Albany Post Road

The Albany Post Road was a post road - a road used for mail delivery - in the U.S. state of New York. It connected New York City and Albany along the east side of the Hudson River, a service now performed by US 9.

The rough route was as follows:
*US 9, New York to Ossining (split from the Boston Post Road in Kingsbridge)
*Old Albany Post Road and NY 9A, Ossining to Peekskill
*Sprout Brook Road and Old Albany Post Road, Peekskill to near Nelsonville
*US 9, near Nelsonville to Wappingers Falls
*Main Street and NY 9D through Wappingers Falls
*US 9, Wappingers Falls to Poughkeepsie
*South Avenue and Washington Street (partly NY 9G) through Poughkeepsie
*US 9, Poughkeepsie to Humphreysville
*NY 9H and Hudson Street, Humphreysville to Kinderhook
*Albany Avenue, Old Post Road, US 9 and Old Post Road, Kinderhook to Schodack Center, where it met the road from Boston to Albany
*U.S. Route 9/U.S. Route 20, Schodack Center to Greenbush, ending at "the ferry at Crawlier"Minor old alignments exist all along the current through route.

References

* [http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.nys/docviewer?did=nys422&view=50&frames=0&seq=5 New York and Albany post road, from Kings Bridge to "the ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany"]

ee also

*Boston Post Road
*Broadway (New York City)