N.Y. High. Law § 344
Unless express provision has been or hereafter shall be made in this chapter, no section hereof shall be construed as authorizing the construction or maintenance of any portion of a highway within the limits of any city, excepting that portion of a third class city lying outside of its corporation tax district where such city embraces the entire area of a former township; also excepting the construction of the pipe line boulevard in the southern part of the counties of Queens and Kings, but not the maintenance thereof; also excepting the maintenance of that section of state highway number five thousand two hundred twenty lying within the limits of the city of North Tonawanda, county of Niagara, a distance of approximately 1.2 miles; and also excepting the maintenance of that section of state highway number five thousand seventy-eight known as Genesee street, all of state highway 57-4 and the section of state highway number one thousand one hundred sixty lying within the corporation tax limits of the city of Oneida, county of Madison, a distance of approximately nine thousand four hundred thirty-eight and one-half feet. This section shall not be construed to apply to the construction or maintenance of state thruways or any work of construction or maintenance in connection therewith.
N.Y. High. Law § 344