The New York State 214 route NYÃ, 214 ) is a 12.48 mile (20.08 km) highway through the Catskill Park section of the Ulster and Greene region. The route starts at an intersection with NYÃ, 28 in the town of Shandaken, just southwest of Phenicia hamlet. The route runs through a narrow gap called Stony Clove Notch before reaching Hunter town, where it ends at NY 23A.
NY 214 was part of the tannery built by Colonel Charles Edwards Hunter in the late 1840s, opened in 1849. The road was upgraded in 1873 to the Stoney Clove Turnpike , which caters to hotels and resorts in the Catskills. By 1930, the route was designated as NY 214, but parts in Greene County were not kept state, not by the county. From 1946 to 1956, Lanesville hamlet residents spent time fighting for NYÃ, 214 to be reconstructed for being unsafe soil roads for their children to go to school using their bus. After two parts were completed in 1952, the last section in Greene County was a four-year political debate over the New York State Department of Public Works that postponed the project for many reasons. Development of the final part finally began on July 16, 1956.
In 1994, it was proposed that NYA 214 be part of a beautiful byway and by 2013, the state of New York approved the bill to create Mountain Cloves Scenic Byway, a 41-mile (66 km) shortcut with several branches serving the Catskill Mountains.
Video New York State Route 214
Route description
NYÃ, 214 starts at an intersection with NYÃ,28 in the town of Shandaken while the last walks along the Esopus River. NY: 214 get the Main Street moniker, down the hill to Phenicia hamlet, across the creek Esopus Creek, Stony Clove Creek, to the community center. One block after the water crossing, NY. 214 turned northwest from Main Street, into a two-lane commercial street, passing through the downtown section of Phenicia, now parallel to the waterway. NYÃ, 214 soon left Phenicia, bending northeastward along Stony Clove Creek, crossing the northeast along the side of the nearby mountains, reaching Chichester village, where it became a two-lane residential street in the middle of the notch.
NY1 214 continues northeast out of Chichester, across the town of Shandaken, still a two-lane road. To the northeast of Chichester, this route crosses from Ulster County and into Greene County. NY1 214 continues to the northeast through the city of Hunter. Reaching the Lanesville hamlet, the route becomes a rural road in the mountains through the mountains of Catskill High Peak. For a short distance along Lanesville's east route, the route turns east rather than northeast, reaching Edgewood hamlet, which consists of several houses and intersections with Notch Hill Road. At this intersection, NY: 214 leads north between Plateau and Hunter plains, a two-lane jungle path.
NYÃ, 214 through a small pool at Stony Clove Notch, continue north and turn northeast to Higgins Road. After the northeast turns, the intersection routes with the southern end of County RouteÃ, 83 (CRÃ, 83 or Ski Bowl Road). The route winds out and becomes a flat area through the Hunter, reaching the intersection with NY 23A in Hunter hamlet, just west of Tannersville.
Maps New York State Route 214
History
Construction and designation
NY: 214 dates back to the road built in the late 1840s by Colonel Charles Edwards, Tanners of Hunter. The road is built along a clove that marks the eastern side of Hunter Mountain and west of Plateau Mountain in the Catskills so Edwards gets the hemlock tree bark to the tanning of the mountains. The road built by Edwards and first used by Amos Connolly in 1849 for the use of the first wagon was upgraded in 1873 after the state approval of the Stoney Clove Turnpike, which occurred by the State Legislature of New York on 30 April. The road design used has speculated that there are significant problems with erosion when it comes to the way through Stony Clove Notch, even into the 1940s. Stacked stone walls are usually used to create buffers and build banks from the flow below.
In 1881, construction began at Stony Clove and the Catskill Mountain Railway, a narrow railway from Phenicia and the Ulster and Delaware Train to Hunter village. The new railway was built to serve the Kaaterskill Hotel through the indentations. The train was completed in 1883 and converted into a standard gauge in 1899. An inn was built at a station in Edgewood, helping travelers and recreation through the Catskills. The train closed in April 1936 and in 1940, the rail was torn, although the course was fixed.
The Notch Road was not originally included in the New York State highway map in 1912. In 1921, it had not been added. However, in 1925, with pressure from New York State Senator Arthur F. Bouton, Notch Road was added to the state highway map in 1925. The dirt road was taken over by the state of New York in late 1920 and designated NY. 214 as part of a renewal of 1930 state roads in New York.
Reconstruction record
1946-1951
NYÃ, 214 became the subject of controversy for road conditions through Lanesville and Greene County. A parent committee member at Lanesville noted on December 2, 1946 that they would detain their students going to school starting January 6, 1947 if the state did not start working to improve the road to safety. The committee noted that the condition of NY 214 is dangerous, with road sidewalks not maintained for use of school buses and guard rails not installed to prevent cars from entering the waterways. Parents remain committed and hold about 55 students out of school starting January 2, stating that nothing is still done to maintain NY. 214. Burton Belknap, part of the State Education Department, stated that they intend to ensure they will work with local parents to get students back to school. The student strike was revoked on January 13 on condition that Hunter City was made to improve the road.
Parents noted that they demanded a safer guard fence because those standing dangerous for poor construction. They also recorded some parts with 15-20-foot drops (4.6-6.1 m) that were not present at all. The petitioners have sent 700 signatures to the state stating that the road has been neglected for the previous 20 years. However, on May 22, nothing remained to be done despite talks, but the state claimed they needed time to complete the work. The parents pointed out cases where a driver ended up at Stony Clove Creek due to lack of guard rails. The state states that an offer to upgrade NY 214 will not come out until July and that pavement repair will take place within two weeks. The offer on NY1 214 for regular repairs was received in mid-September, with the announcement on 17 September that the offer of $ 281,418.74 (1947 USD) was awarded by Three Binghamton Construction Cities to reconstruct the 2.98 mile (4.80 km) length of NYA 214 from Edgewood to the point north of Stony Clove.
In November 1948, the Greene County Supervisory Board unanimously supported the funding for the continuing reconstruction of NY. 214. Funding for this project will come from the Secondary Aid Federal Highway Program. The Board has received a letter stating that getting a contract road should be right after the money is in place. On February 22, 1949, the county announced that the sum of $ 155,000 (1949 USD) was allocated for development in NY 214 as a continuation of the funds already given since 1946. This would include the rest of the way through the city of Hunter. However, the chairman of the Board, Claude Tompkins and supervisor for Hunter, G. Richard Ham, both requested an investigation into whether this would be enough money to pay for the project. In August, the Lanesville Parent Committee joined with other groups in forming the Greene County chapter of the New York Good Street Association. John Papp, chair of the Parents Committee, noted that they were focusing on a chapter on the urgent reconstruction of NYÃ, 214 In February 1950, Papp was elected interim president of the new Greene County chapter.
In February 1950, New York State Senator Arthur H. Wicks announced that funding for the construction of NY 214 would be incorporated into the contract on 1 May. The plan has been completed and the design of the bridge is being completed. On May 16, the state announced that the offer would be left in the second part of NY. 214. In September, things have retreated after a car with four children fell off the NYÃ, 214 because the roads were yielding. This is due to yet another parental strike, which refuses to let their children board the bus on September 27th. Senator Wicks called the capital at Albany to find out what the delay was under construction. The State notes that since NY 214 is not maintained by the state, but by Greene County, it will require approval by the Federal Bureau of Roads in Washington DC. States state that they can not do any construction until once approval on the plan is obtained. In response, Wicks arranged for the contract to be advertised on October 12 and that a bid would be accepted on Nov. 15. Residents continue to detain students from taking the bus to school and that the road is a mess in different areas and people should ride shoulders regularly. However, there is no bidder on the contract, and the New York State Department of Public Works opens more bids on December 13 for the 1.6.3 mile (2.62 km) section of NY1 214 at a cost of $ 214,000.
The second bidding process was welcomed successfully, as the company of John Arborio, Inc. of Poughkeepsie with a total of $ 203,242.80 (1951Ã, USD) won an offer in January 1951. The contract will include the construction of two bridges and the reconstruction of NY. 214 The new road will be 20 feet (6.1 m) wide and paved with pebbles and asphalt, replacing the dirt road that passes the notch. The contract will also eliminate the curve and value along NYÃ, 214 from Stony Clove Notch to Kaaterskill Junction and completed on 1 December 1951.
1952-1956
After construction began in the section of NY 214 at the north end, problems arose with Greene County and the southern part of the road. The state has put the project on the construction program for 1952, however, required federal approval. The explanation was due to the demand for action made by Wicks to the state inspector of Public Works, B. D. Tallamy. Henry TenHagen, the deputy chief engineer in the state noted that the project was awarded to the Federal Bureau of Public Road, which disagrees with it due to restrictions on materials needed for construction. The Supervisory Board for Greene County and the city council for Hunter chose construction next year. The demand was raised not only because of the 1950 incident of the car falling off a cliff, but a 100-foot (30 m) section of the road had been washed away in recent storms.
On June 9, the federal government agreed that the last part of NYÃ, 214 qualified for federal aid, at a cost of $ 700,000 (1952 USD), to be subsidized by half by the government. However, due to the approval announced at the end of the fiscal year, there is no ability on the part of the country to let the bid contract until the next, as all the state's money for that year has dried up. The $ 700,000 project will cover four gradation miles, drainage structures, three bridges and open two lanes through Greene County. The federal government announced that it would approve a construction offer after the state sent a document noting that it was getting the right way for the project. However, on July 30, no progress was made by the state on construction despite the federal approval by J. Ernest Wharton, a member of the US Congress of Richmondville.
The disasters of the last section of NY 214 were dragged into 1953 and soon 1954, when Lanesville residents pressured New York State Governor Thomas E. Dewey to take action on the stalled project. The federal grants will end on 30 June 1955 and the committee noted that the state has made empty promises since February 1952. They pressured Dewey to take steps to speed up the project, as the Public Works department has made excuses from the federal. aid, for lack of engineers, lack of money, approval by Greene County and that the state must comply with the amount of federal government provided. In May, the committee transferred their request to US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for his support on the highway. Eisenhower referred the letter to the Public Bureau noting that while the money still exists, it relies on documents never sent on rights-of-way in 1952.
On August 24, the Department of Public Works recorded a letter to a parent committee stating that NY 214 had been placed on the 1955 program for construction, as it had been three years earlier. The state also noted that they would conduct surveys and designs during the winter of 1954-1955 and then move the project to the contract stage in 1955. In late December 1954, district engineers to the state noted that the work would be able to become contracted by 1 April. However, the plan was not sent to the state until the end of July 1955 to the main office in Albany. To make matters worse, the $ 750 million roads amendment defeat in November 1955 potentially delayed work on NY1 214 even further. Stating that a more run-around state, John Papp, chairman of the parent committee noted that allowing proposals for the contract is starting December 1, 1955, but beating the amendments changed the plan, although some of the roads were severely damaged. in a storm on October 16.
In December 1955, however, the committee was once again fed with the state and their treatment of reconstruction in NY. They threatened another school strike after disappointing results from new Governor Averell Harriman, saying it was the only weapon left in the situation. Papp notes that the letter sent by Bellamy notes that the money does not depend on failed amendments. Soon after, the state canceled a bid on the project, angering Wicks and New York State Assemblyman William E. Brady of Coxsackie. Angered by the decision, the parents went with their threats to withdraw their children once more for a week in January 1956 until Wicks and Brady agreed to talk to the state. However, the state accuses Papp at the end of January of confusing money for funding the NY project. 214. The new inspector for the Department of Public Works, John W. Johnson notes that the defeat of the amendment is the reason for canceling the 1 December offer.
On April 19, the release for part of NY 214 was finally held, but no bids were received on the project, requiring a second set to begin on 7 June. However, Governor Harriman noted that the cost of the project had risen to $ 815,000 instead of the original $ 700,000 estimated in 1952. The offer was won by the Sunset Stone Stone Construction Company on June 25 at a cost of $ 757,886.60, noting that the official construction began on July 16. In August, trees have been removed and floods will be moved from the river to avoid future problems. In early September, the company noted that they would pour concrete for one of the new bridges and the construction was running at a steady pace.
Scenic byway
In March 1994, the Hunter City, the Catskill Conservation and Development Center and the Greene County Planning Department nominated NY 214 along with the NYS 23A Clove Kaaterskill and Clove Rd Clove Rd. for the New York City Road Road Program. In 2011, it was proposed that Mountain Cloves Scenic Byway would serve HIS section 214 from Phenicia to the Greene County line. This will link the proposed Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway with Clove Mountain. On June 20, 2013, a bill passed the New York State Assembly to appoint Scenic Byway Mountain Clover and was sent to Governor Andrew Cuomo for signature. On July 12, the Governor signed Mountain Cloves Scenic Byway into law. The southern portion of Route 214 is designated as part of the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway in November 2015.
Large intersection
See also
- New York Roads portal
References
External links
- New York State 214 route on Alps' RoadsÃ, o New York Route
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