Sprain Brook Parkway

Sprain Brook Parkway
Map of Westchester County in southeastern New York with Sprain Brook Parkway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT
Length:	12.65 mi (20.36 km)
Existed:	1961 – present
History:	Full length opened October 28, 1980
Restrictions:	No commercial vehicles
Major junctions
South end:	Bronx River Parkway in Yonkers
	I-287 in Elmsford
North end:	Taconic State Parkway in Hawthorne
Location
Counties:	Westchester
Highway system
New York Highways Interstate U.S. State Reference Parkways

The Sprain Brook Parkway (also known as The Sprain) is a 12.65-mile (20.36 km) long north–south parkway in Westchester County, New York, United States. It begins at an interchange with the Bronx River Parkway in the city of Yonkers, and ends at the former site of the Hawthorne Circle, where it merges into the Taconic State Parkway. The parkway serves an alternate to the Bronx River Parkway, boasting an interchange connection through western Westchester with Interstate 287. New York's Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) refers to it internally as New York State Route 987F (NY 987F), an unsigned reference route.

The Sprain Brook was first proposed in the early 1920s as a parkway between the Bronx River Parkway and the Hawthorne Circle. The parkway sold a majority of its right-of-way in the 1920s, but the proposed parkway met strong opposition from the village of Bronxville and Yonkers. The Sprain Brook proposal sat on the table until 1949, when the State Council of Parks, run by Robert Moses, sought to ease congestion on the Bronx River Parkway. Moses proposed that a new state park would be constructed in Westchester, with the Sprain Brook Parkway serving as a traffic alternative to the Bronx River, and nearly a decade and a half after the parkway was deeded land. This time, Bronxville opposed the project rather than Yonkers, but an agreement was worked out in 1951. This new alignment would bypass the parts of Bronxville and Yonkers to construct the freeway.