 When the portion of the Thruway from Rochester east to the Westmoreland hamlet of Lowell opened on June 24, 1954, NY 332 was extended north to its present northern terminus, meeting the Thruway at exit 44.In the mid-1950s, a new bypass (known as the Eastern Bypass) was built north of Lakeshore Drive from South Main Street to Hopewell.The highway became part of a rerouted US 20 and NY 5 by 1956.