New York State Route 54 (1920s–1930)

New York State Route 8
Map of eastern New York with NY 8 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT
Length:	205.29 mi (330.38 km)
Existed:	1930 – present
Major junctions
South end:	NY 10 / Future I-86 / NY 17 in Deposit
	I-88 in Sidney NY 80 in New Berlin US 20 in Bridgewater I-90 / I-790 / NY 5 / NY 12 / New York Thruway in Utica NY 30 in Speculator I-87 / US 9 in Chestertown
North end:	NY 9N in Hague
Location
Counties:	Delaware, Otsego, Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer, Hamilton, Warren
Highway system
New York Highways Interstate U.S. State Reference Parkways ← NY 7B US 9 →

New York State Route 8 (NY 8) is a north-south state highway in the central part of New York in the United States. It runs in a southwest-to-northeast direction from the Southern Tier to the northern part of Lake George. The southern terminus of the route is at NY 10 in the town of Deposit. Its northern terminus is at a junction with NY 9N in the town of Hague. Roughly midway between the two endpoints, NY 8 passes through Utica, where it overlaps NY 5, NY 12, and Interstate 790 (I-790) along one segment of the North–South Arterial.

NY 8 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York and originally extended north to a ferry across Lake Champlain at Putnam Station, where it connected to Vermont Route F-10 (VT F-10). The route was realigned slightly on its northern end by 1933 to connect to another ferry leading to VT F-9 east of Ticonderoga. By the following year, it was altered again to use the new Champlain Bridge at Crown Point to connect to VT 17. This was made possible by way of a long concurrency with NY 9N and NY 22. NY 8 was truncated to its current northern terminus c. 1968. In the 1960s and 1970s, NY 8 was moved onto new freeways around and through the city of Utica. NY 8 originally extended south via an overlap with NY 10 to end at NY 17, however, it was truncated to end at the northern end of the overlap by 2017.