County Route 36 (Suffolk County, New York) - County Route 35

County Route 35

County Route 35 serves as a de facto extension of NY 231. It spans from the northern terminus of NY 231 and runs northwest to NY 110 in Halesite. The road originally included NY 231 and CR 34 until 1970, when the New York State Department of Transportation turned the segment between Southern and Northern State Parkways into the temporary alignment of NY 231, before the hopeful transfer of the road onto the formerly proposed Babylon–Northport Expressway (BNE). The south end of CR 35 and CR 66 and the north end of NY 231 was intended to include a formerly proposed North Deer Park Avenue Spur leading to the unbuilt BNE.

Route description

The segment of CR 35 between NY 231 and NY 25 is four-lanes wide and is known as Deer Park Road West, as opposed to CR 66, which is known as Deer Park Road East. CR 35 is the last intersection with Old Country Road before both move north and intersect with NY 25. After this CR 35 narrows down to two lanes, where it becomes Park Avenue and turns to the northwest at the 2nd Precinct of the Suffolk County Police Department before intersecting with CR 86 near Dix Hills. At the north end of Dix Hills Road, the road narrows down to two lanes and contains frontage roads for residences. From there the road serves as the east end of Mapelwood Road where it briefly overlaps with New York State Bicycle Route 25A until it reaches the west end of Little Plains Road, which is a block away from Little Plains Park.

The road briefly becomes four lanes wide again at the intersection of CR 11, but narrows back down to two lanes. Continuing northwest, CR 35 has a grade crossing of the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, which has been the site of many tractor-trailer accidents, and was the original location for the first "Low Ground Clearance" warning sign. The next major intersection after this crossing is Broadway, which runs west towards Huntington Station. Here CR 35 becomes an unconventional two-lane divided highway. The divider ends at Tasman Lane. As it goes downhill, CR 35 passes by three Jewish Centers and the town of Huntington's Hilaire Woods preserve before approaching Huntington Arts Cinema at the southwest corner of NY 25A. North of NY 25A, CR 35 runs along the eastern edge of Heckscher Park, then makes a northeast turn at Sabbath Day Path and passes Huntington Memorial Hospital before reaching NY 110.

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