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Queens Boulevard starts off as a small 2-lane street at Jamaica Avenue, but becomes a 6 lane median-divided street at Hillside Avenue one block north.. Queens Boulevard runs northwest to southeast across a little short of half the length of the borough, starting at Queens Plaza at the Queensboro Bridge entrance in Long Island City and running through the neighborhoods of Sunnyside, Woodside ...
The Queens Boulevard Line, also referred to as the Long Island City−Jamaica Line, Fifty-third Street−Jamaica Line, and Queens Boulevard−Jamaica Line prior to opening, [7] [14] [15] was one of the original lines of the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), planned to stretch between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 178th ...
The Queens Boulevard viaduct of the IRT Flushing Line The New York City Subway is a heavy-rail public transit system serving four of the five boroughs of New York City. The present New York City Subway system inherited the systems of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the ...
9 lanes of NY 25 (Queens Boulevard) Officially known as the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. Also known as 59th Street Bridge. Reversible 4 lanes on the upper deck, and 2 westbound/3 eastbound lanes on the lower deck. Roosevelt Island Bridge: 1955: 2,877.0 876.91: 2 lanes of roadway (1 in each direction) East channel only Triborough Bridge ...
Woodhaven Boulevard is an 8- to 11-lane boulevard throughout its entire length, [7] stretching up to 195 feet (59 m) in width, making it the widest street in Queens that is not either a limited-access highway or a state route. The only street in Queens that isn't a highway to surpass it in width is Queens Boulevard at 225 feet (69 m).
The A Division, also known as the IRT Division, [2] is a division of the New York City Subway, consisting of the lines operated with services designated by numbers (1 ...
The 60th Street Tunnel Connection [1] [2] or 11th Street Cut [3] is a short rapid transit line of the New York City Subway, within the Long Island City neighborhood in Queens.It connects the 60th Street Tunnel under the East River (which connects to the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan) with the IND Queens Boulevard Line west of Queens Plaza.
Prior to the LIE's construction, the route was designated as NY 25D. As part of his March 1951 proposal for the Queens–Midtown Expressway, Moses proposed widening an 8.5-mile (13.7 km) stretch of Horace Harding Boulevard between Queens Boulevard and the Queens–Nassau border from 160 to 260 feet (49 to 79 m).