Routing to Long Island?

Deer park relatively easy 495east(Long Island expat) exit 51
Then depending on size of truck work your way over...All legal
Baldwin lil tougher..and I think you’re actually looking for Baldwin Harbor
So....depending on where your comin from
Best plan is work you way to JFK and pick up 27....Becomes Sunrise Hiway at city limit...,looks like south on Milborn down into Harbor neighborhood

 

Yeah, I agree with all that.

It depends on where you're coming. If you're coming from south or central jersey, you can cross over Staten Island and take the BQE east to 495 E to 678 south. Any further north and you can try to take the GWB to the Cross Bronx to the Whitestone Bridge.. If you're coming from New England just take 95 down to the Whitestone to 678 when you're going to Baldwin.

Take that all the way down to NY-27, S. Conduit Ave. headed east and that turns into the Sunrise Highway once you cross from Queens into Nassau County. All legit truck routes, I've done it hundreds of times.

When you go to Deer Park, you can take the Whitestone to the Van Wyck or I prefer the Throgs Neck to the Clearview to 495 E.

 

Gee I wonder if anyone told my family that.... we ran a moving business out of long Island for almost 50 years

 

The problem on Long Island is crossing the railroad that splits the island. Almost every crossing is posted under 13'6" but is actually plenty tall enough for 13'6". I was inexperienced in the middle of a snow storm and couldn't find my way across, and later realized why. New York City and it's associated boroughs and LI have a weird thing where unless it's posted ACTUAL you can add a foot to the clearance numbers. If you use routing software you should be perfectly safe using 12'6" to route properly on truck routes.

 

495 east to 135 south to 27

 

@Ruthless

 

Do you want directions? Or are you just looking for verification that it’s a HUGE red flag that a moving company doesn’t think you can get on or off Long Island with a truck?

 

Who dafuq are these people? Literally THOUSANDS of trucks drive the L.I.E. every_frikken_day. I'd be looking for a better job if these jamokes think that something like 5 million people are unreachable by trucks! What a bunch of schnooks.......

 

That's true essentially everywhere in the entire state of New York. They want to leave room for snow buildup in their clearance markings.