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One branch continues as Rockaway Turnpike (Nassau County Route 257), and the other leads to the southern part of NY 878. Rockaway Boulevard and Rockaway Turnpike were formerly known as Rockaway Road (or Rockaway Plank Road) and the Jamaica and Rockaway Turnpike. The portion of Rockaway Turnpike in Queens (a separate road towards Jamaica) is now ...
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 .
NY 40, Melrose Valley Falls Road, Northern Turnpike, NY 67, Bushwick-Hoosick Road, Stage Road, Turnpike Road, NY 22: Yes 1837: Authorized to reroute off Stage Road to Turnpike Road and NY 67. 1846: Authorized to abandon north of Cambridge Branch Salem, Vermont state line CR 153: Yes Seneca Road Company: Main Road April 1, 1800, c. 78 [6]
Rockaway Turnpike: New York City line in Inwood: Formerly part of NY 104 from c. 1931 to c. 1933 CR 260: 0.87 1.40 Meadowbrook State Parkway: Zeckendorf Boulevard in East Garden City Old Country Road CR 878T: 0.57 0.92 Rockaway Turnpike in Inwood: Nassau Expressway Tem. Burnside Avenue (CR C27) in Inwood
Many roads along the routes have been renamed. New York Avenue would later become New York Boulevard, and was renamed Guy R. Brewer Boulevard in 1982 after local politician Guy Brewer. [31] [32] Rockaway Road and the Jamaica and Rockaway Turnpike are now called Rockaway Boulevard (in Queens) and the Rockaway Turnpike (in Nassau), respectively.
Also in the general neighborhood, Philadelphia placed 9th out of all American cities for many of the same reasons as New York. Buffalo, the only other Empire State entry, landed at a middling 45th.
Peninsula Boulevard in Hempstead Lake State Park. Peninsula Boulevard begins in Cedarhurst at Rockaway Turnpike, near a connecting road to the NY 878 (Nassau Expressway), and runs through the Five Towns area, where it spends much of its journey running northeast and southwest as a four-lane undivided thoroughfare.
Replaced New York and Long Island Traction Company "Mineola-Brooklyn" line on April 5, 1926. [38] Operated by Hempstead Bus Corporation until 1973 MSBA takeover. n40/41 became a combined route in late 2018, as a result of n43 service being rerouted to Babylon Turnpike, making the n41 redundant.