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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.
Shirley Chisholm State Park is a 407-acre (1.65 km 2) state park in southeastern Brooklyn, New York City. It is bound by Belt Parkway and Spring Creek Park to the north and Jamaica Bay to the south, situated atop the former Pennsylvania Avenue and Fountain Avenue Landfills. The first sections of the park opened in 2019.
City of New York: Maintained by: NYSDOT and NYCDOT: Length: 8.0 mi (12.9 km) [1] Location: Brooklyn and Queens, New York City: West end: Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills: Major junctions: NY 27 (Linden Boulevard) in Lindenwood NY 878 / Belt Parkway in South Ozone Park I-678 in South Ozone Park JFK Expressway in South Ozone Park Belt Parkway in ...
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 ...
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 ( NY 27 ) in Ozone Park , within southern Queens in New York City .
Pennsylvania Avenue at the corner of Livonia Avenue, near elevated subway station. Pennsylvania Avenue is a major north–south street in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. It generally runs north to south, from the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Broadway Junction to the Belt Parkway in Starrett City.
The state's parkway system originally began as a series of then-high-speed (25 miles per hour or 40 kilometres per hour) four-lane roads that were created to provide a scenic way into, out of, and around New York City. The first section of this system opened in 1908.
Ecological concerns were later expressed for the area on a "New York Habitat Restoration" webpage. [12] Memorial at Fountain Avenue near Belt Parkway. Fountain Avenue has been infamous as a dumping ground for bodies of people slain by the mob. [13] In the 1930s a group known as Murder, Inc. used the area as a dumping ground for bodies. [14]