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[edit] 2006
[edit] October
New York State Route 208 is a New York state highway in southern New York, within Orange County and Ulster County. The southern terminus is at the intersection with NY-17M in Monroe, and the northern terminus is located at the intersection with NY-32 and NY-299 in New Paltz.
208 is a two-lane road for its entire length. While connecting two bustling villages and passing through three others, it is primarily a country road and offers a variety of scenery and points of interest, from fields and meadows to a riverside stretch and apple orchards. The northern third, between Wallkill and New Paltz, boasts a near-continuous view of the Shawangunk Ridge.
[edit] December
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 concurrent with it.
Recently selected: NY 208
[edit] 2007
[edit] January
New York State Route 104 is a 182.41 mile (293.56 km) long east-west highway in Upstate New York, USA. The entire length of the road was designated U.S. Route 104 until 1972, except for locations near Rochester where the highway has since been moved onto expressways. NY 104 travels from New York State Route 384 near the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls in Niagara County to New York State Route 13 near Altmar in Oswego County. NY 104 primarily runs parallel to the south shore of Lake Ontario throughout most of its route between the Niagara River in Niagara Falls and the Oswego River in Oswego.
Before US 104 was created, the roadway carried a number of designations, namely New York State Route 3, New York State Route 18 and New York State Route 31. All three of these routes were reconfigured to allow for the designation of US 104.
Over time, the 104 designation has been shifted from surface streets to expressways and Super-2s, particularly from Rochester east to Oswego. The first such realignment occurred in the late 1940s in western Wayne County and was completed by the realignment of NY 104 onto the Irondequoit-Wayne County Expressway near Webster in the early 1980s.
Recently selected: NY 52 – NY 208
[edit] February
New York State Route 17K is a state highway in southern New York, entirely within Orange County. The western terminus is at the intersection with old Route 17 west of the intersection with modern NY 17 located near Bloomingburg, which is in Sullivan County, New York. In Newburgh it widens into the main thoroughfare, Broadway. Midway across the city, 17K ends at US 9W.
The road can be divided into a half west of Montgomery, where it runs through relatively undeveloped land; and an eastern half where it closely parallels Interstate 84, to the point that it too is signed at Exit 17 of the New York State Thruway.
Recently selected: NY 104 – NY 52 – NY 208
[edit] March
New York State Route 55 is a state highway in southern New York, running from the Pennsylvania state line at the Delaware River in Barryville to the Connecticut state line at Wingdale. It is the only other state highway beside NY 7 to completely cross the state, from border to border, in an east-west direction. It also forms the state's second-longest double-route concurrency after the Finger Lakes US 20-NY 5 pairing, when it joins US 44 for 33 miles (53 km).
Together with NY 52, which it closely parallels and briefly joins in downtown Liberty, it forms the latitudinal backbone of the Hudson Valley region for non-interstate traffic. It offers the traveler a wide variety of landscapes, from farmlands, mountains and forests to the urban center of Poughkeepsie. Sights along the way include two of New York City's major reservoirs in the Catskills, a dramatic crossing of the Shawangunk Ridge, and the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
Recently selected: NY 17K – NY 104 – NY 52
[edit] April
At 325 miles (523 km), U.S. Route 9's New York segment accounts for more than half the highway's total length. It runs from the New Jersey state line in the middle of the George Washington Bridge to a cul-de-sac just south of the Canadian border north of Champlain. It is the longest north-south U.S. highway in the state.
The highway's passage through the state offers a diverse sample of New York to a traveler, taking in busy urban neighborhoods, suburban strips and forested wilderness. It is Broadway in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. It uses parts of the old Albany Post Road in the Hudson Valley, where it passes the historic homes of a U.S. President and Gilded Age heir. It passes the center of New York political power in downtown Albany, and the patrician grandeur of Saratoga Springs. It penetrates into the deep recesses of the Adirondack Park and runs along the shore of Lake Champlain.
US 9 spawns more letter-suffixed state highways than any other route in New York, including the longest, 143-mile NY 9N. Outside of the cities it passes through, it is a mostly a two-lane road, save for two expressway segments in the mid-Hudson region. For much of its southern half it follows the Hudson River closely; in the north it tracks Interstate 87, the Adirondack Northway.
Recently selected: NY 55 – NY 17K – NY 104
[edit] May
New York State Route 747 will become New York's newest state highway when Exit 5A on Interstate 84 is completed and opened later in 2007. It is currently Orange County Route 54, known locally as Drury Lane in the towns of Montgomery, Newburgh and New Windsor in Orange County.
When completed, the road will provide easy access to Stewart International Airport via a connecting road which is currently under construction. The lack of such access has long been seen as an obstacle to the airport's development. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is taking over from former private lessees National Express Group later in the year with the intent of realizing long-held hopes of making the airport the New York Metropolitan Area's fourth major airport; improved access to the airport is seen as essential to that goal.
Drury, which divides the airport property from what is now Stewart State Forest, save for a small corridor along the road near the interstate, was long the line in the sand for local environmental activists who opposed any development to its west. Construction of the highway involved significant relocation of some of the route for these and other issues.
Recently selected: US 9 in NY – NY 55 – NY 17K
[edit] June
New York State Route 15 is a major north-south state highway in Western New York, USA. This route, formerly part of U.S. Route 15, runs for 87.41 miles between its southern terminus on the Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86 and New York State Route 17) at the current northern terminus of US 15 in Painted Post and its northern terminus at New York State Route 31 in downtown Rochester.
Recently selected: NY 747 – US 9 in NY – NY 55
[edit] October
New York State Route 9A is a state highway in New York, United States, providing an alternate to US 9 from New York City north to Peekskill. In New York City, it is a major route of its own, running along the West Side Highway and Henry Hudson Parkway. In Westchester County, NY 9A follows the Briarcliff-Peekskill Parkway.
Recently selected: NY 15 – NY 747 – US 9 in NY
[edit] December
New York State Route 31 (NY 31) is a 208.74-mile (335.93 km) long state highway in the U.S. state of New York. The western terminus of the route is at NY 104 in Niagara Falls. The eastern terminus is at NY 26 in the Vernon hamlet of Vernon Center. Over its routing, NY 31 spans 10 counties and indirectly connects three major urban areas in Upstate New York, namely Buffalo/Niagara Falls, Rochester, and Syracuse. The route is one of the longest routes in New York State, paralleling two similarly lengthy routes, NY 104 to the north and NY 5 to the south, as well as the Erie Canal, as it proceeds east.
NY 31 dates back to the 1920s, when it was to largely assigned to what is now NY 104 west of Rochester and its current alignment east of Rochester. With the advent of U.S. Route 104, NY 31 was realigned west of Rochester to follow its modern routing, and only minor realignments have occurred since.
Recently selected: NY 9A – NY 15 – NY 747
[edit] 2008
[edit] January
New York State Route 47 was a 19.29-mile (31.04 km) long state highway around Rochester in the U.S. state of New York. Originally, NY 47 was routed along surface streets through the city, but the designation was later moved to new sections of expressway as they were built around the edge of the city. In its final years of existence, NY 47 formed a semi-circle through the inner suburbs of Rochester, with its western and eastern portions routed on expressways. The western terminus of the route was at NY 104 west of the city limits in Greece. The eastern terminus was at Culver Road in Irondequoit mere yards from Lake Ontario. Between its western and eastern extents, NY 47 interchanged with Interstate 490 twice.
NY 47 was referred to as the Rochester Outer Loop (or Outer Loop) in contrast to the Inner Loop around downtown Rochester. This moniker remains in use to this day, now referring to the designations that have since replaced NY 47 along the expressway portions. Conceptually, NY 104 completes the Outer Loop along the north side of the city. However, only the section east of the Genesee River is expressway, leaving NY 104 from modern NY 390 to the Veterans Memorial Bridge as the only at-grade portion of the loop.
In 1980, the NY 47 designation was removed and replaced with several others, including NY 590 and NY 390.
Recently selected: NY 31 – NY 9A – NY 15
[edit] February
New York State Route 22 is a north-south state highway in New York paralleling the eastern edge of the state, from the outskirts of New York City to the Canadian border. At almost 341 miles (549 km) in total length, it is the longest north-south route in the state and currently the third longest overall, after NY 5 and NY 17.[1] Many of the state's major east-west roads intersect and often overlap with Route 22, shortly before crossing the state line into the three New England states that border on New York.
With the exception of its southern end, in the heavily-populated Bronx and lower Westchester County, and the city of Plattsburgh near the northern end, almost all of Route 22 is a two-lane rural road that passes only small villages and hamlets. The rural landscape off the road varies from horse country and New York City watershed in areas within commuting distance of the city to dairy farms further upstate and the hilly Taconics and Berkshires to the wilder, heavily forested Adirondack Park along the shores of Lake Champlain. An 86-mile (138 km) section from Fort Ann to Keeseville is part of the All-American Road known as the Lakes to Locks Passage.
The southernmost section of the road used to be the White Plains Post Road in the 18th and 19th centuries, a major highway connecting New York City to White Plains, the county seat of Westchester County. Route 22 in its modern form was established in 1930 as one of the principal routes from New York City to Canada.
Recently selected: NY 47 – NY 31 – NY 9A
[edit] March
New York State Route 41 is a north-south New York State Route located within Onondaga, Cortland, Chenango, and Broome Counties in Central New York. Its northern terminus is located at a junction with U.S. Route 20 in the village of Skaneateles in Onondaga County. The southern terminus is located at a junction with New York State Route 17, future Interstate 86, in the hamlet of McClure, within the town of Sanford, in Broome County.
Recently selected: NY 22 – NY 47 – NY 31
[edit] April
New York State Route 32 is a state highway that extends for 176.73 miles (284.42 km) through eastern New York, United States, from NY 17 in Harriman to U.S. Route 4 in Hudson Falls. It serves as a connector between the Hudson Valley and the Capital District cities of Newburgh, Kingston, Albany, Glens Falls and Hudson Falls.
In Newburgh, NY 32 joins with U.S. Route 9W for a reasonable distance. Farther north, NY 32 shares a routing with U.S. Route 4 from Waterford (north of Albany) to Stillwater (southeast of Saratoga Springs, a distance of 14 miles (23 km).
The road passes many interesting features such as the Catskill Mountains and various historical municipalities. The predecessor to the New York State Thruway features great views of the Hudson River along the way. NY 32 is one of the longest state routes in New York and runs alongside Interstate 87 for most of its route.
All of NY 32 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering; however, portions of the route had been signed as a state highway as early as 1924. Only minor realignments have occurred since.
Recently selected: NY 41 – NY 22 – NY 47
[edit] May
New York State Route 394 is a state highway located within Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties in southwestern New York. Its western terminus is located on the shore of Lake Erie, at an intersection with NY 5 in the Westfield hamlet of Barcelona in Chautauqua County. The eastern terminus is located at the Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86 and NY 17) at the Coldspring hamlet of Steamburg in Cattaraugus County. From Mayville to Jamestown, NY 394 follows the western edge of Chautauqua Lake. East of Jamestown, the route straddles the Southern Tier Expressway and interchanges with the highway in four different locations, including at its eastern terminus.
The segments of NY 394 between Westfield and Mayville, as well as east of Jamestown were originally designated as NY 17 in 1924. Six years later, the remainder of current NY 394 gained a pair of designations as part of the 1930 renumbering; however, by 1947, the Mayville–Jamestown stretch was solely NY 17J. In the 1970s, NY 17 was realigned onto the new Southern Tier Expressway east of Jamestown. The former alignment of NY 17 between Jamestown and Steamburg, as well as NY 17J, were redesignated as NY 394. NY 394 was extended westward to Barcelona shortly afterward.
Recently selected: NY 32 – NY 41 – NY 22
[edit] June 2008
New York State Route 174 (also known as NY 174) is a state highway in the county of Onondaga, located in Central New York. The highway is 16.70 miles (26.88 km) long and passes through mostly rural regions. Route 174 begins at an intersection with New York State Route 41 in Borodino, a hamlet of Spafford. It heads northward for most of its length, except for short distances in the villages of Marcellus and Camillus. The route ends at a junction with New York State Route 5 west of Camillus, at the west end of the Route 5 Camillus bypass.
Route 174 was first laid out in the early 19th century following the path of Nine Mile Creek, which connected several early settlements in Central New York. The northern half of the route, between the villages of Marcellus and Camillus, was later improved as plank road in 1855 by a private corporation that collected tolls from travelers on the road. The state took over the maintenance of the road by the beginning of the 20th century. The former plank road and an extension south to Otisco Lake and southwest to Skaneateles Lake was first designated as Route 174 in the 1930 state highway renumbering. Since then, several minor realignments have been made in the areas of the villages of Marcellus and Camillus to accommodate newly built bypasses.
