around the same time as the designation swap, ny 2 was extended south to ny 5 in albany by way of overlaps with us 4, then routed on 1st street, and ny 32. in between the two routes, ny 2 was routed on modern ny 378 and crossed the hudson river by way of the troy–menands bridge. ny 2 was rerouted slightly in the early 1950s to leave ny 32 at the junction of wolfert avenue and broadway and follow broadway into downtown albany, where it ended at madison avenue (us 9 and us 20). the route was truncated to the northern end of the ny 32 overlap in the mid-1960s, then to 3rd street (us 4) in troy on january 1, 1970. the former routing of ny 2 between ny 32 and us 4 became an extension of ny 378.