History
NJ 439 originates as an alignment of 'New Jersey State Highway Route 28, assigned in the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering from NJ 28 to the intersection with U.S. Routes 1 and 9. The highway was set to serve a new Staten Island crossing, which finally opened on June 29, 1928. The highway north of NJ 28 and progressed north to the current day intersection with NJ 82 was New Jersey State Highway Route S-24, which a spur of New Jersey Route 24 from Phillipsburg to Elizabeth. The designations remained intact for over two decades, but across the Arthur Kill in Staten Island, New York State Route 439 was assigned onto the Goethals Bridge, and when the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering occurred on January 1, 1953, the highway was redesignated as NJ 439 to match up at the state line. The NJ alignment has remained intact since, but the New York alignment was decommissioned in 1972.
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