New York State Route 12

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"NY 12" redirects here. The term may also refer to New York's 12th congressional district.

Watertown
Length222.27 mi[1] (357.71 km)
Existed1924[2]–present
Tourist
routes		 Great Lakes Seaway Trail
Major junctions
South end US 11 in Chenango
Major intersections
North end
Morristown
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesBroome, Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence
Highway system
← NY 11C→ NY 12B

New York State Route 12 (NY 12) is a

Remsen, NY 3 in Watertown, and I-81 in Pamelia and Orleans
.

It is a two lane, undivided, full access roadway for the majority of its length, except between the village of New Hartford and Alder Creek, where it is a four-lane highway. Within that span, it is a limited access highway in the city of Utica, referred locally as The Arterial and the North–South Arterial. The distance between Utica and Binghamton is a major trucking route, and features many gas stations, truck stops, and fast food restaurants. Between Boonville and Lowville, it follows the Black River Valley. Then further north, between Watertown and Morristown, it follows the St. Lawrence River valley.

NY 12, as originally assigned in 1924, extended from Chenango in the south to

NY 3 to Alexandria Bay in 1930, then along a new roadway to Morristown in the 1960s. Parts of NY 12 have been rerouted onto new roadways in areas, primarily in Oneida County
.

Route description

Broome and Chenango counties

NY 12 begins at

I-88 (via NY 12A), and passing west of Chenango Valley State Park before traversing the Tioughnioga River near the community of Chenango Forks. On the northern bank of the river, NY 12 intersects and briefly overlaps NY 79 before continuing northward through the valley and into Chenango County.[3][4]

NY 12 begins its 200+ mile journey here at US 11 just north of Binghamton in Chenango.

Within Chenango County, NY 12 acts as the primary connector between the numerous communities located along the Chenango. In

Norwich Lt. Warren Eaton Airport.[3][4]

The route and the Chenango River remain in close proximity to one another up through the village of Sherburne, where NY 12 intersects NY 80. North of the village center, the river breaks to the west, following NY 12B to the northwest while NY 12 continues northward into rural Madison County.[3][4]

Madison and Oneida counties

NY 12 north at NY 315 in Waterville

Across the county line, NY 12 joins the Sangerfield River as it heads north through the narrow southeastern portion of the county. Near the northern border of Madison County, the route shifts slightly east to bypass a marshy area around the Sangerfield River known as the Ninemile Swamp. The conditions persist into Oneida County to just south of the Sangerfield hamlet of the same name, where the swamp ends as the river curves away from NY 12. At the actual community, NY 12 intersects US 20.[3]

The route continues north for an additional one mile (1.6 km) to the village of

single point urban interchange then Oriskany Street (NY 5A and NY 5S).[3]

NY 12, 5 and 8 at the interchange with NY 5A and NY 5S

Between Oriskany Street and the

I-90), NY 5, 8, and 12 is part of the Interstate Highway System as I-790 overlaps all three routes northward over the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal before leaving the arterial at a large interchange on the north bank of the canal. NY 5 turns off as well, following I-790 eastward. Meanwhile, NY 8 and NY 12 interchange with NY 49 (the Utica–Rome Expressway), partially via the I-790 exit ramps, and passes over the Thruway before continuing northward out of the city limits.[3]

NY 8 and NY 12 remain limited-access as they proceed through the northern suburbs of Utica, connecting to Mulaney Road and Trenton Road via interchanges in

Boonville, where NY 28 leaves NY 12 via a partial trumpet interchange and the road narrows to two lanes shortly afterward.[3]

NY 12 and 28 in Remsen village

From Alder Creek to

North Country.[3]

North Country

The path of NY 12 through New York's North Country consists of three primary subregions: rural Lewis County, urban Watertown, and the numerous communities that line the southern bank of the St. Lawrence River, here the geographical divide between the United States and Canada.[3]

Lewis County

NY 12, NY 12D, and the Black River continue to follow parallel routings north through the village of Port Leyden to Lyons Falls, where NY 12D returns to NY 12 just west of the village. Heading north NY 12 passes under NY 12D. Whereas NY 12D heads northeast from NY 12 on Cherry Street to access Lyons Falls before heading west over NY 12 and out of the village. NY 12 continues north along the vicinity of the Black River to Lowville, where NY 12 briefly overlaps NY 26 and meets NY 812 before leaving both the village and the river to the west.[3]

Roughly three miles (4.8 km) outside Lowville, at West Lowville, NY 12 leaves its due west alignment and curves to the northwest, with the westerly alignment continuing onward as

County Route 194 or CR 194). Outside the limits, the route resumes its trek through the rural North Country.[3]

Watertown area

Approaching NY 126 on NY 12 northbound

NY 12 enters Jefferson County on its way to Watertown just north of Copenhagen.[5] NY 12 is known as Van Allen Road, crossing with Jefferson county roads in Rutland. At the intersection with CR 67, NY 12 turns to the north and enters Watertown as Gifford Street. NY 12 intersects with NY 126 just northeast of Thompson Park and Watertown Golf Club and turns to the northwest. As NY 12 continues through southern parts of Watertown, NY 3 intersects and becomes concurrent. NY 3 and NY 12 enter Watertown Public Square and split into divided highways. Here, NY 283 starts to the northeast. The eastern terminus of NY 12F is accessed via NY 12 southbound.[5][3]

NY 3 and NY 12 split, just northwest of the Public Square.

NY 970L), a loop through the village of Clayton. From here NY 12 turns east, intersects Webb Street (other end of unsigned 970L), then continues following State Street out of Clayton.[3]

St. Lawrence River

NY 12 at NY 26's northern terminus

NY 12 continues northeast along the south bank of the St. Lawrence, intersecting Mason Point Road (a local road leading to a Thousand Islands-bound ferry) and NY 180, and passing south of Grass Point State Park prior to encountering I-81, at exit 50, four miles (6.4 km) southwest of the village of Alexandria Bay. Farther northeast, NY 12 passes by Keewaydin State Park before intersecting the northern terminus of NY 26 and Church Street (unsigned NY 971K) in the southwestern portion of the village. The latter was a former northern extension of NY 26.[3]

Outside of Alexandria Bay, NY 12 temporarily turns east and leaves the riverbank to avoid Goose Bay, a small body of water partially separated from the St. Lawrence by two protruding points of land. The route then curves back toward the water and follows the eastern length of the bay, serving the seaside hamlet of Goose Bay near the bay's midpoint. North of Goose Bay, NY 12 intersects Kring Point Road, an access road leading to

Morristown village limits.[3]

History

Origins

A section of the highway north of Utica was created as the Utica Turnpike. The company that built the turnpike was chartered in 1805 to build a road from the town of Deerfield to the town of Steuben. The road was opened in part in 1811, and was fully open in 1815. The road was sold off in 1848.[6]

Designation

In 1908, the

Watertown, and Clayton. Route 25 originally went directly from Barneveld to Remsen;[7][8] however, it was realigned by 1920 to serve the village of Prospect to the east.[8]

Former routing of NY 12 and 28 through Barneveld. Former NY  12 and 28 continued past where NY 365 turns west, now known as NY 921D

When the first set of posted routes in

Trenton (now Barneveld), where it briefly followed its current routing. NY 12 turned off again in Trenton to follow legislative Route 25's original alignment on Mappa Avenue in Trenton and Main Street in Remsen. NY 12 continued north from Remsen on legislative Route 25.[9]

At Forestport, NY 12 left Route 25 to follow legislative Route 27 to Lowville. In Lowville, NY 12 split from Route 27 and proceeded northwest to Watertown via Copenhagen, bypassing the slightly more circuitous route that Route 27 took via Carthage on modern NY 26, NY 126, and NY 3. NY 12 rejoined legislative Route 27 in Watertown and followed it to Clayton, where NY 12 ended at NY 3,[9] which was also assigned in 1924.[2] At the time, the segment of legislative Route 27 between Clayton and Alexandria Bay was designated as part of NY 3.[2][9]

Realignments and terminus changes

The junction of NY 12 and NY 12B in Sherburne. At different points in the 1920s, the straight path carried NY 12 and NY 12A.

In the late 1920s, NY 12 was realigned between Sherburne and Utica to follow a more direct alignment between the two locations via

NY 12A (now NY 12B). As a result, NY 12 now entered Utica on Paris Road.[9][10] In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 3 was rerouted onto its current alignment east of Watertown while the former routing of NY 3 from Clayton to Alexandria Bay became an extension of NY 12.[11] Also created as part of the renumbering was NY 12D, an alternate route of NY 12 between Potters Corners and Lowville via Lyons Falls.[12] By the following year, NY 12D was rerouted south of Lyons Falls to follow a routing similar to modern NY 12 to Boonville.[13] The alignments of NY 12 and NY 12D between the two villages were swapped c. 1939, placing NY 12D on the direct highway between the two and NY 12 on the slightly more circuitous route via Lyons Falls.[14][15]

NY 12 originally extended southward into downtown Binghamton by way of an

Morristown in the mid-1960s.[19][20]

The Utica Arterial under construction in May 2015

In April 2014, work began on a $68.3 million project to replace the viaduct over Columbia Street, Lafayette Streets, and Oriskany Boulevard (NY 5A and NY 5S) in Utica. The nearly one mile stretch had signalized at-grade intersections that were causing safety concerns and some fatalities. In addition to the replacement of the viaduct, the alignment of the arterial was straightened, a new

single point urban interchange was built at Court Street, and a pedestrian bridge was built across the roadway. The pedestrian bridge was opened by December 2014, and the remainder of the project was completed by October 2017.[21][22]

Bypasses

Diagram of the interchange between I-790, NY 5, NY 8, NY 12 and NY 49

NY 12 has been realigned onto

limited-access highways over the years, particularly in Oneida County, to bypass communities along its routing. The first bypass that was constructed in Oneida County was around Remsen in the early 1950s. NY 12 was realigned onto the bypass, which passed to the west of the village, by 1954.[23][24] Construction began by 1956 on a southward extension of the bypass that would take NY 12 around the eastern edge of Barneveld.[25] It opened to traffic by 1958.[26] Farther south, in Utica, a new limited-access highway was built through the downtown portion of the city in the early 1960s. At the time, it began at French Road and ended at Trenton Road. It became a realignment of NY 12 by 1964.[27][28] An extension of the road southwest to Genesee Street in New Hartford was completed by 1968, at which time NY 12 was realigned to follow New Paris Road into the city.[20] A limited-access highway bypassing Trenton Road and linking the Utica expressway and the Barneveld–Remsen bypass was completed by 1973, resulting in the rerouting of NY 12 onto the roadway.[29] The former routing of NY 12 along Trenton Road from the Utica city line to Powell Road is now CR 91.[30]

The route has also been realigned in areas to bypass smaller communities along the highway. One such location is in the vicinity of the village of Greene, where NY 12 initially followed Chenango Street through the village.[31] The current bypass around the western edge of the village was built in the late 1970s and completed by 1981.[32][33]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
I-81 – Castle Creek, Binghamton
Southern terminus
0.530.85

 NY 12A east (Chenango Bridge Road) to I-88 – Chenango Bridge		Western terminus of NY 12A
hamlet of Chenango Forks
6.6310.67
 NY 79 south – North Fenton, Chenango Valley State Park		Northern terminus of NY 12 / NY 79 overlap
ChenangoVillage of Greene14.3023.01
 NY 41 south / NY 206 (Genesee Street) – Bainbridge, Whitney Point		Southern terminus of NY 12 / NY 41 overlap
14.7623.75
 NY 41 north		Northern terminus of NY 12 / NY 41 overlap
Village of Oxford27.8244.77
 NY 220 west (Lafayette Park) – Bowman Lake State Park		Southern terminus of NY 12 / NY 220 overlap
28.4645.80
 NY 220 east – Guilford, New York State Veterans Home		Northern terminus of NY 12 / NY 220 overlap
City of Norwich
35.7357.50
 NY 990L north (East Main Street)		Southern terminus of NY 990L; former eastern terminus of NY 319
36.1258.13 NY 23 (Pleasant Street / Rexford Street) – South New Berlin, South Plymouth
Town of Norwich37.2259.90
 NY 320 east – New Berlin		Western terminus of NY 320
Village of Sherburne47.3876.25 NY 80 (West State Street / East State Street) – New Berlin, Rogers Environmental Education Center
48.1377.46
 NY 12B north – Earlville, Hamilton, Colgate University		Southern terminus of NY 12B
OneidaSangerfield66.33106.75 US 20 – Madison, Bridgewater
Waterville67.62108.82
 NY 315 north (Buell Avenue) – Deansboro		Southern terminus of NY 315
NY 921E (Genesee Street) – New Hartford
Western terminus of unsigned NY 921E
79.89128.57


 NY 5 west to NY 12B south – Syracuse, Clinton		Southern terminus of NY 5 / NY 12 overlap
Utica80.54129.62

 NY 8 south / NY 840 west		Cloverleaf interchange; southern terminus of NY 8 / NY 12 overlap; eastern terminus of NY 840
73.27–
73.67		117.92–
118.56		French Road (
Trumpet interchange
73.78–
74.13		118.74–
119.30		Burrstone Road (
NY 921B) – , MVCC, Utica Zoo
Partial cloverleaf interchange
83.83134.91
I-790 north / NY 5A west / NY 5S
east (Oriskany Street)		Eastern terminus of NY 5A; western terminus of NY 5S; southern terminus of I-790; southern terminus of I-790 / NY 12 overlap
84.70136.31
I-90 / Thruway
Deerfield89.82144.55
 NY 8 north – Poland, Speculator		Northern terminus of NY 8 / NY 12 overlap
Trenton95.96154.43
 NY 28 south – Poland		Southern terminus of NY 12 / NY 28 overlap
96.25154.90Mappa Avenue (
NY 921D) – Barneveld
Southern terminus of unsigned NY 921D; former NY 921; former routing of NY 12 and 28
97.67157.18 NY 365 – Barneveld, Prospect, RomePartial cloverleaf interchange
NY 920V (Steuben Street) – Remsen
Western terminus of unsigned NY 920V; northern terminus of former NY 28B
Town of Boonville
107.39172.83
 NY 28 north – Old Forge, Blue Mountain Lake		Northern terminus of NY 12 / NY 28 overlap; hamlet of Alder Creek
Village of Boonville
 NY 12D north (Main Street / Black River Trail) – Boonville, Turin, Pixley Falls State Park, Dodge-Pratt Northam		Southern terminus of NY 12D
LewisLyons Falls124.35200.12
 NY 12D south (Cherry Street) – Constableville, Lyons Falls		Northern terminus of NY 12D
Village of Lowville137.94221.99
 NY 26 south – Rome		Southern terminus of NY 12 / NY 26 overlap
138.52222.93

 NY 26 north / NY 812 north		Northern terminus of NY 12 / NY 26 overlap; southern terminus of NY 812
Town of Lowville
141.34227.46
 NY 177 west – Adams Center		Eastern terminus of NY 177
CR 194 (Mechanic Street)
Eastern terminus of former NY 194
JeffersonTown of Watertown163.57263.24
 NY 126 east (State Street) – Carthage		Western terminus of NY 126
Fort Drum
Eastern terminus of NY 3 / NY 12 overlap
165.37266.14

 US 11 north / NY 3 west		Western terminus of NY 3 / NY 12 overlap (northbound); eastern terminus of US 11 / NY 12 overlap (southbound); southern terminus of US 11 / NY 12 overlap (northbound)

 NY 283 east (Factory Street)		Northbound intersection; western terminus of NY 283

 US 11 north (Washington Street)		Southbound intersection; western terminus of US 11 / NY 12 overlap
165.72266.70
 US 11 north (Mill Street)		Northbound intersection; northern terminus of US 11 / NY 12 overlap


 US 11 south (South Massey Street) / NY 3 west (Arsenal Street)		Southbound intersection; western terminus of NY 3 / NY 12 overlap; southern terminus of US 11 / NY 12 overlap

 NY 12F west (Coffeen Street / Black River Trail) – Oswego		Southbound intersection; eastern terminus of NY 12F
166.12267.34
 US 11 south (Leray Street)		Northern terminus of US 11 / NY 12 overlap (southbound)
166.35267.71
 NY 12E north		Southern terminus of NY 12E
I-81 – Syracuse, Canada
Exit 47 (I-81); diamond interchange
169.64273.01
Fort Drum, Black River
, New York State Police		Western terminus of NY 342
Town of Clayton
175.49282.42 NY 180 (Fox Road) – La Fargeville, Limerick
Village of Clayton187.10301.11
 NY 12E south (State Street / Seaway Trail) / Great Lakes Seaway Trail – Cape Vincent		Northern terminus of NY 12E
James Street (
NY 970L) – Clayton Business District
Terminus of unsigned NY 970L
187.30301.43Webb Street (
NY 970L
)		Terminus of unsigned NY 970L
Orleans192.21309.33
 NY 180 south – La Fargeville		Northern terminus of NY 180
I-81 to Highway 401 – Watertown, Syracuse, Canada, Wellesley Island
Exit 50 (I-81); cloverleaf interchange
Alexandria Bay198.20318.97
 NY 26 south (Church Street) – Redwood / Church Street ( NY 971K)		Northern terminus of NY 26; southern terminus of unsigned NY 971K
Watertown
Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Suffixed routes

New York State Route 12A marker

New York State Route 12A

LocationChenango Bridge
Length0.98 mi[1] (1,580 m)

NY 12 has had seven suffixed routes bearing six different designations. Two have since been removed and at least partially renumbered. All of the routes were assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York unless otherwise noted.[11][12][34]


See also

References

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  5. ^ a b c d 1977–2007 I Love New York State Map (Map). I Love New York. 2007.
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  11. ^ a b c Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". The New York Times. p. 136.
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  14. ^ Thibodeau, William A. (1938). The ALA Green Book (1938–39 ed.). Automobile Legal Association.
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    State of New York Department of Transportation (January 1, 1970). Official Description of Touring Routes in New York State
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  20. ^ a b c New York (Map) (1969–70 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1968.
  21. ^ "Route 5-8-12 North-South Arterial Viaduct Replacement". NYSDOT. 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  22. ^ "Utica North-South Arterial Highway Reconstruction, New York". roadtraffic-technology.com. 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
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  29. Shell Oil Company
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  30. ^ "Oneida County Inventory Listing" (CSV). New York State Department of Transportation. October 1, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
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  33. State of New York
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  34. ^ Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Standard Oil Company of New York. 1930.
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  36. ^ "Name for Route 12 Stirs Up Interest". The Clinton Courier. March 26, 1930. p. 1. Retrieved March 7, 2018.

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