Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Parkways. 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.
Twenty-five years after Robinson's death, the Interboro Parkway was renamed the Jackie Robinson Parkway in his memory. This parkway bisects the cemetery in close proximity to Robinson's gravesite. [261] After Robinson's death, his widow founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, and she remains an officer as of 2024. [262]
The cemetery is run as a non-profit organization and is located at 833 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn in the Cemetery Belt on the border of both boroughs, and its 225 acres are divided by the Jackie Robinson Parkway. Cypress Hills Cemetery retains its two primary entrances at Jamaica Avenue (Cypress Hills, Brooklyn) and Cooper Avenue (Glendale, Queens
Other baseball notables who played at Parkway include a teenage Ted Williams, a young Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio and local baseball phenom Harold ‘Pee Wee’ Reese, who got his big break ...
Interstate 678 (I-678) is a north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway that extends for 14 miles (23 km) through two boroughs of New York City.The route begins at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Jamaica Bay and travels north through Queens and across the East River to the Bruckner Interchange in the Bronx, where I-678 ends and the Hutchinson River Parkway begins.
The extension connects to the Jackie Robinson Parkway, three blocks southeast, via Bushwick Avenue. [4] East of Ralph Avenue, the street numbers on Eastern Parkway continue down Pitkin Avenue toward Aqueduct Racetrack. [4] Pitkin Avenue was created by the late 1890s when the Eastern Parkway Extension was constructed. [8]
Daytona Beach Regional Library, 105 Jackie Robinson Parkway, Daytona Beach (Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday)
Jackie Robinson Park (formerly Colonial Park) is a public park in the Hamilton Heights and Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The approximately 12.77-acre (5.17 ha) park is bounded by Bradhurst Avenue to the east, 155th Street to the north, Edgecombe Avenue to the west, and 145th Street to the south.