New York State Route 17 - Suffixed Routes

Suffixed Routes

NY 17 has had 13 suffixed routes bearing 11 different designations. Five are still assigned to their routes, while eight have been removed or renumbered.

• The NY 17A designation has been used for two distinct highways:
  • The first NY 17A was an alternate route of NY 17 between Randolph and Salamanca via Little Valley. It was assigned in the mid-1920s and renumbered to NY 17H in the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.
  • The current NY 17A (24.76 miles or 39.85 kilometres) is an alternate route of NY 17 between Goshen and Southfields that connects NY 17 to Warwick in Orange County. It was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering.
• NY 17B (21.90 miles or 35.24 kilometres) is a spur of NY 17 connecting Monticello to NY 97 in Callicoon. When it was originally assigned in 1930, it also extended northward to Hancock via modern NY 97.
• NY 17C (40.34 miles or 64.92 kilometres) is an alternate route of NY 17 between Waverly and Binghamton in Tioga and Broome counties. The western terminus of the route was initially located in Owego upon being assigned in 1930.
• NY 17D was a spur of NY 17 in the vicinity of Elmira, Chemung County that ran from downtown Elmira to the Pennsylvania border east of Wellsburg. The route, assigned in 1930, was renumbered to NY 427 in the early 1940s.
• NY 17E was an alternate route of NY 17 between Big Flats and Elmira in Chemung County. The route, assigned in 1930, was renumbered to NY 352 in the mid-1960s.
• NY 17F was an alternate route of NY 17 between Andover, Allegany County, and Addison, Steuben County. The route, assigned in 1930, was a northerly alternate route of NY 17 that served Hornell and Canisteo. NY 17F was removed in the early 1940s and is now NY 21, NY 36 and Steuben County's CR 119.
• NY 17G was a spur assigned in 1930 to what is now NY 248 south of NY 417. It became part of an extended NY 248 in the early 1940s.
• The NY 17H designation has been used for two distinct highways:
  • The first NY 17H was an alternate route of NY 17 between Randolph and Salamanca via Little Valley in Cattaraugus County. It was assigned in 1930 and removed c. 1937. The route became part of an extended NY 242 west of Little Valley and remained part of NY 18 (which NY 17H overlapped) east of the village.
  • The second NY 17H was a spur route of NY 17 in the vicinity of Binghamton. The route began at NY 17 in Binghamton and followed Riverside Drive west and north to Johnson City, where it ended at NY 17C. It was assigned by 1940 and partially replaced with NY 201 in the 1970s.
• NY 17J was a westerly alternate route of NY 17 between Mayville and Jamestown along the western edge of Chautauqua Lake. It was assigned in 1930 and supplanted by NY 394 in the early 1970s.
• NY 17K (22.37 miles or 36.00 kilometres) is a spur linking NY 17 in Bloomingburg to US 9W and NY 32 in Newburgh, Orange County. It was assigned c. 1939.
• NY 17M (26.63 miles or 42.86 kilometres) is the former routing of NY 17 in Orange County. The route begins north of Middletown in Fair Oaks and rejoins NY 17 in Harriman. It was assigned in 1951.