New York State Route 366

NYS Route 366
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT and the city of Ithaca
Length:	9.40 mi[2] (15.13 km)
Existed:	1930[1] – present
Major junctions
West end:	NY 79 in Ithaca
East end:	NY 38 in Freevile
Location
Counties:	Tompkins
Highway system
Numbered highways in New York Interstate • U.S. • N.Y. (former) • Reference • County ← NY 365 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.

History

Western terminus of NY 366's overlap with NY 13

In 1908, the New York State Legislature created Route 9, an unsigned legislative route that ran from the Southern Tier to Bouckville via Ithaca and Cortland. Route 9 exited the city of Ithaca on modern NY 366 and followed it east through Varna and Etna to Freeville, from where it continued southeastward toward Dryden on what is now NY 38.^[3][4] 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 exited Ithaca on Forest Home Drive and bypassed Freeville to the south in favor of a direct alignment between Etna and Dryden.^[5][6]

Also assigned at this time was NY 26, a highway that initially extended from Ithaca to Syracuse via Moravia and Skaneateles. NY 26 began in downtown Ithaca and 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.^[5][6] 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.^[6][7] In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the NY 26 designation was reassigned to another highway off to the east.^[8] The southernmost portion of NY 26's former routing between Etna and Freeville was redesignated as NY 366.^[1][9]

Ca. 1936, NY 13 was realigned to bypass the Cornell University grounds to the south on State (NY 79) and Mitchell Streets and Ithaca and Dryden Roads. Its old alignment through the college became NY 392.^[10][11] In the early 1960s, a new expressway was built along the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake, bypassing downtown Ithaca to the west and north.^[12][13] NY 13 was altered to follow Meadow Street and the freeway between southwestern Ithaca and the town of Dryden while the portion of NY 13's old routing that did not overlap NY 79 became a westward extension of NY 366.^[14]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Tompkins County.

Location	Mile[2]	Destinations	Notes
City of Ithaca	0.00	NY 79
		Mitchell Street	Former western terminus of NY 393
Town of Dryden	2.56	Forest Home Drive	Former eastern terminus of NY 392
	4.68	NY 13 south	Western terminus of NY 13 / NY 366 overlap
	5.91	NY 13 north	Eastern terminus of NY 13 / NY 366 overlap
Freeville	9.40	NY 38
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

New York Roads portal

1. ^ ^{a b} Standard Oil Company of New York (1930). Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "2008 Traffic Volume Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. p. 220. https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/NYSDOT%20TVR%202008%20by%20Route.pdf. Retrieved February 1, 2010. 
3. ^ State of New York Department of Highways (1909). The Highway Law. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 58. http://books.google.com/books?id=jZ0AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA58. Retrieved June 24, 2010. 
4. ^ New York State Department of Highways (1920). Report of the State Commissioner of Highways. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 517–518. http://books.google.com/books?id=Sj4CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA517. Retrieved June 24, 2010. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times: p. XX9. December 21, 1924. 
6. ^ ^{a b c} State of New York Department of Public Works (1926). Official Map Showing State Highways and other important roads (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
7. ^ Automobile Blue Book (Elmira and Ithaca, NY insets). 3. Automobile Blue Book, Inc. 1929. p. 20. http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/Midatlantic/NewYork/bluebook1929_016.html. Retrieved June 24, 2010. 
8. ^ Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". The New York Times: p. 136. 
9. ^ Standard Oil Company of New York (1929). New York in Soconyland (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. 
10. ^ Sun Oil Company (1935). Road Map & Historical Guide – New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
11. ^ Standard Oil Company (1936). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. 
12. ^ Esso (1962). New York with Sight-Seeing Guide (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1962 ed.). 
13. ^ Esso (1963). New York Happy Motoring Guide (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1963 ed.). 
14. ^ Esso (1968). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1969–70 ed.). 

External links

• New York Routes – New York State Route 366
• New York State Highway Termini – New York State Route 366