State Highways of New Jersey

There are four distinct highway sections that comprise NJ 440, which was created after the opening of the Outerbridge Crossing to provide a connection between Middlesex and Hudson counties. The southernmost stretch, in Middlesex County, is an approach road to the bridge. Originally, much of the road ran along surface streets; some of this highway exists as NJ 184 and SR 501. Eventually, the plan became to tie the road in with the Turnpike and provide freeway access to Staten Island. Accordingly, this section of NJ 440 is now a freeway; it dovetails with I-287, the southern end of which was originally built to be part of I-95. Interestingly, since both I-287 and NJ 440 are designated as north-south routes, traffic heading southbound on I-287 reaches the Turnpike and is then heading northbound on NJ 440, and vice versa. (The highway is almost due east-west at that point.)

The second section is in Richmond County, New York. NY 440 on Staten Island has had its own checkered history, as the road was once proposed to take a different route than it currently does, over four different expressways. The highway comes off the Outerbridge Crossing onto Richmond Parkway (now the Korean War Veterans Memorial Parkway) and almost immediately veers onto the fairly recent West Shore Expressway. Then it joins the Staten Island Expressway for a mile or two before heading north on the Willowbrook Expressway (now the Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway) to the Bayonne Bridge. At one time, NY 440 used surface streets; later, the Willowbrook Expressway was proposed to extend down to Richmond Parkway, but both that project and an extension of Richmond Parkway to the Staten Island Expressway at Todt Hill were scratched, leaving a hodgepodge of ramps, some of which lead nowhere.

NJ 440 got its number from NY 440, but for many years the roads did not connect in Hudson County. NJ 440 followed the old Blakeslee Route down the west side of Jersey City and into Bayonne, and the highway was proposed to continue down the west side of Bayonne, along the east shore of Newark Bay, to connect to the Bayonne Bridge. Local opposition scuttled that project, and so an access road to container terminals on the east side of Bayonne (along the Kill van Kull and the Upper New York Bay), NJ 169, was built across the border between Jersey City and Bayonne in the 1970s.

Finally, in the early 1990s, NJ 169 was extended from New Hook Road down to the Bayonne Bridge. In 2001, NJDOT decided that since the Bayonne extension of the Blakeslee Route would never be built, they would make the existing NJ 169, as extended to the bridge, part of NJ 440. This finally made the highway continuous between Woodbridge and Jersey City, although it is logged in two sections by NJDOT because it does not control the 13 miles or so that are on Staten Island.

SR 501 has a similar break in it, secretly following NY 440 across Staten Island to unite its Middlesex and Hudson sections.

By the way, most people refer to the Outerbridge Crossing as simply “the Outerbridge” because it is the outermost bridge among the New Jersey-to-Staten Island crossings. But the span was actually named for a James Outerbridge, and the Port Authority decided not to call it “the Outerbridge Bridge”.

Mile	Street Name	Feature
	Road continues north as TRUCK
26.18	Northern terminus of , Jersey City, Hudson Co
26.18		TRUCK Lincoln Hwy		Communipaw Ave
26.10		Ramp to TRUCK
26.06				Clendenny Ave
26.00		Shopping center entrance
25.90		Shopping center entrance		Virginia Ave
25.55		U-turn ramp		Culver Ave
25.43				Carbon Pl
25.14				Shopping center entrance
25.06		Kellogg St
24.84		Private road		Danforth Ave
24.72		Private road
24.10		Jersey City, Hudson Co Bayonne City, Hudson Co
24.03			underpass	63 St
23.82		Lehigh Valley Railroad	underpass	Lehigh Valley Railroad
23.73		New Jersey Turnpike	underpass	New Jersey Turnpike
23.42		New Jersey Turnpike	underpass	New Jersey Turnpike
23.20		Kennedy Blvd	overpass	Kennedy Blvd
23.12		Bayonne City, Hudson Co Jersey City, Hudson Co
22.96		Ave C	overpass	Ave C
22.79		Garfield Ave	overpass	Garfield Ave
22.71		Lehigh Valley Railroad	underpass	Lehigh Valley Railroad
22.54		New Jersey Turnpike	underpass	New Jersey Turnpike
22.32			underpass
22.22			merge
21.99		Ramp to	underpass	Ramp to
21.91		Jersey City, Hudson Co Bayonne City, Hudson Co
21.87				Pulaski St
21.70		45 St	underpass	Center St
21.45		40 St	underpass	Access Rd
21.19		Prospect Ave		Port Terminal Blvd
21.09		32 St		Lefante Way
20.81		30 St
20.66				New Hook Access Rd
20.18		22 St		22 St
20.12		21 St		21 St
19.92		Jersey Central Railroad	underpass	Jersey Central Railroad
19.68				East 5 St
19.43		Linnet St	overpass	Linnet St
19.31		Broadway	overpass	Broadway
19.20		Ave C	overpass	Ave C
18.91		John F Kennedy Blvd	overpass	John F Kennedy Blvd
18.85		NJDOT jurisdiction Port Authority of NY and NJ jurisdiction
18.82	Bayonne Bridge		merge
18.67	Bayonne Bridge	4 St	bridge	4 St
18.60	Bayonne Bridge	Juliette St	bridge	Juliette St
18.54	Bayonne Bridge	3 St	bridge	3 St
18.50	Bayonne Bridge	Gertrude St	bridge	Gertrude St
18.46	Bayonne Bridge	2 St	bridge	2 St
18.39	Bayonne Bridge	1 St	bridge	1 St
18.00	Bayonne Bridge	Kill van Kull	bridge	Kill van Kull
18.00	Southern terminus of , Bayonne City, Hudson Co
18.00	Bayonne Bridge	Bayonne City, Hudson Co New York City, Richmond Co
	Road continues southward as Bayonne Bridge
	Road continues northward as Outerbridge Crossing
5.15	Outerbridge Crossing	New York City, Richmond Co Perth Amboy City, Middlesex Co
5.15	Northern terminus of , Perth Amboy City, Middlesex Co
5.15	Outerbridge Crossing	Arthur Kill	bridge	Arthur Kill
4.48	Outerbridge Crossing	Railroad	bridge	Railroad
4.12	Outerbridge Crossing	Railroad	bridge	Railroad
4.09	Outerbridge Crossing	West Side Ave	bridge	West Side Ave
4.03	Outerbridge Crossing	Kreil Ave	bridge	Kreil Ave
3.98		Port Authority of NY and NJ jurisdiction NJDOT jurisdiction
3.88		Pedestrian crossing	overpass	Pedestrian crossing
3.68		Amboy Ave	underpass	Amboy Ave
3.41		Convery Blvd	underpass	Convery Blvd
3.25		Pfeiffer Blvd	underpass	Pfeiffer Blvd
3.09		Carlock Ave	underpass	Carlock Ave
2.82		Florida Grove Rd	underpass	Florida Grove Rd
2.72		Perth Amboy City, Middlesex Co Woodbridge Twp, Middlesex Co
2.66		New Brunswick Ave	underpass	New Brunswick Ave
2.49		Railroad	underpass	Railroad
2.27		Ramp to	overpass	Ramp to
2.05			overpass
2.01		Garden State Pkwy	overpass	Garden State Pkwy
1.80		Railroad	underpass	Railroad
1.69		Ramp to	underpass	Ramp to
1.46		Industrial Ave	underpass	Industrial Ave
0.97		Woodbridge Twp, Middlesex Co Edison Twp, Middlesex Co
0.97		King George Post Rd	underpass	King George Post Rd
0.42		Ramp to	underpass	Ramp to
0.33		Woodbridge Ave	underpass	Woodbridge Ave
0.14		Ramp to	overpass	Ramp to
0.00		New Jersey Turnpike	overpass	New Jersey Turnpike
0.00	Southern terminus of , Edison Twp, Middlesex Co
	Road continues northward as