New York State Route 2

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U.S. Route 2 also enters New York.

New York State Route 2 is a state route in New York state, running from Interstate 87 and NY-7 at Latham east to the Massachusetts state line, where it continues to Boston as Massachusetts Route 2. Cities along the highway include Troy and Watervliet. Grafton Lakes State Park is off this highway in Grafton.

At Petersburg Pass just west of the state line, Route 2 reaches 2,400 feet (732 m) in elevation, one of the highest points on New York's state highway system.

Contents

1 Towns along the route
2 Major Intersections
3 History
4 References

Towns along the route

Major Intersections

Legend
Crossing, no access	Concurrency termini	County
Decommissioned	Unconstructed	Closed

History

The route number 2 was originally assigned to the road from the Pennsylvania state line south of Corning to Rochester. In 1935, U.S. Route 15 was extended north into New York, taking over Route 2, and the existing Owego-Rochester NY-15 was renumbered NY-2.

By 1939, the connection to Massachusetts Route 2 from Troy was assigned Route 96. Routes 2 and 96 were swapped by 1946, matching New York's and Massachusetts's Route 2s and giving Route 96 the Owego-Rochester route.

References

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