New York State Route 377 (NY 377) is a north–south
state highway
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located within
Albany County, New York
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, in the United States. The four-lane route extends for through mostly residential areas from an interchange with
U.S. Route 9 (US 9) in the city of
Albany to an intersection with
NY 378 in the village of
Menands. NY 377 was assigned to its current alignment in the mid-1930s.
Route description
NY 377 begins adjacent to Albany Memorial Hospital at an interchange with
US 9 in the city of
Albany. The highway initially heads to the northeast as a four-lane, city-maintained road,
following Northern Boulevard along the south side of Wolfert's Roost Country Club and the northern edge of a housing tract. After a quarter-mile (0.4 km), the route turns northward onto Van Rensselaer Boulevard, another four-lane street divided by a narrow median. The route runs past two blocks of homes before leaving the Albany city limits
and becoming state-maintained as it crosses into the town of
Colonie and its village of
Menands.
Within Menands, NY 377 traverses another mile (1.6 km) of housing tracts before ending at an intersection with
NY 378 (Menand Road) northwest of the village center. The northern terminus of NY 377 also serves as the south entrance to
Albany Rural Cemetery
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.
History
On April 30, 1919, the state of New York awarded a contract to improve the portion of Van Rensselaer Boulevard north of the Albany city limits to state highway standards. The project cost $33,796 to complete (equivalent to $ in ), and the rebuilt road was added to the state highway system on November 11, 1919, as
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State Highway 1518 (SH 1518).
It did not have a posted route number until the mid-1930s when SH 1518 became part of NY 377, a new route continuing south to the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Loudonville Road in Albany by way of city-owned streets.
The alignment of NY 377 has not changed since that time; however, the junction at the south end of the route was reconfigured into an interchange when the portion of US 9 in northern Albany was converted into a
limited-access highway
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in the 1970s.
Major intersections
See also
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References
External links
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Transportation in Albany County, New York