New York State Route 240

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NY Route 240
Length:	51.64 mi[1] (83.11 km)
Formed:	1930s[2]
South end:	NY 242 in Ashford
Major junctions:	US 20A in Orchard Park US 20 in Orchard Park NY 400 in West Seneca NY 33 in Cheektowaga
North end:	I-290/NY 324 in Amherst
Counties:	Cattaraugus, Erie
Numbered highways in New York < NY 238 NY 241 > Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 240 is a 51.64-mile (83.11 km) long state highway in western New York, United States. The southern terminus of the route is at NY 242 in the Ellicottville community of Ashford in northern Cattaraugus County. The northern terminus is at NY 324 and Interstate 290 in Amherst in northern Erie County.

Within Cattaraugus County, NY 240 is a state highway in name only as the roadway is maintained by the Cattaraugus County Highway Department as County Route 32. CR 32 is the only route that has a marked concurrency with a state route in the county. The northern part of NY 240 in Erie County, named Harlem Road, is a major north-south route through the suburbs east of the City of Buffalo.

Contents 1 Route description 2 History 3 Major intersections 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Route description

NY 240 begins at an intersection with NY 242 in the community of Ashford. NY 240, concurrent to CR 32 throughout Cattaraugus County, continues to the north as West Valley Road. As NY 240 passes over Cattaraugus Creek and enters Erie County, it becomes known as Vaughn Street.

Communities
Springville Orchard Park West Seneca Sloan

In the village of Springville, NY 240 intersects with NY 39 (East Main Street). At its intersection with Genesee Road in East Concord, it briefly follows Allen Road to the northeast before splitting to the northwest as Glenwood-East Concord Road. In Glenwood, NY 240 becomes State Road then, in West Falls, Davis Road upon passing Knapp Road. At Ellicott Road, NY 240 turns west, following the roadway to the vicinity of Orchard Park. At Powers Road south of the village, NY 240 turns northwest, following Ellicott Road to an intersection with NY 277 (Chestnut Ridge Road). NY 240 merges with NY 277, forming a concurrency into Orchard Park. The two routes become known as Buffalo Road through the village of Orchard Park, meeting U.S. Route 20A (Quaker Street) in the middle of the village. North of the village in the town of Orchard Park, NY 240/277 intersects Milestrip Road, a major east-west arterial during Buffalo Bills home games. To the north of Milestrip is U.S. Route 20 (Southwestern Boulevard), followed by the split of the concurrency just north of US 20. While NY 277 (Union Road) heads due north, NY 240 turns northwest and becomes Orchard Park Road.

Now in the town of West Seneca, NY 240 meets NY 16 (Seneca Street), where it becomes known as Harlem Road for the remainder of its routing. After traversing NY 400 (the Aurora Expressway) with no connection to the freeway, NY 240 intersects NY 354 (Clinton Street) near Cheektowaga. The route then passes underneath Interstate 90 (the New York State Thruway) with no connection and enters Cheektowaga.

In the Cheektowaga village of Sloan, NY 240 interchanges with NY 130 (Broadway) in the shadow of the CSX Frontier Yard, the largest railroad yard in the city. NY 240 continues north, passing over the CSX Buffalo Terminal Subdivision and intersecting Walden Avenue northeast of the yard and northwest of the Walden Galleria. To the north of the mall and west of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, NY 240 intersects both the former routing of NY 33 at Genesee Street and its current routing slightly north of Genesee on the Kensington Expressway.

North of the expressway, NY 240 enters the heart of Amherst, meeting NY 5 (Main Street) in the hamlet of Snyder. Heading north, NY 240 continues onward to its northern terminus at the intersection of NY 324 (Sheridan Drive) and Interstate 290 (Youngmann Expressway) in Amherst.

[edit] History

When NY 240 was assigned in the 1930s, the route originally began at NY 39 in Springville and ended at the conjoined U.S. Route 62/NY 18 southeast of downtown Buffalo. Instead of turning north onto Harlem Road (as the route does today), NY 240 continued northwest on Potter and Abbott Roads to Southside Parkway (then US 62/NY 18).^[2] By 1947, the portion of modern NY 240 south of Springville became part of a rerouted U.S. Route 219 while NY 240 itself was extended northwestward along South Park Avenue to Main Street, which carried NY 5 at the time.^[3] NY 240 was rerouted out of downtown by 1970 to follow Harlem Road north to NY 324 in Amherst. Within that same period, the route was extended south to NY 242 in Ashford over the former alignment of U.S. Route 219, which had been realigned to follow a new alignment to the west.^[4]

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Cattaraugus	Ashford	0.00	NY 242
Erie	Springville	14.13	NY 39
	Town of Orchard Park	34.90	NY 277 south	Southern terminus of overlap
	Village of Orchard Park	36.20	US 20A
	Town of Orchard Park	38.26	US 20
		38.51	NY 277 north	Northern terminus of overlap
	West Seneca	42.24	NY 16	To NY 400
		44.22	NY 354
	Sloan	46.25	NY 130
	Cheektowaga	47.76	Genesee Street (NY 952A)	Former routing of NY 33B
		48.50	NY 33
	Amherst	50.60	NY 5
		51.64	I-290 NY 324	Exit 6 (I-290)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• NY 240 at State-Ends.com
• New York Routes - New York State Route 240