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New York State Route 104 (NY 104) is a east–west
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in
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in the United States. It spans six counties and enters the vicinity of four cities—
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, Lockport,
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, and Oswego—as it follows a routing largely parallel to the southern shoreline of
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, along a ridge of the old shoreline of
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. The western terminus of NY 104 is an intersection with NY 384 in Niagara Falls,
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, while its eastern terminus is a junction with NY 13 in the town of Williamstown,
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. The portion of NY 104 between Rochester and the village of Webster east of the city is a
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known as the Keeler Street Expressway west of NY 590 and the Irondequoit–Wayne County Expressway east of NY 590; from Williamson to Oswego, NY 104 is a
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highway. The majority of Ridge Road and modern NY 104 from the village of Red Creek to the town of Mexico were originally designated as part of Route 30, an unsigned legislative route, early in the 20th century. All of Ridge Road and its continuation through Oswego to the
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of Maple View gained a signed designation by 1926 and became part of U.S. Route 104 (US 104), a
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extending from Niagara Falls to Maple View, . US 104, which never connected to US 4, its implied parent route, was redesignated as NY 104 in June 1971. As part of the redesignation, NY 104 was extended east to NY 13 in Williamstown over what had been New York State Route 126. The 104 designation, whether it be US 104 or NY 104, has shifted from surface streets to expressways and
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s, particularly from Rochester east to Oswego. The first such realignment occurred in the 1940s in Wayne County and was completed by the realignment of NY 104 onto the Irondequoit–Wayne County Expressway near
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in the 1980s.


Route description


Niagara County

NY 104 begins at the Rainbow Bridge in
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. The
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crosses NY 384 and follows NY 104 north on First Street for one block to the
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, where the byway and NY 104 veer onto Main Street. NY 104 follows Main Street through the city's largely commercial west side and intersects the northern or eastern terminus for US 62 (Ferry Avenue and Walnut Avenue) and US 62 Business (Pine Avenue). North of US 62 Business, the area becomes more residential as NY 104 meets NY 182 southeast of the
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. To the north, NY 104's name changes to Lewiston Road as it passes the south campus of
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. Near the northern extent of the campus, NY 104 intersects the western terminus of
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, here named College Avenue. At the city limits, NY 104 meets the northbound Robert Moses State Parkway by way of a half-interchange. The driving directions option was selected and used to determine the Seaway Trail's routing. The portion of NY 104 between Third Street and the Lewiston town line is maintained by the city of Niagara Falls, and is the only part of NY 104 that is not maintained by the
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. Now in the town of Lewiston, NY 104 comes within view of the
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gorge and begins to run along its eastern rim. NY 104 meets the northernmost point of NY 61 at the northern campus of Niagara University. Past NY 61, the route passes by the Niagara Power Visitors Center and over the
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. On the opposite side of the plant, NY 104 connects with Interstate 190 (I-190) at exit 25 via Upper Mountain Road and passes under the eastern approach to the
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, which links I-190 with
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's Highway 405. Past I-190, NY 104 begins to deviate from the Niagara River. It heads through a small neighborhood situated between the Moses Parkway and NY 104 and intersects the northern end of NY 265. North of this junction, NY 104 curves northeast to descend the
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. As it heads downward in elevation, it intersects the western terminus of
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by way of an interchange. As part of the same exit, NY 104 meets the parkway one more time as well as the southern terminus of NY 18F near the village of Lewiston. Here, the Seaway Trail leaves NY 104 to follow NY 18F. East of the exit, NY 104 intersects NY 18 again by way of another interchange. East of Lewiston village, NY 104 follows Ridge Road through a sparsely populated area of
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. Much of this portion of NY 104 is bordered on its southern end by the
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. At the Lewiston
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of Dickersonville, the extents of the reservation head south, and development along NY 104 increases slightly. NY 104 meets the northern terminus of NY 429 at the Lewiston–
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town line and crosses over NY 425 at Streeters Corners. Just east of this location is an intersection with NY 93 in the community of Molyneaux Corners. The two routes form a concurrency east to Warrens Corners, a hamlet on the Cambria– Lockport town line, where NY 93 turns south to serve the city of Lockport. NY 104 heads northeast through the extreme northwest corner of the town of Lockport to the town line, where it turns eastward to straddle the boundary between the towns of Lockport and Newfane. As it approaches the hamlet of Wrights Corners, the development along NY 104 increases substantially with the level peaking at the junction of NY 104 and NY 78. The two routes join for roughly into the town of Newfane before splitting north of the hamlet. Ridge Road continues northeast through a residential district, which gives way to open fields once more at Ridgewood. NY 104 turns east here, passing through the town of Hartland and intersecting the southern terminus of NY 148 and the northern terminus of NY 271. The route crosses into Orleans County at a junction with the southern terminus of NY 269, which straddles the county line.


Orleans and Monroe counties

The route heads northeast through the town of Ridgeway to the hamlet of the same name, where NY 104 meets NY 63. NY 63 joins NY 104 east along Ridge Road for about before continuing north toward
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. NY 104, meanwhile, continues through the rural towns of Ridgeway and Gaines to a junction with
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north of
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. Not far to the east, NY 104 intersects
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, the primary north–south highway through Albion, in the hamlet of Childs. Just past the intersection on the north side of the road are two of the three
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buildings of the
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, a
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. Farther east, Ridge Road enters the town of Murray, where it meets the northern terminus of NY 387 and intersects NY 237 in the hamlet of Murray. The two routes join for just under a mile (1.6 km) before NY 237 breaks away to the south toward Holley. NY 104 exits Orleans County later in the same fashion as it entered: by intersecting a state highway. After meeting the southern terminus of NY 272, NY 104 crosses into
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and becomes West Ridge Road as it heads through the town of Clarkson. In the densely populated hamlet of Clarkson Corners, NY 104 intersects
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. The open fields return east of the hamlet, and largely surround Ridge Road as NY 104 intersects NY 260. NY 104 heads onward into
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, where it widens to four lanes and has a junction with NY 259 in Parma Corners. East of Parma Corners, development on NY 104 steadily increases as it heads toward the town of Greece. By the Parma–Greece town line, where NY 104 intersects the southern terminus of NY 261, Ridge Road is lined with commercial properties of varying size. Continuing east, NY 104 meets the northern terminus of NY 386. Here, NY 104 widens to a six-lane divided highway. Between NY 386 and NY 390 exit 24, NY 104 passes by several large shopping malls, the largest of which is
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at the intersection of NY 104 and Long Pond Road. At NY 390, NY 104 continues to be a six-lane divided highway as it heads toward
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. It enters the city limits upon meeting Mount Read Boulevard at an interchange. In Rochester, NY 104 passes through an area known as
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, the large industrial complex owned by
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that occupies an entire neighborhood. In the middle of the complex, NY 104
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the
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and the
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-owned
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and intersects the eastern terminus of NY 18. Continuing east, NY 104 crosses the
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gorge on the Veterans Memorial Bridge. On the opposite bank, it loses the name West Ridge Road and becomes a
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known as the Keeler Street Expressway. North of the first exit with St. Paul Street, Ridge Road resurfaces as East Ridge Road, which parallels the expressway to the north. NY 104 continues through Rochester and
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, connecting to North Clinton Avenue, Seneca Avenue, Hudson Avenue, Carter Street, Portland Avenue, North Goodman Street and Culver Road by way of interchanges. Between the Goodman Street and Culver Road exits, NY 104 passes the former
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. East of Culver, NY 104 encounters NY 590 and connects to NY 590 southbound by way of an interchange. East Ridge Road runs through the middle of this interchange, although there are no connections between Ridge and NY 104. There is also no access from NY 104 eastbound to NY 590 northbound; eastbound traffic must take Culver Road in order to go north toward
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. Just east of the NY 590 interchange, NY 104 becomes the Irondequoit–Wayne County Expressway and crosses the
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by way of the
Irondequoit Bay Bridge The Irondequoit Bay Bridge is a continuous truss bridge spanning Irondequoit Bay in eastern Monroe County, New York, in the United States. It is wide and carries the six-lane New York State Route 104 (NY 104) from the town of Irondequoi ...
. An access road between NY 104 just west of the bridge and NY 590 at Titus Avenue was once planned. Although entrance and exit ramps were built for the connection along NY 104, the rest of the link was never built, leaving no access from NY 104 westbound to NY 590 northbound and from NY 590 southbound to NY 104 eastbound. On the other side of the bridge in the town of Webster, NY 104 has exits leading to Bay Road, Five Mile Line Road, Hard Road, and Holt Road prior to entering the village of Webster. Within the village, NY 104 meets NY 250 (North Avenue) and Phillips Road by way of interchanges before exiting the village. The expressway loosely parallels the southern edge of the primary
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campus to an exit with Salt Road, where it downgrades to a
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as it continues east to Basket Road and the Monroe– Wayne county line, partially delimited by NY 404.


Wayne and Cayuga counties

As Ridge Road follows to the south, NY 104 continues east through
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, where it meets the northern terminus of NY 350 in Ontario Center. The four-lane divided highway continues east to Williamson, where the median separating the two directions of NY 104 comes to an end west of the hamlet of Williamson. In the center of the hamlet, NY 104 intersects the northern terminus of
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. NY 104 narrows to two lanes east of Williamson as development along the route declines once more, giving way to open fields and thick forests. Near the center of the county in the town of Sodus, NY 104 serves as the northern terminus of
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northwest of the village of Sodus. While NY 88 heads east into the village, NY 104 bypasses Sodus to the north. East of the village, Ridge Road and NY 104 intersect as Ridge Road flips to the north side of NY 104. The two highways follow parallel routings southeast toward Alton, where NY 104 intersects NY 14. East of Alton, the gap between the two widens as Ridge Road veers north to access
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. NY 104, meanwhile, follows a nearly linear routing into the town of
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, where it intersects the northern terminus of
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. NY 104 continues on the eastward routing to the vicinity of the village of Wolcott, where it connects to the northern terminus of NY 89 via a half-diamond interchange south of the village. Northeast of this location in the town of Wolcott, Ridge Road intersects NY 104 once again, returning to the south side of the route. The two roads follow parallel routings once more to a junction south of Red Creek. At this rural intersection, NY 104 acts as the southern and northern (western) terminus of both NY 104A and
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, respectively, both occupying an extension of Ridge Road. Just east of the intersection is the Wayne–
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county line. Only of the route are situated in Cayuga County, and the only junction of note within the county is with
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, which it meets in the Sterling hamlet of Martville. East of the junction, NY 104 turns sharply to the northeast and enters
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.


Oswego County

The route continues northeast through the town of Hannibal to the village of the same name. Instead of entering the community, NY 104 bypasses it to the east. It intersects NY 3 east of Hannibal and heads north toward Lake Ontario. In the town of Oswego, NY 104 meets the northern terminus of NY 104A and assumes its northeasterly routing. It is here that the Seaway Trail rejoins NY 104. NY 104 heads along the Lake Ontario shoreline to the lake-side city of Oswego, the first location with significant development along the route since Williamson. The route intersects Sweet Road, a connector leading to the campus of
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, just west of the city limits. NY 104 enters the city as the two-laned West Seneca Street. At Baylis Street, the road widens to four lanes separated by a median. After seven blocks, NY 104 veers onto West Bridge Street, a four-lane street with no median. NY 104 continues along Bridge Street into downtown, where it intersects the northern terminus of NY 48 on the west bank of the Oswego River and the northern terminus of
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on the east bank. As NY 104 heads through eastern Oswego, it separates from East Bridge Street and curves east to follow a more inland routing. The route reverts to two lanes as it exits the city limits. The high level of development along NY 104 continues to the Scriba hamlet of the same name, where it begins to become more sporadic and give way to fields and dense forests. NY 104 heads northeast to
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and the western terminus of NY 104B. While NY 104B heads northeast toward the lake shore as part of the Seaway Trail, NY 104 cuts southeast to serve the village of Mexico. In the village center, NY 104 briefly overlaps NY 3 and intersects the western terminus of NY 69. The route continues due east through the rural town of Mexico to the small hamlet of Maple View, centered around the junction between NY 104 and US 11. Just outside the hamlet, NY 104 meets
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at exit 34. Past I-81, NY 104 heads east and southeast for nine miles (14 km) through the predominantly rural towns of
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and Williamstown to its eastern terminus at a junction with NY 13.


History


Early designations

In 1908, the
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established Route 30, an unsigned
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extending from
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,
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in the southwest to
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,
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, in the northeast. From
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to Red Creek, Route 30 was assigned to Ridge Road. Between Red Creek and the
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of Union Square (now Maple View) in the town of Mexico, it included most of modern NY 104. At the same time, the roadway alongside the
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between Ridge Road in Lewiston and Pine Avenue in downtown
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was designated, but not signed, as part of Route 18. By 1914, Route 30 was amended to also include the section of Ridge Road from
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(modern NY 429) to Ridgeway ( NY 63). In 1914, another section—from Ridgeway to the OrleansMonroe county line—was also included in Route 30's definition as a spur route. The spur route became part of Route 30 on March 1, 1921, when the mainline route was realigned to follow Ridge Road between Ridgeway and Rochester. When the first set of posted routes in
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were assigned in 1924, the segments of Route 30 from Rochester to Red Creek and from Oswego to Maple View became part of NY 3. Between Red Creek and Oswego, NY 3 was routed on what is now NY 104A. Farther west, the portion of Route 18 from Niagara Falls to Lewiston was included as part of
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. By 1926, all of legislative Route 30 west of Rochester was designated as part of
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. In the late 1920s, however, NY 31 was realigned to follow Ridge Road west from Porter to Lewiston. In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 34 became part of an extended
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while New York State Route 3E was assigned to the portion of former legislative Route 30 between Red Creek and Oswego. NY 3E was renumbered to New York State Route 3F .


Establishment of US 104

US 104 was assigned across
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in April 1935, extending from Niagara Falls to Maple View via Lewiston, Rochester, and Oswego. It overlapped NY 18 from Niagara Falls to Lewiston and replaced NY 3 and NY 31 from Lewiston to Maple View (except from Red Creek to Oswego, where US 104 followed NY 3F instead). As a result, NY 31 was shifted south onto most of its modern alignment while NY 3 was rerouted south of
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to follow what had been NY 3D. Although US 104 was technically a child route of US 4, it did not connect to US 4. A highway extending eastward from US 11 and US 104 at Maple View to NY 13 in Williamstown was designated as NY 126 . When it was first assigned, US 104 dipped south to serve downtown Rochester instead of bypassing it to the north. US 104 left Ridge Road at Lake Avenue and followed Lake Avenue and State Street south to Main Street in downtown. It followed Main Street and Winton Road to Empire Boulevard, where it turned east to rejoin Ridge Road in
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. It was rerouted to continue east on Ridge Road over the Veterans Memorial Bridge and through
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to Culver Road. US 104 turned here, following Culver Road south to Empire Boulevard and the latter east to Winton Road, where it reconnected to its original routing through the city. The realignment created a significant overlap with NY 18, which joined US 104 in the vicinity of
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and separated at Culver Road, where it headed north instead.


Conversion to expressways

Work began in the 1940s on new
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alignments for US 104 in Wayne,
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, and Oswego counties. The new highway was built on a routing parallel to that of Ridge Road and served as a bypass of the communities along Ridge Road. The first portion of the super two, extending from the Monroe–Wayne county line at Union Hill to west of Sodus, was built in the mid-1940s and completed by 1947. An extension of the highway around Sodus to
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in
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was constructed in the mid-1960s and opened by 1968. In between the end of the super two and Ridge Road, US 104 was routed on Lake Bluff Road. The remainder of the super two between Huron and Red Creek was finished by 1974. East of the super two, a bypass was constructed around the village of
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during the early 1960s and opened to traffic by 1964. Similar conversion projects were also conducted elsewhere. In Irondequoit, the portion of the
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(now NY 590) from Empire Boulevard to Culver Road opened in the late 1950s. US 104 and NY 18 were extended eastward along East Ridge Road to meet the expressway at what is now exit 11. Both designations entered the freeway; however, NY 18 followed the roadway north to Culver Road while US 104 progressed south to Empire Boulevard, where it rejoined its former surface alignment towards Webster. The of Empire Boulevard between the Rochester city line and the Sea Breeze Expressway remains state-maintained to this day as NY 941B, an unsigned reference route. In the mid-1960s, construction began on the Keeler Street Expressway, a
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extending across Irondequoit from the
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(at the Veterans Memorial Bridge) to the Sea Breeze Expressway. The first section from North Goodman Street to the Sea Breeze Expressway was completed by 1968 while the remainder opened in late 1969. The name of the expressway was derived from Keeler Street, a small residential street that originally connected to East Ridge Road and St. Paul Street by way of a traffic circle on the east bank of the Genesee River. The street was turned into a dead-end street as a result of the expressway's construction. US 104 was moved from East Ridge Road to the expressway, which remains known, albeit infrequently, as the Keeler Street Expressway to this day. NY 18 remained on East Ridge Road, however, reducing the overlap between US 104 and NY 18 to just the portion on the Veterans Bridge. NY 18 was truncated to its current eastern terminus , eliminating the overlap entirely. The first segment of an eastward extension of the Keeler Street Expressway, named the Irondequoit–Wayne County Expressway, opened between the Sea Breeze Expressway (at this point designated as part of NY 47) and Five Mile Line Road. In between, US 104 crossed
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by way of the
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. US 104's former surface alignment between NY 47 and Five Mile Line Road was redesignated NY 404 while US 104 was temporarily realigned onto Five Mile Line Road between the expressway and Ridge Road to connect to its former alignment.


Redesignation and completion

The segment of
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through
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was built on an alignment that closely paralleled US 11 from the Pennsylvania state line northward to the city of
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. The portion of I-81 near Maple View was completed in late 1961, at which time US 104 was extended eastward over NY 126 to meet the new highway. NY 126 was truncated on its west end to the I-81 interchange as a result. US 104 was redesignated as NY 104 in June 1971, making the route the third to bear the NY 104 designation. As part of the change, NY 104 was extended east to NY 13, completely supplanting NY 126. By 1978, the frontage roads between Five Mile Line Road and NY 250 in Webster were completed. NY 104 was rerouted eastward along the roadways while NY 404 was extended over NY 104's old alignment to NY 250 in Webster. The section from NY 250 to the existing expressway at the Wayne County line was built in the late 1970s while the main carriageway of NY 104 between Five Mile Line Road and NY 250 was completed in the early 1980s. NY 404 was extended east along the former alignment of NY 104 to the county line upon the total completion of the Five Mile Line Road–NY 250 segment.


Suffixed routes

NY 104 has two suffixed routes, both of which were assigned . * NY 104A () is an alternate route of NY 104 between Red Creek, Wayne County, and the town of Oswego,
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. * NY 104B () is a spur in
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that extends from NY 104 in
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to NY 3 in
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.


NY 104 Truck

New York State Route 104 Truck is a long
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of NY 104 through the city of
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and town of
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in
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. The route, which exists in the eastbound direction only, extends from the ramps connecting NY 104 to St. Paul Street east along East Ridge Road to Hudson Avenue, where it turns south to access NY 104. The Street View feature was used to determine the routing of NY 104 Truck. A long segment of NY 104 Truck follows the former alignment of US 104 east along East Ridge Road from St. Paul Street to Hudson Avenue.


Major intersections


See also

;Former alignments * Ridge Road, from the Veterans Memorial Bridge to Red Creek * New York State Route 404, NY 590 in Rochester to NY 104 in Union Hill * New York State Route 370, small portion of Ridge Road near Red Creek * New York State Route 104A, partially former US 104 in Red Creek


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External links


Endpoints of US 104

Old NY 104 – Ridge Road in the Sodus Bay and Wolcott Areas
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