The following is a list of numbered

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s in the

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. Signed state highways in New York, referred to as "touring routes" by the

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, are numbered from 1 to 899. A large number of unsigned state highways, known as " reference routes", are numbered from 900 to 999 and carry a suffix. Four reference routes have been signed as touring routes and as such are listed on this page. The first set of routes in New York were assigned in 1924, replacing a series of unsigned

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s that had existed since 1908. Initially, there were only 29 routes; by the late 1920s, there were several dozen highways. In the 1930 state highway renumbering, some of these routes were reconfigured or renumbered while hundreds of other, smaller routes were assigned. Since that time, routes have been added and removed from the state highway system at various times for reasons ranging from the construction and/or removal of highways to the end result of "maintenance swaps", or transfers of highway maintenance from the state of New York to lower levels of government and vice versa. State-maintained portions of routes have

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s, small, green signs that are posted approximately every one-tenth mile along the side of the roadway.

Current routes

Signed reference routes

The 900 through 999 designations are reserved for reference routes, which are unsigned state-maintained highways of varying length. Four of these routes have been signed as touring routes and are listed below.

Former routes

*NY 1, NY 4, NY 6, NY 9, NY 9W, NY 11, NY 15, NY 15A, NY 20, NY 44, NY 62, NY 104, NY 202, NY 209, and NY 219 were removed due to the creation of the U.S. highways with the same number.

Reserved routes

NY 181 *

NY 188 *

NY 229 - Reserved for NY 7 between NY 7A and the New York-Pennsylvania state line. Once reserved (circa 1967) for the Nassau Expressway (now NY 878) east of the proposed Clearview Expressway near John F. Kennedy Airport. * NY-341

NY 341 - Reserved for Cortland County * NY-381

NY 381 *

NY 382 - Reserved for NY 88 * NY 388 * NY-393

NY 393 - Reserved for Chautauqua Lakeway between I-86/NY 17 and NY 5 * NY-399

NY 399 - Reserved for

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NY 413 - Reserved for NY 9A *NY 435 - Reserved for NY 29A between NY 30A and NY 10 *NY 450 *NY 451 *NY 452 *NY 478 - Reserved for

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*NY 484 *NY 485 *NY 486 *NY 487 *NY 490 * NY 546 - Reserved for Balltown Road * NY 646 - Reserved for an old alignment of NY 146 in Schenectady * NY 656 - Reserved for NY 911E *NY 790 - Reserved for NY 49 and NY 365 (Utica-Rome Expressway, and dual carriageway Verona to Rome) *NY 819 *NY 822 *NY 823 *NY 836 *NY 841 *NY 852 *NY 854 *NY 856 *NY 862 *NY 866

References

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New York State Roadway Inventory System Viewer

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