New York State Route65 (NY65) is a north–south state highway located in the western portion of New York in the United States. It extends for 18.51 miles (29.79km) from an intersection with U.S. Route20 (US20) and NY5 in the Ontario County town of West Bloomfield to a junction with NY96 in the Monroe County town of Brighton. In between, the route serves the village of Honeoye Falls and passes through the extreme northeastern corner of Livingston County. NY65 intersects NY251 in Mendon, NY252 in Pittsford, and the regionally important NY31 in Brighton. The southern half of NY65 passes through mostly rural areas, while its northern section traverses densely populated portions of Monroe County.
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New York State Route 65
Map of the Rochester area with NY65 highlighted in red
NY65 originally began at what is now US20A in Honeoye when it was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York; however, it was truncated to its current southern terminus in the late 1930s. No changes have been made to NY65's alignment since that time; however, ownership and maintenance of the 1.95-mile (3.14km) portion of the route north of NY31 was transferred to Monroe County at some point prior to 1990. This section of NY65 is co-designated as the unsigned County Route271 (CR271).
Route description
NY65 begins at an intersection with US20 and NY5 in the West Bloomfield hamlet of the same name. It heads to the northwest as Ontario Street, passing through gradually less developed areas as it approaches the Ontario–Monroe county line. Just south of the line, however, the route enters the hamlet of North Bloomfield, a southeastern extension of Honeoye Falls located on the Livingston–Ontario county line. NY65 passes into Livingston County in the town of Lima upon crossing over Honeoye Creek in the center of the community; however, it remains in the county for just 0.25 miles (0.40km) before following Honeoye Creek into Monroe County and the village of Honeoye Falls in the town of Mendon situated on the county's southern edge.[3]
The Ontario Street name follows NY65 northwestward through the southern half of the village, where it crosses back over Honeoye Creek before passing through the village's residential center and entering its business district. Here, NY65 turns west onto East Street and crosses Honeoye Creek again to reach an intersection with Main and Monroe Streets.[3] Monroe Street, once designated NY363,[4] is maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) as NY940J, an unsigned reference route.[5] NY65 turns north here, following North Main Street out of the village. Outside of Honeoye Falls, the route becomes Clover Street, a name it retains for the rest of its routing.[3]
The highway heads onward through the town of Mendon, leaving the densely populated village and its lightly populated outskirts for the rolling, open areas that dominate much of southern Monroe County. Three miles (5km) to the north of Honeoye Falls, NY65 intersects NY251 by way of a roundabout northeast of the hamlet of Rochester Junction. The community, located on NY251,[3] marks the point where the Lehigh Valley Railroad spur that went to the railroad's station in downtown Rochester returned to the main line.[6] The route continues onward, passing alongside the western edge of Mendon Ponds Park as it enters the town of Pittsford. At the northern edge of the park, NY65 curves to the northeast and passes over the New York State Thruway (Interstate90).[3]
North of the Thruway, NY65 intersects the eastern terminus of NY253 and Calkins Road[3] (unsigned NY943C[5] and a former extension of NY253[7]) at junctions roughly 1 mile (1.6km) apart. From this point northward, the route heads through much more developed areas, beginning with a series of housing tracts situated in the 1.5 miles (2.4km) between Calkins and Jefferson Roads, the latter carrying NY252. It continues on past NY252, taking on a more northerly routing as it crosses over the CSX Transportation-owned West Shore Subdivision railroad line and the Erie Canal and passes through densely populated portions of Pittsford and Brighton.[3]
Just inside the Brighton town line, NY65 intersects NY31 (Monroe Avenue) in a linear commercial district centered on NY31.[3] At this point, maintenance of NY65 shifts from NYSDOT to Monroe County, which maintains the route as the unsigned CR271.[8][9] The route heads due northward for just under 1 mile (1.6km), paralleling I-590 and passing The Harley School before veering to the northeast ahead of an intersection with Elmwood Avenue. Both NY65 and CR271 end 1 mile (1.6km) later at a junction with East Avenue (NY96).[3]
History
All of what is now NY65, including the portion of the route north of modern NY31, was state-maintained by 1926.[10] In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY65 was assigned to an alignment extending from NY254 (now US20A) in Honeoye northward to NY15 (now NY96) in Brighton. The route followed the northernmost portion of what is now CR37 from Honeoye to US20 in West Bloomfield, from where it continued to Brighton on its current alignment.[2] The section of NY65 south of US20, which was not state-owned in 1926,[10] was removed from the route c.1938.[11][12] Farther north, ownership and maintenance of the portion of the route north of NY31 was transferred to Monroe County by 1990.[13]
NY65 originally had an overlap with NY253 in the town of Pittsford. From the 1930 renumbering[14] to the 1980s, NY253 turned north onto NY65 at its present eastern terminus and followed NY65 north to Calkins Road, where NY253 turned east and continued to the northeast toward Pittsford, East Rochester and Penfield.[7] In the latter half of the 1980s, NY253 was truncated to its present eastern terminus at NY65 and the section of NY253 from NY96 north to NY441 in East Rochester and Penfield was designated NY153.[7][13]
Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1930–31 and 1931–32 editions, (Scarborough Motor Guide Co., Boston, 1930 and 1931). The 1930–31 edition shows New York state routes prior to the 1930 renumbering
New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map) (1958ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1958.