New York State Route 23B
New York State Route 23B (NY 23B ) is a running east -west state highway in the western Columbia County in New York in the United States. The track is an earlier leg of the New York State Route 23, which leads to a length of 10.85 km from State Route New York State Route 9G south-west of the Hudson to New York State Route State Route 9H in Claverack. About the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, it allows direct access to the City of Hudson, while NY 23 south passes. NY 23B was dedicated in the late 1950s after NY 23 its present route south was passing by Hudson.
Route description
NY 23B branches off from the main line NY 23 five kilometers south of the City of Hudson and about 800 m east of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge from Greenport. The crossing is located on the grounds of Olana State Historic Site, located approximately 300 m west of the campus of the Columbia -Greene Community College. Route 9G and Route 23 run west of this point in common, NY 9G here leaves NY 23 and NY 23B performs such as towards the Hudson. NY 23B is the westernmost thoroughfare on the east bank of the Hudson River between the Rip Van Winkle Bridge and Hudson River, but the river it is separated by the 167 m high Mount Merino.
After both roads reach the Hudson district, the maintenance obligation of NY 9G and NY 23B from the state to the city changes. while these leads through the marshy South Bay. The route then leads into the Downtown District, where it follows the Third Street several road blocks to Columbia Street. Here NY 9G and NY 23B extend eastward along the Columbia Street to the intersection with U.S. Highway 9 at Park Place. NY 9G ends here; NY 23B leads to the Columbia Street eastward, now working with U.S. 9 At the next junction turn beie routes on Green Street. At the Fairview Avenue branches off from U.S. 9 out of 23B NY and heads north, while NY 23B as an independent route leads eastward for the first time. NY 23B leaves Hudson and leads to the junction with the southern terminus of New York State Route 66 at the Columbia Street back to Greenport.
Greenport maintenance of NY 23B falls back to the New York State Department of Transportation ( NYSDOT ). Within Greenport the route remains just a kilometer before it crosses the Claverack Creek and the border with the Town of Claverack. The trail ends about two and a half kilometers to the southeast in the hamlet of Claverack at the intersection with New York State Route 9H and NY 23 NY 23 and NY Here disconnect 9H; NY 23 NY 23B leads instead to the east.
History
When in 1924 the first highways in New York were posted, the route of today's NY 23B between the Third Street in Hudson and Claverack as NY 23 was reported. West of Hudson led NY 23 by means of a ferry across the Hudson River to Athens. The Rip Van Winkle Bridge over the Hudson River between Catskill and Greenport was released on July 2, 1935 for the market; However, NY 23 received only a new route on the bridge when the ferry between Athens and Hudson was shut down in the late 1940s. In the late 1950s the route between the eastern end of the bridge and Claverack was moved to a new, more southerly route via Bell Pond. The previously valid route through Hudson was re- dedicated as NY 23B.