New York State Route 122 (NY 122) is a east–west state highway in northern

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, United States. The western terminus of the route is at an intersection with NY 37 in the town of Westville. Its eastern terminus is at a junction with U.S. Route 11 (US 11) in the town of

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. Near its midpoint, NY 122 has a short

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with

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in the town of

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. NY 122 serves as a northerly bypass of the village of Malone, situated to the south. NY 122 was assigned as a north–south connector between what is now

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and US 11 in the nearby town of Bangor. It was extended northeast to Burke via Westville after the state acquired ownership of the Westville–Burke highway in 1980, and truncated to begin in Westville approximately 10 years later. Modern NY 122 follows what was originally designated New York State Route 188 during the 1930s.

Route description

NY 122 begins at an intersection with NY 37 in the Westville hamlet of Westville Center as an eastward continuation of County Route 19 (CR 19, Jewett Road). The route initially heads eastward from NY 37 as a rural, two-lane road before ducking to the southeast. After an intersection with Bird Road roughly from Westville Center, it continues on a southeasterly track for , running alongside the Salmon River before curving eastward into the town of

. NY 122 soon enters the hamlet of the same name, where the undeveloped surroundings give way to a stretch of residences on both sides of the highway. NY 122 west from NY 30 south

In the center of Constable, NY 122 intersects

, which

s with NY 122 for one block on its way from

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to the

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. The highway continues east from NY 30, serving residences in the eastern part of the hamlet before curving to the southeast and entering another rural area. The road crosses into the town of

at a junction with Constable–Burke Town Line Road east of Constable, and subsequently takes on a more pronounced southeasterly alignment. NY 122 ends later at an intersection with US 11 just west of the hamlet of Burke Center.

History

In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, a north–south highway in the town of Bangor that linked the

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s of Bangor and North Bangor was designated as part of NY 187, an east–west route connecting Nicholville to North Bangor via Bangor. Farther north, an east–west roadway between

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(now

) in

and US 11 in

was assigned the NY 188 designation. NY 187 was realigned to continue east from Bangor to

via modern

. Its former routing between Bangor and North Bangor was designated as NY 122 by the following year. Meanwhile, NY 188 was extended west to NY 37 in Westville before it was removed . On April 1, 1980, ownership and maintenance of former NY 188 (by this point redesignated as CR 22) was transferred from Franklin County to the state of

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as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government. In return, the state transferred all of then-NY 122 to Franklin County. The new Westville–Burke state highway became part of NY 122, which was extended north along CR 19 to Westville Center and east along former NY 188 to Burke. NY 122 was truncated between 1985 and 1993 to consist only of the state-maintained part of the route between Westville and Burke.

Major intersections

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External links

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Route description

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