 New York State Route 17M | ||||
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 Map of Orange County and vicinity with NY 17M highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Auxiliary route of NY 17 | ||||
| Maintained by NYSDOT and the city of Middletown | ||||
| Length | 26.63 mi[1] (42.86 km) | |||
| Existed | September 1950[2]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  CR 76 in Wallkill | |||
| East end |  NY 17 in Harriman | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | New York | |||
| Counties | Orange | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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New York State Route 17M (NY 17M) is an east–west state highway in Orange County, New York, in the United States. It extends for 26.63 miles (42.86 km) from west of the city of Middletown to what is currently the north–south section of NY 17 just southeast of the village of Harriman. It is a busy main street in Middletown and the village of Monroe; in the former, it divides into a parkway for several blocks and forms the city's major commercial strip, located between the downtown district and an interchange with Interstate 84 (I-84). The rest of the road is a two-lane rural route. Between New Hampton and Goshen, the highway overlaps with U.S. Route 6 (US 6). The easternmost section of that overlap near Goshen is routed on the Quickway, making a three-route concurrency with NY 17.
Most of NY 17M follows the course used by NY 17 prior to the construction of the Quickway through the Catskill Mountains. The first section of the Quickway opened in 1951 and extended from Fair Oaks to Goshen. NY 17M was initially assigned in September 1950 to NY 17's old surface routing between Fair Oaks and Middletown; however, it was extended east to Harriman and, for a brief time, northwest to Wurtsboro as more sections of the freeway were completed.
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2008tdrwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "5 New State Routes". The Binghamton Press. September 12, 1950. p. 15. Retrieved February 2, 2017.