New York State Route 352

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NY Route 352

Length:

18.96 mi^[1] (30.51 km)

Formed:

1930 (as NY 17E)

West end:

I-86/NY 17/415 in Riverside

Major
junctions:

NY 414 in Corning

NY 14 in Elmira

East end:

NY 17 in Elmira

Counties:

Steuben, Chemung

Numbered highways in New York
< NY 351	NY 353 >
< NY 17D		NY 17F >
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 352 (NY Route 352 or NY 352) is a state highway in the U.S. state of New York. It generally parallels the Southern Tier Expressway - Interstate 86 and NY Route 17 - from Riverside (exit 45) east through Corning to Elmira (exit 56). The part west of the Big Flats community was once part of NY 17; the rest was originally New York State Route 17E.

1 Route description
2 History
3 Major intersections
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Route description

Initially, westbound Route 352 followed Church Street through Elmira, while eastbound Route 352 followed Water Street. Both streets terminate at Exit 56, which is a combined double diamond interchange. Chemung County Route 1 (Jerusalem Hill) also enters the interchange from the hill east of Elmira.

Since 2005, both Church and Water streets have carried two-way traffic through much of the city, but Route 352 remains split because they were one-way streets in the directions indicated for more than two decades. The streets continue with one-way traffic west of Hoffman Street and come together at what is known locally as The Point in West Elmira.

The two-way highway then follows along the north bank of the Chemung River to Big Flats. A back road to the National Soaring Museum on Harris Hill intersects in this stretch. The Elmira Drive In, one of few remaining drive-in theaters still in operation in the region, also is here.

Communities
Corning Gibson Big Flats Harris Hill West Elmira Elmira

When originally signed, the highway ended at what then was Route 17, now known as County Route 64. Construction of and improvements to the Southern Tier Expressway have resulted in extensions of Route 352, primarily along the former Route 17 right-of-way.

[edit] History

NY 352 was originally NY 17E, connecting NY 17 (now Main Street and Big Flats Road - County Route 64) at the community of Big Flats with NY 17 (at the intersection of Madison Avenue and either Church Street or Water Street) in Elmira. It was also part of NY Route 13 east of present NY Route 225.^[2] A bypass for NY 17 in the Elmira area was built in the mid-1950s,^[3] resulting in a short eastern extension of NY 352 to the east side of Newtown Creek (exit 56) and a longer western extension to East Corning (exit 48).

NY 17E was renumbered to NY 352 in the 1960s.^[4]^[5] New NY 17 was extended west to NY Route 414 (exit 46) in Corning in the mid-1980s,^[3] but NY 17 exited at Gibson (exit 47), where NY 352 then ended.

The Corning Bypass on NY 17 was completed in the mid-1990s,^[3] and NY 352 was extended west on the old surface NY 17 across the Gibson Bridge, through downtown Corning and across the Patterson Bridge to exit 45.

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile^[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Steuben	Riverside	0.00	NY 415
	Riverside		I-86/NY 17	Exit 45 (I-86/NY 17)
	City of Corning		NY 414	Southern terminus of NY 414
	City of Corning	2.40	NY 225	Northern terminus of NY 225
	South Corning	3.91	I-86/NY 17	Exit 47 (I-86/NY 17)
	East Corning	6.20	I-86/NY 17	Exit 48 (I-86/NY 17)
Chemung	West Elmira	14.35	NY 225	Southern terminus of NY 225
	City of Elmira	17.66	NY 14
	City of Elmira	18.96	NY 17	Exit 56 (NY 17)