New Jersey State Highway 4
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New Jersey State Highway 4 is a state highway in New Jersey, United States. It runs from McLean Boulevard in Paterson, New Jersey (New Jersey State Highway 20) to the George Washington Bridge approach in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Today's stretch of NJ 4 was completed by 1934, not long after the opening of the bridge in 1931. Originally, NJ 4 was projected to go all the way to Cape May, New Jersey. Parts of NJ 35 and United States Highway 9 south of Woodbridge bore the NJ 4 designation prior to 1953. The Garden State Parkway was originally designed to bypass this stretch of NJ 4, and a stretch built prior to 1953 between Union and Woodbridge appeared on maps as "4 PKY". To this day, the New Jersey Department of Transportation's internal reference number for the Parkway is NJ 444, commemorating the proposal.