New York State Route 415

NYS Route 415
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT
Length:	42.83 mi[3] (68.93 km)
Existed:	mid-1960s[1][2] – present
Major junctions
South end:	NY 414 in Corning
	NY 54 in Bath
North end:	NY 15 / NY 21 in Wayland
Location
Counties:	Steuben
Highway system
Numbered highways in New York Interstate • U.S. • N.Y. (former) • Reference • County ← NY 414 NY 416 →

New York State Route 415 (NY 415) is a state highway located in Steuben County, New York, United States. It is a north–south trunk road that parallels in part, the Cohocton River, Interstate 86 and Interstate 390. The southern terminus of the route is at an intersection with NY 414 in the city of Corning. Its northern terminus is at a junction with NY 15 and NY 21 south of the village of Wayland. NY 415 serves several villages bypassed by the Southern Tier Expressway and I-390, such as Bath and Cohocton. The road also runs concurrent with New York State Bicycle Route 17 from its southern terminus to Steuben CR 70A.^[4]

All of NY 415 from Painted Post west was part of U.S. Route 15 from the 1930s to the 1960s. As sections of the Southern Tier Expressway and I-390 opened to traffic in the 1960s and 1970s, US 15 (later NY 15) was realigned to follow the expressway while its former at-grade routing became NY 415. NY 415 reached its present length, save for one minor extension in Corning, by 1977.

History

In 1908, the New York State Legislature created a system of unsigned legislative routes that spanned the state of New York. Two highways assigned at this time were Route 4, which extended from Westfield to West Point, and Route 14, a route beginning at the western city line of Corning and ending at the southern city limits of Rochester. Route 4 entered the vicinity of Corning on Hamilton Street and followed Hamilton to its junction with Water Street. From there, it overlapped Route 14 east to the Corning city limits, where Route 14 ended and Route 4 continued alone through the city on Water and Pulteney Streets. Route 14, meanwhile, exited the Corning area on Water Street and followed what is now NY 415 through Savona, Bath, and Avoca to Cohocton. In Cohocton, Route 14 veered north to follow modern NY 371 instead.^[5][6]

The first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924. In the vicinity of Corning, Route 4 became part of NY 17 while the portion of Route 14 from Painted Post to Cohocton was designated as part of NY 4, which also extended south to the Pennsylvania state line and north to Rochester via Wayland, Springwater, East Avon, and Henrietta.^[7] NY 4 was renumbered to NY 2 in 1927 to eliminate the numerical duplication between NY 4 and the new U.S. Route 4 in eastern New York.^[8] Both NY 2 and NY 17 remained unchanged until 1938, when U.S. Route 15 was extended northward from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Rochester along the routing of NY 2.^[9] NY 17 and US 15 were rerouted slightly in the late 1950s to follow Coopers–Bath Road through Painted Post instead.^[10][11]

Construction began ca. 1962 on a bypass of NY 17 and US 15 in the vicinity of Corning (modern exit 45) and Painted Post (exit 43).^[12][13] The entirety of the highway, plus an extension northwest to Campbell (exit 41), was completed between 1964 and 1968. US 15 and NY 17 were rerouted to follow the new highway, and their former routings between Campbell and Corning were redesignated as NY 415. The route also continued eastward into downtown Corning, where it ended at the junction of Pulteney Street and Baker Street (NY 414).^[1][2][14] The portion of the US 15 / NY 17 freeway between Campbell and Avoca (exit 36) was completed by 1973;^[15] however, NY 415 continued to terminate in Campbell until the mid-1970s when it was extended north to a junction with NY 21 south of Wayland following the completion of Interstate 390 between Avoca and Wayland.^[16][17] When the Corning Bypass (part of the Southern Tier Expressway) was built in the mid-1990s,^{[citation needed]} NY 414 was rerouted to follow Centerway through the city. NY 415 was then extended east for two blocks to meet the new routing of NY 414.

Ownership and maintenance of NY 415 from Meads Creek Road in Coopers Plains to Babcock Hollow Road outside of Bath was transferred from the state of New York to Steuben County by 1977. The highway was co-designated as County Route 415 at the time.^[18][19] On April 1, 1997, ownership and maintenance of this portion of NY 415 was given back to the state of New York as part of a larger highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government.^[20]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Steuben County.

Location	Mile[3]	Destinations	Notes
City of Corning	0.00	NY 414
Erwin	3.14	I-86 / NY 17	Exit 43 (I-86 / NY 17)
Campbell	8.98	CR 333	Former eastern terminus of NY 333
Savona	13.98	NY 226
Village of Bath	20.45	NY 54 north	Southern terminus of NY 54 / NY 415 overlap
	21.20	NY 54 south	Northern terminus of NY 54 / NY 415 overlap
Town of Bath	24.02	NY 53
Village of Cohocton	36.03	NY 371	Southern terminus of NY 371
Town of Wayland	42.83	NY 15 / NY 21
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

New York Roads portal

1. ^ ^{a b} Sinclair (1964). New York and Metropolitan New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Esso (1968). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1969–70 ed.). 
3. ^ ^{a b} "2008 Traffic Volume Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. p. 230. https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/NYSDOT%20TVR%202008%20by%20Route.pdf. Retrieved February 1, 2010. 
4. ^ Steuben County Bicycle Route 17 map (New York State Department of Transporation
5. ^ State of New York Department of Highways (1909). The Highway Law. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 54–55, 59. http://books.google.com/books?id=jZ0AAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#PPA54,M1. Retrieved May 24, 2009. 
6. ^ New York State Department of Highways (1920). Report of the State Commissioner of Highways. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 502–505, 522. http://books.google.com/books?id=Sj4CAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA502,M1. Retrieved May 24, 2009. 
7. ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times: p. XX9. December 21, 1924. 
8. ^ Automobile Blue Book. 1 (1927 ed.). Chicago: Automobile Blue Book, Inc. 1927.  This edition shows U.S. Routes as they were first officially signed in 1927.
9. ^ Thibodeau, William A. (1938). The ALA Green Book (1938–39 ed.). Automobile Legal Association. 
10. ^ Esso (1958). New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1958 ed.). 
11. ^ Gulf (1960). New York and New Jersey Tourgide Map (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
12. ^ Sunoco (1961). New York and Metropolitan New York (Map). Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company (1961–62 ed.). 
13. ^ Sinclair (1962). New York and Metropolitan New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
14. ^ United States Geological Survey (1976). Corning Quadrangle – New York – Steuben Co. (Map). 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic). http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/gisdata/quads/drg24/usgspreview/index.cfm?code=o42077b1. Retrieved May 24, 2009. 
15. ^ Shell Oil Company (1973). New York (Map). Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company (1973 ed.). 
16. ^ Gulf (1974). New York and New Jersey Tourgide Map (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
17. ^ Exxon (1977). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1977–78 ed.). 
18. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (1977). Bath Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=v20. Retrieved May 24, 2009. 
19. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (1977). Campbell Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=w21. Retrieved May 24, 2009. 
20. ^ New York State Legislature. "Highway Law, Article 12, Section 341". http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi?COMMONQUERY=LAWS. Retrieved May 24, 2009. 

External links

• Alps' Roads – New York State Route 415
• New York Routes – New York State Route 415
• New York State Highway Termini – New York State Route 415