New York State Route 306

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NY 306 begins at NY 59 in the Ramapo hamlet of Monsey and proceeds north as Main Street through part of the business district of Monsey. After passing Maple Avenue in the Jewish village of Kaser, NY 306 becomes Monsey–Ladentown Road{{Citation needed|reason=I'm highly skeptical of this claim as there is no signage to support it|date=December 2020}} for the rest of its run. NY 306 quickly leaves the small village and reenters the town of Ramapo.{{Google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=11908941531828256426,41.107357,-74.069614%3B14131535258017380517,41.182732,-74.067798&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=Main+St+%4041.107357,+-74.069614&daddr=41.18275,-74.067818&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=19&sll=41.182621,-74.068043&sspn=0.00088,0.001824&ie=UTF8&ll=41.144277,-74.066734&spn=0.225447,0.466919&z=11&om=1 |title=overview map of NY 306 |access-date=September 8, 2007}}

Roughly {{convert|1|mi|1}} north of Kaser, NY 306 intersects County Route 74 (CR 74). Ramapo High School is located just east of NY 306 on CR 74. NY 306 then passes a large cemetery called Church of the West Hempstead Cemetery. NY 306 continues north past CR 80, and enters the village of Wesley Hills. There it passes a small shopping center, and proceeds into residential areas. Finally, NY 306 enters Pomona at CR 86. The route ends shortly afterward at US 202.

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When NY 306 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York,{{cite map |title=Road Map of New York |year=1930 |publisher=Standard Oil Company of New York |cartography=General Drafting}} it extended from the New Jersey state line in the south to Willow Grove Road (then part of NY 210) in the north via East Saddle River Road, Monsey–Ladentown Road, and Call Hollow Road.{{cite map |title=New York–New Jersey – Ramapo Quadrangle (northeastern portion) |publisher=United States Geological Survey |year=1938 |scale=1:62,500 |access-date=December 31, 2009 |url=http://docs.unh.edu/NY/ramp38ne.jpg |archive-date=July 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704234552/http://docs.unh.edu/NY/ramp38ne.jpg |url-status=dead }} NY 306 was truncated to its current northern terminus at US 202 in Ramapo (now part of the village of Pomona) {{circa|1939}}{{cite map |title=New York |publisher=Standard Oil Company |year=1939 |cartography=General Drafting}} and to its modern southern end at NY 59 in Monsey {{circa|lk=no|1962}}.{{cite map |title=New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher=Sunoco |cartography=H.M. Gousha Company |year=1961 |edition=1961–62}}{{cite map |title=New York with Sight-Seeing Guide |publisher=Esso |cartography=General Drafting |year=1962}} The former extensions of NY 306 are now largely maintained by Rockland County as CR 73 (East Saddle River Road) and CR 75 (Call Hollow Road north of the Ramapo town line).{{cite map |url=http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=ff46 |title=Park Ridge Digital Raster Quadrangle |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |year=1990 |scale=1:24,000 |access-date=December 31, 2009 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060941/http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=ff46 |url-status=dead }}{{cite map |url=http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=ee46 |title=Thiells Digital Raster Quadrangle |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |year=1990 |scale=1:24,000 |access-date=December 31, 2009 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064632/http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=ee46 |url-status=dead }} The current southern terminus of NY 306 in Monsey was the proposed southwestern terminus of the Spring Valley Bypass, a bypass of NY 45 and NY 59 that was never built.{{cite web |url=http://www.nycroads.com/roads/NY-45/ |title=Spring Valley Bypass (NY 45 and NY 59, unbuilt) |first=Steve |last=Anderson |work=NYCRoads |access-date=December 31, 2009}}{{cite map |publisher=American Automobile Association |title=New York City and Vicinity, Including Long Island |year=1968}}

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