New York State Route 11C (NY 11C) is a short
state highway
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located in
St. Lawrence County in the northern part of
New York
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in the United States. NY 11C is a northern
alternate route
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of
U.S. Route 11 (US 11) between the towns of
Stockholm
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and
Lawrence
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that serves the
hamlet
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s of
Winthrop and
Brasher Falls. NY 11C briefly
overlap
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s with
NY 420 in Winthrop. Although NY 11C follows a mostly east–west routing, it was signed as a north–south route until the 2010s.
The current alignment of NY 11C was originally part of US 11. An alternate route of then-US 11 between Stockholm Center and Coteys Corner that bypassed the Brasher Falls area to the south was added to the state highway system on September 1, 1982, and designated as NY 11C. The alignments of US 11 and NY 11C between the two hamlets were flipped on June 13, 1992, placing both routes on their current routings.
Route description
NY 11C begins at an intersection with
US 11 in the
hamlet
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of Stockholm Center within the town of
Stockholm
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. The highway heads to the northeast, intersecting with a local road west of the Meadowbrook Golf Club. NY 11C continues on, crossing over the west branch of the
St. Regis River
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and entering a residential area of Stockholm known as
Winthrop. In the hamlet, NY 11C
overlap
Overlap may refer to:
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* In music theory, overlap is a synonym for reinterpretation of a chord at the boundary of two musical phrases
* Ove ...
s with
NY 420 for one block. NY 420 turns off at the center of the community and heads toward
Massena while NY 11C continues northeast out of Winthrop and into the town of
Brasher.
NY 11C heads into
Brasher Falls and follows Ford and South Church Streets through the community. At the junction of Church and Main Streets, the route turns east to follow Main Street across the St. Regis River. Once on the opposite bank, NY 11C turns south onto a riverside roadway. The highway then veers to the southeast, and eventually to the east through largely forested areas as it passes into the town of
Lawrence
Lawrence may refer to:
Education Colleges and universities
* Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States
* Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
Preparator ...
. NY 11C follows a routing parallel to that of the Brasher–Lawrence town line to North Lawrence, where it turns south onto Nicholville–Helena Road. The route continues to Cotey Corners, where it terminates at an intersection with US 11 and
County Route 55 (CR 55).
History
When the first set of posted routes in
New York
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were assigned in 1924,
NY 2 was assigned to a highway extending from the
Pennsylvania state line to the
Canada–United States border
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. In northeastern
St. Lawrence County, NY 2 served the
hamlet
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s of Stockholm Center,
Winthrop,
Brasher Falls, North Lawrence, and Cotey Corners. NY 2 was renumbered to
US 11 in 1927. On September 1, 1982, ownership and maintenance of CR 110, a county road extending from Stockholm Center to Coteys Corner on a direct east–west routing, was transferred from
St. Lawrence County to the state of
New York
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as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government and the
village of Canton.
The new state highway was initially designated as NY 11C. On June 13, 1992, the alignments of US 11 and NY 11C between Stockholm Center and Coteys Corner were swapped, placing both routes on their modern alignments.
Major intersections
See also
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References
External links
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Transportation in St. Lawrence County, New York