County Route 104 (Suffolk County, New York)


County Route 104 is a county road in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It runs north from CR 80 in Quogue to New York State Route 24, CR 63 and CR 94 just outside Riverhead. Much of CR 104 runs through the David Allen Sarnoff Pine Barrens Preserve, a major New York State Conservation Area that was once owned by Radio Corporation of America. There is an access point into the preserve along CR 104 south of Riverhead.
From 1930 to 1972, the road was signed as New York State Route 113.

Route description

CR 104 begins at an intersection with CR 80 in the town of Quogue. The route heads to the northwest as Quogue–Riverhead Road, a two-lane residential roadway though Quogue. After the junction with Scrub Oak Road, CR 104 passes the dead end of Station Road and crosses under the Long Island Rail Road's Montauk Branch, passing a large industrial area north of the tracks. Intersecting with Old Country Road, CR 104 bends northward and becomes a two-lane residential arterial once again. After this change, the route enters East Quogue, which consists of some farms and a junction with Lewis Road, where CR 104 turns to the northwest once again. The route curves northward once again, entering interchange 64N and 64S of the Sunrise Highway. CR 104 expands to four lanes for a short distance, merging back to two after the interchange.
After NY 27, CR 104 enters dense woods, intersecting with the terminus of CR 31. After another northbound stretch, CR 104 enters a large junction with the southern terminus of CR 105. After CR 105, CR 104 changes names to Riverleigh Avenue, entering a roundabout in Southampton, just south of Riverhead. The roundabout with CR 63, CR 94 and NY 24 serves as the northern terminus of CR 104.

History

In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the NY 113 designation was assigned to a previously unnumbered north-south connector between Montauk Highway in the village of Quogue and NY 25 in the hamlet of Riverhead. This also included Peconic Avenue in Riverhead, which was co-signed as part of NY 24 at the time. The concurrency was eliminated by 1970 as NY 113 was truncated to end at NY 24. The NY 113 designation was eliminated on March 29, 1972, when ownership and maintenance of NY 113 was transferred from the state of New York to Suffolk County. NY 113 was subsequently redesignated as CR 104.

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