 New York State Route 13 | ||||
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 Map of central New York with NY 13 highlighted in red, and 13A in blue | ||||
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| Maintained byNYSDOT and the city ofIthaca | ||||
| Length | 152.30 mi[1] (245.10 km) | |||
| Existed | 1924[2]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |    I-86 /NY 17 /Southern Tier Expressway inHorseheads town | |||
| Major intersections | ||||
| North end |  NY 3 inRichland | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | New York | |||
| Counties | Chemung,Schuyler,Tompkins,Cortland,Madison,Oneida,Oswego | |||
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New York State Route 13 (NY 13) is astate highway that runs mainly north–south for 152.30 miles (245.10 km) betweenNY 14 inHorseheads andNY 3 west ofPulaski inCentral New York in theUnited States. In between, NY 13 intersects withInterstate 81 (I-81) inCortland andPulaski and meets theNew York State Thruway (I-90) inCanastota. NY 13 is co-signed with several routes along its routing, most notablyNY 34 andNY 96 betweenNewfield andIthaca;NY 80 betweenDeRuyter andCazenovia; andNY 5 betweenChittenango andCanastota.
The most heavily traveled section of the route is the 50-mile (80 km) northeast–southwest section between Horseheads andCortland. Situated midway between the two locations is the city ofIthaca; here, a small section of NY 13 follows an expressway alignment around much of the city. Much of the route, however, is a two-lane highway that passes through rural areas. When NY 13 was originally assigned in the 1920s, it extended only fromElmira toCazenovia. It was significantly extended in 1930, stretching fromLindley in the south toRichland in the north. The southern terminus was moved back toElmira in the 1940s and has been located at various points in the city since then.
Up until 2006, NY 13 began at exit 54 on theSouthern Tier Expressway (I-86) southeast of the village ofHorseheads. However, as part of the Horseheads Bypass project, NY 13 was extended west into the village toNY 14 along thefrontage roads for the expressway.[3] North ofI-86, NY 13 heads north through the town ofHorseheads as atwo-lane freeway before becoming a surface road, paralleling the eastern edge of the village to an intersection withNY 223 near the northern town line. As NY 13 passes out ofHorseheads and intoVeteran, the amount of development along the roadway becomes sparse, consisting of only small roadside hamlets.
Just before exitingChemung County, NY 13 turns northeast toward the city ofIthaca several miles to the northeast. The route soon enters the narrow southeastern extents ofSchuyler County, where it intersectsNY 224 before crossing county lines again, this time intoTompkins County. In the town ofNewfield, NY 13 remains largely rural in nature, passing only one significant settlement—theNewfield hamlet of the same name, officially known asNewfield Hamlet—on its way to the town ofIthaca. Shortly after entering the town, the route meets with theconcurrent routes ofNY 34 andNY 96 at an interchange adjacent toRobert H. Treman State Park, becoming Elmira Road. Both routes join NY 13 north alongside the eastern edge of the park toNY 327, a road largely delimiting the northern extent of the park. The three routes proceed generally northeastward through the town ofIthaca to the vicinity ofButtermilk Falls State Park, where they intersect the south end of NY 13A, an alternate route of NY 13 through western Ithaca, near the formerTutelo village ofCoreogonel at the confluence ofButtermilk Creek and theCayuga Lake inlet. NY 13,NY 34, andNY 96 continue on, directly serving Buttermilk Falls State Park as they pass over the creek and inlet and enter the Ithaca city limits.
At West Clinton Street (NY 96B), the route splits into aone-way pair, with Meadow Street carrying northbound traffic and Fulton Street handling southbound traffic. Due to the configuration of the city street grid,NY 79 overlaps the three-route concurrency on Fulton Street for one block eastbound as it switches from West State Street to West Green Street; no such overlap exists westbound/northbound asNY 79 westbound remains on West Seneca Street, whereNY 96 leaves NY 13/34 and joinsNY 79. Theone-way pair comes to an end near Hancock Street, at which point both directions of the route merge into Meadow Street and continue northeastward through the city as an at-grade roadway. At Dey Street, however, the road becomes alimited-access highway as it heads through the northern extents of the city and partially alongsideCayuga Lake.
Near the northern city line, the roadway connects to East Shore Drive by way of an interchange, at which pointNY 34 leaves the expressway to follow East Shore Drive along the lakeshore. NY 13 andNY 34 follow parallel routings intoLansing, where NY 13 curves eastward to interchange with both Cayuga Heights Road and Triphammer Road. Southwest ofIthaca Tompkins International Airport, NY 13 downgrades into adivided highway and meets Warren Road at-grade before reverting into a two-lane roadway as it passes south of the airport and exits theIthaca area.
NY 13 progresses southeast through westernDryden to meet Dryden Road (NY 366), a street originating in easternIthaca.NY 366 joins NY 13 northeast alongFall Creek for little more than 1 mile (1.6 km) before splitting; however, the Dryden Road name remains with NY 13 into the village ofDryden. At the village center, NY 13 meets bothNY 38 andNY 392. NY 13 turns north, overlapping NY 38 for three blocks and passingTompkins Cortland Community College as it exits the village limits on Cortland Road.
At the Tompkins-Cortland County line, NY 13 loses the Cortland Road moniker and becomes unnamed as it heads towardCortland. Southwest of the city limits, NY 13 breaks to the northeast, with its north-northeastward alignment continuing onward asNY 281. InCortland, NY 13 becomes Tompkins Street and meetsNY 215 (Owego Street) three blocks from an intersection with the overlapping routes ofU.S. Route 11 (US 11) andNY 41 at Church Street. All three routes turn north onto Church, creating a three-route overlap that lasts for three blocks through downtownCortland. At Clinton Road,US 11 andNY 41 turn west while NY 13 curves east for several blocks to an interchange withI-81 at the northeastern edge of the city's downtown district. Here, theTioughnioga River splits, with NY 13 following the eastern branch northeast out of the Cortland city limits.
NY 13 continues northeast along the banks of the Tioughnioga throughTruxton, where it intersects the southern terminus ofNY 91, to the hamlet ofCuyler in thetown of the same name. Here, the river downgrades to a creek as the route turns eastward towardMadison County. Upon crossing the county line, NY 13 enters the village ofDeRuyter, located in the town of thesame name, as Cortland Street. In the village center, NY 13 turns left onto Utica Street and follows the roadway out of the village.
Outside of the village, NY 13 follows a largely northeast–southwest alignment as it passes through the hamlet of Puckerville (centered around the junction between NY 13 and East Lake Road, a local roadway following the eastern edge of theDeRuyter Reservoir), to Sheds, a small hamlet marked by the intersection of NY 13 andNY 80. NY 13 turns north, overlappingNY 80 north for 3 miles (5 km) to theCazenovia community ofNew Woodstock, where NY 13 leavesNY 80 at the western fringe of the hamlet.
NY 13 heads north to the village ofCazenovia, located at the southeastern tip ofCazenovia Lake. Within the village limits, NY 13 overlapsUS 20 on Forman and Albany Streets before continuing north out of the village on Farnham and Sweetland Streets. Outside of the village, the street becomes known as Gorge Road and enters a roughly 100 feet (30 m) ravine surrounding theChittenango Creek. As NY 13 progresses northward, the gorge deepens, reaching approximately 300 feet (91 m) withinChittenango Falls State Park. North of the park, the gorge widens laterally and continues to drop in elevation, with the difference between the surrounding terrain and NY 13 reaching almost 500 feet (150 m) as it intersectsNY 5 in southeasternChittenango. The two routes overlap, following Genesee Street north for several blocks before turning east and paralleling the formerErie Canal out of the village.
The two routes remain conjoined untilCanastota, a village located in the town ofLenox, where NY 13 breaks from NY 5 and resumes its northward progression. North of the village center, NY 13 meets theNew York State Thruway (I-90) at exit 34 before exiting Canastota. At the southeastern corner ofOneida Lake, NY 13 intersectsNY 31. Just north ofNY 31, NY 13 crosses over theOneida River and entersOneida County.
Between the county line andNY 49, NY 13 follows the eastern edge of Oneida Lake as it proceeds northward through the towns ofVerona andVienna. InVerona, NY 13 passes through the center ofVerona Beach State Park and serves the lakeside community ofVerona Beach, located adjacent to where theErie Canal exitsOneida Lake. NY 13 crosses over the canal shortly afterward, passing into the Vienna community of Sylvan Beach in the process. Development along NY 13 continues as far north as Edgewater Beach, where NY 13 breaks from the lakeshore and continues north to meetNY 49. NY 13 turns east, overlappingNY 49 into the hamlet ofVienna.
In the center of Vienna, NY 13 leaves NY 49 and continues northward through the hamlet of McConnellsville (where NY 13 is joined by the west branch ofFish Creek) to the village ofCamden, whereNY 69 overlaps NY 13 for two blocks through the heart of the village. Past Camden, NY 13 continues northwest along Fish Creek into theOswego County town ofWilliamstown, where NY 13 leaves the waterway and intersectsNY 183 andNY 104.
NY 13 continues onward through rural centralOswego County to the village ofPulaski, which is in the town ofRichland, where the route connects to southboundI-81 by way of a half-interchange just outside the village and intersectsUS 11 near the center of Pulaski. The route continues west for another 3 miles (5 km) before terminating atNY 3 in the hamlet of Port Ontario, which is also in the town ofRichland.
Whenstate highways inNew York were first publicly signed in 1924, NY 13 was assigned only to the portion of its modern routing betweenElmira andCazenovia.[2] Within the Elmira area, NY 13 initially followed a different routing, beginning at the intersection of Lake Street and Water Street (thenNY 17) on the north bank of theChemung River in downtown Elmira. The route then overlappedNY 14 along Lake Street toHorseheads,[4] where NY 13 split from NY 14 and headed northeast on Old Ithaca Road to what is now the intersection between NY 13 andNY 223. Here, NY 13 turned north, following its current alignment towardIthaca.[5]
In the1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 13 was extended over previously unnumbered roadways on both ends of its alignment, but unlike most routes in the state, it retained the same number along its original route. To the south, NY 13 was extended along Water Street (modernNY 352) to West Elmira, and on what is nowNY 225 west toCaton. Past Caton, NY 13 continued west toNY 2 (nowUS 15) inLindley by way of Tannery Creek Road, River Road, and Morgan Creek Road (collectively modern County Route 120).[6] In the north, NY 13 was extended northward along its modern routing toNY 3C (modernNY 3) west ofPulaski.[7][8] By 1940, the portion of NY 13 between Horseheads and Elmira became part of a realigned NY 17.[9]
The portion of NY 13 west of Elmira was removed from the state highway system in the early 1940s. NY 13 was truncated back to its original terminus at Water Street in downtown Elmira even though all of NY 13 south of Horseheads was concurrent with NY 17.[9][10] NY 17 was moved onto its current alignment east of the city in the late 1950s;[11][12] NY 13 was realigned south of NY 223c. 1961 to follow a new road leading to a newly constructed interchange with NY 17.[13][14]
In the mid-1980s, theSullivanville Dam project forced a portion of the route to be rerouted northeast of Horseheads. Due to the elevated water level caused by the dam, the route had to be moved to higher ground west of the hamlet of Sullivanville in theTown of Veteran. A section of the old highway remains under the impounded water. Another section north of the dam exists as an extension of Sullivanville Road.[citation needed]
In 2007, with the completion of theI-86 project, NY 13 was extended westward along the parallelcollector/distributor roads toNY 14 in Horseheads.[3] Prior to the project's completion, at least one "NY 13 south" sign assembly was exposed along the westboundfrontage road leading from exit 54 (NY 13).[citation needed] Several similarly shaped signs on similar sign assemblies were covered along the route.
When NY 13 was first assigned, it entered the city of Ithaca on Spencer Road and followed Spencer and Cayuga Streets into downtown. From there, NY 13 proceeded generally northeastward on Court and Linn Streets, University Avenue, and Forest Home Drive through theCornell University campus to Dryden Road, where it turned eastward towardDryden.[4] NY 13 was realignedc. 1936 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 becameNY 392.[15][16]
In the early 1960s, a new expressway was built along the eastern shore ofCayuga Lake, bypassing downtown Ithaca on the west and north.[17][18] NY 13 was altered to follow Meadow Street and the freeway between southwestern Ithaca and thetown of Dryden, while the portion of NY 13's old routing that did notoverlap NY 79 became an extension ofNY 366.[19] The freeway was expected to be continued all the way to Cortland, but was abandoned with the completion of the existing segment of the highway; the remaining connection to the old NY 13 was completed as a two-lane roadway.[20] The new expressway was pictured on theVoyager Golden Record as an example of a "modern highway."[21] In 1996, ten blocks of southbound NY 13 was diverted from Meadow Street to Fulton Street as part of the Octopus elimination project.[22]
| County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Chemung | Town of Horseheads | 0.00 | 0.00 | I-86 /NY 17 /Southern Tier Expressway –Elmira,Binghamton,Corning,Horseheads | Southern terminus; exit 54 on I-86 |
| Northern end of freeway section | |||||
| 2.78 | 4.47 |   NY 223 east –Breesport | Western terminus of NY 223;roundabout | ||
| Schuyler | Cayuta | 11.64 | 18.73 |  NY 224 –Odessa,Van Etten | |
| Tompkins | Town of Ithaca | 23.65 | 38.06 |    NY 34 south /NY 96 south (West Danby Road) –Spencer | Southern terminus of NY 13 / NY 34 and NY 13 / NY 96overlaps |
| 24.15 | 38.87 |   NY 327 north (Enfield Falls Road) | Southern terminus of NY 327 | ||
| 25.22 | 40.59 |  NY 13A north (Five Mile Drive) | Southern terminus of NY 13A | ||
| City of Ithaca | 27.31 | 43.95 |  NY 96B south –Ithaca College | Northern terminus of NY 96B | |
| 27.43 | 44.14 |  NY 79 east (West Green Street) – Downtown,Cornell University | Southern terminus of NY 13 / NY 79 overlap (southbound) | ||
| 27.55 | 44.34 |  NY 79 west (West Seneca Street) | Northern terminus of NY 13 / NY 79 overlap (southbound) | ||
| 27.63 | 44.47 |  NY 89 north /NY 96 north (West Buffalo Street) | Northern terminus of NY 13 / NY 96 overlap; southern terminus of NY 89 | ||
| Town of Ithaca | 29.24 | 47.06 | NY 34 north (East Shore Road) –Stewart Park,Auburn / East Shore Drive (NY 930F south) | Northern terminus of NY 13 / NY 34 overlap;diamond interchange; northern terminus of unsigned NY 930F | |
| Lansing | Cayuga Heights Road –Lansing,Cayuga Heights | Partial cloverleaf interchange; former routing ofNY 34A | |||
| 31.21 | 50.23 | North Triphammer Road –Lansing,Cayuga Heights | Diamond interchange | ||
| Town of Dryden | 35.32 | 56.84 |  NY 366 west | Western terminus of NY 13 / NY 366 overlap | |
| 36.55 | 58.82 | NY 366 east –Freeville,Groton,Etna | Eastern terminus of NY 13 / NY 366 overlap | ||
| Village of Dryden | 41.28 | 66.43 |   NY 38 south /NY 392 east –Owego | Southern terminus of NY 13 / NY 38 overlap; western terminus of NY 392 | |
| 41.81 | 67.29 | NY 38 north –Freeville,Groton | Northern terminus of NY 13 / NY 38 overlap | ||
| Cortland | Cortlandville | 48.76 | 78.47 |  NY 281 north –Syracuse | Southern terminus of NY 281; hamlet ofMunsons Corners |
| Cortland | 50.93 | 81.96 |  NY 215 south | Northern terminus of NY 215 | |
| 51.34 | 82.62 |   US 11 south /NY 41 south | Southern terminus of US 11 / NY 13 / NY 41 overlap | ||
| 51.65 | 83.12 |  US 11 north /NY 41 north /NY 222 west –Downtown | Northern terminus of US 11 / NY 13 / NY 41 overlap; eastern terminus of NY 222 | ||
| 52.41 | 84.35 |  I-81 –Syracuse,Binghamton | Exit 11 on I-81 | ||
| Truxton | 62.98 | 101.36 |  NY 91 north | Southern terminus of NY 91 | |
| Madison | Town of DeRuyter | 76.24 | 122.70 |  NY 80 east –Georgetown | Southern terminus of NY 13 / NY 80 overlap; hamlet ofSheds |
| Town of Cazenovia | 79.68 | 128.23 | NY 80 west (Fabius Road) –Fabius | Northern terminus of NY 13 / NY 80 overlap; hamlet ofNew Woodstock | |
| Village of Cazenovia | 85.67 | 137.87 |  US 20 west –LaFayette | Southern terminus of US 20 / NY 13 overlap | |
| 86.26 | 138.82 | US 20 east –Morrisville | Northern terminus of US 20 / NY 13 overlap | ||
| Chittenango | 95.40 | 153.53 |  NY 5 west –Fayetteville | Western terminus of NY 5 / NY 13 overlap | |
| Canastota | 101.98 | 164.12 | NY 5 east –Wampsville,Oneida | Eastern terminus of NY 5 / NY 13 overlap | |
| 103.51 | 166.58 |    I-90 Toll /New York Thruway –Buffalo,Albany | Exit 34 on I-90 / Thruway | ||
| Lenox | 108.59 | 174.76 |  NY 31 –Bridgeport,Verona | Roundabout; hamlet ofSouth Bay | |
| Oneida | Vienna | 114.19 | 183.77 |  NY 49 west –Central Square,Fulton | Western terminus of NY 13 / NY 49 overlap; hamlet ofNorth Bay |
| 115.64 | 186.10 | NY 49 east –Rome | Eastern terminus of NY 13 / NY 49 overlap; hamlet of Vienna | ||
| Village of Camden | 123.39 | 198.58 |  NY 69 west | Southern terminus of NY 13 / NY 69 overlap | |
| 123.49 | 198.74 | NY 69 east –Rome | Northern terminus of NY 13 / NY 69 overlap | ||
| Oswego | Williamstown | 133.25 | 214.45 |  NY 183 south | Northern terminus of NY 183; hamlet of Williamstown |
| 136.39 | 219.50 |  NY 104 west –Mexico,Oswego | Eastern terminus of NY 104 | ||
| Pulaski | 148.37 | 238.78 | I-81 –Syracuse,Watertown | Exit 125 on I-81 | |
| 149.14 | 240.02 |   US 11 toI-81 north | Access via Maple Avenue | ||
| Richland | 152.30 | 245.10 | NY 3 | Northern terminus; hamlet ofPort Ontario | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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 New York State Route 13A | |
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| Location | Ithaca |
NY 13A is a 2.08-mile (3.35 km) north–south spur that bypasses downtownIthaca by way of thetown of Ithaca to the southwest. The route begins at NY 13,NY 34 andNY 96 south of the city and follows the west bank of Cayuga Inlet and the Ithaca Flood Control Channel north into the city, where it ends atNY 79 in Ithaca's West End,[1] an area once dominated by squatters' villages.[23] The highway is named Floral Avenue within the city and Five Mile Drive in the town of Ithaca, so named because was part of a five-mile (8 km) long bypass around the Cayuga Inlet on the west side of Ithaca during high lake levels or river flooding. The eastern side of this bypass was the present-day Spencer Road. NY 13A was assignedc. 1938.[24][25]
