 Route 17N was defined in 1923 to run " from Newark , by way of Kearny , Rutherford , Hackensack , Ridgewood and Ramsey to the New York State Line " . However , only the road north of Route 10 ( Essex Street ) in Hackensack was shown on the 1925 New Jersey State Highway Department Official State Map , running north along existing roads - First Street and the Franklin Turnpike ( now partly called Passaic Street and Paramus Road ) - to the state line . The 1927 Tydol Trails Map shows the route running south to Newark , continuing south across Essex Street on Polifly Road , Terrace Avenue and Hackensack Street to East Rutherford , where it followed Meadow Road , Rutherford Avenue , Ridge Road , Kearny Avenue , 4th Street , and the Newark Turnpike to Newark . In 1924 , New York had numbered its state routes , and the extension of Route 17N north and west to Westfield , New York was numbered as New York State Route 17 , as shown in part on the Tydol Trails Map . 
