New York State Route 366

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Ithaca
East end NY 38 in Freevile
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesTompkins
Highway system
←
NY 365A
→ NY 367

New York State Route 366 (NY 366) is an east–west state highway located entirely within Tompkins County in the Finger Lakes region of New York in the United States. It runs for 9.40 miles (15.13 km) from State Street (NY 79) just east of downtown Ithaca to NY 38 in Freeville. NY 366 parallels Fall Creek from Varna to Freeville and passes along the southern edge of the Cornell University campus. NY 366 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York; however, it was initially nothing more than a connector between NY 13 in Etna and NY 38 in Freeville. In the 1960s, NY 13 was moved onto a new expressway bypassing Ithaca to the west and north. The former surface routing of NY 13 into downtown Ithaca became an extension of NY 366.

Route description

NY 366 begins at an intersection with

NY 392, Forest Home Drive, before entering the hamlet of Varna. Varna consists of a stretch of residential homes on each side of NY 366.[3]

NY 366 westbound at NY 79 in Ithaca

NY 366 turns to the northeast through Dryden, intersecting the northern terminus of

CR 105 (Fall Creek Road) toward the hamlet of Red Mills.[3]

History

In 1908, the

Varna, where it picked up modern NY 366 east through Etna to Freeville, then continuing southeastward toward Dryden on what is now NY 38.[4][5] When the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924, the segment of legislative Route 9 between Varna and Etna became part of NY 13. Unlike Route 9 before it, NY 13 bypassed Freeville to the south in favor of a direct alignment between Etna and Dryden.[6][7]

NY 366 heading past a hotel near Turkey Hill Road (CR 161) in Dryden

Also assigned at this time was

overlapped with NY 13 east to Etna, where it turned northeast to follow old legislative Route 9 to Freeville. Past Freeville, the route continued northward toward Syracuse on modern NY 38.[6][7] The overlap between NY 13 and NY 26 was eliminated in the late 1920s when NY 26 was truncated to begin at the former east end of the concurrency in Etna.[7][8] In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the NY 26 designation was reassigned to another highway off to the east.[9] The southernmost portion of NY 26's former routing between Etna and Freeville was redesignated as NY 366.[2][10]

NY 13 was realigned c. 1936 to bypass the

overlap NY 79 became a westward extension of NY 366.[15]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Tompkins County. [1]

Location[1]mi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
City of Ithaca
0.000.00 NY 79 (State Street)Western terminus
0.230.37Mitchell StreetFormer western terminus of NY 393
hamlet of Varna
4.657.48
 NY 13 south (Ithaca Truck Route)		Western end of concurrency with NY 13
5.899.48
 NY 13 north – Dryden		Eastern end of concurrency with NY 13
Freeville9.3815.10 NY 38 (Railroad Street) – Dryden, GrotonEastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Office of Technical Services (2014). "Inventory Listing". Engineering Division, New York State Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  2. ^
    Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1930.
  3. ^ a b Microsoft; Nokia (April 16, 2012). "Overview map of NY 366" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
  4. ^ State of New York Department of Highways (1909). The Highway Law. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 58. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  5. ^ New York State Department of Highways (1920). Report of the State Commissioner of Highways. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 517–518. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  6. ^ a b "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times. December 21, 1924. p. XX9.
  7. ^
    State of New York Department of Public Works
    . 1926.
  8. ^ Automobile Blue Book (Elmira and Ithaca, NY insets). Vol. 3. Automobile Blue Book, Inc. 1929. p. 20. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  9. ^ Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". The New York Times. p. 136.
  10. Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1929.
  11. Sun Oil Company
    . 1935.
  12. Standard Oil Company
    . 1936.
  13. ^ New York with Sight-Seeing Guide (Map) (1962 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1962.
  14. ^ New York Happy Motoring Guide (Map) (1963 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1963.
  15. ^ New York (Map) (1969–70 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1968.

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