New York State Route 23

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East end Route 23 in Egremont, MA
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesCortland, Chenango, Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie, Greene, Columbia
Highway system
← NY 22B→ NY 23A

New York State Route 23 (NY 23) is an east–west

Oneonta. Outside of the communities, the route serves largely rural areas of the state and traverses the Catskill Mountains in the state's Central New York Region. NY 23 crosses the Hudson River at Catskill via the Rip Van Winkle Bridge
.

Sections of what is now NY 23 were part of unsigned legislative routes as early as 1908; however, NY 23 itself was not assigned until 1924. At the time, the route extended from Oneonta to Massachusetts and followed a slightly different alignment from Cairo to Claverack via Hudson that took the route along modern County Route 23B (CR 23B) in eastern Greene County. NY 23 was extended west to Norwich in the mid-1920s and to NY 26 in northwestern Chenango County in 1930. The route was gradually moved onto its current alignment between Cairo and Claverack in the 1950s and 1960s, and realigned on its western end in 1984 to serve Cortland County.

Route description

NY 23 has three distinct sections: its western third in

city of Oneonta, the route is city-maintained from the western city line to James F. Lettis Highway.[4] Finally, the Rip Van Winkle Bridge and its approaches are maintained by the New York State Bridge Authority (NYSBA).[5][6]

Central New York

The highway begins at a junction with

city of Norwich, the county seat of Chenango County. It heads east–west across the city on Pleasant and Rexford streets, passing through mostly residential areas and intersecting with NY 12 at Broad Street.[citation needed
]

NY 23 east at NY 8 in South New Berlin

On the eastern fringe of Norwich, NY 23 passes over the

town of New Berlin and the small hamlet of South New Berlin, situated in another valley surrounding the Unadilla River. Here, it connects to NY 8, another major north–south route. The route crosses the river just east of South New Berlin, putting it into the equally hilly and rural Otsego County. After 6.5 miles (10.5 km) of isolated areas, NY 23 encounters the village of Morris, the first of several villages along the route. In the village center, it briefly joins NY 51 along Morris' main street.[citation needed
]

Beyond Morris, the route continues in an easterly direction with a generally southern trend through rolling farmland until its turns south again at the

city of Oneonta. At Chestnut Street, the first intersection that the route has in the city's vicinity, NY 23 leaves NY 205 to follow Chestnut Street. While NY 205 continues south toward the National Soccer Hall of Fame, NY 23 heads east toward downtown Oneonta. Just one block later, however, it meets NY 7, which comes in from the southwest on Oneida Street. NY 7 turns east at this point to follow NY 23 into the city limits.[citation needed
]

Old shields on NY 7 and NY 23 in Oneonta

The two routes serve as Oneonta's main street, following Chestnut and Main streets across the city's western and central areas. Along the way, NY 7 and NY 23 pass

Interstate 88 (I-88) at an interchange on the northern bank of the Susquehanna River. NY 28—which overlaps with I-88 from Oneonta to exit 17 northeast of the city—leaves the freeway here, following NY 23 across the river to a large commercial district on the south bank. NY 28 leaves NY 23 here to proceed to the southwest while NY 23 goes eastward past several large strip malls and big-box retailers on its way out of both Oneonta and Otsego County.[citation needed
]

Catskills

In the adjacent

source is located just 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north. It maintains this elevation during a brief, 2.5-mile (4.0 km) foray into Schoharie County that leads the route around a pair of 3,000-foot (914 m) mountains situated south of the county line.[8]

Approaching US 9W on NY 23 near Catskill

Elevation drops slightly upon reaching the hamlet of Grand Gorge within the town of

Prattsville. Just inside the county, a bridge carries the highway over Schoharie Creek and into the next community, the hamlet of Prattsville.[citation needed] Pratt Rock, a series of rock carvings depicting the life of Zadock Pratt—the tanner and politician who lent his name to the town—is located just east of the hamlet.[10][11]

Southeast of Prattsville hamlet,

Capital District and points north, east and west. Along this stretch is Five State Lookout, a vista providing views of five states and four mountain ranges, including the Adirondack foothills and Green Mountains in Vermont.[14]

Having reached the floor of the

town of Cairo. It comes close to the hamlet of Cairo, but bypasses it on a four-lane divided highway that takes it around the northern fringe of the community. As it runs around Cairo, the route connects to NY 145 and briefly overlaps NY 32, the major north–south state route on the west side of the Hudson River. NY 23 continues as a divided highway through mostly forested areas to the town of Catskill, where it crosses Catskill Creek and has an indirect intersection with the New York State Thruway (I-87). Not far to the southeast is the village of Catskill, the county seat of Greene County. NY 23 bypasses this community as well, connecting to U.S. Route 9W (US 9W) and NY 385 at junctions in lightly populated areas north of the village prior to crossing the Hudson River on the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.[citation needed
]

East of the Hudson

NY 23 westbound after its brief concurrency with US 9 in Livingston

Once across the bridge and into

Bell Pond, a small waterbody in the northeast corner of the town of Livingston.[citation needed
]

In the center of the hamlet, US 9 and NY 23 encounter a complex intersection that features a total of four routes. At the junction, US 9 continues to the southwest while NY 82 continues southeast along NY 23's course. NY 23, meanwhile, picks up US 9's routing, overlapping with NY 9H in a northerly direction that takes both highways across Taghkanic Creek and into the equally rural town of Claverack. The routes remain overlapped into the hamlet of Claverack, where NY 23B comes in from the west and finishes its alternate loop of NY 23. At the same junction, NY 23 leaves the north–south NY 9H to resume an east–west alignment toward the Massachusetts state line.[citation needed]

Shortly after the NY 9H junction, NY 217 splits off to the northeast toward Philmont. The road continues southeastward from NY 217, crossing over Claverack Creek and leaving the built-up hamlet of Claverack for countryside more open and less rugged than that in the Catskills. It proceeds generally easterly across mostly undeveloped fields to Martindale, a small community at the interchange linking NY 23 to the Taconic State Parkway. From here, NY 23 follows a creek valley southeast and east into Hillsdale, where the route connects to NY 22, a north–south highway that closely parallels New York's eastern state line for most of its length. Almost 3 miles (5 km) to the east, NY 23 reaches the state line, where it becomes Massachusetts Route 23 as it serves the bi-state Catamount Ski Area.[citation needed]

History

Origins and designation

NY 23 was once made up of several privately owned

Morris, which was in operation from 1836 to 1877.[21]

In 1908, the

Oneonta to Grand Gorge, Route 5 utilized modern NY 23.[22][23] The portion of what is now NY 23 from Grand Gorge to Prattsville was designated as part of Route 38 in 1909 while the segment between the Delaware–Greene County line and Catskill (via modern CR 23B) became Route 5-a in 1911.[23][24] On March 1, 1921, Route 38 was realigned to enter Grand Gorge from the northeast on modern NY 30 while Route 5-a was renumbered to Route 47 and extended northwest to Grand Gorge over the former routing of Route 38.[25]

reference marker on NY 23 near Catskill. This marker has the identical information as the one used by New York commercial maps in the 1970s and 1980s to illustrate their presence.[26][27]

When the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924, the Oneonta–Grand Gorge segment of legislative Route 5 and all of Route 47 became part of NY 23, which continued east from Catskill to the

Norwich in the mid-1920s.[2][28] In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 23 was extended west along a previously unnumbered roadway to NY 26 in northwest Chenango County. From Norwich to North Pharsalia, NY 23 followed its modern alignment; between North Pharsalia and NY 26, NY 23 was routed on modern CR 42.[29][30]

Realignments

On July 2, 1935, the Rip Van Winkle Bridge over the Hudson River between Catskill and Greenport was opened to traffic.[31] It became part of a realigned NY 23 after the Athens–Hudson ferry shut down in the late 1940s. NY 23 utilized modern NY 23B between the bridge and Hudson.[32][33] Plans were made in the early 1950s to construct a southern bypass of the city of Hudson between the Rip Van Winkle Bridge and NY 23 midway between Claverack and Hollowville.[34][35] Construction on the portion of the highway between the bridge and US 9 south of Hudson began in the mid-1950s[15][36] and was completed in the late 1950s as a realignment of NY 23. Ultimately, this was the only section that was built; as a result, NY 23 overlapped with US 9 and NY 9H to reach its former alignment in Claverack.[15][37]

Greene CR 23B (former NY 23) heading away from the Thruway interchange towards Cairo

reference route.[1]

In Oneonta prior to the construction of the James F. Lettis Highway and I-88, NY 23 crossed the Susquehanna River concurrent with NY 28 along current NY 992D.

In July 1984,[46] NY 23 was realigned west of North Pharsalia to follow a new highway between NY 26 in Cincinnatus and North Pharsalia.[7][27] The length of the Chenango County portion of the new alignment was 8.40 miles (13.52 km), roughly double that of NY 23's old routing (4.39 miles or 7.07 kilometres).[citation needed] The 8.5 miles (13.7 km) of state highway mileage for the new road in Chenango County came from NY 23's former routing and NY 319 near Norwich, both of which were transferred to Chenango County after the new highway was completed.[46][47]

Suffixed routes

  • Catskill State Park, and ends at US 9W in Catskill south of where US 9W meets NY 23.[1] It was assigned in the mid-1920s.[2][28]
  • NY 23B (6.71 miles or 10.80 kilometres) is an alternate route of NY 23 in western Columbia County. The route separates from NY 23 south of Hudson and rejoins its parent east of the village in Claverack.[1] It was assigned in the late 1950s.[15][37]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
CortlandCincinnatus0.000.00 NY 26 – Cincinnatus, WilletWestern terminus
City of Norwich
24.4339.32 NY 12 – Sherburne, Oxford
Hamlet of South New Berlin
OtsegoVillage of Morris40.3965.00
 NY 51 south – Gilbertsville, Mount Upton		Western terminus of concurrency with NY 51
41.0966.13
 NY 51 north – Utica		Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 51
Town of Oneonta51.8783.48
 NY 205 north – Laurens, Hartwick		Western terminus of concurrency with NY 205
52.5784.60

 NY 205 south to I-88		Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 205
53.0385.34

 NY 7 west (Oneida Street) to I-88		Western terminus of concurrency with NY 7; neighborhood of West End
NY 992D (Main Street) to I-88 west
Former routing of NY 28
55.2988.98
 NY 7 east (Main Street)		Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 7
55.8889.93
 I-88 / NY 28 north – Binghamton, Cooperstown, Albany		Western terminus of concurrency with NY 28; exit 15 on I-88
Town of Oneonta56.0690.22
 NY 28 south – Delhi		Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 28
DelawareVillage of Stamford80.72129.91 NY 10 – Richmondville, Delhi
Roxbury89.13143.44 NY 30 – Middleburgh, RoxburyHamlet of Grand Gorge
Prattsville
95.32153.40
 NY 23A east – Lexington		Western terminus of NY 23A; hamlet of Prattsville
Windham
106.32171.11
 NY 296 south – Hensonville, Hunter		Northern terminus of NY 296; hamlet of Windham
Cairo120.16193.38
 NY 145 north – East Durham		Southern terminus of NY 145
120.59194.07
 NY 32 north – Freehold		Western terminus of concurrency with NY 32; hamlet of Cairo
121.71195.87
 NY 32 south – Palenville, Saugerties, Kingston		Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 32
CR 23B / NY 911V; hamlet of Jefferson Heights
129.52208.44
US 9W to NY 23A – Albany, Catskill
Interchange
Village of Catskill130.01209.23 NY 385 – Athens, Catskill
Hudson River130.57210.13Rip Van Winkle Bridge (eastbound toll)
ColumbiaGreenport131.67211.90
 NY 9G south – Poughkeepsie		Western terminus of concurrency with NY 9G
131.96212.37

 NY 9G north / NY 23B east – Hudson		Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 9G; western terminus of NY 23B
134.25216.05
 US 9 north – Hudson		Western terminus of concurrency with US 9
Livingston136.93220.37


 US 9 south / NY 9H / NY 82 south to Taconic State Parkway – Poughkeepsie		Eastern terminus of concurrency with US 9; termini of NY 9H and NY 82
Berkshire Connector – Hudson, Albany
Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 9H; eastern terminus of NY 23B; hamlet of Claverack
141.72228.08
 NY 217 east – Philmont		Western terminus of NY 217; hamlet of Red Mills
146.40235.61 Taconic State ParkwayExit 88 on Taconic Parkway; hamlet of Martindale
Berkshire Connector – Millerton, Austerlitz
Hamlet of Hillsdale
156.15251.30
 Route 23 east – Great Barrington		Continuation into Massachusetts
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

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