42°38′39″N73°42′24.5″W / 42.64417°N 73.706806°W /42.64417; -73.706806
 New York State Route 915E | ||||
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| Third Avenue Extension | ||||
 Map of Rensselaer County in eastern New York with NY 915E highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byNYSDOT | ||||
| Length | 1.67 mi[1] (2.69 km) | |||
| Existed | late 1990s[2][3]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  NY 151 inEast Greenbush | |||
| East end |  US 4 in East Greenbush | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | New York | |||
| Counties | Rensselaer | |||
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New York State Route 915E (NY 915E) is an unsignedreference route designation for the Third Avenue Extension inEast Greenbush, located inRensselaer County, New York, in the United States. The east–west highway extends for 1.67 miles (2.69 km) from an intersection withNY 151 east of theRensselaer city limits to a junction withU.S. Route 4 (US 4) south of thehamlet of Defreestville. NY 915E was designated asNew York State Route 381 from the late 1930s to 1962 and part ofNY 43 from that time to the late 1990s, when it gained its current designation.
NY 915E begins just east of theRensselaer city limits at the intersection of Third Avenue Extension and Barracks Road (NY 151) in the hamlet ofPlaza View of the town ofEast Greenbush. NY 151 enters the intersection from the west on Third Avenue and exits to the south on Barracks Road while NY 915E heads to the northeast, paralleling a minor tributary ofMill Creek as it provides access to New Rural Cemetery and several residentialhousing tracts that lead away from the north side of the road. The land on the south side of Third Avenue Extension, however, is largely undeveloped. Roughly midway between NY 151 andUS 4, the street passes underInterstate 90 (I-90).[4][5]
East of the I-90 overpass, the development along NY 915E becomes more commercial and industrial in nature as the homes west of I-90 give way to warehouses east of the expressway. Unlike the homes, the warehouses occupy both sides of Third Avenue Extension. The highway continues eastward amidst the warehouses to US 4, where both Third Avenue Extension and NY 915E come to an end at a junction about 0.7 miles (1.1 km) south of thehamlet ofDefreestville.[4][5]Reference markers on Third Avenue and its extension still bear markings forNY 43,[1] the street's former designation.[2] These markers are present on both NY 915E and the segment re-designated NY 151. The marker in the infobox above illustrates the first marker falling on the portion designated as NY 915E.[1]
All of Third Avenue Extension between modernNY 151 andUS 4 inEast Greenbush, as well as Third Avenue, East Street, and 2nd Avenue to Broadway (then-US 9 andUS 20) inRensselaer, was designated as the westernmost portion ofNY 152 in the1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.[6] NY 152 was truncated on its western endc. 1937 to US 4 in Defreestville.[7][8] Its former routing into Rensselaer was redesignated as NY 381 by the following year; however, unlike NY 152, NY 381 was routed solely on Third Avenue and terminated at the intersection of Broadway (thenNY 43) and Third Avenue.[9]
NY 381 remained intact until 1962 when NY 43 was rerouted within the Rensselaer area to follow Third Avenue and Third Avenue Extension between theHudson River and US 4, supplanting NY 381 in the process.[10][11] NY 43 remained on Third Avenue until the late 1990s, when it was rerouted to meetI-90 at the new exit 8 west of Defreestville. After the re-routing of NY 43, NY 151 was extended westward from its former terminus at former NY 43, assuming Third Avenue from the downtown terminus to Barracks Road, its former terminus.[2][3] The remaining portion of former NY 43 was redesignated NY 915E by theNew York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT).[12]
The entire route is inRensselaer County.
| Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Plaza View | 0.00 | 0.00 | NY 151 (Barracks Road / 3rd Avenue) | Western terminus; former western terminus of NY 151 | |
| Town of East Greenbush | 1.67 | 2.69 | US 4 (Troy Road) –Troy,East Greenbush | Eastern terminus | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
