a diamond interchange for Old Country Road in Plainview at Exit 10. This is followed by a partial Exit 11 listed as Wallace Drive. The primary road this exit is used for is Southern Parkway, a through street for the local neighborhood but not a major thoroughfare as its name might suggest. The configuration of this interchange, southbound exit and northbound entry suggests that it was built at the request of the locals as a convenient connection to the major east-west arteries available to the north. There is no confirmation of this however.
NY 135 then passes through a pair of cloverleaves at the southern edge of Syosset, one for the Northern State Parkway and another for the Long Island Expressway, carrying Interstate 495. North of the LIE, NY 135 comes to an end at a partial cloverleaf that links the expressway to NY 25, Jericho Turnpike.
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At this time, there are no plans to extend NY 135 north of its present terminus at NY 25, Exit 14, in Syosset. In the past, however, Interstate 287 was to be extended from its eastern terminus in Rye across the Long Island Sound via the Oyster Bay-Rye Bridge to Syosset, where the Interstate would continue south to the NY 25/NY 135 interchange. From here, I-287 would absorb the length of NY 135 and continue south to the Wantagh State Parkway via another extension. These plans were discarded due to opposition by residents and by environmentalists considering the ecological impact the project would have on the area. Remnants of the project are still visible today at the termini of NY 135, both of which are incomplete interchanges.
Talks of a trans-Long Island Sound crossing have resurfaced in recent years, however. Instead of constructing a massive bridge, the focus has shifted to constructing a tunnel underneath the Sound.[3]
The possibility of a southern extension past Exit 1 in Seaford was negated by the transfer of the land for the NY 135 right-of-way south of Exit 1 to Nassau County in 2004.[4]
The wide median between Exit 8 and Exit 9 was meant for the formerly proposed interchange with the Bethpage State Parkway. Though normally a Super-2, the southbound lane would have suddenly become divided, gone over the northbound lane of NY 135 entering the median with a connecting ramp to the southbound lane of NY 135, then back over the northbound lane of NY 135 where the divided section would end. The northbound lane of Bethpage State Parkway would run parallel to the northbound NY 135 lane with a connecting ramp from the parkway to the expressway.
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| County | Location | Mile[1] | # | Destinations | Notes |
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| Nassau | Seaford | 0.00 | 1E-W | Merrick Road – Amityville, Wantagh | Southbound exit and northbound entrance |
| 2 |   Seamans Neck Road to NY 27 (Sunrise Highway) |
Northbound exit only | |||
| 0.80 | 2E-W | NY 27 (Sunrise Highway) – Montauk, New York City |
No exit northbound | ||
| 1.98 | 3 |  NY 105 (Jerusalem Avenue) – Massapequa, North Bellmore |
Access via Seamans Neck Road northbound | ||
| 2.70 | 4E-W | Southern State Parkway – East Islip, New York City |
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| 3.50 | 5 |  NY 107 (Massapequa-Hicksville Road) – Massapequa, Hicksville |
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| Bethpage | 4.02 | 6 | Boundary Avenue – North Massapequa, Plainedge | ||
| 4.67 | 7E-W |  NY 24 (Hempstead Turnpike) – Farmingdale, Levittown |
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| 5.85 | 8 | Powell Avenue, Plainview Road – Bethpage, Farmingdale, Bethpage State Park | |||
| 6.50 | 9 | Broadway, Plainview Road – Plainview, Bethpage | |||
| Plainview | 7.99 | 10 | Old Country Road – Plainview, Hicksville | ||
| 11 | Wallace Drive – Plainview | Southbound exit only | |||
| 9.45 | 12E-W |  Northern State Parkway – Hauppauge, New York City |
No access to Northern Pkwy west from NY 135 south | ||
| Syosset | 9.77 | 13E-W | .svg/25px-I-495_(NY).svg.png){kind=small} I-495 (Long Island Expressway) – Riverhead, New York City |
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| 10.66 | 14E-W | NY 25 (Jericho Turnpike) – Woodbury, Jericho |
Northbound exit and southbound entrance; exit 14E is unsigned southbound |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Traffic Data Report - NY 121 to NY 213 (PDF). NYSDOT (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ New York Routes - New York State Route 135. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ Oyster Bay-Rye Bridge, accessed August 18, 2006
- ^ Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway info at NYCROADS.com
