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Interstate 295 (I-295) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway within New York City.Measuring 7.7 miles (12.4 km) in length, I-295 originates at Hillside Avenue (New York State Route 25; NY 25) in Queens, running north across Queens and over the tolled Throgs Neck Bridge, to Bruckner Interchange, a junction with I-95, I-278, I-678, and the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx.
Constructed. January 1959 – August 1960. Opened. August 12, 1960. Reconstructed. 2001–2003. Maintained by. NYSDOT. The Clearview Interchange (also known as the Long Island Expressway / Clearview Expressway Interchange) is a highway interchange located in the Bayside neighborhood of the borough of Queens, in New York City .
The expressway continues east as a six-lane highway, veering to the southeast to bypass Kissena Park before curving back to the northeast to meet the Clearview Expressway at the northern edge of Cunningham Park. Past I-295, I-495 passes by the "Queens Giant", the oldest and tallest tree in the New York metropolitan area.
Parkways. The Cross Island Parkway is a controlled-access parkway in New York City and Nassau County, part of the Belt System of parkways running along the perimeter of the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. The Cross Island Parkway runs 10.6 miles (17.1 km) from the Whitestone Expressway ( Interstate 678 or I-678) in Whitestone past the Throgs ...
The Grand Central Parkway ( GCP) is a 14.61-mile (23.51 km) controlled-access parkway that stretches from the Triborough Bridge in New York City to Nassau County on Long Island. At the Queens–Nassau border, it becomes the Northern State Parkway, which runs across the northern part of Long Island through Nassau County and into Suffolk County ...
Union Turnpike (New York) Union Turnpike is a thoroughfare stretching across part of Long Island in southern New York state, mostly within central and eastern Queens in New York City. It runs from Myrtle Avenue in Glendale, Queens, to Marcus Avenue in North New Hyde Park, Nassau County, about 1 mile (1.6 km) outside the New York City border.
The Northern State Parkway (also known as the Northern State or Northern Parkway) is a 28.88-mile (46.48 km) controlled-access parkway on Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. The western terminus is at the Queens – Nassau County line in Lake Success – west of which the parkway continues westward into New York City as the Grand Central ...
The Earhart Expressway, named for former New Orleans Commissioner of Public Utilities, Fred A. Earhart, [1] is a state highway located in both Jefferson Parish and Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It is also designated as Louisiana Highway 3139 ( LA 3139 ), spanning a total of 5.2 miles (8.4 km). Although it is an odd-numbered highway and is bannered ...