Overall good job on the Long Island Expressway video. I grew up on Long Island (spent the first 38 years of my life there), and have been from one end of the LIE (coming out of the Midtown Tunnel - locals drop the "Queens" part) to the other (Riverhead). I can tell you where all the best pizzerias and diners are located (or used to be located). The Indian Names (Patchogue, Montauk, Wyandanch, etc.) are all tough for those who didn't group up here. Kudos - you pronounced Hauppauge correctly. Sagtikos is pronounced SAGG tik KOSE. Also - the thing about Long Island (and all of NY) is that commercial traffic is NOT permitted on any Parkways. Expressways and Thruways are for trucks. Suffolk is pronounced SUFF-ick. At least on Long Island. I could have paid for one of your vacations if I would have done $5 Super Stickers for all the exits that are meaningful to me. Thanks for doing this one.
@@VianoMusicAcademyThe alternate font on exit signs that isn’t highway gothic is Clearview, but the Clearview parkway or interchange or whatever is signed in the Highway Gothic font, so that’s the joke. Clearview was actually being phased in instead of Highway Gothic but then it was found that it wasn’t in fact easier to read so it’s being phased out again, but there are signs in various areas with Clearview still
7:34 on Cousin Brucie’s show on 77WABC, he would say “your city, your town, your village, your hamlet, your dwarf” to encourage people to say where they are from.
13:45 Hempstead may be the largest town, but towns in New York work similarly to townships in other states. Within towns, there are incorporated villages, and the Town of Hempstead has many villages within its borders, including the Village of Hempstead. The Village of Hempstead only has 59,183 people as of 2020.
@diamondarmorsteve So it’s more accurate to say that the largest community on Long Island is a modest 60k big (Hempstead and Brentwood) as opposed to a ridiculously large 800k big (larger than Newark, Jersey City and Yonkers combined)? I personally leaned towards this ‘definition’, but as someone from the opposite side of the continent, I had no idea what locals thought…
@@tylermarchand2996 You can think of a town in NY as a sub-county; they are not municipalities. Nassau is made up of three towns (plus the independent municipalities of Long Beach and Glen Cove) and Suffolk is made up of 10 towns. The Town of Brookhaven is larger than eight counties in New Jersey in terms of land area. There was a movement years ago for Suffolk's five eastern towns to secede and form Peconic County but nothing ever came of it.
You also forgot one little Control city signage between Exits 39-40E-W. Also, digital displays tell you how long it’ll take you to get to X Route. But have fun with 7 hours of delays just because of the Van Wyck Expy. To Woodhaven Blvd. Merge nightmare, & delays as far back as my home exit of Exit 39 to Midtown Tun. After Exits 19 A-D, traffic is much better, until you get on the 10 hour delayfest known as the BQE. Then there’s the 1 hour delayfest of the Queen-Midtown Expy. Also, the way you pronounce Suffolk isn’t how most of us pronounce it. It’s Suf, not with as one other commentator pointed out. Service roads on the LIE can also just appear & disappear without warning & traversing it is confusing. Also, going Riverhead/Orient Point Ferries bound, delays start as soon as you get out of the Midtown Tunnel. It would be Delays from Exits 19W-E to exit 64. I’m not even kidding. That happens pretty frequently. Also, I would’ve just signed it for Manhattan/Newark, NJ/ New York/Newark, NJ even though it doesn’t go there, but 34th St. takes you there. Great video. At least you featured my home exit without me having to request it. Though the Town of Hempstead might as well be its own city. But notice how NY’s Exit Signs are Rounded & not Pointy. That’s the gripe I have with 95% of the Country. Also, when you do NY or Long Is., Look at the Digital Displays. I also call “Nassau County” as “East Queens”. Also Also, there is a reason why Exit 13 starts in West Queens County because Exits 1-5 is the I-495 sector of NJ, & Exits 6-12 is Midtown Manhattan like how I-78 is Ex. 1-5 in Downtown CBD. Exits 6-8 Would be NY-9A South- SI Ferry Upper west side- To H. Hudson Pkwy. White Plains 8th Ave. Exit 9 would be Park Ave.- SoHo South/ Harlem/Fordham Bronx & EXITS 10-12 would be DOWNTOWN, UPTOWN, & FDR Drive. So Exit 13 in West Queens makes sense. Also, some exits were removed for more smooth flow of traffic as it caused bottlenecks in parts of Long Island, New Netherland. Hint: Exits 52-54. NY-135, eventually will be I-287’s Metropolitan Beltway when I get that tunnel built by any means necessary. The “Clearview” Expressway is the name of the village of Clearview in W. Queens close to the Throgs neck Bridge.
Good points there. Don't forget there are also "Downtown/Uptown"-type signs leaving the Lincoln Tunnel, so Exit 6 could be Uptown (Dyer Ave. to 40th-42nd Streets), Exit 7 could be Downtown (Dyer Ave. to 36th-34th Streets), while Exits 8 and 9 are the exists that would have been added had the Mid-Manhattan been constructed (8th and Park Ave. seem like go exit points, but since 8th Ave. is one way northbound, I could have made it A-B with downtown traffic going down 7th or 9th Ave. Then there's the Murray Hill tunnel that goes under Park Ave, and I'd imagine that it would be repurposed had any on-ramps been built.
Thanks! Exit requests for the Belt Pkwy. 1) Exit 11-to my Hometown the Rockaways 2) Exit 17-to my hometown the Rockaways 3) Exit 24A- my regular exit 4) Exit 27- my job (Cross Island Pkwy continues the Belts exit numbers so technically it’s the same road) 5)Jamaica Bay Riding Academy
I was wondering if you'd ecer do Interstate 290 in Massachusetts. I grew up using the route a lot. Maybe you could do a combined 290 395 video since they're essentially the same route. Some exits id like you to look at on 290 are where it meets I-90 in Auburn, Route 122, Route 9, and I-190. Id recommend using the streetview time featire to see what those exits were originally signed for, thwres some pretty funny control cities for those exits, and 290 in general. I love the content, btw. Thanks!
Thanks so much! I'm going to be doing an all request episode in October so I could show these exits on that one if you'd like. I'll do 290 eventually but I have no immediate plans for it, 2025 would be the earliest I'd consider it.
@@ControlCityFreak you could maybe do both. If you aren't doing both, I'd say focus on the Route 122 and Route 9 exit signage for the special, and save the others for if you do 290 in the future. The exits for Route 122 and Route 9 have very far control cities for small roads.
The "giant big globe" from M.I.B. in Flushing Meadows is the Unisphere. It was the centerpiece of the '64 World's Fair. Musical Notes: Harry Chapin was a fellow Brooklyn Tech Alum. K-Solo hails from Suffolk Cty (as referenced in his song "The Fugitive"). De La Soul hails from Amityville, and '90s alt band Fountains of Wayne's second album was titled "Utopia Parkway" ...
Fun fact - If I-287 were ever (and this is extremely unlikely even though the idea has been floated - and actually mentioned in Netflix's House of Cards) extended across the Long Island Sound from its current endpoint in Port Chester, NY, it would likely land in Oyster Bay roughly around the north end of NY 135. Which is partly why the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, NY 135, is designed to freeway standards. The LI Sound Bridge would be a crossing much longer than the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway in that regard, but it would be useful in that it would give Long Island another crossing - allowing residents to get to New England without having to drive all the way to Queens to get to either the Whitestone or the Throggs Neck Bridges. Another fun fact: it wasn't until 1983 when the LIE was actually given an interstate designation, when it was promoted from NY 495 to I-495, at least from the Clearview Expressway (I-295) to its Eastern terminus in RIverhead. The rest of NY 495 to the Midtown Tunnel would get an interstate designation years later.
Thanks! Can do, but I was looking more for roads I already did. I’ll definitely do US 50 at some point in the future, not sure when, but if you’d like to save this request for the 50 vid I could, up to you.
Can’t wait for the I-278 video. I’ll definitely have requests for that one! We also could use a Belt Pkwy/Cross Is Pkwy and an I-678 video, both of those go past the shortest interstate, I-878
Hempstead, NY home of Hofstra University, which the University is right on the border of Hempstead and Uniondale right across the street from the old Nassau Coliseum
I use to drive these roads 4 times a week, and I just noticed that, The Cross Island Pkwy lists the Whitestone Bridge, when the first bridge you would come to is the Throgs Neck Bridge.
Three things: 1) Awesome Harry Chaplin WOLD at the intro! 2) Others have said it but… Suff-uk. 3) I’m a Seton Hall grad. So funny to hear my Alma mater mentioned. 😂
Sagtikos is a Parkway, not an Expressway. Before the eastbound Exit 40 West, there was supposed to be an Exit 39A leading to the southbound Wantagh State Parkway Extension, which itself was supposed to terminate at I-495. New York State Route 135 was originally supposed to go from Wantagh State Parkway north of Jones Beach to Oyster Bay, where it was to continue onto the Bayville-Rye Bridge, and hook up with the I-95-287 interchange. Exit 47 was supposed to lead to the Bethpage State Parkway extension, but it was to be southbound only exits in either direction. The site of the Long Island Welcome Center was supposed to be a realigned section of New York State Route 231 better known as the Babylon-Northport Expressway. The William Floyd Parkway (Suffolk CR 46) is one of the few parkways on long Island where trucks are allowed. The reason the L.I.E. is such a mess is because too many NIMBYists forced it to be the only game in town. They never built the western Sunrise Highway extension, or any proposed expressways on the north shore, and forced all the cars and trucks onto I-495.
Well I’m planning on bringing I-287 into a Beltway thru Long Island via NY-135, JB, LB, I/NY-878, the conduits, Linden, Prospect, Gowanus, Staten Is., & W. shore Expys./Pkwys. To NJ-440. I’ll find a way for the bridge to be built by any means necessary if it come to it. NIMBYS won’t get in my way.
yet to clinch the L.I.E (90%) New York State Route 135:Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway i rember repaceing the 1970's lamppost back when i was kid as of Sep/Apr 2023 some of them are still around (at least one unpainted davit lightpole,in Roslyn Heights, New York ) EXIT 41 (NY 106) south to my old house(Noth Bellmore)
Oh the LIE. So,many memories of sitting in traffic lol And yes, I agree with you about the service roads. Now that I’ve lived away from New York for 7 years, I’ve realized how unique the service roads are on the LIE. The only other place I ran into service roads was in Texas. If you want to see some crazy service roads on Long Island, you should do NY-27, specifically the stretch when it’s sunrise highway.
Agree 100% about Long Island City as I also stayed there when I was in NYC. Anything at $100/night was a steal! I took the F train from the Queensboro Bridge to, if I recall, around 43rd Street (TSQ area).
Yeah did the same. It was my wife’s first time in NY so we actually walked across the Queensboro for our first trip into the city so we ended up right by Central Park
Exit 13 possible would have implied that there would have been a dozen exits in Manhattan had the Mid-Manhattan been constructed, perhaps one for each numbered avenue as it went across due to its ordinal nature. That said, I-495 in the DC area crosses from Maryland to Virginia without resetting to 1, so its possible that the numbering could have started at the NJ Turnpike, since I'd imagine 12 exists through one of the world's dense environments would have been chaotic.
I would go on vacation with my parents and my brother to Montauk. We took 495. At the time it was NY 495 and it didn't go all the way but we did exit near the Hamptons. As for Center Moriches, I think I have an uncle buried there. My aunt lived in nearby Mastic Beach.
Not really, as I-80 basically heads directly towards the GWB and basically ends at I-95. 495 was originally designed as a spur from the NJTP (I-95), but of course, the Jane Jacobs of the world decided against that.
Here’s Speedboy14’s the way it should be for I-495 Long Island Expressway Eastbound: Eastern Long Island, Riverhead Westbound: New York City, Manhattan
Next: Interstate 605 (California) lol. It has the control city of Thru Traffic. I think NB the control city should be Glendora, and SB Huntington Beach.
@jollyjohnthepirate3168 I think I remember hearing the name ‘Grumman’ mentioned in the Apollo 13 movie in reference to spacecraft design. Are they the same?
I recall my first visit to NYC. I would tell my co-worker New Yorkers what interstate I was on, like I-87. I finally learned that it was called the Major Deegan. I didn't know about the "Ordinal Exit", so I miscalculated time-distance on the New Jersey Turnpike. So, I started at Laguardia headed for the Bronx, and I ended up in Manhattan. NYC streets are so unforgiving. Now I just take the train from Delaware to Moynihan/Penn.
I would never drive in NYC (well, at least not Manhattan). I’m thinking about going there for a week in early December - I’ve always wanted to get there during the Christmas season ever since I first watched the movie “Elf” - and I’ll just take the train in from Newark or JFK airport, wherever it is that I fly in. No need to rent a car. Now, if I were to drive to the NYC area from KC, I’d probably just leave my car at some commuter train station in New Jersey for the duration of my stay in NYC.
In NYS Hamlets are like Census Designated Places. Unincorporated areas that have a population. They often look like villages but don't have their own government separate from the surrounding town. All villages have their own government and are part of a town or coterminous with a town. Cities exist separate of towns
Can you talk about this control city sign in particular? Del Mem Br NY-NJ This control sign in particular has always irritated me when traveling on I-95/I-295 north in Delaware. Delaware Memorial Bridge goes to New Jersey, not New York, so I don't get why some signs in Delaware say that.
@Handle_Needs_3_Or_More_Charact yeah but NY is not the first state where the bridge goes. My home state of NJ is. Even worse, some signs in Delaware alternate between NY-NJ and NJ-NY when all of them should consistently say NJ-NY.
I'm from Long Island, so this is a nice video. Your pronunciations were generally good. Many names on Long Island came from the local Native American tribes who lived there, just as we see in other parts of the country with their own particular "quirks." The globe thing at Flushing Meadows is the "Unisphere." My ex was at Eisenhower Park for the Harry Chapin concert the day that he died in that terrible accident. She introduced me to many of his other songs. It always bugs me that radio stations almost never play anything other than "Cat's Cradle."
In my opinion, I-495 should be resigned to I-80 while resigning I-295 to I-80 and I-80 being concurrent with I-95 connecting to the original eastern terminus, so I-80 will run from County road 58 at Eastern Long Island to US-101 in San Francisco.
good pronunciation. Hauppauge is local native American for "Land of Sweet Water" and Sagtikos for "Head of the hissing snake." Would have loved to hear you do Patchogue ;) But you got East and West backwards at the end :P
Villages in New York have a Mayor and a Board of Trustees. They are responsible for many of their services like trash collection, parks, snow removal and lighting. They also control their own zoning. Hamlets are basically a village is size and scope but without any local government. Many do have a post office and ZIP code. Their municipal services are handled by the town they are in. In the case of my community it is the Town of Oyster Bay.
Also the vast majority of places in NY are hamlets. In NY, every square inch of land is in either a Town or an incorporated City. Then, if you're in a Town, you can also be in an incorporated village inside that town. If you're not, then you're in a hamlet, which is just a place without its own government. Basically, it's a mailing address only. So you basically have 3 options: City, Town/Village, or Town/Hamlet. The vast majority of the land area (though probably not the population) is in the latter. There are only 3 towns and 2 cities in Nassau (Hempstead, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay; and Glen Cove and Long Beach), and 10 towns and no cities in Suffolk. Almost every place name you gave is a hamlet (and a couple of villages).
@BertiferousRex That’s something I’ve been wondering about for a while. As someone from the opposite end of the continent, I’ve questioned whether people from the New York area consider Newark or Hempstead to be the second largest community in the metro. I never knew if Hempstead was considered to be 800k big (larger than Newark, Jersey City and Yonkers combined), or a more modest 60k for the core village…
In NY State a Hamlet is a community within another political subdivision (town). A hamlet has no governmental functions. The towns like Hempstead are large because there are multiple communities within the town (villages) with their own governments. The entirety of Nassau County (approx. 1.4 million people) only 3 towns & 2 cities. The town of Brookhaven in Suffolk has near 500,000 people.
Theoretical plans to build a bridge or tunnel to cross to Connecticut as well to justify the even number. Pie in the sky, but still a much more sensible idea than ramming a freeway through Midtown.
Once it became clear the Mid-Manhattan wasn't going happen, they could have extended I-80 across the Bronx, over the Throggs Neck and have it shift to the LIE...
495 was originally supposed to connect I-295 with the NJ Turnpike (I-95), back when 295 was designated I-78 which obviously never got built. There was also plans to extend it to I-95 around New London, CT. That would have made it the longest 3di interstate that connects its parents at both ends. BTW Clearview Expressway has always been the street name for 295, ever since it got built as I-78.
I have some recommendations on the Auxiliary (Three-Digit) Interstate Highways: 1. I-335 (Topeka to Emporia, Kansas) 2. I-244 (Missouri) 3. I-345 (Dallas, Texas) 4. I-470 (Beltway Around Denver, Colorado) 5. I-680 (Omaha, Nebraska to Crescent, Iowa) 6. I-485 (Beltway Around Charlotte, North Carolina) 7. I-285 (Beltway Around Atlanta, Georgia) 8. I-293 (New Hampshire) 9. I-794 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 10. I-895 (Delaware) I also wanted to say thanks for uploading this latest video on Interstate 495 in New York. However, I do not understand the “lie” part of this video because most of it sounded true to me. In other words, I am still confused and need some more help understanding. I am surprised that you remember the Seinfeld episode of The Airport. Do you have a favorite episode of Seinfeld? I knew all along that New York City has two big airports. Did you know that Chicago has two big airports as well? I wanted to say that I am proud that you are a huge fan of Kansas City’s local sports, and I wanted to tell you that I like the sporting teams in Kansas City as well. The team that I like the most is the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League because they are true champions who have won about 3 Super Bowls, which let me have days off from school on the days of the Cheifs parade. I also like the Chiefs because Patrick Mahomes brought Whataburger to the Kansas City area, and Travis Kelce is even in a relationship with Taylor Swift. It almost feels like Kansas City is turning into Los Angeles. Wouldn't you agree? Do you live somewhere in the Kansas City metropolitan area? If so, which suburb do you live in? I must say that I am one of your biggest fans because I like it when you show signs on Interstate Highways, and I thought it would be a good idea for us to be like close friends with each other. Wouldn't that be cool? To tell you the truth, I do not think you have ever told your UA-cam followers your last name. Would you mind telling us what your surname is? That is all for now, and I will stay tuned for new videos each day.
We know that Imterstate Highways are the name used in United States, but doesn't Canada have its own version of the Interstate Highways? What are they called in Canada?
I’m just wondering: When are you going to do a Highway through your town and give everyone a virtual tour? Like places to visit? I figure people would like to see it 😁
Pretty simple route, all things considered. With left to right being eastbound, and westbound vice versa, I would go with Manhattan(Midtown Tunnel)Queens-Brentwood-Riverhead. Before the end of the line in Riverhead, there really should be something else signed on Long Island. That’s where I say Brentwood, the biggest hamlet/village on Long Island, comes into play (the freeway does run along its edge). I can’t say biggest ‘community’, because that could refer to the town of Hempstead, which, for reference, has triple the population of Buffalo. New York has this very weird phenomena where certain towns are far bigger than most of the state’s biggest cities. Admittedly I live on the complete opposite side of the continent, but I think Newark has a better claim as the legitimate ‘biggest’ satellite of New York instead of a town that, while over 800k in population, can be broken down into countless smaller subdivisions (villages or CDPs), very few of which have more than 50k. And now the fun part: a (definitely) incomplete list of musical acts from the New York metro area. I am including New Jersey in here, but I did make one change regarding the metropolitan sub-areas. As things currently stand according to the Census Bureau, three upriver counties in New Jersey and the three mainland counties in New York state are part of the same sub-area as the city itself. Thus, I broke those apart, so the list of musical acts will have six segments. Again, this list is not comprehensive (and I don’t endorse EVERY act present, btw), so if an act you think should be included isn’t here, I’ll take your word for it (the opening music from Harry Chapin could very well qualify). Now, the list (with the counties representing each subregion): Mainland New York (Putnam, Rockland and Westchester): DMX Laura Branigan Jadakiss Atlantic Starr Upriver New Jersey (Passaic, Hudson and Bergen): Frank Sinatra Fetty Wap P.M. Dawn Kool & The Gang Jonas Brothers Ricky Nelson The Sugarhill Gang The Shirelles The Misfits Phoebe Snow Downriver New Jersey (Warren, Sussex, Morris, Union and Essex): Whitney Houston Ice-T Queen Latifah My Chemical Romance Fugees/Lauryn Hill The Four Seasons Akon Naughty by Nature SZA Raritan Valley-Jersey Shore (Somerset, Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex): Bon Jovi Bruce Springsteen Skid Row Count Basie Halsey Charlie Puth The Smithereens Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk): Biz Markie Billy Joel Public Enemy LL Cool J Mariah Carey Ashanti De La Soul Stray Cats Brand New New York City (Richmond, Bronx, New York, Queens and Kings): Ramones Simon & Garfunkel KISS The Drifters Barry Manilow Neil Diamond Barbra Streisand The Lovin’ Spoonful Television Notorious B.I.G. Tupac Shakur Joan Baez The Wu-Tang Clan Run DMC Beastie Boys The Ronettes Grandmaster Flash Cardi B Talking Heads Jay-Z Sonic Youth A Tribe Called Quest Blondie The Velvet Underground 6ix9ine The Chainsmokers The New York Dolls Bobby Darin
I read that the LIE was planned to cross the Long Island Sound at Orient Point and meet back up with the 95 in Westerly, Rhode Island. If the Mid-Manhattan Expressway was somehow built, then you have your bypass of... all of Connecticut?
The exit for Seaford would have taken you to where I used to live in NY for the first 8 months of my life. Also, the exit for Mineola would have taken you to Winthrop Hospital where my sister, myself, and my two cousins in NY were all born in!
Pretty much everything in NYC and Long Island has the appearance of being poorly engineered, no advance planning, and is a discombobulated mess of small signs that look like they were tacked on as an afterthought. Interstates that don’t connect to anything, driving there is like “what were they thinking” the entire time. Also, most of the communities on Long Island aren’t even incorporated as cities or towns in the regular sense, they’re just census designated places. Very dysfunctional and strange place.
I know the late Harry Chapin, known for his one-hit wonder, "Cat's in the Cradle", died in a car accident on I-495 NY when a tractor trailer hits his blue 1975 VW Rabbit (Golf) Mk1 back in 1981.
The reason why "Cat's in the Cradle" is a one-hit wonder is because it did gain a boost of popularity and it even topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week ending December 21, 1974. It's the only #1, Top 10 and Top 20 hit Harry Chapin did in his music career. "Taxi" only peaked at #24, but at least it's decent as a Top 40 hit.
ironically, you are pronouncing Hauppauge correctly, but saying the same of the highway wrong. the sign may say "Northern Parkway", but the highway's actual name is the "Northern State Parkway" or just "the Northern State".
also your "east coast thing you hear about" is a side effect of our large-scale retention of native American names and the fact New York was founded by the Dutch. for example, the "Tappan Zee", namesake of the Tappan Zee Bridge is a compound of a native American tribe name (the Tappan people, a subsection of the Lenape) and the Dutch word for sea.
They are very hard to see, but there are very small posts at each tenth of a mile. There are a bunch of numbers on them, and I never figured out most of them, but three of them represent the mile and tenth mile of that highway in the county.
Overall good job on the Long Island Expressway video. I grew up on Long Island (spent the first 38 years of my life there), and have been from one end of the LIE (coming out of the Midtown Tunnel - locals drop the "Queens" part) to the other (Riverhead). I can tell you where all the best pizzerias and diners are located (or used to be located).
The Indian Names (Patchogue, Montauk, Wyandanch, etc.) are all tough for those who didn't group up here. Kudos - you pronounced Hauppauge correctly. Sagtikos is pronounced SAGG tik KOSE. Also - the thing about Long Island (and all of NY) is that commercial traffic is NOT permitted on any Parkways. Expressways and Thruways are for trucks.
Suffolk is pronounced SUFF-ick. At least on Long Island.
I could have paid for one of your vacations if I would have done $5 Super Stickers for all the exits that are meaningful to me.
Thanks for doing this one.
Maybe Norfolk Virginia is also pronounced that way.
I really enjoyed the highway gothic/clearview joke lol
I didn’t get it. Can you explain?
@@VianoMusicAcademyThe alternate font on exit signs that isn’t highway gothic is Clearview, but the Clearview parkway or interchange or whatever is signed in the Highway Gothic font, so that’s the joke. Clearview was actually being phased in instead of Highway Gothic but then it was found that it wasn’t in fact easier to read so it’s being phased out again, but there are signs in various areas with Clearview still
@@insertchannelnamehere632 ok that IS funny
@@insertchannelnamehere632 *Expwy*.
I love how the sign for I-278 at 4:00 has four of the five NYC boroughs all on one sign.
it's the only road to go through all 5
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7:34 on Cousin Brucie’s show on 77WABC, he would say “your city, your town, your village, your hamlet, your dwarf” to encourage people to say where they are from.
13:45 Hempstead may be the largest town, but towns in New York work similarly to townships in other states. Within towns, there are incorporated villages, and the Town of Hempstead has many villages within its borders, including the Village of Hempstead. The Village of Hempstead only has 59,183 people as of 2020.
@diamondarmorsteve So it’s more accurate to say that the largest community on Long Island is a modest 60k big (Hempstead and Brentwood) as opposed to a ridiculously large 800k big (larger than Newark, Jersey City and Yonkers combined)? I personally leaned towards this ‘definition’, but as someone from the opposite side of the continent, I had no idea what locals thought…
@@tylermarchand2996 You can think of a town in NY as a sub-county; they are not municipalities. Nassau is made up of three towns (plus the independent municipalities of Long Beach and Glen Cove) and Suffolk is made up of 10 towns. The Town of Brookhaven is larger than eight counties in New Jersey in terms of land area. There was a movement years ago for Suffolk's five eastern towns to secede and form Peconic County but nothing ever came of it.
You also forgot one little Control city signage between Exits 39-40E-W. Also, digital displays tell you how long it’ll take you to get to X Route. But have fun with 7 hours of delays just because of the Van Wyck Expy. To Woodhaven Blvd. Merge nightmare, & delays as far back as my home exit of Exit 39 to Midtown Tun. After Exits 19 A-D, traffic is much better, until you get on the 10 hour delayfest known as the BQE. Then there’s the 1 hour delayfest of the Queen-Midtown Expy. Also, the way you pronounce Suffolk isn’t how most of us pronounce it. It’s Suf, not with as one other commentator pointed out. Service roads on the LIE can also just appear & disappear without warning & traversing it is confusing. Also, going Riverhead/Orient Point Ferries bound, delays start as soon as you get out of the Midtown Tunnel. It would be Delays from Exits 19W-E to exit 64. I’m not even kidding. That happens pretty frequently. Also, I would’ve just signed it for Manhattan/Newark, NJ/ New York/Newark, NJ even though it doesn’t go there, but 34th St. takes you there. Great video. At least you featured my home exit without me having to request it. Though the Town of Hempstead might as well be its own city. But notice how NY’s Exit Signs are Rounded & not Pointy. That’s the gripe I have with 95% of the Country. Also, when you do NY or Long Is., Look at the Digital Displays. I also call “Nassau County” as “East Queens”.
Also Also, there is a reason why Exit 13 starts in West Queens County because Exits 1-5 is the I-495 sector of NJ, & Exits 6-12 is Midtown Manhattan like how I-78 is Ex. 1-5 in Downtown CBD. Exits 6-8 Would be NY-9A South- SI Ferry
Upper west side- To H. Hudson Pkwy. White Plains
8th Ave.
Exit 9 would be Park Ave.- SoHo South/ Harlem/Fordham Bronx
& EXITS 10-12 would be DOWNTOWN, UPTOWN, & FDR Drive.
So Exit 13 in West Queens makes sense.
Also, some exits were removed for more smooth flow of traffic as it caused bottlenecks in parts of Long Island, New Netherland. Hint: Exits 52-54. NY-135, eventually will be I-287’s Metropolitan Beltway when I get that tunnel built by any means necessary.
The “Clearview” Expressway is the name of the village of Clearview in W. Queens close to the Throgs neck Bridge.
Good points there. Don't forget there are also "Downtown/Uptown"-type signs leaving the Lincoln Tunnel, so Exit 6 could be Uptown (Dyer Ave. to 40th-42nd Streets), Exit 7 could be Downtown (Dyer Ave. to 36th-34th Streets), while Exits 8 and 9 are the exists that would have been added had the Mid-Manhattan been constructed (8th and Park Ave. seem like go exit points, but since 8th Ave. is one way northbound, I could have made it A-B with downtown traffic going down 7th or 9th Ave. Then there's the Murray Hill tunnel that goes under Park Ave, and I'd imagine that it would be repurposed had any on-ramps been built.
Can you do I 287 in NJ? A ring road around NYC area.
Yeah but no immediate plans
Yes!! My hometown of Long Island at last before living in NC!
I like how you mentioned billy joel in this video because i am a billy joel fan
Thanks! Exit requests for the Belt Pkwy.
1) Exit 11-to my
Hometown the Rockaways
2) Exit 17-to my hometown the Rockaways
3) Exit 24A- my regular exit
4) Exit 27- my job (Cross Island Pkwy continues the Belts exit numbers so technically it’s the same road)
5)Jamaica Bay Riding Academy
Thanks so much, you got it!
I expect William Shakespeare to be in charge of a “hamlet!” 😂. For what it’s worth, PA has “boroughs.”
I was wondering if you'd ecer do Interstate 290 in Massachusetts. I grew up using the route a lot. Maybe you could do a combined 290 395 video since they're essentially the same route. Some exits id like you to look at on 290 are where it meets I-90 in Auburn, Route 122, Route 9, and I-190. Id recommend using the streetview time featire to see what those exits were originally signed for, thwres some pretty funny control cities for those exits, and 290 in general. I love the content, btw. Thanks!
Thanks so much! I'm going to be doing an all request episode in October so I could show these exits on that one if you'd like. I'll do 290 eventually but I have no immediate plans for it, 2025 would be the earliest I'd consider it.
@@ControlCityFreak no worries! 👍
So should I do these on the all request episode or do you want to wait a year or 2 for an eventual 290 vid?
@@ControlCityFreak you could maybe do both. If you aren't doing both, I'd say focus on the Route 122 and Route 9 exit signage for the special, and save the others for if you do 290 in the future. The exits for Route 122 and Route 9 have very far control cities for small roads.
I could see my old high school in the background of the on-ramp pic at 6:47 - nice! 👍
The "giant big globe" from M.I.B. in Flushing Meadows is the Unisphere. It was the centerpiece of the '64 World's Fair.
Musical Notes: Harry Chapin was a fellow Brooklyn Tech Alum. K-Solo hails from Suffolk Cty (as referenced in his song "The Fugitive"). De La Soul hails from Amityville, and '90s alt band Fountains of Wayne's second album was titled "Utopia Parkway" ...
Suff-ick County. Sag-a-tos Parkway. Long Island has its own language. The Globe is from the 1964 Worlds Fair.
I love how Todd got his East and West switched at the end of the video
Riverhead is also where Splish Splash Waterpark is!
Fun fact - If I-287 were ever (and this is extremely unlikely even though the idea has been floated - and actually mentioned in Netflix's House of Cards) extended across the Long Island Sound from its current endpoint in Port Chester, NY, it would likely land in Oyster Bay roughly around the north end of NY 135. Which is partly why the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, NY 135, is designed to freeway standards. The LI Sound Bridge would be a crossing much longer than the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway in that regard, but it would be useful in that it would give Long Island another crossing - allowing residents to get to New England without having to drive all the way to Queens to get to either the Whitestone or the Throggs Neck Bridges.
Another fun fact: it wasn't until 1983 when the LIE was actually given an interstate designation, when it was promoted from NY 495 to I-495, at least from the Clearview Expressway (I-295) to its Eastern terminus in RIverhead. The rest of NY 495 to the Midtown Tunnel would get an interstate designation years later.
For the all requests video, I want to see the interchange with US 50 and I-471. This is the 2nd closest interstate interchange I have to my hometown
Thanks! Can do, but I was looking more for roads I already did. I’ll definitely do US 50 at some point in the future, not sure when, but if you’d like to save this request for the 50 vid I could, up to you.
@@ControlCityFreak honestly as long as the request goes through I don't mind where it ends up
Tanger Outlets also runs the mall at Foxwoods in CT
Can’t wait for the I-278 video. I’ll definitely have requests for that one! We also could use a Belt Pkwy/Cross Is Pkwy and an I-678 video, both of those go past the shortest interstate, I-878
Belt Parkway is in 3 weeks!
Hempstead, NY home of Hofstra University, which the University is right on the border of Hempstead and Uniondale right across the street from the old Nassau Coliseum
Glen Cove Road was featured in Eyes wide shut.
I use to drive these roads 4 times a week, and I just noticed that, The Cross Island Pkwy lists the Whitestone Bridge, when the first bridge you would come to is the Throgs Neck Bridge.
Appropriate Public Enemy reference since they are actually from Long Island!
Three things: 1) Awesome Harry Chaplin WOLD at the intro! 2) Others have said it but… Suff-uk. 3) I’m a Seton Hall grad. So funny to hear my Alma mater mentioned. 😂
14:31 Belmont park did *not* and will *not* host the Belmont stakes in 2024 or 2025. It was *saratoga springs*
Sagtikos is a Parkway, not an Expressway.
Before the eastbound Exit 40 West, there was supposed to be an Exit 39A leading to the southbound Wantagh State Parkway Extension, which itself was supposed to terminate at I-495.
New York State Route 135 was originally supposed to go from Wantagh State Parkway north of Jones Beach to Oyster Bay, where it was to continue onto the Bayville-Rye Bridge, and hook up with the I-95-287 interchange.
Exit 47 was supposed to lead to the Bethpage State Parkway extension, but it was to be southbound only exits in either direction.
The site of the Long Island Welcome Center was supposed to be a realigned section of New York State Route 231 better known as the Babylon-Northport Expressway.
The William Floyd Parkway (Suffolk CR 46) is one of the few parkways on long Island where trucks are allowed.
The reason the L.I.E. is such a mess is because too many NIMBYists forced it to be the only game in town. They never built the western Sunrise Highway extension, or any proposed expressways on the north shore, and forced all the cars and trucks onto I-495.
Well I’m planning on bringing I-287 into a Beltway thru Long Island via NY-135, JB, LB, I/NY-878, the conduits, Linden, Prospect, Gowanus, Staten Is., & W. shore Expys./Pkwys. To NJ-440. I’ll find a way for the bridge to be built by any means necessary if it come to it. NIMBYS won’t get in my way.
yet to clinch the L.I.E (90%)
New York State Route 135:Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway
i rember repaceing the 1970's lamppost back when i was kid
as of Sep/Apr 2023 some of them are still around (at least one unpainted davit lightpole,in Roslyn Heights, New York )
EXIT 41 (NY 106) south to my old house(Noth Bellmore)
Lol'ed at the "these are things Midwesterners are not meant to understand". Reminded me of Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Oh the LIE. So,many memories of sitting in traffic lol
And yes, I agree with you about the service roads. Now that I’ve lived away from New York for 7 years, I’ve realized how unique the service roads are on the LIE. The only other place I ran into service roads was in Texas. If you want to see some crazy service roads on Long Island, you should do NY-27, specifically the stretch when it’s sunrise highway.
Agree 100% about Long Island City as I also stayed there when I was in NYC. Anything at $100/night was a steal! I took the F train from the Queensboro Bridge to, if I recall, around 43rd Street (TSQ area).
Yeah did the same. It was my wife’s first time in NY so we actually walked across the Queensboro for our first trip into the city so we ended up right by Central Park
Exit 13 possible would have implied that there would have been a dozen exits in Manhattan had the Mid-Manhattan been constructed, perhaps one for each numbered avenue as it went across due to its ordinal nature. That said, I-495 in the DC area crosses from Maryland to Virginia without resetting to 1, so its possible that the numbering could have started at the NJ Turnpike, since I'd imagine 12 exists through one of the world's dense environments would have been chaotic.
Yeah even if the numbering started in NJ the numbers still don’t add up
I have been several times traveled to meet up with a relative that lives near Riverhead and there is a racetrack in Riverhead there too
11:37 listen to 77WABC and you’ll get how they are pronounced or even 107.1 WLIR.
I would go on vacation with my parents and my brother to Montauk. We took 495. At the time it was NY 495 and it didn't go all the way but we did exit near the Hamptons. As for Center Moriches, I think I have an uncle buried there. My aunt lived in nearby Mastic Beach.
I almost consider this being an extension of 80 east of the city.
Not really, as I-80 basically heads directly towards the GWB and basically ends at I-95. 495 was originally designed as a spur from the NJTP (I-95), but of course, the Jane Jacobs of the world decided against that.
@pannoni8449 It was a terrible idea!
Here’s Speedboy14’s the way it should be for I-495 Long Island Expressway
Eastbound: Eastern Long Island, Riverhead
Westbound: New York City, Manhattan
Next: Interstate 605 (California) lol. It has the control city of Thru Traffic.
I think NB the control city should be Glendora, and SB Huntington Beach.
Grumman Aircraft was on Long Island. It was the famous Iron Works that built aircraft for the Navy.
@jollyjohnthepirate3168 I think I remember hearing the name ‘Grumman’ mentioned in the Apollo 13 movie in reference to spacecraft design. Are they the same?
I recall my first visit to NYC. I would tell my co-worker New Yorkers what interstate I was on, like I-87. I finally learned that it was called the Major Deegan. I didn't know about the "Ordinal Exit", so I miscalculated time-distance on the New Jersey Turnpike. So, I started at Laguardia headed for the Bronx, and I ended up in Manhattan. NYC streets are so unforgiving. Now I just take the train from Delaware to Moynihan/Penn.
I drove through NYC a couple times, but I've never once parked there lol. Every other time I've been it's been trains, buses, or flights.
I would never drive in NYC (well, at least not Manhattan). I’m thinking about going there for a week in early December - I’ve always wanted to get there during the Christmas season ever since I first watched the movie “Elf” - and I’ll just take the train in from Newark or JFK airport, wherever it is that I fly in. No need to rent a car.
Now, if I were to drive to the NYC area from KC, I’d probably just leave my car at some commuter train station in New Jersey for the duration of my stay in NYC.
I considered doing that once when I was living in Baltimore, but it was literally cheaper to take the bus than it was to pay the tolls.
In NYS Hamlets are like Census Designated Places. Unincorporated areas that have a population. They often look like villages but don't have their own government separate from the surrounding town. All villages have their own government and are part of a town or coterminous with a town. Cities exist separate of towns
Can you talk about this control city sign in particular?
Del Mem Br NY-NJ
This control sign in particular has always irritated me when traveling on I-95/I-295 north in Delaware. Delaware Memorial Bridge goes to New Jersey, not New York, so I don't get why some signs in Delaware say that.
Because most traffic using that bridge is headed to the NYC area.
@Handle_Needs_3_Or_More_Charact yeah but NY is not the first state where the bridge goes. My home state of NJ is. Even worse, some signs in Delaware alternate between NY-NJ and NJ-NY when all of them should consistently say NJ-NY.
Did you do southern state yet?
Literally all of them
I'm from Long Island, so this is a nice video. Your pronunciations were generally good. Many names on Long Island came from the local Native American tribes who lived there, just as we see in other parts of the country with their own particular "quirks." The globe thing at Flushing Meadows is the "Unisphere." My ex was at Eisenhower Park for the Harry Chapin concert the day that he died in that terrible accident. She introduced me to many of his other songs. It always bugs me that radio stations almost never play anything other than "Cat's Cradle."
My dad used to spin Greatest Stories Live all the time when I was a kid, so I was more or less equally familiar with all the songs off that.
In my opinion, I-495 should be resigned to I-80 while resigning I-295 to I-80 and I-80 being concurrent with I-95 connecting to the original eastern terminus, so I-80 will run from County road 58 at Eastern Long Island to US-101 in San Francisco.
I disagree. I think 80 ending in the shadows of the GWB is more fitting for a cross country route than ending in a random suburb
Funny I thought the same thing
how about I-82
@@ryanharrigan3655 i-82 already exist
@@ryanharrigan3655NYSDOT would be fine with renumbering the LIE, NYCDOT on the other hand probably wouldn't care enough to do so.
I was in Lawrence, KS in 2002 and was surprised that both outlet malls in the town went out of business.
I worked in an office at the old Riverfront Mall 2002 after the mall failed
good pronunciation. Hauppauge is local native American for "Land of Sweet Water" and Sagtikos for "Head of the hissing snake." Would have loved to hear you do Patchogue ;)
But you got East and West backwards at the end :P
He should try to pronounce Ronkonkoma 😂
I never understand why people have issues pronouncing Ronkonkoma. It's basically Ron-Con-Co-Ma.
Villages in New York have a Mayor and a Board of Trustees. They are responsible for many of their services like trash collection, parks, snow removal and lighting. They also control their own zoning. Hamlets are basically a village is size and scope but without any local government. Many do have a post office and ZIP code. Their municipal services are handled by the town they are in. In the case of my community it is the Town of Oyster Bay.
Also the vast majority of places in NY are hamlets. In NY, every square inch of land is in either a Town or an incorporated City. Then, if you're in a Town, you can also be in an incorporated village inside that town. If you're not, then you're in a hamlet, which is just a place without its own government. Basically, it's a mailing address only. So you basically have 3 options: City, Town/Village, or Town/Hamlet. The vast majority of the land area (though probably not the population) is in the latter. There are only 3 towns and 2 cities in Nassau (Hempstead, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay; and Glen Cove and Long Beach), and 10 towns and no cities in Suffolk. Almost every place name you gave is a hamlet (and a couple of villages).
@BertiferousRex That’s something I’ve been wondering about for a while. As someone from the opposite end of the continent, I’ve questioned whether people from the New York area consider Newark or Hempstead to be the second largest community in the metro. I never knew if Hempstead was considered to be 800k big (larger than Newark, Jersey City and Yonkers combined), or a more modest 60k for the core village…
What about up in the Adirondacks?
@@Micg51the difference in the Adirondacks is that there are no cities whatsoever.
In NY State a Hamlet is a community within another political subdivision (town). A hamlet has no governmental functions. The towns like Hempstead are large because there are multiple communities within the town (villages) with their own governments. The entirety of Nassau County (approx. 1.4 million people) only 3 towns & 2 cities. The town of Brookhaven in Suffolk has near 500,000 people.
Hamlets in NY aren't incorporated at all. It's usually considered a part of the town, though a hamlet can appear within a city or village limit.
The LIE is a lie since it doesn’t connect to I-95 at all
(Also I’m glad that Todd Isn’t the only one who’s watched Seinfeld)
Yeah and even if it did, it should start with an odd digit like, 195, 395, 595, 795, or 995
Theoretical plans to build a bridge or tunnel to cross to Connecticut as well to justify the even number. Pie in the sky, but still a much more sensible idea than ramming a freeway through Midtown.
Once it became clear the Mid-Manhattan wasn't going happen, they could have extended I-80 across the Bronx, over the Throggs Neck and have it shift to the LIE...
@@user-tm1kb3fq4m they might if the royals play the red sox
I still don't understand why something about this Interstate Highway would be false. Can you help me please, Todd?
Have you ever done any of the interstates in HI..??
Yes
Are you planning on doing US 1
It’s the final boss.
495 was originally supposed to connect I-295 with the NJ Turnpike (I-95), back when 295 was designated I-78 which obviously never got built. There was also plans to extend it to I-95 around New London, CT. That would have made it the longest 3di interstate that connects its parents at both ends.
BTW Clearview Expressway has always been the street name for 295, ever since it got built as I-78.
I have some recommendations on the Auxiliary (Three-Digit) Interstate Highways:
1. I-335 (Topeka to Emporia, Kansas)
2. I-244 (Missouri)
3. I-345 (Dallas, Texas)
4. I-470 (Beltway Around Denver, Colorado)
5. I-680 (Omaha, Nebraska to Crescent, Iowa)
6. I-485 (Beltway Around Charlotte, North Carolina)
7. I-285 (Beltway Around Atlanta, Georgia)
8. I-293 (New Hampshire)
9. I-794 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
10. I-895 (Delaware)
I also wanted to say thanks for uploading this latest video on Interstate 495 in New York. However, I do not understand the “lie” part of this video because most of it sounded true to me. In other words, I am still confused and need some more help understanding. I am surprised that you remember the Seinfeld episode of The Airport. Do you have a favorite episode of Seinfeld? I knew all along that New York City has two big airports. Did you know that Chicago has two big airports as well?
I wanted to say that I am proud that you are a huge fan of Kansas City’s local sports, and I wanted to tell you that I like the sporting teams in Kansas City as well. The team that I like the most is the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League because they are true champions who have won about 3 Super Bowls, which let me have days off from school on the days of the Cheifs parade. I also like the Chiefs because Patrick Mahomes brought Whataburger to the Kansas City area, and Travis Kelce is even in a relationship with Taylor Swift. It almost feels like Kansas City is turning into Los Angeles. Wouldn't you agree?
Do you live somewhere in the Kansas City metropolitan area? If so, which suburb do you live in? I must say that I am one of your biggest fans because I like it when you show signs on Interstate Highways, and I thought it would be a good idea for us to be like close friends with each other. Wouldn't that be cool? To tell you the truth, I do not think you have ever told your UA-cam followers your last name. Would you mind telling us what your surname is?
That is all for now, and I will stay tuned for new videos each day.
LIE = Long Island Expressway. I did Colorado 470 already. 335 would be a pretty short vid since it only has 3 exits. Go Chiefs!
Where’s I-895 in Delaware?
19:23 hold on! It should be East first and West second.
Why Todd? You have amnesia?
Back in New York city niceee
we have 2 controlled access highways in the Philippines that share the same thing as I 278/495 but they have the same number but not the exits
I used to drive a semi across 495 and deliver Stone. This road was hell I hated it
19:15 i think you got your east and west swapped
Definitely. I was about to say the same thing.
Since you did I 495, I would like to see you. Do I 287 or I 278 in the future?
I will. Also, Belt Parkway in 3 weeks!
Wasn’t I-495 supposed to connect to New Jersey before? Because it became NJ Route 495 instead.
Hi, Road Crew!
Yes they wanted to build a highway through Midtown Manhattan to connect it. Literally would have cut into the Empire State Building
Can you do a reboot of I-15?
Eventually yeah
wonder when u can redo i-5
We know that Imterstate Highways are the name used in United States, but doesn't Canada have its own version of the Interstate Highways? What are they called in Canada?
You mixed up east and west at the end for the way it should be
Oyster Bay is home of Theodore Roosevelt
Oh cool!
@miked31784 And the Piano Man too…
I’m just wondering: When are you going to do a Highway through your town and give everyone a virtual tour? Like places to visit? I figure people would like to see it 😁
US 40 kickoff weekend
@@ControlCityFreak Cool! I can’t wait. I have a couple of request, but I’ll wait until we get closer to the video.
When you said LIE, having no knowledge of roadway abbrevs in NY state, I thought you were going to explain how the cake (I Mean 495) Is A LIE!
Pretty simple route, all things considered. With left to right being eastbound, and westbound vice versa, I would go with Manhattan(Midtown Tunnel)Queens-Brentwood-Riverhead. Before the end of the line in Riverhead, there really should be something else signed on Long Island. That’s where I say Brentwood, the biggest hamlet/village on Long Island, comes into play (the freeway does run along its edge).
I can’t say biggest ‘community’, because that could refer to the town of Hempstead, which, for reference, has triple the population of Buffalo. New York has this very weird phenomena where certain towns are far bigger than most of the state’s biggest cities. Admittedly I live on the complete opposite side of the continent, but I think Newark has a better claim as the legitimate ‘biggest’ satellite of New York instead of a town that, while over 800k in population, can be broken down into countless smaller subdivisions (villages or CDPs), very few of which have more than 50k.
And now the fun part: a (definitely) incomplete list of musical acts from the New York metro area. I am including New Jersey in here, but I did make one change regarding the metropolitan sub-areas. As things currently stand according to the Census Bureau, three upriver counties in New Jersey and the three mainland counties in New York state are part of the same sub-area as the city itself. Thus, I broke those apart, so the list of musical acts will have six segments.
Again, this list is not comprehensive (and I don’t endorse EVERY act present, btw), so if an act you think should be included isn’t here, I’ll take your word for it (the opening music from Harry Chapin could very well qualify). Now, the list (with the counties representing each subregion):
Mainland New York (Putnam, Rockland and Westchester):
DMX
Laura Branigan
Jadakiss
Atlantic Starr
Upriver New Jersey (Passaic, Hudson and Bergen):
Frank Sinatra
Fetty Wap
P.M. Dawn
Kool & The Gang
Jonas Brothers
Ricky Nelson
The Sugarhill Gang
The Shirelles
The Misfits
Phoebe Snow
Downriver New Jersey (Warren, Sussex, Morris, Union and Essex):
Whitney Houston
Ice-T
Queen Latifah
My Chemical Romance
Fugees/Lauryn Hill
The Four Seasons
Akon
Naughty by Nature
SZA
Raritan Valley-Jersey Shore (Somerset, Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex):
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Skid Row
Count Basie
Halsey
Charlie Puth
The Smithereens
Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk):
Biz Markie
Billy Joel
Public Enemy
LL Cool J
Mariah Carey
Ashanti
De La Soul
Stray Cats
Brand New
New York City (Richmond, Bronx, New York, Queens and Kings):
Ramones
Simon & Garfunkel
KISS
The Drifters
Barry Manilow
Neil Diamond
Barbra Streisand
The Lovin’ Spoonful
Television
Notorious B.I.G.
Tupac Shakur
Joan Baez
The Wu-Tang Clan
Run DMC
Beastie Boys
The Ronettes
Grandmaster Flash
Cardi B
Talking Heads
Jay-Z
Sonic Youth
A Tribe Called Quest
Blondie
The Velvet Underground
6ix9ine
The Chainsmokers
The New York Dolls
Bobby Darin
I read that the LIE was planned to cross the Long Island Sound at Orient Point and meet back up with the 95 in Westerly, Rhode Island. If the Mid-Manhattan Expressway was somehow built, then you have your bypass of... all of Connecticut?
That was one plan. The other was to have it cross the sound in East Marion and meet back up with I-95 in Old Saybrook.
Only been on this road in Queens...lol
The exit for Seaford would have taken you to where I used to live in NY for the first 8 months of my life. Also, the exit for Mineola would have taken you to Winthrop Hospital where my sister, myself, and my two cousins in NY were all born in!
Nice!
Sorry, but the ‘g’ in Long Island is silent, unless you’re not from Long Island.
From my regular business travel to NYC back in the day, I can confirm Seinfeld is absolutely correct. No one has beaten the Van Wyck.
Looking forward to I 278 and I 287...
Sagtikos you said that right, and you actually pronounced Happauge right too.
Love this video a fave lol
Greatest title ever!
"Todd's The Way it Should Be" You got your east and west mixed up again lol
Pretty much everything in NYC and Long Island has the appearance of being poorly engineered, no advance planning, and is a discombobulated mess of small signs that look like they were tacked on as an afterthought. Interstates that don’t connect to anything, driving there is like “what were they thinking” the entire time.
Also, most of the communities on Long Island aren’t even incorporated as cities or towns in the regular sense, they’re just census designated places.
Very dysfunctional and strange place.
The tunnel from Men in black
Uh, you got the directions mixed at the end of the video, Todd. It's EAST, then WEST
3:33 - Qns means Queens??
Yeah
You got eastbound and westbound mixed up on the way it should be. It should be westbound NY and Manhattan and Eastbound Eastern LI and Riverhead.
Your summation at the end is backwards West is New York & Manhattan. East is Eastern Long Island & Riverhead.
Didn't think I'd see this at all as its just NY/Riverhead
You should do your old videos again
You nailed the pronunciations except for Suffolk. It’s Suf-fuk instead of Suf-folk. But well done
Like so many New England towns, it pains me when "geographers" mispronounce places. To me, that's basic research.
he nailed hauppauge though
@@iamobviously7595 that was damn impressive
@@jackbalnis9580 if he called it the northern state i would have thought he was from here!
@@maxpowr90 imagine mispronouncing Worcester as worchester
6:23 for tree
I know the late Harry Chapin, known for his one-hit wonder, "Cat's in the Cradle", died in a car accident on I-495 NY when a tractor trailer hits his blue 1975 VW Rabbit (Golf) Mk1 back in 1981.
I really love his song “Taxi” as well… shame he never got much recognition beyond Cats in the Cradle.
Yeah that one's great
The reason why "Cat's in the Cradle" is a one-hit wonder is because it did gain a boost of popularity and it even topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week ending December 21, 1974. It's the only #1, Top 10 and Top 20 hit Harry Chapin did in his music career. "Taxi" only peaked at #24, but at least it's decent as a Top 40 hit.
@@PC10.8, there's a continuation of the story of "Taxi" in 1980 titled "Sequel", but it peaked at #23 on the Hot 100.
Have different thoughts than ARNathan in U.S 75
This is the first video I’ve seen where the control cities are perfect 😂
interstate 65 and 74 I think are two others that come to mind where they are
Not to mention, Citi Fieid is where the Royals last won the World Series in 2015.
True!
As a Mets fan of 50-plus years, I had forgotten that dreadful ending. Thanks for bringing that up. I'm going to start having nightmares again ...
ironically, you are pronouncing Hauppauge correctly, but saying the same of the highway wrong. the sign may say "Northern Parkway", but the highway's actual name is the "Northern State Parkway" or just "the Northern State".
also your "east coast thing you hear about" is a side effect of our large-scale retention of native American names and the fact New York was founded by the Dutch. for example, the "Tappan Zee", namesake of the Tappan Zee Bridge is a compound of a native American tribe name (the Tappan people, a subsection of the Lenape) and the Dutch word for sea.
@@metropod it shall not be named the other named
All the 3 digit highways in NYC i find very interesting
They are!
@mbdg6810 I just realized that the entire metro area has but one odd numbered 3DI, and it’s the farthest one out…
The LIE should be I-92 since I-495 doesn't connect I-95 at all, even though I-92 is south of I-90
It does connect to an X95 though
Also, No US highways or mileposts yet. Only Long Island has no mileposts while the rest of NYS does, Strange.
They are very hard to see, but there are very small posts at each tenth of a mile. There are a bunch of numbers on them, and I never figured out most of them, but three of them represent the mile and tenth mile of that highway in the county.