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East of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel, I-495 is known as the Long Island Expressway (LIE [note 1]). Spanning approximately 66 miles (106 km), I-495 traverses Long Island from the western portal of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Manhattan to County Route 58 (CR 58) in Riverhead in the east.
A diagram of the Clearview Interchange. The interchange is a windmill interchange, connecting two major, controlled-access expressways: the Long Island Expressway (Interstate 495) and the Clearview Expressway (Interstate 295) – the latter highway being the interchange's namesake. [1]
Waverly Avenue crosses over the Long Island Expressway with no access other than to the service roads. However, until CR 97 (Nicolls Road) was extended to the Long Island Expressway, it served as one of the eastbound destinations for exit 62. On the northeast corner of the westbound service road is the Waverly Avenue Elementary School.
The route runs south-to-north from NY 27A in East Islip to NY 111 in Hauppauge, just south of exit 56 on I-495 (the Long Island Expressway). Originally, CR 17 was an alignment of NY 111 (designated as State Highway 1208 internally).
The parkway winds northeast through North Hills, approaching the eastbound lanes of the Long Island Expressway, but entering exit 27, which connects to Shelter Rock Road (County Route 8). [4] The Northern State and the Long Island Expressway begin paralleling each other in both directions, passing north of Searingtown.
The portion between the Long Island Expressway and the Northern State Parkway carries an average of 67,600 vehicles per day. All three segments saw a rise in traffic over the course of the previous decade, with the Pine Aire Drive–Long Island Expressway segment gaining 14,000 vehicles per day during that time. [1]
I-495, better known as the Long Island Expressway or LIE, extends across Long Island from the western portal of the Queens Midtown Tunnel in Manhattan to Riverhead, Suffolk County. [6] The 2017 route log shows that there is a gap in the designation between I-278 and I-678, where it is designated in between as NY 495, which is incorrect. [23] I ...
The construction of the Long Island Expressway removed this intersection. [53] [56] This is also a staircase that dates to the station's opening. [15] There is a closed exit to the south side of Queens Boulevard underneath the Long Island Expressway, between the ramp to the eastbound expressway and Eliot Avenue. It is covered with a trapdoor ...