Click Here West Side Highway (NY 9A)

NORTHBOUND: start at the top of the page
SOUTHBOUND: start at the bottom of the page

CURRENT WEST SIDE HIGHWAY CONDITIONS:

BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN

Gowanus Expressway (I-278)

SOUTH ONLY - Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
TO NY 27 (Prospect Expressway) EAST - Prospect Park

(SOUTHBOUND JUNCTION ONLY)

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel

PASSENGER CAR TOLL $3.50
SPEED LIMIT 40 (except otherwise posted)

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS PROHIBITED IN TUNNEL

BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN

FDR Drive
(PASSENGER CARS ONLY)

NORTH ONLY - East Side, Triborough Bridge

Ferries to Brooklyn, Staten Island, Liberty Island, Ellis Island

Liberty Street

Financial District, Battery Park City

New York Waterway Ferries to Jersey City and Hoboken

Frequent closures can be expected at the site of the World Trade Center and the World Financial Center. Watch for construction vehicles in this area.

Chambers Street

Tribeca, Civic Center

New York City Hall, CUNY-Manhattan Community College, Beekman Downtown Hospital-NYU

Canal Street

Soho, Chinatown
TO I-78 (Holland Tunnel) WEST - Jersey City, Newark

Christopher Street

West Village, Greenwich Village

New York University

Washington Square Park

West 14th Street

Chelsea, Union Square

St. Vincent's Hospital, New School University

West 23rd Street

Chelsea, Gramercy Park

SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology

Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex

West 30th Street / West 34th Street

TO NY 495 (Lincoln Tunnel) WEST - Secaucus
(via West 30th Street -- NORTHBOUND EXIT)

Jacob Javits Convention Center, Pennsylvania Station (AMTRAK-LIRR-NJ Transit), New York Waterways Ferry to Weehawken

Madison Square Garden, Empire State Building

West 40th Street / West 42nd Street

Times Square
TO NY 495 (Lincoln Tunnel) WEST - Secaucus
(via West 40th Street -- SOUTHBOUND EXIT)

Port Authority Bus Terminal

Intrepid Air-Sea-Space Museum

West 49nd Street / West 50th Street

Theater District

NYC Passenger Ship Terminal, St. Clare's Hospital

Rockefeller Center

West 57th Street

Midtown

Fordham University-Lincoln Center, CUNY-John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Juilliard School of Music, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital

Lincoln Center, Central Park

All northbound commercial vehicles must exit at West 57th Street.

NY 9A continues north along the West Side of Manhattan and into the Bronx on the Henry Hudson Parkway.

Sign images are from the Manual of Traffic Signs by Richard C. Moeur. Additional sign images by C.C. Slater. Route shields by Ralph Herman and Jim Poserina.

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