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New York State Route 34B

State highway in central New York, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ2486055
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New York State Route 34B (NY 34B) is a north–south state highway located within Tompkins and Cayuga counties in Central New York in the United States. Its northern terminus is located at a junction with NY 34 by the hamlet of Fleming within the town of the same name in Cayuga County. The southern terminus is located at a junction with NY 38 in the town of Dryden in Tompkins County.

Route description

NY 34B begins at an intersection with NY 38 (Peru Road / Groton Road) in the town of Dryden, as a westward continuation of CR 107 (CR 107; Peruville Road). NY 34B proceeds west as Peruville Road before entering the town of Groton, the route crosses an intersection with CR 178 (Sobers Road). Now paralleling CR 107A (Old Peruville Road) to the south, NY 34B continues west as a two-lane rural highway. CR 107A merges into NY 34B a short distance west, while NY 34B continues, intersecting with the northern terminus of CR 182 (Sheldon Road). A short distance west of CR 182, NY 34B crosses back into the town of Dryden from Groton, entering the residential hamlet of Howland Corners.

NY 34B crosses southwest through the hamlet as a two-lane residential street, continuing west out of Howland Corners. A short distance later, NY 34B crosses into the town of Lansing, continuing west as a two-lane residential street.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 231-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1930. The account is most persuasive where York, State and Route can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from New York State Route 34B” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.