 New York State Route 53 | ||||
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 Map of Finger Lakes region in the Southern Tier of New York with NY 53 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by NYSDOT | ||||
| Length | 22.50 mi[1] (36.21 km) | |||
| Existed | 1930[2]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  NY 415 in Bath | |||
   I-86 / NY 17 / Southern Tier Expressway in Bath | ||||
| North end |  NY 21 in Naples | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | New York | |||
| Counties | Steuben, Ontario | |||
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New York State Route 53 (NY 53) is a north–south state highway located in the Finger Lakes region of New York in the United States. It extends for 22.50 miles (36.21 km) from an intersection with NY 415 near the hamlet of Kanona in northern Steuben County to a junction with NY 21 in the village of Naples in southern Ontario County. Just north of Kanona, located within the town of Bath, NY 53 connects to the Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86 or I-86 and NY 17). About midway between Kanona and Naples, the route serves the hamlet of Prattsburgh.
When NY 53 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, it extended from Kanona in the south to the Canandaigua area in the north, utilizing what is now NY 247 north of Potter. At the same time, the piece of what is now NY 53 from Prattsburgh to Naples became NY 247. NY 53 was realigned onto its modern alignment from Prattsburgh to Naples in the early 1940s. NY 247, supplanted by the realignment, was reassigned to NY 53's former routing north of Potter.