Brookhaven vows to keep Old Rte. 112 plowed
Photo credit: Newsday / Judy Cartwright | Erwin Hutzmann, who lives on a road that no municipality has maintained in years. (Sept. 24, 2012)
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More Watchdog columnsErwin Hutzmann lives on a road that doesn't exist any more.
The house he bought in 1968 had a Route 112 address. But the house wasn't on new Route 112; it was on a roadway that had become known as Old Route 112, aka Old Port Jefferson-Patchogue Highway, which had been bypassed decades earlier when the new road was built.
For many years the state Department of Transportation plowed snow...
