 NY 376 was originally designated as part of NY 39 , a route extending from Patterson to Poughkeepsie by way of West Patterson and East Fishkill , in the mid @-@ 1920s . In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York , NY 39 was reassigned to another highway in western New York while its former routing in the Hudson Valley was broken up into several routes . One of these was NY 202 , a new route that began in East Fishkill and ended in Poughkeepsie . The rest of NY 39 became part of NY 52 from East Fishkill to the western fringe of Patterson , and NY 311 for the rest of the routing . In 1934 , US 202 was designated by AASHO . In order to avoid a numbering conflict , NY 202 was renumbered to NY 376 . 
