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New York State Route 52 is a state highway in Southern New York, running west to east in a rough arc, from the Pennsylvania border at the Delaware River near Narrowsburg in Sullivan County to Carmel, New York, in Putnam County. It crosses the Hudson River via the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. It and NY 55, which it closely parallels and even shares two blocks of downtown Liberty, are the two major east-west routes of the mid-Hudson region.

With the exception of the section routed onto Interstate 84, 52 is a two-lane road for its entire length, often traveling through rural areas but also serving as the main thoroughfare of many towns it passes through. In the west, the highway offers some superb scenery as it approaches, climbs over and then descends the Shawangunk Ridge before entering the Catskills. For much of its eastern half, it runs closely parallel to I-84 when not multiplexed with it.