 New York State Route 144 | ||||
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 Map of the southern Capital District with NY 144 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by NYSDOT | ||||
| Length | 14.74 mi[1] (23.72 km) | |||
| Existed | 1930[2]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  US 9W in New Baltimore | |||
   I-87 Toll / New York Thruway in Bethlehem | ||||
| North end |  NY 32 in Bethlehem | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | New York | |||
| Counties | Greene, Albany | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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New York State Route 144 (NY 144) is a state highway in the Capital District of New York in the United States. The highway runs for 14.74 miles (23.72 km) as a two-lane road from an intersection with U.S. Route 9W (US 9W) in the Greene County town of New Baltimore to a junction with NY 32 in the town of Bethlehem just south of the Albany city limits. NY 144 closely parallels the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87 or I-87) and the west bank of the Hudson River as it heads across Albany County. The Thruway and NY 144 connect at exit 22 about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Albany in Bethlehem.
NY 144 was originally designated as part of NY 10 in the mid-1920s and as part of US 9W from the late 1920s to the mid-1930s. In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 144 was assigned to what is now US 9W between New Baltimore and Albany. The alignments of US 9W and NY 144 were flipped in the mid-1930s, placing the latter on a routing that extended north from Bethlehem to downtown Albany. NY 144 was truncated to its present length in the late 1960s.