History
What is now NY 15 was originally designated as part of NY 4 when the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924. The route was renumbered to NY 2 in 1927 to eliminate numerical duplication with the new US 4 in eastern New York. Modern NY 15A, meanwhile, was only partially state-maintained by the mid-1920s. In 1926, only two sections of the route were state-owned: from Monroe Street west of Honeoye Falls north to Rochester, and the segment of highway in Livonia that modern NY 15A shares with US 20A. In spite of this fact, all of what is now NY 15A was designated as NY 2A, an alternate route of NY 2 between Springwater and Rochester, in the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.
The sub-standard sections of the route between Springwater and Hemlock and from north of Hemlock to Honeoye Falls were improved in stages over the next half-decade, beginning with the piece between the villages of Lima and Honeoye Falls c. 1931. The remainder of the Hemlock–Honeoye Falls segment and the entirety of the route south of Hemlock was rebuilt c. 1934. NY 2 was replaced c. 1939 by US 15, which was extended northward from its previous terminus at the Pennsylvania state line to Rochester. NY 2A was renumbered to NY 15A as a result. NY 15A has not been substantially altered since that time.
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