New York State Route 370 (NY 370) is an east–west
state highway in
Central New York
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With a population of about 773,606 (2009) and an area of , the region includes the Syracuse metropolitan area.
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in the United States. It extends for about from an intersection with
NY 104 and
NY 104A south of the
Wayne County village of
Red Creek to a junction with
U.S. Route 11 (US 11) in the
Onondaga County
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Onondaga County is the core of the Syracuse, NY MSA.
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city of
Syracuse. The western and central portions of the route pass through mostly rural areas; however, the eastern section serves densely populated areas of Onondaga County, including the villages of
Baldwinsville and
Liverpool
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. NY 370 also passes through
Cayuga County
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, where it connects to
NY 34
New York State Route 34 (NY 34) is a north–south New York state route located in Central New York. Its southern terminus is at the Pennsylvania state line in the village of Waverly, where it connects to Pennsylvania Route  ...
, a major north–south highway in Central New York.
NY 370 was assigned as part of the
1930 renumbering of state highways in New York as a Red Creek–Liverpool highway, replacing
NY 40 west of
Cato and New York State Route 37 from Cato to Baldwinsville. From Liverpool to Syracuse, modern NY 370 was initially part of
NY 57, a route that continued north from Liverpool to
Oswego. That route was eliminated in 1982, at which time NY 370 was extended eastward to Syracuse over NY 57's former routing. Other minor changes, namely a series of realignments west of
Victory
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, have also occurred in the years since NY 370 was assigned.
Route description
![NY 370 west approaching Ridge Rd](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/NY_370_west_approaching_Ridge_Rd.jpg)
Maintenance of the route is also split in a similar fashion. West of
Syracuse, the route is maintained by the
New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). Within Syracuse, the highway is city-maintained.
Red Creek to Baldwinsville
NY 370 begins at an intersection with
NY 104 and
NY 104A south of the village of
Red Creek in the northeastern
Wayne County town of
Wolcott. The route heads southwest from this spot, utilizing a northeastward extension of
Ridge Road that was part of
US 104 prior to the construction of the
super two highway now used by NY 104.
After passing of open farmland, the route breaks from Ridge Road and travels southeast through the
Town of Butler and to the
Cayuga County
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line. The rural surroundings follow NY 370 across the county line and into the town of
Victory
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, where the highway briefly takes on a more easterly alignment as it intersects
NY 38
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in the town center. Past NY 38, NY 370 gradually curves southward for roughly to reach the Victory–
Conquest
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town line. Here, it overtakes the east–west Conquest–Victory Town Line Road and heads eastward along the town line toward the
village of Cato.
Just west of Cato village, NY 370 enters nearby
Ira
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and the town of
Cato. The route continues along the town line into the small village of Cato, where it becomes Main Street and meets
NY 34
New York State Route 34 (NY 34) is a north–south New York state route located in Central New York. Its southern terminus is at the Pennsylvania state line in the village of Waverly, where it connects to Pennsylvania Route  ...
in the village center. At this point, NY 370 leaves the town line and heads northeast into Ira at the eastern village line. While in Ira, the highway leaves the village of Cato and passes by Cato–Meridian Central School, located in an otherwise nondescript area of the town dominated by farmland. At the school, the road curves back to the southeast to serve the village of
Meridian
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* ...
and reenter the town of Cato. Here, the route reverts to a generally easterly alignment, one that it retains for the next to
Baldwinsville. East of Meridian, NY 370 crosses more cultivated fields as it intersects the south end of
NY 176 and crosses into
Onondaga County
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Onondaga County is the core of the Syracuse, NY MSA.
History
The name ''Onondaga'' derives from ...
.
Across the county line, NY 370 enters the town of
Lysander
Lysander (; grc-gre, Λύσανδρος ; died 395 BC) was a Spartan military and political leader. He destroyed the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC, forcing Athens to capitulate and bringing the Peloponnesian War to an en ...
and becomes known as West Genesee Road. It runs across another of rolling farmland before it begins to parallel the
Erie Canal
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, here part of the
Seneca River. At this point, the open fields gradually give way to pockets of residential development as the route approaches the village of Baldwinsville. West of the village limits, NY 370 connects to
NY 31
New York State Route 31 (NY 31) is a state highway that extends for across western and central New York in the United States. The western terminus of the route is at an intersection with NY 104 in the city of Niagara Falls. Its ea ...
and
NY 690 at NY 690's continuation of
Interstate 690
Interstate 690 (I-690) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that extends for through the vicinity of Syracuse, New York, in the United States. It is a spur of I-90 (here part of the New York State Thruway) that travels southeast from Thruw ...
's (I-690) northernmost grade-separated interchange. NY 31—which
overlap
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s with NY 690 south of the junction—leaves the freeway and joins NY 370 for a overlap that takes both routes along the north bank of the canal and into the densely populated village. They remain overlapped through Baldwinsville's central business district, where they meet
NY 48 at Oswego Street.
Syracuse area
![New York State Route 370 Onondaga Lake](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/New_York_State_Route_370_Onondaga_Lake.jpg)
At the eastern edge of the village center, NY 31 and NY 370 split, with NY 31 retaining the Genesee Street name and heading northeast towards
Oneida Lake
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The lake is located northeast of Syracuse and near the Great Lakes. It feeds the Oneida River, a tributary of the Oswego River, which flows into Lake Ontari ...
. NY 370, meanwhile, travels southeast on Salina Street, loosely paralleling the Erie Canal as it heads toward
Syracuse. The route intersects
NY 631 before leaving Baldwinsville and heading into another rural section of Lysander. This open stretch ends at the canalside
hamlet
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of Cold Springs, which serves as the beginning of the Syracuse suburbs. After passing through the community, NY 370 crosses over the conjoined Erie Canal and Seneca River and enters the town of
Salina. Not far from the canal is a junction with
John Glenn Boulevard, a four-lane arterial connecting NY 370 to
Interstate 690 (I-690).
Past John Glenn Boulevard, NY 370 passes over the
New York State Thruway (
Interstate 90 or I-90) near exit 38 and begins to approach the northern shore of
Onondaga Lake
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as it enters the village of
Liverpool
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on 2nd Street. In the village's commercial center, NY 370 intersects Oswego Street, which connects to I-90,
once part of
NY 57 and now
NY 931G, an unsigned
reference route.
Here, NY 370 turns onto Oswego Street for one block before veering southeastward onto Onondaga Lake Parkway, a four-lane highway running along the northeastern shoreline of Onondaga Lake where commercial vehicles and vehicles over are banned. This section of the route also parallels the
CSX Transportation-owned
St. Lawrence Subdivision
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, which crosses the highway by way of a low, overpass southeast of Liverpool.
The parkway ends from Liverpool at the eastern tip of the lake, where the route connects to
I-81
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at exit 24. NY 370 continues through the interchange, following the two-lane Park Street into the city of Syracuse. In its first few blocks in the city, the highway passes under the
Mohawk Subdivision
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—CSX's
main line across
Central New York
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With a population of about 773,606 (2009) and an area of , the region includes the Syracuse metropolitan area.
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—and serves both
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and the
Central New York Regional Market. East of the market, the route continues for one more block through an industrial area of Syracuse to Wolf Street, where NY 370 ends at
US 11 and
NY 298 Truck northwest of
downtown Syracuse.
History
![NY 370 west at NY 631](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/NY_370_west_at_NY_631.jpg)
The portion of NY 370 east of Oswego Street in
Liverpool
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was originally designated as part of Route 34, an unsigned
legislative route
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, in 1908.
When the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924, Route 34 became the basis for
NY 20, a highway extending from
Syracuse to
Oswego via Liverpool and
Fulton
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.
NY 20 was renumbered to
NY 57 in 1927 to eliminate duplication with the newly assigned
US 20.
[ This edition shows U.S. Routes as they were first officially signed in 1927.] To the west, the section of modern NY 370 from Upton Road west of the
hamlet
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of
Victory
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to
NY 34
New York State Route 34 (NY 34) is a north–south New York state route located in Central New York. Its southern terminus is at the Pennsylvania state line in the village of Waverly, where it connects to Pennsylvania Route  ...
in
Cato was designated as part of
NY 40 in the mid-1920s. West of Victory, NY 40 followed Upton Road and Canada Street before terminating at
NY 3 (now
NY 104A) in
Red Creek.
Although the portion of what is now NY 370 from Cato to Liverpool was state-maintained by 1926,
it remained unnumbered until the late 1920s. At that time, the section west of then-
NY 31
New York State Route 31 (NY 31) is a state highway that extends for across western and central New York in the United States. The western terminus of the route is at an intersection with NY 104 in the city of Niagara Falls. Its ea ...
(now
NY 48) in Baldwinsville became NY 37. The designation proved to be short-lived as it was renumbered to NY 370 as part of the
1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.
At the same time, NY 40 was split into several different routes. From Cato to just east of Red Creek, old NY 40 became part of the new NY 370, which also extended southeastward to NY 57 in Liverpool. The small segment of former NY 40 from NY 3 to Upton Road was included in
NY 3E (later
US 104).
The portion of NY 370 west of Victory was realigned in the late 1950s to follow its modern alignment to a new terminus at US 104 (
Ridge Road) southwest of Red Creek. After US 104 (now
NY 104) was rerouted to follow a new
super two highway through the Red Creek area in the early 1970s,
the portion of Ridge Road between the super two east of
Wolcott and NY 370 southwest of Red Creek became a westward extension of NY 370. The route was altered slightly at some point in the late 1970s or early 1980s to follow Ridge Road northeast to NY 104 instead.
In May 1982, the NY 57 designation was eliminated after the portion of the route north of Liverpool was removed from the state highway system.
From Tulip Street to the
Onondaga–
Oswego county line, NY 57 was redesignated as
County Route 91 (CR 91) but signed as CR 57.
The portion of NY 57's former routing between NY 370 in Liverpool and
US 11 in
Syracuse became part of an extended NY 370.
On September 11, 2010, a
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hit the low railroad bridge along the Onondaga Lake Parkway killing four passengers. An overheight warning system was set up along the Parkway in late 2011 coinciding with the banning of commercial traffic along this stretch.
Major intersections
See also
*
References
External links
{{NYSR external links, type=N, nyroutes=yes, termini=yes, route=370, alps=yes
Images of the construction of the Onondaga Lake Parkway from the Schuelke Collection of the Liverpool Public Library on New York Heritage Digital Collections
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Transportation in Onondaga County, New York
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