Editing Interstate 890 (section)

==History==
[[File:Schenectady, New York 1955 Yellow Book.jpg|thumb|1955 ''Yellow Book'' map of Schenectady, showing what would become I-90 and I-890]]
The original riverside roadway along the southern bank of the [[Mohawk River]] in western [[Schenectady, New York|Schenectady]] was designated as part of [[New York State Route 5S|NY&nbsp;5S]] in the [[1930 state highway renumbering (New York)|1930 renumbering of state highways in New York]]. NY&nbsp;5S entered the Schenectady area on River Road and followed River and Rice roads and Erie Boulevard into Downtown Schenectady, where it ended at [[New York State Route 5|NY&nbsp;5]].<ref>{{cite map |title = Road Map of New York |year = 1930 |publisher = [[Standard Oil Company of New York]] |author = General Drafting }}</ref> In the initial plans for the [[Interstate Highway System]], outlined by the [[Bureau of Public Roads]] in the 1955 ''[[General Location of National System of Interstate Highways|Yellow Book]]'', the city of Schenectady would be served by two highways: one bypassing the city to the southwest (the [[New York State Thruway]]) and another that would loop north of the bypass route to serve Downtown Schenectady. The western portion of the loop route would run through the NY&nbsp;5S corridor.<ref>{{cite map |author = [[Bureau of Public Roads]] |date = September 1955 |map = Schenectady |title = General Location of National System of Interstate Highways Including All Additional Routes at Urban Areas Designated in September 1955 |scale = Scale not given |location = Washington, DC |publisher = Government Printing Office |page = 61 |oclc = 4165975 |map-url = https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schenectady,_New_York_1955_Yellow_Book.jpg |via = [[Wikimedia Commons]] }}</ref>

The first section of I-890 to be completed was the portion from [[New York State Thruway]] exit&nbsp;25 southeast of [[Schenectady, New York|Schenectady]] to Altamont Avenue ([[New York State Route 146|NY&nbsp;146]]), which opened to traffic as I-890 {{circa|lk=no|1962}}.<ref name="1961map">{{cite map |title = New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher = [[Sunoco]] |author = [[H.M. Gousha Company]] |year = 1961 |edition = 1961–62 }}</ref><ref name="1962map">{{cite map |title = New York with Sight-Seeing Guide |publisher = [[Esso]] |author = [[General Drafting]] |year = 1962 }}</ref> A short extension to Brandywine Avenue was completed by 1964.<ref>{{cite map |title = New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher = [[Sinclair Oil Corporation]] |year = 1964 |author = [[Rand McNally and Company]] }}</ref> By 1968, all of I-890 west to modern exit&nbsp;3 was complete and open to traffic. As planned, I-890 replaced NY&nbsp;5S from Downtown Schenectady to exit&nbsp;3, where NY&nbsp;5S now terminated.<ref>{{cite map |title = New York |publisher = Esso |year = 1968 |edition = 1969–70 |author = General Drafting }}</ref> The remainder of the expressway was built {{circa|lk=no|1974}}.<ref>{{cite map |title = New York |publisher = [[Shell Oil Company]] |author = H.M. Gousha Company |year = 1973 |edition = 1973 }}</ref><ref name="1974map">{{cite map |title = New York and New Jersey Tourgide<!--sic--> Map |publisher = [[Gulf Oil Company]] |author = Rand McNally and Company |year = 1974 }}</ref> NY&nbsp;5S was cut back to I-890 exit&nbsp;2 in the mid-1970s,<ref name="1974map" /><ref>{{cite map |title = New York |publisher = [[Exxon]] |year = 1977 |edition = 1977–78 |author = General Drafting }}</ref> then to its modern eastern terminus in the late 1980s following a reconfiguration of the interchange linking I-890 to New York State Thruway exit&nbsp;26.<ref>{{cite map |author = Rand McNally and Company |publisher = Rand McNally and Company |title = New York |year = 1985 |isbn = 0-528-91040-X }}</ref><ref>{{cite map |publisher = [[DeLorme Mapping]] |title = Upstate New York City Street Maps |edition = 1st |year = 1990 |author = DeLorme Mapping |scale = 1:31,680 |page = 34 |section = C1 |isbn = 0-89933-300-1 }}</ref>
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