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The Belt Parkway is the name given to a series of controlled-access parkways that form a belt-like circle around the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.The Belt Parkway comprises three of the four parkways in what is known as the Belt System: the Shore Parkway, the Southern Parkway (not to be confused with the Southern State Parkway), and the Laurelton Parkway.
Plans for construction of the 36-mile (58 km) roadway were finalized and voted on by the New York City Department of Parks that same month, [6] with Mill Basin being one of five waterways to be spanned along the western edge of Jamaica Bay by a subsection of the project known as the Shore Parkway.
New York State Route 878 (NY 878) is an expressway on Long Island in New York state. The route exists in two sections, which both form the Nassau Expressway.NY 878's western terminus is the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue in Ozone Park, within southern Queens in New York City.
The Kennedy Airport Interchange serves as a major access point to and from Kennedy Airport, in addition to points east, north, and west. It is a junction point for four controlled-access highways (the Belt Parkway, the Van Wyck Expressway (I-678), the Nassau Expressway (I-878 / NY 878), and the JFK Expressway), as well as two major surface streets (North / South Conduit Avenue (NY 27) and ...
The State Legislature drafted a bill in an effort to change the Brooklyn approach's location to Belt Parkway. [73] However, now-governor Rockefeller vetoed the Belt Parkway bill, [74] and in March 1959, the Board of Estimate officially condemned land along Seventh Avenue to make way for the Gowanus Expressway extension to the Narrows Bridge. [75]
The major thoroughfare is reopening this week ― nearly six months ahead of schedule ― giving commuters a breather from driving in a construction zone.
The Gowanus Expressway was initially the Gowanus Parkway, first planned in the 1930s. [42] Construction of the road, overseen by Robert Moses, started in 1939, with the parkway being built on top of the BMT Third Avenue Line. The parkway was completed in 1941 and became part of the Belt Parkway that received the NY 27A designation. [43]
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