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Interstate 695 (I-695), also known as part of the Throgs Neck Expressway, is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the New York City borough of the Bronx.It serves as a connector between I-95 (Bruckner Expressway) and I-295 (Cross Bronx Expressway/Throgs Neck Expressway) near the Throgs Neck Bridge, which connects the Bronx with Queens and Long Island.
Of all the roads in the United States, the 35-mile section of the Long Island Expressway that cuts through Queens, funneling traffic toward the Midtown Tunnel, has been named the best chunk of ...
In July 2008, officials announced a $50-million (equivalent to $69.5 million in 2023 [25]) project to improve the severe traffic conditions on a 1.8-mile (2.9 km) stretch of the expressway. Included in the project is the construction of six new on- and offramps, improvements to and relocations of existing on- and offramps, and other ...
New York State Route 895 (NY 895), known locally as Sheridan Boulevard, is a state highway in the New York City borough of The Bronx.Its south end is at a merge with the Bruckner Expressway in the Hunts Point neighborhood, and its north end is at the Cross Bronx Expressway (), where the road connects with local streets in the West Farms neighborhood.
The section of the Cross Bronx Expressway between Anthony and Longfellow Avenues was highly controversial. [55] In early 1953, Bronx borough president James J. Lyons proposed relocating the Cross Bronx Expressway near Crotona Park in order to preserve 1,000 houses in the expressway's right-of-way. Under Lyons's plan, the highway would curve ...
An elderly man was killed and seven others hurt — including a 9-year-old girl — in a four-car pileup near the Kosciuszko Bridge Thursday, authorities and sources said.
Queens: The Bronx: 1970 [17] current I-295 is a connector route within New York City. It travels from the Grand Central Parkway in Queens to the Bruckner Interchange in the Bronx. It crosses the East River by way of the tolled Throgs Neck Bridge. [6] I-390: 76.36: 122.89 Avoca: Gates: c. 1973 [19] [20] current
Moses continued expanding the system of highways in the mid-20th century, including arteries that led to the Triborough Bridge, namely the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Queens [257] and the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx. [258] Both highways became part of I-278, as did the Queens and Bronx spans of the Triborough Bridge, by the 1960s. [259]