Cross Island Parkway
The Cross Island Parkway is a controlled-access parkway in New York City and Nassau County, part of the Belt System of parkways running along the perimeter of the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. The Cross Island Parkway runs 10.6 miles (17.1 km) from the Whitestone Expressway (Interstate 678 or I-678) in Whitestone past the Throgs Neck Bridge, along and across the border of Queens and Nassau County to meet up with the Southern State Parkway, acting as a sort of separation point which designates the limits of New York City. The road is designated as New York State Route 907A (NY 907A), an unsigned reference route, and bears the honorary name 100th Infantry Division Parkway.
Cross Island Parkway | |
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| 100th Infantry Division Parkway | |
Cross Island Parkway highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by NYCDOT | |
| Length | 10.57 mi (17.01 km) |
| Existed | June 29, 1940–present |
| Restrictions | No commercial vehicles |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | Belt Parkway / Southern State Parkway in Cambria Heights |
| NY 24 in Queens Village NY 25 in Bellerose Terrace Grand Central Parkway in Glen Oaks I-495 in Alley Pond Park I-295 in Bayside | |
| North end | I-678 in Whitestone |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| Counties | Nassau, Queens |
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The exit numbering is a continuation of the Belt Parkway, with exit numbers increasing north. At exit 25A (Southern State Parkway), the Cross Island Parkway becomes the Belt Parkway (more specifically, the section once known as the Laurelton Parkway). Before its exits were renumbered to align with the Belt Parkway, they were numbered to co-align with the Southern State Parkway, which is why that parkway begins with exit 13 (the Cross Island Parkway was once exits 1 to 12).