 Initially, NY 52 passed through Cohocton on its way from Wayland to Naples; it was realigned to follow a more direct routing between Wayland and Naples by 1930.In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, most of NY 52 was incorporated into NY 39, a new route extending from Dunkirk to Geneva.Unlike NY 52, NY 39 went directly from Middlesex to Rushville.