New York State Route 39

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"NY 39" redirects here. The term may also refer to New York's 39th congressional district.
This article is about the current alignment of NY 39. For the former alignment of NY 39 in Dutchess and Putnam counties, see New York State Route 39 (1920s–1930).

Leicester and Geneseo
East end US 20 / NY 5 in Avon
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesChautauqua, Cattaraugus, Erie, Wyoming, Livingston
Highway system
←
NY 20C
NY 20D→ NY 20N

New York State Route 39 (NY 39) is an east–west

Pike
. Most of the route is a two-lane highway that passes through rural, undeveloped areas.

NY 39 was assigned as part of the

Geneva in the east via Pike, Dansville, and Naples. From Pike eastward, NY 39 used large parts of modern NY 436 and NY 245. At the time, what is now NY 39 northeast of Pike was part of then-NY 245 from Pike to Perry and US 20 from outside of Leicester to Avon. US 20 was realigned between Geneseo and East Avon c. 1931 to follow a more easterly alignment via Lakeville
, at which time the Geneseo–Avon highway became New York State Route 20D. Over the next decade, the Pike–Perry–Avon highway underwent several designation changes, culminating with the realignment of NY 39 onto it c. 1940. The route was cut back to its current western terminus in the mid-1960s.

Route description

All but 0.46 miles (0.74 km) of NY 39 is maintained by the

overlap with US 20A to North Street, a local east–west street four blocks to the north of US 20A.[3]

Sheridan to Gowanda

NY 39 begins at an intersection with

CR 58, locally known as North Road.[4] South of this point, CR 58 was once part of NY 353.[5]

US 62 and NY 39 through Gowanda

To the east, NY 39 briefly turns northward before following West Main Street eastward into the creekside village of

Cattaraugus Indian Reservation.[4]

Erie County and vicinity

NY 39 west of Springville

Outside of Gowanda, US 62 and NY 39 take on a more northerly routing to the town of

Southern Expressway (US 219) at an interchange. Not far to the east is a junction with the heavily commercialized Cascade Drive,[4] the newer of US 219's two former routings through Springville.[6]

NY 39 continues east past Cascade Drive and into the village, where it becomes Main Street. In the village's central business district, NY 39 crosses Buffalo Street,

Yorkshire, at which point NY 39 heads east for 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to enter Wyoming County.[4]

Wyoming County

In the neighboring

Batavia. After another 0.5 miles (0.8 km), Arcade abruptly ends, giving way to more fields of farmland, a common sight along NY 39 from here eastward.[4]

NY 19 north and NY 39 east in Pike

About 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Arcade in the hamlet of

Lamont before intersecting NY 19A southwest of the village of Castile.[4]

NY 19A, an easterly alternate route of NY 19, merges with NY 39, following the latter for 0.25 miles (0.40 km) to an unorthodox intersection southwest of the village. Heading west on NY 39, traffic is diverted onto a ramp leading to NY 19A, where commuters must turn left onto NY 19A to continue west on NY 39. Eastbound NY 39, however, has no such configuration, allowing eastbound traffic to remain on NY 39 through the intersection. Between Castile and the village of Perry, NY 39 assumes a slightly more northerly alignment, paralleling the edges of Silver Lake a half-mile to the northwest and Letchworth State Park 2 miles (3.2 km) to the southeast. Upon entering Perry, NY 39 shifts to a northeasterly alignment once again as it intersects NY 246 in the village center. East of the village, NY 39 switches counties for the final time as the road crosses into Livingston County.[4]

Livingston County

Northeast of where NY 39 enters the county but southwest of the

SUNY Geneseo campus.[4]

US 20A and NY 39 in the town of Geneseo

While NY 63 runs along the western edge of the college, US 20A and NY 39 follow the eastern edge of SUNY Geneseo northward to the village center. Here, the two routes meet Mary Jemison Drive, an east–west street that serves that the only connection between NY 39 west and NY 63 north. At the same intersection, US 20A and NY 39 turn east onto South Street; however, the concurrency terminates just one block later at Main Street. Here, NY 39 turns north, leaving US 20A to proceed east toward the Finger Lakes.[4]

Outside of Geneseo, NY 39 becomes Avon Road, a name it retains to the outskirts of the village of Avon. As it enters Avon, the farmlands give way to more developed, mostly residential areas. Now named Wadsworth Avenue, NY 39 passes west of a large Kraft Foods plant that occupies a large portion of southwestern Avon. North of the plant, the route heads past residential neighborhoods to the west and commercial establishments situated on the Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad (LAL) to the east. NY 39 ends about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the plant at a junction with US 20 and NY 5 west of the center of Avon and just west of where those two routes cross the LAL at-grade.[4]

History

The modern routing of NY 39 between

U.S. Highway that continued east from Avon toward Albany and west from Pine Tavern toward Buffalo.[10] As a result, NY 36 was truncated to its junction with US 20 in Leicester. In Avon, US 20 was routed on Wadsworth Avenue, Spring Street, and Genesee Street.[11]

NY 39 was assigned as part of the

NY 2 (now NY 15) instead. The former routing of US 20 between Geneseo and Avon was redesignated as NY 20D.[13][14] NY 245 was realigned north of Perry to follow a new highway (modern NY 39) to an intersection with US 20 southwest of Leicester c. 1934.[15][16]

US 20 was realigned c. 1938 to follow its modern routing between Hamburg and Avon. Its former alignment between Hamburg and Geneseo became part of

NY 254.[19] The routings of NY 39 and NY 245 east of Pike were swapped in the fall of 1939,[20] placing NY 245 on a routing extending from Pike to Geneva and NY 39 on its modern alignment to Leicester. NY 39 was also extended northeast to Avon as part of the change, supplanting NY 254.[19][21] The portion of NY 39 within Avon was rerouted to follow Wadsworth Avenue to West Main Street (US 20 and NY 5) in the early 1950s.[22][23]

In Dunkirk, NY 39 originally began at the intersection of East Lake Shore Drive (NY 5) and Main Street. From there, it followed Main Street, Franklin Avenue, and Roberts Road to US 20.

CR 81 while the Main Street portion is now the northernmost part of NY 60.[29]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
I-90 – Fredonia, Silver Creek
Western terminus
overlap
Erie18.6229.97
 NY 438 west – Silver Creek		Eastern terminus of NY 438
hamlet
of Collins
24.4539.35
 NY 75 north – Hamburg		Southern terminus of NY 75; hamlet of Collins Center
Springville33.1753.38 US 219 – Ellicottville, Salamanca, Hamburg, BuffaloInterchange
35.8057.61 NY 240 – Glenwood, Orchard Park, Ellicottville
Sardinia45.0672.52
 NY 16 north – East Aurora		Northern terminus of NY 16 / NY 39 overlap
CattaraugusYorkshire45.8673.80
 NY 16 south – Olean		Southern terminus of NY 16 / NY 39 overlap; hamlet of Yorkshire
WyomingVillage of Arcade48.7378.42
 NY 98 south		Western terminus of NY 39 / NY 98 overlap
48.8678.63
 NY 98 north – Attica		Eastern terminus of NY 39 / NY 98 overlap
Hamlet of Bliss
; southern terminus of NY 362
Town of Pike
64.64104.03
 NY 19 south – Pike		Southern terminus of NY 19 / NY 39 overlap; hamlet of Pike
65.25105.01
 NY 19 north – Gainesville		Northern terminus of NY 19 / NY 39 overlap
67.37108.42
Lamont
; western terminus of NY 436
Town of Castile
70.10112.82
 NY 19A south – Letchworth State Park		Southern terminus of NY 19A / NY 39 overlap
Village of Castile70.30113.14
 NY 19A north – Silver Springs, Warsaw		Northern terminus of NY 19A / NY 39 overlap
Village of Perry77.49124.71
 NY 246 north		Southern terminus of NY 246
US 20A west – Warsaw
Western terminus of US 20A / NY 39 overlap
Village of Leicester84.75136.39
 NY 36 north – Caledonia, Buffalo area		Western terminus of NY 36 / NY 39 overlap
84.89136.62
I-390 – Mount Morris, Letchworth State Park
Eastern terminus of NY 36 / NY 39 overlap
Town of Geneseo
88.63142.64
 NY 63 south – Mount Morris, Dansville		Southern terminus of NY 39 / NY 63 overlap
88.94143.14
 NY 63 north – Batavia		Northern terminus of NY 39 / NY 63 overlap
NY 942D north (Mary Jemison Drive) to NY 63
Eastern terminus of unsigned NY 942D; to NY 63 north only signed westbound
89.64144.26
US 20A east – Lakeville
Eastern terminus of US 20A / NY 39 overlap
I-390 – Canandaigua
Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. pp. 186–187. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". The New York Times. p. 136.
  3. ^ "Livingston County Inventory Listing" (CSV). New York State Department of Transportation. March 2, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Microsoft; Nokia (July 17, 2015). "overview map of NY 39" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
  5. ^
    Exxon
    . 1979.
  6. ^ New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map) (1958 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1958.
  7. ^ a b New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map) (1955–56 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1954.
  8. ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times. December 21, 1924. p. XX9.
  9. State of New York Department of Public Works
    . 1926.
  10. ^ Automobile Blue Book. Vol. 1 (1927 ed.). Chicago: Automobile Blue Book, Inc. 1927. This edition shows U.S. Routes as they were first officially signed in 1927.
  11. Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1927.
  12. 1930 renumbering
  13. ^ a b Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Standard Oil Company of New York. 1930.
  14. Kendall Refining Company
    . 1931.
  15. Texas Oil Company
    . 1933.
  16. ^ Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Texas Oil Company. 1934.
  17. Standard Oil Company
    . 1937.
  18. ^ New York Road Map for 1938 (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1938.
  19. ^ a b New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Standard Oil Company. 1939.
  20. ^ "Highway Remarking Will Aid Route 39". Perry Herald. October 25, 1939. p. 1. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  21. Gulf Oil Company
    . 1940.
  22. Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
    . 1950.
  23. ^ New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Sunoco. 1952.
  24. ^ New York and Metropolitan New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Sinclair Oil Corporation. 1964.
  25. ^ New York (Map) (1969–70 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1968.
  26. ^ Dunkirk Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1978. Retrieved July 19, 2009.
  27. ^ "State DOT To Trade Roads With County" (PDF). The Sherman Sentinel. June 20, 1979. p. 13. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  28. ^ New York State Legislature. "New York State Highway Law § 341". Retrieved July 19, 2009.
  29. ^ Microsoft; Nokia (February 25, 2017). "Dunkirk, NY" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved February 25, 2017.

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