 The roadway effectively supplanted NY 3 as the main east–west road into the city; in fact, a section of the highway was built within of NY 3.The highway was completed by 1973 as an eastward extension of NY 374.On April 1, 1980, ownership and maintenance of NY 374 from its junction with US 11 in the village of Chateaugay to the Canadian border was transferred from the state of New York to Franklin County as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government.