History
NY 260 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York to the portion of its modern alignment between NY 31 in Sweden and NY 18 in Hamlin. At the time, NY 18 was routed on Hamlin Center Road and used part of modern NY 260 to reach the Clarkson–Hamlin town line. By the following year, NY 18 was rerouted to follow Clarkson–Hamlin Town Line Road while NY 260 was extended northward through Walker to North Hamlin Road, then the last east–west roadway before Lake Ontario.
NY 260 was extended a second time c. 1962 to intersect the Lake Ontario State Parkway near the lakeshore. This extension, as well as the piece of NY 260 added c. 1931, was initially maintained by Monroe County as the unsigned CR 230, a route that continued north of the parkway to the lake along Walker–Lake Ontario Road. In 2007, ownership and maintenance of CR 230 south of the Lake Ontario State Parkway was transferred from Monroe County to the state of New York as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government. A bill (S4856, 2007) to enact the swap was introduced in the New York State Senate on April 23 and passed by both the Senate and the New York State Assembly on June 20. The act was signed into law by Governor Eliot Spitzer on August 28. Under the terms of the act, it took effect 90 days after it was signed into law; thus, the maintenance swap officially took place on November 26, 2007. The entirety of NY 260 is now state-maintained. CR 230, meanwhile, no longer exists in any form as the remainder of the route north to the lakeshore was transferred to the town of Hamlin by March 2009.
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