New York State Route 21
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Maintained by NYSDOT | ||||
Length | 99.99 mi[1] (160.92 km) | |||
Existed | 1930[2]–present | |||
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Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | New York | |||
Counties | Allegany, Steuben, Ontario, Wayne | |||
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New York State Route 21 (NY 21) is a state highway extending for 99.99 miles (160.92 km) through the western part of New York. The southern terminus of the route is at NY 417 in Andover. The northern terminus is at NY 104 in Williamson. In between, NY 21 serves the cities of Hornell and Canandaigua and intersects several major east-west routes, including the Southern Tier Expressway near Hornell, the conjoined routes of U.S. Route 20 and NY 5 in Canandaigua, the New York State Thruway in Manchester, and NY 31 in Palmyra.
NY 21 originally extended from the Pennsylvania state line in the south to Lake Ontario in the north when it was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering. South of Hornell, the route followed modern NY 36. NY 21 was rerouted to follow its current alignment south of Hornell in the 1950s and truncated on its northern end to Williamson in 1980. Other changes, namely realignments to bypass communities along the route, have also occurred.
Route description
Andover to Naples
NY 21 begins at NY 417 in Andover. The route continues north, paralleling the Norfolk Southern Railway (ex-Conrail) Southern Tier Line to Alfred Station (east of Alfred), where it meets the eastern terminus of NY 244. NY 21 heads northeast through Almond to Hornell, briefly paralleling the Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86/NY 17) before intersecting NY 36 in the center of Hornell. NY 21 turns north onto NY 36, separating from the Southern Tier Line and forming a concurrency with NY 36 north along the Maple City Bypass. At North Hornell, the two routes split near I-86/NY 17 exit 34.[3]
From Hornell, NY 21 heads northeast through Fremont to Haskinville, passing west of Look Lake, then north to Wayland, where it intersects I-390 and NY 15 at exit 3 south of the village. NY 15, concurrent with I-390 from Avoca to exit 3, exits I-390 and joins NY 21 north into the village. In the center of Wayland, NY 15 and NY 21 separate upon intersecting NY 63. Past Wayland, NY 21 follows an east-west alignment to North Cohocton, where it meets the northern terminus of NY 371. Upon exiting the village, NY 21 turns to the northeast toward Naples. South of the village, NY 21 intersects the northern end of NY 53; north of the village, the route passes the southern terminus of NY 245.[3]
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Naples to Williamson
NY 21 continues north through the hills of rural Ontario County, where it meets the southern terminus of NY 64 in Bristol Springs adjacent to Canandaigua Lake. The route remains in close proximity to the lake to the town of Canandaigua, where it meets U.S. Route 20 and NY 5 (Western Boulevard) west of the city of Canandaigua. NY 21 turns east, following US 20 and NY 5 around the southwestern portion of the city. The overlap between the three routes ends 1.5 miles (2.4 km) later at South Main Street, where NY 21 joins NY 332 (which begins at the intersection) north through downtown Canandaigua. At Gibson Street, NY 21 breaks from NY 332 and exits the city to the northeast.[3]
Outside the Canandaigua city limits, the area surrounding NY 21 becomes rural once again. The route heads north through farmland to the adjacent villages of Shortsville and Manchester, where NY 21 intersects both NY 96 and the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) at exit 43 just north of Manchester. Past the Thruway, NY 21 becomes rural in nature once more as it passes through the northern portion of Ontario County. Upon crossing into Wayne County, the area around NY 21 becomes more developed as it enters Palmyra. Within the village, NY 21 briefly overlaps NY 31 along East Main Street before crossing both the Erie Canal and the CSX Rochester Subdivision as it exits the village.[3]
From Palmyra to Williamson, the land surrounding NY 21 is predominantly rural in nature. However, midway between the two locations, NY 21 comes close to Marion, which it bypasses to the west. In Williamson, NY 21 comes to an end at NY 104.[3]
History
In the mid-1920s, the primary north-south roadway connecting then-NY 52 in Naples to the Lake Ontario shoreline in Pultneyville via Canandaigua and Palmyra was designated as New York State Route 72.[4] NY 72 remained in place up to the 1930 renumbering, when it was incorporated into the new NY 21, a route extending from the Pennsylvania state line south of Troupsburg to Pultneyville over both previously numbered and unnumbered roadways.[2] From Jasper to Hornell, NY 21 was routed on what was NY 17 from its assignment in 1924 up until it was rerouted to follow a direct route between Jasper and Andover as part of the renumbering.[2][5] Farther north, NY 21 initially left its current alignment near Loon Lake to bypass Wayland and serve Cohocton. Between Cohocton and Naples, NY 21 followed an old, mid-1920s alignment of NY 52 to North Cohocton, then overlapped NY 39 along pre-1930 NY 52 to Naples.[2][4] By 1947, NY 21 was rerouted in the vicinity of Cohocton to follow its modern alignment between Loon Lake and North Cohocton, overlapping U.S. Route 15 (now NY 15) south of Wayland and extending its overlap with NY 245 (former NY 39) west to Wayland. The old routing of NY 21 between Loon Lake and North Cohocton became NY 371.[6]
The segment of pre-1930 NY 17 between Andover and Hornell, bypassed in the renumbering, was redesignated in 1930 as part of NY 17F,[2] an alternate route of NY 17 between Andover and Addison via Canisteo.[7] In the 1940s, NY 17F was removed from the state highway system and replaced with an extended NY 36 from Andover to Hornell.[8][9] The alignments of NY 36 and NY 21 south of Hornell were flipped in the 1950s, placing both routes on their current alignments south of the city.[10][11]
On April 1, 1980, NY 21 was truncated to its present northern terminus at NY 104 in Williamson as part of a highway maintenance swap between New York State and Wayne County. In the swap, ownership and maintenance of NY 21 north of Williamson was transferred from New York State to the county in exchange for maintenance of NY 441 between the Monroe-Wayne county line and NY 350.[12] The former routing of NY 21 north to Lake Road (County Road 101) in Pultneyville is now designated as County Road 120.[13]
Until the 1980s, NY 21 entered Canandaigua on Bristol Street and remained on Bristol to South Main Street (then-U.S. Route 20 and NY 5), where it joined its current alignment. When the Western Bypass around the southwestern fringe of the city was constructed by 1985,[14] NY 21 was realigned to follow its modern routing on the bypass and South Main Street.[15] The segment of Bristol Street vacated by NY 21 between the Western Bypass and the Canandaigua city line was maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation as unsigned New York State Route 943A until September 1, 1996, when maintenance of the road was turned over to the town of Canandaigua.[12][16] However, the designation remained in NYSDOT documents until 2007.[17][18]
Major intersections
County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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Allegany | Village of Andover | 0.00 | 0.00 | ![]() | |
Alfred Station | 8.80 | 14.16 | ![]() | Eastern terminus of NY 244 | |
Village of Almond | 12.78 | 20.57 | ![]() ![]() | Exit 33 (I-86/NY 17) | |
Steuben | Hornell | 17.45 | 28.08 | ![]() | Southern terminus of overlap |
19.97 | 32.14 | ![]() | Northern terminus of overlap | ||
Village of Wayland | 36.89 | 59.37 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Exit 3 (I-390/NY 15); southern terminus of NY 15/21 overlap | |
37.05 | 59.63 | ![]() | Northern terminus of NY 415 | ||
38.75 | 62.36 | ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of NY 15/21 overlap; southern terminus of NY 63 | ||
North Cohocton | 45.52 | 73.26 | ![]() | Northern terminus of NY 371 | |
Ontario | Village of Naples | 50.04 | 80.53 | ![]() | Northern terminus of NY 53 |
51.50 | 82.88 | ![]() | Southern terminus of NY 245 | ||
Bristol Springs | 57.68 | 92.83 | ![]() | Southern terminus of NY 64 | |
Town of Canandaigua | 70.81 | 113.96 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western terminus of overlap | |
City of Canandaigua | 72.44 | 116.58 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern terminus of NY 5/21/US 20 overlap; southern terminus of NY 21/332 overlap Southern terminus of NY 332 | |
73.39 | 118.11 | ![]() | Northern terminus of overlap | ||
Chapin | 76.61 | 123.29 | ![]() | Southern terminus of NY 488 | |
Village of Manchester | 80.59 | 129.70 | ![]() | ||
80.87 | 130.15 | ![]() ![]() | Exit 43 (I-90/Thruway) | ||
Wayne | Village of Palmyra | 86.87 | 139.80 | ![]() | Western terminus of overlap |
87.49 | 140.80 | ![]() | Eastern terminus of overlap | ||
Williamson | 99.99 | 160.92 | ![]() | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
References
- ^ a b "Traffic Data Report - NY 15 to NY 23" (PDF). NYSDOT. 2007-07-16. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
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(help) - ^ a b c d e Leon A. Dickinson (1930-01-12). "New Signs for State Highways". New York Times. p. 136.
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(help) - ^ a b c d e 1977-2007 I love New York state map (Map). I Love New York. 2007.
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(help) - ^ a b Rand McNally Auto Road Atlas (Map). Rand McNally. 1926. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
- ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". New York Times. 1924-12-21. p. XX9.
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(help) - ^ Official Highway Map of New York State (Map) (1947-48 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. State of New York Department of Public Works.
- ^ Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1930/31 and 1931/32 editions, (Scarborough Motor Guide Co., Boston, 1930 and 1931). The 1930/31 edition shows New York state routes prior to the 1930 renumbering
- ^ Official Road Map of Pennsylvania (PDF) (Map). Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 1940. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
- ^ Rand McNally Road Atlas (Map). Rand McNally. 1946. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
- ^ New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Sunoco. 1952.
- ^ Official Map of Pennsylvania (PDF) (Map). Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 1960. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
- ^ a b New York State Legislature. "Highway Law, Article 12, Section 341". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ Pultneyville Quadrangle - New York - Wayne Co (Map). New York State Department of Transportation. 1999. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ New York (Map). Rand McNally. 1985. ISBN 0-528-91040-X.
- ^ Mark Sinsabaugh. "New York Routes - New York State Route 21". Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ New York State Department of Transportation (October 2004). "Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Bicycle Routes in New York State" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ New York State Department of Transportation (October 2007). "Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ "2006 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. 2007-07-16. pp. p. 340. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
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