§ 356. Thruway sections and connections; assuming jurisdiction. At any\ntime after this title shall become effective the authority may adopt a\nresolution assuming jurisdiction for its corporate purposes of any or\nall of the thruway sections or connections below described and such\nconnections with highways, hereinafter referred to as "highway\nconnections," as the authority may deem advisable in the interest of the\npublic to serve traffic needs, and the authority shall continue to have\nsuch jurisdiction so long as its corporate existence shall continue.\n Pending the adoption of such resolution, the commissioner shall have\nall the powers herein conferred upon the authority to construct,\nreconstruct, improve, maintain, and operate such thruway sections and\nconnections, and highway connections, and to acquire in the name of the\nstate real property therefor. Subject to such deviations therefrom as\nthe authority may deem advisable in the interest of the public to serve\ntraffic needs, such thruway sections and connections shall be as\nfollows:\n 1. Southern Westchester connection. Beginning at the northerly\nterminus of the Major Deegan expressway in the vicinity of Jerome avenue\nat the New York city corporate line, thence extending in a general\nnortherly direction through the city of Yonkers to connect with the\nsoutherly end of the Hudson section at a point in the vicinity of\nTuckahoe road to be determined by the commissioner. No fees or other\ncharges may be imposed for vehicular use of this connection.\n 2. The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the southern\nWestchester connection at or near Tuckahoe road, thence in a general\nnortherly and westerly direction crossing the Hudson river at a point\nsouth of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The Governor\nMario M. Cuomo Bridge", including a highway connection between "The\nGovernor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge" and the New England section of the\nthruway presently known as interstate route two hundred eighty-seven,\nthence in a general westerly direction to intersect with existing route\nnumber seventeen or to a connection with that route, including a thruway\nconnection from that portion of the section west of the Hudson river,\ngenerally southerly to a point to be determined by the authority on the\nNew York-New Jersey boundary line.\n 3. The Catskill section. Beginning at the northerly end of the Hudson\nsection, extending in a general northerly direction in the vicinity of\nCentral Valley, Highland Mills, Woodbury Falls, Vails Gate, thence\nthrough or passing Newburgh on the west, including a highway connection\nwhich runs from the Pennsylvania line at Port Jervis to the Connecticut\nborder east of Brewster, presently known as interstate route 84, except\nfor that portion of the highway connection between the interchange with\nthe easternmost state highway on the west shore of the Hudson river\n(currently designated state touring route 9W) and the interchange with\nthe westernmost state highway on the east shore of the Hudson river\n(currently designated state touring route 9D) which is subject to the\njurisdiction of the New York state bridge authority, thence northerly\npast Plattekill and New Paltz, thence passing through or near the city\nof Kingston and continuing northerly to the west of Saugerties and\nCatskill, continuing northerly passing in the vicinity of West Coxsackie\nand Ravena, thence northerly passing the Feura Bush railroad yards in\nthe vicinity of either their easterly or westerly extremities, thence\ncontinuing northerly passing to the west or through the westerly part of\nthe city of Albany, and intersecting United States route number twenty\nin the vicinity of McKownville.\n 4. The Mohawk section. Starting at the northerly end of the Catskill\nsection on United States route number twenty in the vicinity of\nMcKownville, continuing in a northwesterly direction toward the city of\nSchenectady, and thence around th
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