page_title: New York State Route 283
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: New York State Route 283 / Route description
caption_attribution_description: English: New York State Route 283 heading eastbound through the city of Watertown.
context_page_description: New York State Route 283 is an east–west state highway in Jefferson County, New York, in the United States. It extends for 5.79 miles as a two-lane road from an intersection with U.S. Route 11, NY 3, and NY 12 in downtown Watertown to a junction with NY 342 in the town of Le Ray. The route passes through mostly rural areas, with the exception of a dense commercial district around the highway's west end. NY 283 is one of three routes directly connecting Watertown's Public Square to Fort Drum; the others are US 11 and NY 3, which loosely parallel NY 283 between the two locations.
  The portion of the route outside of the Watertown city limits was originally maintained by Jefferson County as part of County Route 52, a highway extending from Watertown to Felts Mills. CR 52 became a state highway in 1979 and was designated as part of NY 283 in the 1980s, with the route continuing west over locally maintained streets to serve downtown Watertown. The portion of the route within Fort Drum was given to the post by the early 1990s, at which time NY 283 was truncated to its current length.
context_section_description: NY 283 begins in downtown Watertown, where it meets US 11, NY 3, and NY 12 at the city's Public Square. The two-lane route departs US 11 and NY 12 at a 45-degree angle and maintains a northeasterly routing through a commercialized part of the city as Factory Street. It parallels the southern bank of the Black River to the eastern edge of the downtown district, where the highway crosses the waterway by way of Sewalls Island and becomes known as Pearl Street. On the opposite riverbank, NY 283 serves another brief stretch of businesses before leaving the city limits and entering the town of Pamelia. Here, the line of commercial properties gives way to open, rolling fields as the route heads northeastward across the southern part of the town. The highway serves little more than a handful of isolated homes and businesses before curving slightly northward at the Pamelia–Le Ray town line.
  Across the town line in Le Ray, NY 283 continues to run across largely undeveloped rolling terrain, passing a small number of scattered residences. Most of these lie on the outskirts of the small hamlet of Calcium, located 1 mile (1.6 km) to the northwest of NY 283 on US 11, which loosely parallels the former through Pamelia and Le Ray. NY 283 remains on a northeasterly track to the vicinity of Fort Drum, where the route bends eastward ahead of a rural junction with NY 342 at the western edge of the military reservation. NY 283 terminates here while Pearl Street continues into the post as a four-lane divided highway named Pearl Street Road.
caption: NY 283 eastbound in Watertown
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