 Interstate 84 | ||||
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 Map of New York with I-84 highlighted in red | ||||
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| Maintained byNYSDOT andNYSBA | ||||
| Length | 71.46 mi[1] (115.00 km) | |||
| Existed | 1963[2]–present | |||
| NHS | Entire route | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  I-84 at thePennsylvania state line | |||
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| East end | I-84 at theConnecticut state line | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | New York | |||
| Counties | Orange,Dutchess,Putnam | |||
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Interstate 84 (I-84) is a part of theInterstate Highway System that runs fromDunmore, Pennsylvania, toSturbridge, Massachusetts, in theeastern United States. InNew York, I-84 extends 71.46 miles (115.00 km) from thePennsylvania state line atPort Jervis to theConnecticut state line east ofBrewster. As it heads east–west across the midHudson Valley, it goes over two mountain ranges and crosses theHudson River at theNewburgh–Beacon Bridge.
It is the onlyfreeway to cross New York from west to east between New York City and theCapital District. As such it is the main vehicular route between southernNew England andPennsylvania and points west. It is maintained by theNew York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), which resumed full control in 2010 after two decades in whichroutine maintenance was performed by theNew York State Thruway Authority under yearly contract from DOT. TheNew York State Bridge Authority charges a toll for eastbound traffic crossing the Newburgh–Beacon Bridge.
Construction of the highway began later than other Interstates in New York as legal hurdles to the construction of the bridge had to be removed, and federal funding was more limited when it finally began in 1960. It was completed 12 years later, becoming a major commercial artery and mainstay of the Hudson Valley economy and offering travelers a view of some of the state's scenic areas in theShawangunks andHudson Highlands.
I-84 passes through three counties. The entire stretch between the Delaware and Hudson, more than half the road's total length in New York alone, is inOrange County. East of the river the road begins inDutchess County and then drops southward intoPutnam County. As an Interstate Highway, all of I-84 in New York is included in theNational Highway System, a network of roads important to the country's economy, defense, and mobility.[3]
Two other highways parallel the Interstate for some length.U.S. Route 6 (US 6) follows it closely near the state lines, but takes a southerly course between those two areas.New York State Route 52 (NY 52) joins I-84 from Newburgh toFishkill and remains parallel from there toLake Carmel.
I-84 enters New York nearPort Jervis via a long bridge that crosses both theDelaware andNeversink rivers just above theirconfluence. This bridge is owned and maintained by the NYSDOT, including the portion in Pennsylvania. South of the road at the confluence isTri-State Rock, whereNew Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania converge.[4] For its first mile in New York, the Interstate is immediately north of the New Jersey state line in the city ofPort Jervis. The first exit is signed for US 6 andNew Jersey Route 23, which begins just south of the exit.
US 6 remains parallel to the north of the freeway as I-84 begins an immediate climb away from the state line up theShawangunk Ridge, beginning an east-northeast slant in its direction that will continue for almost 30 miles (48 km). The roadway crests at 1,275 feet (389 m), its highest elevation in New York. Scenic overlooks on either side allow travelers to stop and take in the expansive view of Port Jervis, the lower Neversink valley and adjacent regions of Pennsylvania. On the descent, US 6 crosses under the Interstate again, reachable by a short drive south on Mountain Road at exit 4.
East of the Shawangunks it is 13 miles (21 km) to the next exit. The freeway winds throughswamps from which theobelisk atopHigh Point, New Jersey's highest mountain, is visible. These give way to wooded areas eventually broken by fields inWawayanda where Route 6 crosses over again to merge withNY 17M and recross at exit 15, the first of two that serve the city ofMiddletown. A mile and a half (2.4 km) further east along that roadway is the Middletown rest area, with restrooms and a state police substation. The other Middletown exit servesNY 17, the long freeway slowly being transformed intoI-86, another mile farther to the east.
This junction is the western corner of Orange County's "golden triangle" of Interstates, so-called for its attractiveness to businesses for theirdistribution centers.[5][6] Immediately afterward I-84 passes between theGalleria at Crystal Run, the county's largest mall, and the eponymous office park to the south. More farms begin to break up the landscape off the road. Westbound traffic is served by theWallkill rest area four miles (6 km) east of Route 17. The tracks ofMetro-North Railroad'sPort Jervis Line runs just north of the highway for a short distance, andNY 211 also parallels for several miles past the hills ofHighland Lakes State Park.
After crossing theWallkill River andNY 416, I-84 climbs slightly to its first exit in almost 10 miles (16 km),NY 208, serving nearbyWalden andMaybrook. Heavy truck traffic at this exit reflects a nearbytruck stop,[7]Yellow Freight's (Now YRC) large presence in Maybrook,[8] and rail-to-truck transload facility in the old Maybrook Freight train yard. In the area is aStaples warehouse[9] north of the Interstate along NY 208 and numerous distribution centers (Home Depot, Do-it-Best and others) and truck terminals (including UPS, FedEx and 3 others), along an adjacent roadway on the south side. The highway continues, now almost due east, of this exit through more wooded area, forming the northern border of Stewart State Forest, for four miles (6.4 km) to the recently built exit withNY 747 intended to improve access to nearbyStewart International Airport.
A mile beyond, the road reaches the first of four exits servingNewburgh, the largest community along it in New York. It veers slightly to the north again after the interchange withNY 17K, which has been running parallel to the north since NY 208. Another truck stop[10] is located off this exit, with a majorFedEx[11] and theU.S. Postal Service's Mid-HudsonGeneral Mail Facility[12] in theindustrial park between the Interstate and the airport.
The freeway resumes its eastern heading again and descends a gentle slope to its junction with theNew York State Thruway (I-87) andNY 300. Traffic was routed to the Thruway via a short section of 300 when the Interstate was built, but a major project to build a connector directly to the toll road was completed in December 2009, after being under construction for five years.[13][14][15]
After passing through a rock cut, I-84 levels off and begins following the northern border of the city of Newburgh, where firstNY 52 joins it, beginning the onlyconcurrency with the Interstate in the state. A mile and a half (2.4 km) east,US 9W andNY 32 provide the last exit before the road crosses theNewburgh–Beacon Bridge, with views ofNewburgh Bay and theHudson Highlands to the south.
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The bridge also crosses Metro-North'sHudson Line tracks on the east side of the river. TheNY 9D exit after thetoll plaza is the first of two serving the city ofBeacon, just to the south of the freeway. It then curves slightly to the north, passingDutchess Stadium, home of theHudson Valley Renegades, to the north and then the large open area betweenDownstate andFishkill state prisons, where signs warn motorists not to stop. To the south a panoramic view fromBeacon toSchunemunk mountains is available.
The road resumes its eastern heading and descends slightly to the next exit, where NY 52 leaves the freeway for the village ofFishkill. I-84 bends through the lowlands north of Sour Mountain, northern end of the Hudson Highlands, and crossesFishkill Creek. Just north of the historicVan Wyck Homestead, and south of a largeOld Navy regional distribution center,[16] it intersectsUS 9, which becomes a divided highway from north of the exit toPoughkeepsie.
It begins to climb into the hills east of this exit, passing through some rock cuts in the four miles (6.4 km) to the Lime Kiln Road exit, which allows easy access to a nearby formerIBM facility now known as Hudson Valley Research Park.[17] From there it descends gently over two miles (3.2 km), withHosner Mountain looming to the east, to the sprawling interchange with theTaconic State Parkway. It ascends again afterwards, passing scenic overlooks on either side that allow views of the valley and theCatskills to the northwest. At the crest, near where theAppalachian Trail crosses over, signs indicate the road has once again reached 1,000 feet (305 m) in elevation.
I-84 begins to veer to the south at this point, and soon it descends through some rock cuts to cross intoPutnam County just before the Ludingtonville Road exit, with NY 52 a short distance to the south. The road heads in a more south-southeast direction the next 10 miles (16 km). TheNY 311 exit offers the last connection to NY 52, a short distance to the south overLake Carmel, and after crossing Metro-North'sHarlem Line the interchange withNY 312 offers access to the large strip mall on a hill southeast of the exit and theSoutheast train station.
After a quarter-mile-long (400 m) bridge over theCroton River,US 6,US 202 andNY 22 just north ofBrewster, the Interstate returns to its eastern heading for the northern terminus ofI-684, an exit that also provides access to the other three highways. For eastbound travelers this is the last exit in New York.
US 6 and US 202 closely parallel I-84 to the north, between the freeway and one of the upper basins ofEast Branch Reservoir, part ofNew York City's water supply system. The northern terminus ofNY 121 lets eastbound traffic on and westbound traffic off. Two miles (3.2 km) to the east, Signs appear for Saw Mill Road, exit 1 onConnecticut's stretch of I-84, and its ramps leave the highway just a hundred feet (30 m) before the state line.
The route of what became I-84 through New York state began in the late 1940s, when the then-New York State Department of Public Works (now NYSDOT) was planning Gov.Thomas Dewey's proposedThruway system. The plan was for the Thruway's main line to cross the river between Newburgh and Beacon, an area then in the middle of a 30-mile (48 km) gap in fixed river crossings. The remainder of the expressway would be toll-free.[2]
Politicians in the Newburgh area had also been lobbying for a bridge overNewburgh Bay, as theferry service in that section of the river was becoming financially nonviable. In 1951 they were able to authorize testboring in the riverbed to see if a bridge was feasible. It was, but their counterparts further up the river got legislation passed that prohibited any construction of the Newburgh Bay bridge until theKingston–Rhinecliff Bridge was completed.
By the early 1950s the road plan had changed. The Thruway had been rerouted to cross the Hudson at the present site of theTappan Zee Bridge. Dewey suggested that the future I-84 be built as a separate toll road instead. After the passage of theFederal Aid Highway Act of 1956, during theAverell Harriman administration, state officials changed it back to a free road in order to get federal funding for the project. It remained on paper as other New York Interstates got underway.[2]
Assemblyman Lee Mailler ofCornwall, that body'smajority leader, was able to get the bridge construction prohibition repealed in 1954. Abond issue the next year made the first money available for the construction of both the Kingston and Newburgh bridges. In 1959, it looked it would be delayed again when the federal funding formula was changed and less money was available, making a four-lane bridge too expensive to construct.[18]
Construction began in 1960 after the new governor,Nelson Rockefeller, promised to expedite it during his campaign by building a single span, within the limits of what the state could afford without federal aid. The new plans called at first for a freeway connection for I-87 from Beacon to theBronx and a concurrency across the river. After that project was cancelled afterheavy local opposition. I-87 was routed to join I-84 at Brewster (where it would have followed the route of the current I-684). The first segment, the 16 miles (26 km) between the Thruway mainline in theTown of Newburgh and US 9 in Fishkill, was opened November 2, 1963.[2] TheNewburgh–Beacon Bridge crossed nearly two miles (3.2 km) ofNewburgh Bay and led to the last run of the original Newburgh–Beacon Ferry the day after it opened.[18]
The following year the eastern terminus of the new Interstate was extended to theTaconic State Parkway. The rest of the route would be slowed by both the hilly terrain and local resistance over what was felt to be inadequateeminent domain payments to affected landowners. In 1970 the road was complete to NY 311, with the former route of I-87 re-designated as I-684, and no concurrency along the Interstate save the seven miles (11 km) shared with NY 52. A year later, all the mileage east of the river was open. The last segment finished was the one between NY 208 and the Thruway.[2][19]
The highway's route number prompted the renumbering of several existing state routes in western Orange County, where there was already anNY 84. To avoid confusion, the NY 84 designation was eliminated and replaced with other routes in the mid-1960s. The portion south ofUS 6 atSlate Hill becameNY 284 while the section of NY 84 north fromMiddletown to its northern terminus atNY 17K inMontgomery was added toNY 211, which had previously terminated at its junction withNY 17M and NY 84 in Middletown. The rest of NY 84 remained part of US 6 and NY 17M, which NY 84 hadoverlapped through Middletown.[20][21] Lastly,NY 416 was truncated to its current northern terminus just south of Montgomery rather than ending at 17K as it had before.[citation needed] In addition, New Jersey renumbered its ownRoute 84 toRoute 284 to match New York renumbering NY 84 to NY 284.[22]
With I-84 complete soon after fromScranton toHartford, the heavy traffic createdtraffic jams at thebottlenecks at either end of the bridge. In 1975 a second span was approved. It was opened on November 1, 1980, almost 17 years to the day traffic first crossed the original span. Two lanes could still not handle all the traffic, and four years later, in 1984, the old bridge was reopened after renovations.[2][19]
In 1991, with New York facing a large budget deficit,Mario Cuomo's administration decided that the state DOT would essentially sell I-84 and theCross-Westchester Expressway (I-287), to the cash-richNew York State Thruway Authority (NYSTA) as one way of closing it. No tolls could be charged since the roads were built with federal money, and the DOT remained in charge of large capital projects, but the Thruway Authority took over routine maintenance. During this time two interchanges were expanded and a new one created. The authority had the option of, at any time, returning the road to the state's control at a year's notice.[23]
The first was the US 9 exit, revamped in 1999 at a cost of $25 million.[16] I-84 was widened in both directions approaching the exit, a second overpass was added and the exit ramps were widened and signage improved. Around that time the two agencies also announced plans, and received federal funding, to redo the current exit 36 allowing traffic to go directly between I-84 and the Thruway instead of using a short stretch ofNY 300, which by then was more heavily developed than it had been when the Interstates were first built. The three-phase construction project was initialized in May 2003[24] and completed in December 2009.[25]
The new exit also replaced 13 old buildings with a few new ones: a separate toll plaza to handle traffic entering the Thruway (the existing toll plaza is now dedicated to exiting traffic), offices and garages for NYSTA and theNew York State Police. The new buildings usegreen techniques to minimize energy use suchdaylighting andrainwater collection. The ramps have been rerouted, using six new bridges and five new miles (8.0 km) of roadway, so that almost all traffic from routes 17K and 300 now use the latter route to access both Interstates. The existing connector from the toll plaza to NY 17K remains as anE-ZPass–only lane from that highway to the northbound Thruway.[26]
After lengthy litigation byenvironmental groups concerned about the impact on nearbyStewart State Forest, in 2005 construction began on exit 32 (then exit 5A). Local road Drury Lane was upgraded and widened into newly designatedNY 747 to allow easier access toStewart International Airport via an almost-fulldiamond interchange. It was completed in November 2007, at the same time the brieflyprivatized airport was turned over to thePort Authority of New York and New Jersey with the intent of making it theNew York City metropolitan area's fourth major airport.
The Thruway Authority's involvement with the road would have ended in 2006 when its board voted to transfer the highway back to the state DOT, a move it suggested did not commit it to doing so. The proceeds would have covered NYSTA's expenses in eliminating the toll barrier for a year onI-190 south ofBuffalo.[27] This was seen as an election-year move to helpRepublican candidates inWestern New York. But residents of the mid-Hudson region felt NYSTA had done a better jobplowing the road in winter, and Thruway workers assigned to I-84 feared having to move or working for the DOT at lower pay and with differentunion representation.[23]
State SenatorJohn Bonacic, a member of that body's then-Republican majority whose district covers western Orange County, introduced legislation at the beginning of 2007 to block the changeover. He succeeded, as thebudget lawmakers and new governorEliot Spitzer agreed toappropriate enough money for DOT to continue paying the Thruway Authority forsnow removal,litter pickup andmowing along the entire highway save the bridge.[23] The DOT picked up the cost of having state police Troop T, which patrols the Thruway, continue to cover I-84. This agreement was renewed in 2008.[28]
In 2010, maintenance fully reverted to DOT. With the state facing financial difficulties in theslow economy, GovernorDavid Paterson decided that DOT could save a few million dollars doing the work itself. In August of that year, the department bought $6 million worth of new equipment and hired 54 new employees to handle maintenance duties on the highway.[29] In October 2010, Thruway insignia and signs indicating its maintenance responsibilities were removed from the roadway, and authority employees assigned to the road began transferring to jobs elsewhere, after the union waived several contract provisions to smooth the transfer.New York State Troopers who patrolled the road were reassigned from Thruway-based Troop T to Troop F in Orange County and Troop K in Dutchess and Putnam Counties, which cover the west and east sides of the Hudson respectively. At the DOT's request, the two state police substations in Wallkill and East Fishkill remained open.[30]
In 2019, a $13.9 million project was completed that rebuilt the overpass carrying traffic overUS 9W in Newburgh, in order to provide better clearance for truck traffic below on Route 9W and to meet current interstate highway standards.[31]
Also in 2019, the exits were renumbered from sequential to mile-based as part of a sign replacement project by NYSDOT, in accordance withMUTCD regulations.[32] The Putnam County section of I-84 was changed to mile-based in June, with Dutchess County's exits renumbered before September 2. As of February 2020[update] exits west of the Hudson have been fully renumbered up to the NY 17 interchange. Eastbound, NY 208 is fully renumbered in that direction but has both exit numbers on its signage approaching eastbound.
Manytraffic accidents, some fatal, have caused traffic jams and closures since I-84 was opened. One was notable for the type of vehicle involved; another led to a still-openmurder investigation.
On August 6, 1976, drivers along I-84 near exit 18 (NY 311; now exit 61) in thePutnam County town ofPatterson saw a low-flyinghelicopter cross over the Interstate and then get entangled in thepower lines passing overhead. The craft flipped over and fell onto the eastbound lanes of the highway. Both pilot and passenger were killed, and 4,000 customers in the arealost power. A traffic backup of several miles was rerouted onto the road'sshoulder around the crash site until the road was reopened two and a half hours later.[19] TheNational Transportation Safety Board investigated and ruled the cause to bepilot error.[33]
Aroad rage incident on the side of the highway led to the death of Richard Aderson in 1997. Aderson, an assistantsuperintendent at theValley Central School District in Montgomery, was returning to hisLaGrange home on the evening of February 5, 1997, when he had a minor collision with a relatively new greenJeep Cherokee carrying what appeared to beNew Hampshire license plates just before crossing the Newburgh–Beacon Bridge. The two drivers pulled over near what was then exit 12 (now exit 44), and after a brief argument the other drivershot Aderson and left the scene. Aderson was able to give the9-1-1 operator he called on hiscell phone a description of his assailant and the vehicle before dying at the scene. Apolice sketch based on Aderson's description has been widely circulated and is still posted prominently inkiosks at the freeway's rest areas. The case has been dramatized on bothAmerica's Most Wanted andUnsolved Mysteries.[34][35]
On September 21, 2023, a chartered bus carrying ninth-grade members of theFarmingdale High School marching band fromLong Island to a weekend at a camp in Pennsylvania suffered a tire failure along westbound I-84 in Wawayanda nearSlate Hill and rolled down a 50-foot (15 m) slope into the highway's median strip. Many students were injured, some critically, and two adults on the bus were killed. The highway was closed in both directions between exits 4 and 15 (formerly exits 2 and 3), with traffic diverted onto US 6, in order to clear the accident and create a landing zone for helicopters to evacuate the most seriously injured toWestchester Medical Center.[36] At the end of the year, theFederal Highway Administration approved the addition of a crash gate for emergency vehicles, the absence of which had hampered response to the crash, along that stretch of the interstate.[37]
I-84 exits within New York were changed from sequential numbering to mile-based numbering in 2019.[38]
| County | Location | mi[1][39] | km | Old exit | New exit[40] | Destinations | Notes |
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| Delaware River | 0.00 | 0.00 | – | – |  I-84 west –Scranton | Continuation intoPennsylvania | |
| Orange | Town of Deerpark | 0.66 | 1.06 | – | 1 |    US 6 /Route 23 south –Port Jervis,Sussex | Access to Route 23 viaCR 15; northern terminus of Route 23 |
| Greenville | 3.40 | 5.47 | Parking Area | ||||
| 4.76 | 7.66 | 2 | 4 |  Mountain Road (CR 35) | |||
| Wawayanda | 15.44 | 24.85 | 3 | 15A-B |  US 6 /NY 17M –Goshen,Middletown | Signed as exits 15A (US 6/NY 17 M east) and 15B (US 6/NY 17 M west) | |
| 16.90 | 27.20 | Middletown Rest Area (eastbound) | |||||
| Wallkill | 19.10 | 30.74 | 4E-W | 19A-B |   Future I-86 /NY 17 –New York City,Binghamton | Signed as exits 19A (NY 17 east) and 19B (NY 17 west); exits 121E and 121W on NY 17 | |
| 23.63 | 38.03 | Middletown Rest Area (westbound) | |||||
| Montgomery | 28.78 | 46.32 | 5 | 28 |  NY 208 –Maybrook,Walden | ToOrange County Airport | |
| Town of Newburgh | 32.99 | 53.09 | 5A | 32 |   NY 747 –Stewart Airport | Exit opened 2007[41] | |
| 34.14 | 54.94 | 6 | 34 |  NY 17K –Montgomery,Newburgh | ToStewart Air National Guard Base | ||
| 36.54 | 58.81 | 7A | 36A |    I-87 Toll /New York Thruway –Albany,New York City | Exit 17 on I-87 / Thruway; exit opened 2009 | ||
| 7B | 36B |  NY 300 (Union Avenue) | ToNY 17K | ||||
| 37.44 | 60.25 | 8 | 37 |   NY 52 west –Walden | Western end of NY 52 concurrency | ||
| 39.04 | 62.83 | 10N-S | 39A-B |    US 9W /NY 32 –Newburgh,Highland | Signed as exits 39A (US 9W south) and 39B (US 9W north) westbound; last eastbound exit before toll; toNewburgh–Beacon Ferry | ||
| Hudson River | 40.23 | 64.74 | Hamilton Fish Newburgh–Beacon Bridge (eastbound toll gantry) | ||||
| Dutchess | Town of Fishkill | 41.49 | 66.77 | 11 | 41 |    NY 9D /NY 52 Bus. east –Beacon,Wappingers Falls,Cold Spring | ToBeacon station andNewburgh–Beacon Ferry |
| 44.77 | 72.05 | 12 | 44 | NY 52 east /NY 52 Bus. west –Fishkill | Eastern end of NY 52 concurrency; NY 52 Bus. not signed | ||
| 46.24 | 74.42 | 13N-S | 46A-B |  US 9 –Poughkeepsie,Peekskill | Signed as exits 46A (US 9 south) and 46B (US 9 north) westbound; toHudson Valley Regional Airport | ||
| East Fishkill | 50.44 | 81.18 | 15 | 50 |  CR 27 (Lime Kiln Road / iPark Boulevard) | ||
| 52.64 | 84.72 | 16S-N | 52A-B |  Taconic State Parkway –New York City,Albany | Signed as exits 52A (Taconic State Parkway south) and 52B (Taconic State Parkway north); exits 37A and 37B on Taconic State Parkway | ||
| 55.20 | 88.84 | Stormville Rest Area | |||||
| Dutchess–Putnam county line | East Fishkill–Kent line | 58.84 | 94.69 | 17 | 58 |   NY 52 /CR 43 south (Ludingtonville Road) | NY 52 not signed; northern terminus of CR 43 |
| Putnam | Kent–Patterson line | 61.80 | 99.46 | 18 | 61 |  NY 311 –Lake Carmel,Patterson | |
| Southeast | 65.44 | 105.32 | 19 | 65 |   NY 312 –Carmel,Brewster | ToSoutheast station; formerNY 52; Brewster not signed westbound | |
| 68.30 | 109.92 | 20 | 68 |    I-684 south /NY 22 –White Plains,New York City,Pawling | Signed as exits 68A (I-684 south) and 68B (NY 22 north) eastbound; exits 9E and 9W on I-684 | ||
| 69.26 | 111.46 | 21 | 69 |    NY 121 toUS 6 /US 202 –North Salem,Brewster | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||
| 71.46 | 115.00 | – | – |  I-84 east –Danbury | Continuation intoConnecticut | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||||
that stretch of I-84 – dubbed the Golden Triangle by traffic experts for its proximity to Route 17 and the New York Thruway
Then: Hoping to feed Orange County's growing thirst, County Executive Louis Heimbach lays plans for a huge circular water system, a 'water loop,' to link the 'Golden Triangle' framed by Route 17 and Interstates 84 and 87.
... the U.S. Postal Service general mail facility is located at Stewart.
The company, which is based in San Francisco and owns the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic clothing chains, is buying a 200-acre tract at Interstate 84 and Route 9 in the Merrit Park section of Fishkill and is expecting to begin construction in January ... Gap said the site was all the more attractive because the State Department of Transportation is completing a $28 million project to reconfigure the intersection of Interstate 84 and Route 9, which has been a traffic bottleneck
The facility is located on I-84, just 18 miles [29 km] east of the New York State Thruway and only 90 minutes north of New York City
A ceremony at 1:30 p.m. today will celebrate the official dedication and opening of the long-awaited Drury Lane interchange that will allow drivers to get from Interstate 84 to the airport more directly.
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