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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 ...
Description The interchange in 1936. The Kew Gardens Interchange is located roughly midway between LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport.Highways feeding into the Kew Gardens Interchange include the Grand Central Parkway, Interstate 678 (the Van Wyck Expressway), the Jackie Robinson Parkway, Queens Boulevard (New York State Route 25), and Union Turnpike.
A guided tour outside the terminal, 2022. Grand Central Terminal is one of the world's ten most-visited tourist attractions,[5]with 21.6 million visitors in 2018, excluding train and subway passengers.[3] The high visitor traffic makes it one of the most-photographed places in New York City and the United States.
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 interchange with Grand Central Parkway was rebuilt from early 2015 to February 2018, with the replacement of the three overpasses carrying I-495 over the parkway. The $55-million (equivalent to $65.7 million in 2023 [22]) reconstruction included extending merge lanes, replacing and adding lighting, and improving drainage structures.
List of New York City Subway yards. Coordinates: 40°35′23″N 73°58′31″W. Train of Many Colors storage at 207th Street Yard. The New York City Transit Authority operates 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system and one for the Staten Island Railway. [ 1][ 2][ 3] There are 10 active A Division yards and 11 active B Division ...
The Jackie Robinson Parkway is a 4.95-mile (7.97 km) controlled-access parkway in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The western terminus of the parkway is at Jamaica Avenue in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. It runs through Highland Park, along the north side of Ridgewood Reservoir, and through Forest Park.
The portion of Astoria Boulevard between roughly 31st and 78th Streets in Astoria serves as a frontage road, or service road for the Grand Central Parkway. Between First and 31st Streets, it is a busy two lane road, with bidirectional traffic. Here most of the traffic is bound for either the Whitestone Expressway or the Grand Central Parkway.