NY 17F headed north out of Alfred Station and intersected with CR 12 at 11.9 miles (19.2 kilometres).

[5] NY 17F entered the village of Almond, paralleling the right-of-way of the modern Southern Tier Expressway and intersecting with CR 2.

[6] By October 1921, the new road was constructed a mile (1.6 km) from the village of Addison to Baldwin Cemetery.

In July 1922, six workers went on strike after the contractor did not meet their demands to raise wages from 35¢; an hour to 40¢.

[11] When state highways were first numbered in New York in 1924, NY 17 originally followed a different, more northerly alignment between Andover and Jasper.

[14] NY 17F remained unchanged until the early 1940s when the route was removed from the state highway system.

[17] NY 432 was restored between 1970[18] and 1978,[19] and stayed intact up to April 1, 1997, when a large-scale highway swap between the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and Steuben County eventually resulted in the transfer of NY 432 to the county.