Albany Crescent is a C-shaped road that runs from Kingsbridge Terrace southwest, west and finally northeast to Bailey Avenue and West 233rd Street, in fact curving right over the Major Deegan Expressway — when engineers laid out the Deegan, the crescent was left intact.
The curving route is a remnant of the colonial-era Albany Post Road. Another short remnant can be found a mile or two away, off West 254th Street near Broadway in Riverdale.
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