Hutchinson River Parkway

Hutchinson River Parkway
Hutchinson River Parkway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NYCDOT and NYSDOT
Length	18.71 mi[1] (30.11 km)
Existed	1928[2]–present
Restrictions	No commercial vehicles; no drivers with learner's permits north of exit 4A
Major junctions
South end	I-278 / I-678 in Throggs Neck
Major intersections	I-95 in Baychester and Pelham Bay Park Cross County Parkway in Mount Vernon and Eastchester I-287 / NY 984J in Harrison
North end	Route 15 / Merritt Parkway at the Connecticut state line
Location
Country	United States
State	New York
Counties	Bronx, Westchester
Highway system
New York Highways Interstate US State Reference Parkways
← NY 1B → US 2

The Hutchinson River Parkway (known colloquially as the Hutch) is a controlled-access parkway in southern New York in the United States. It extends for 18.71 miles (30.11 km) from the Bruckner Interchange in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx to the New York–Connecticut state line at Rye Brook. The parkway continues south from the Bruckner Interchange as the Whitestone Expressway (Interstate 678) and north into Greenwich, Connecticut, as the Merritt Parkway (Connecticut Route 15). The roadway is named for the Hutchinson River, a 10-mile-long (16 km) stream in southern Westchester County that the road follows alongside. The river, in turn, was named for English colonial religious leader Anne Hutchinson.^[3]

Construction of the parkway began in 1924 and was completed in 1941. The section of the parkway between Eastern Boulevard (now Bruckner Boulevard) in the Bronx and U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Pelham Manor was designated as New York State Route 1X (NY 1X) from 1941 to 1946. NY 1A was subsequently realigned to follow the Hutch between Eastern Boulevard and US 1. The NY 1A designation was removed around 1962.^[4][5]