page_title: New York State Route 153
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: New York State Route 153 / History
caption_attribution_description: Photo of a New York State Route 153 reference marker in East Rochester, New York. This marker is one of several in the area that was initially a NY 253 reference marker prior to 1983, as evidenced by the dark green area enclosing the "1". Taken September 26, 2006 by myself.
context_page_description: New York State Route 153 is a 3.03-mile long north–south state highway located in the eastern suburbs of Rochester, New York, in the United States. The southern terminus of the route is at NY 96 in the village of Pittsford. Its northern terminus is at an interchange with NY 441 in the town of Penfield. Over the course of its routing, NY 153 passes through the towns of Pittsford, East Rochester, Perinton, and Penfield. NY 153 connects to Interstate 490 twice in East Rochester by way of NY 31F and West Commercial Street.
  All of NY 153 in Pittsford and East Rochester was originally designated as part of NY 253 in the 1930s. From the 1930s to the 1960s, NY 253 followed North Washington Street north to NY 441 in Penfield. In the 1960s, the bridge carrying NY 253 over Irondequoit Creek was closed, and NY 253 was rerouted to use Linden Avenue and Whitney Road instead. The route was realigned again by 1971 to follow the new Panorama Trail South to an interchange with NY 441. NY 253 was truncated south to Pittsford town at some point in the latter half of the 1980s, at which time its former routing from Pittsford village to Penfield was assigned the NY 153 designation.
context_section_description: The portion of Washington Road and Washington Street from North Main Street in the village of Pittsford to the modern junction of Panorama Trail and North Washington Street north of East Rochester was initially constructed prior to 1900. North Washington Street continued northeast into the town of Penfield, where it ended at Penfield Road west of the hamlet of Penfield. On November 12, 1908, the state of New York awarded a contract calling for the improvement of Washington Road between the Pittsford village line and Fairport Road. The 0.99-mile (1.59 km) long section of highway was accepted into the state highway system on August 15, 1909. The state let a contract to improve the section of Washington Street from Fairport Road to Penfield Road on November 4, 1915; it was added to the state highway system on January 9, 1917.
  When NY 253 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, it ended at NY 64 south of Pittsford. NY 253 was extended northward through Pittsford to Penfield along the Pittsford–East Rochester–Penfield state highway by 1936. The bridge carrying NY 253 over Irondequoit Creek in Penfield was closed to vehicular traffic in the 1960s; as a result, NY 253 was rerouted north of the junction of North Washington Street and Linden Avenue to follow Linden Avenue eastward across Irondequoit Creek to Whitney Road in Perinton.
  Construction on a new divided highway for NY 441 began in the late 1960s. As part of the construction, a four-lane extension of Panorama Trail was built to connect Panorama Creek Drive and North Washington Street to the new expressway. The new highway was completed by 1971 and named Panorama Trail South. The segment of Panorama Trail South from North Washington Street to the NY 441 interchange became part of a realigned NY 253; north of the interchange, Panorama Trail South was initially designated as NY 942B, an unsigned reference route.
  NY 253 was truncated southward at some point in the latter half of the 1980s to end at NY 65 in the town of  Pittsford. The portion of NY 253's former routing from NY 96 (North Main Street) in Pittsford to NY 441 in Penfield was redesignated as NY 153. For many years, signs along NY 153 were holdovers from the NY 253 designation, as evidenced by covered numbers on multiple shields and reference markers along the highway.
  In 2007, ownership and maintenance of NY 942B was transferred from the state of New York to Monroe County as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government. A bill (S4856, 2007) to enact the swap was introduced in the New York State Senate on April 23 and passed by both the Senate and the New York State Assembly on June 20. The act was signed into law by Governor Eliot Spitzer on August 28. Under the terms of the act, it took effect 90 days after it was signed into law; thus, the maintenance swap officially took place on November 26, 2007. The former routing of NY 942B is now part of CR 270, a 0.40-mile (0.64 km) route that continues northeast on Panorama Trail to Penfield Road.
caption: 2006 photo of one of many ex-NY 253 reference markers in East Rochester that had been patched to read "153".
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