History
Route 184 originated as a prefixed spur of Route 4 (currently an alignment of U.S. Route 9), New Jersey State Highway Route S-4, first defined in 1927. The highway was an alignment from the new Outerbridge Crossing to Route 4. It was eventually extended from Route 4 to the recently built Route 4 Parkway (now the Garden State Parkway) in 1951. In the 1953 renumbering on January 1, 1953, Route S-4 was decommissioned and renumbered to Route 440 to match up with New York State Route 440 in Staten Island. Route 440 was constructed into a freeway in 1972.
With the bypass of Route 440's original alignment in Perth Amboy, the New Jersey State Highway Department maintained the prior routing. In 1974, Route 440's original alignment was renumbered as Route 184.
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