Everything about New York State Route 50 totally explained
New York State Route 50 is a long
state highway in the
Capital District of the
U.S. state of
New York. The southern terminus of the route is at
NY 5 in
Scotia. The northern terminus is at
NY 32 in the Saratoga County hamlet of
Gansevoort.
Route description
Schenectady County
Route 50 begins in Scotia at the intersection of
NY 5 and winds its way through the village and into Glenville. NY 50 travels past the
Stratton Air National Guard Base, home to the
109th Airlift Wing, and the
Empire State Aeronautics Museum on its way to the
Saratoga County line.
Saratoga County
NY 50 enters Saratoga County in Burnt Hills and winds its way through the countryside, running concurrent with
NY 67 for just under a mile into Ballston Spa, the home of the
National Bottle Museum.
On its way to Saratoga Springs, NY 50 passes the
Saratoga Performing Arts Center and the
Saratoga Spa State Park. It then meets up with
US 9 and forms a brief three-way concurrency with
NY 29 at the corner of Broadway and Washington Avenue adjacent to Congress Park. About a quarter-mile later, NY 29 becomes Lake Avenue and heads towards
Schuylerville. The southern terminus of
NY 9N is also at this point, known as Church Street within city limits. The 9/50 concurrency goes another 1¼ miles before the former splits off and goes towards
Glens Falls. From Broadway and Van Dam Street to
Interstate 87, NY 50 is known as either the C.V. Whitney Memorial Highway or, more informally, "The Arterial".
East of Interstate 87, NY 50 passes the
Wilton Mall, located about three-quarters of a mile from I-87 in the
Town of Wilton. After passing the mall and making its way through the Town of Wilton, NY 50 cuts through the countryside, ultimately reaching its end in Gansevoort at the intersection of
NY 32.
History
When
state highways in
New York were first signed in 1924, the portion of modern NY 50 south of
Saratoga Springs was designated as part of
NY 10, a north-south highway extending from the
New Jersey state line near
New York City to
Saranac Lake via
Albany and Saratoga Springs. In the
1930 renumbering, NY 10 was realigned south of
Long Lake to pass west of the
Capital District on its way to the
Southern Tier. The old alignment of NY 10 between Scotia and Saratoga Springs, as well as a previously unnumbered roadway between Saratoga Springs and
Gansevoort, was then assigned NY 50.
NY 50S
NY 50S was a connector stretching from Route 50 in
Glenville to
NY 5 in
Schenectady. Now decertified, it remains as Freeman's Bridge Road in the former and Erie Boulevard in the latter. The portion from Nott Street north to NY 50 remains state-maintained as
NY 911F, an unsigned
reference route.
Major intersections
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|notes=Southern terminus of NY 9N; northern terminus of NY 29/NY 50 overlap
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