New York State Route 915E

New York State Route 915E (NY 915E) is an unsigned reference route designation for the Third Avenue Extension in East Greenbush, located in Rensselaer County, New York, in the United States. The east–west highway extends for 1.67 miles (2.69 km) from an intersection with NY 151 east of the Rensselaer city limits to a junction with U.S. Route 4 (US 4) south of the hamlet of Defreestville. NY 915E was designated as New York State Route 381 from the late 1930s to 1962 and part of NY 43 from that time to the late 1990s, when it gained its current designation.

Route description

NY 915E begins just east of the Rensselaer city limits at the intersection of Third Avenue Extension and Barracks Road (NY 151) in the hamlet of Plaza View of the town of East Greenbush. NY 151 enters the intersection from the west on Third Avenue and exits to the south on Barracks Road while NY 915E heads to the northeast, paralleling a minor tributary of Mill Creek as it provides access to New Rural Cemetery and several residential housing tracts that lead away from the north side of the road. The land on the south side of Third Avenue Extension, however, is largely undeveloped. Roughly midway between NY 151 and US 4, the street passes under Interstate 90 (I-90).

East of the I-90 overpass, the development along NY 915E becomes more commercial and industrial in nature as the homes west of I-90 give way to warehouses east of the expressway. Unlike the homes, the warehouses occupy both sides of Third Avenue Extension. The highway continues eastward amidst the warehouses to US 4, where both Third Avenue Extension and NY 915E come to an end at a junction about 0.7 miles (1.1 km) south of the hamlet of Defreestville.