The
Sprain Brook Parkway (also known as
The Sprain) is a 12.65-mile (20.36 km) long north–south
parkway in
Westchester County,
New York, United States. It begins at an interchange with the
Bronx River Parkway in the city of
Yonkers, and ends at the former site of the
Hawthorne Circle, where it merges into the
Taconic State Parkway. The parkway serves an alternate to the Bronx River Parkway, boasting an interchange connection through western Westchester with
Interstate 287. New York's
Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) refers to it internally as
New York State Route 987F (
NY 987F), an unsigned
reference route.
The Sprain Brook was first proposed in the early 1920s as a parkway between the Bronx River Parkway and the
Hawthorne Circle. The parkway sold a majority of its right-of-way in the 1920s, but the proposed parkway met strong opposition from the village of
Bronxville and Yonkers. The Sprain Brook proposal sat on the table until 1949, when the
State Council of Parks, run by
Robert Moses, sought to ease congestion on the Bronx River Parkway. Moses proposed that a new state park would be constructed in Westchester, with the Sprain Brook Parkway serving as a traffic alternative to the Bronx River, and nearly a decade and a half after the parkway was deeded land. This time, Bronxville opposed the project rather than Yonkers, but an agreement was worked out in 1951. This new alignment would bypass the parts of Bronxville and Yonkers to construct the freeway. (
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