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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.
Maps from the 1970s show that the connector between the Van Wyck and Rockaway Boulevard had yet to be constructed. [12] [33] However, a 1971 New York Times article mentioned that the freeway between the Van Wyck Expressway and 150th Street was already open. At the time, the entire highway from Queens to Nassau was planned for completion in 1981.
The Van Wyck Expressway (Interstate 678) was first opened in 1950, connecting the airport to the Grand Central Parkway, [8] and later extended north to the Whitestone Expressway. At the time, it was the only expressway connected to the airport. Consequently, traffic jams often backed up the expressway for several miles north. [9]
The Van Wyck Expressway was built over the boulevard in 1949. [76] As early as 1997, the Briarwood Community Association had been pushing to rename the station to "Briarwood" or "Briarwood–Van Wyck" since it better reflected the fact that the station served the Briarwood neighborhood.
I-678 south (Van Wyck Expressway) – Kennedy Airport: Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; exit 10 on I-678: 7.53: 12.12: 14: Jackie Robinson Parkway west / Union Turnpike to NY 25 west (Queens Boulevard) – Brooklyn: Signed as exits 14 (Parkway) and 15 (Union) westbound; no westbound access to Union Turnpike east; NY 25 not signed ...
The Kennedy Airport Interchange serves as a major access point to and from Kennedy Airport, in addition to points east, north, and west. It is a junction point for four controlled-access highways (the Belt Parkway, the Van Wyck Expressway (I-678), the Nassau Expressway (I-878 / NY 878), and the JFK Expressway), as well as two major surface streets (North / South Conduit Avenue (NY 27) and ...
Anthony Van Wyck (1822–1900), Wisconsin politician; Augustus Van Wyck (1850–1922), New York lawyer and politician; Charles Van Wyck (1824–1895), United States Senator from Nebraska; Pierre C. Van Wyck (1778–1827), NY District Attorney; Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1849–1918), the first mayor of New York City after consolidation in 1898
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