Cross Island Parkway
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| Cross Island Parkway |
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| Reference Route 907A | |||||||||
| Length: | 10.57 mi[1] (17.01 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1940 | ||||||||
| South end: |   Belt Pkwy/Southern Pkwy in Cambria Heights |
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| Major junctions: |
 Grand Central Pkwy in Glen Oaks I-495 in Glen Oaks I-295 in Bayside |
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| North end: |  I-678 in Whitestone |
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| Counties: | Nassau, Queens | ||||||||
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Cross Island Parkway, also known as the 100th Infantry Division Parkway, is a parkway within New York State. The parkway is a part of the Belt Parkway system that runs along the perimeter of the borough of Queens in New York City. The Cross Island Parkway runs 10.6 miles from the Whitestone Expressway (Interstate 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. The road is unsigned New York State Reference Route 907A.
The Cross Island Parkway is the main route to Belmont Park in Elmont, where the Belmont Stakes is run every June, marking the third and final leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
Being a part of the "Belt System", its 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).
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[edit] Route description
The Cross Island Parkway begins at an interchange with the Southern State Parkway and the Laurelton Parkway.[2] Exit 26A is for Belmont Park in Queens Village, however, the exit is only northbound.[3] Exits 26B and 26C are for the Hempstead Turnpike, also known as State Route 24. Exit 26D is for the northern end of Belmont Park. Exit 27 is split into E and W southbound and is for State Route 25 and Jamaica Avenue.[4] In Bellerose, the Cross Island leaves Nassau County for Queens again and interchanges with Route 25B and Union Turnpike at Exits 28A and B.
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The Cross Island Parkway has a major ramp connecting the Cross Island Parkway south to Long Island Expressway east has an 180 degree turn. The common number of accidents per month are 5-14. This ramp is considered on of the top ten dangerous in New York. As of 2008, the ramps speed limit will change from 25 MPH to 10 MPH and during snowy roads, it will be reduced to 5 MPH. New cameras will be installed though out the interchange, to track down speeders.
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[edit] Exit list
| County | Location | Mile[1] | # | Destinations | Notes |
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| Queens | Cambria Heights | 0.00 | Belt Parkway west – Kennedy Airport, Brooklyn |
Southbound exit and northbound entrance | |
| 0.00 | 25A | Southern State Parkway east – Eastern Long Island |
Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
| 25B | Elmont Road, Linden Boulevard | ||||
| Queens Village | 26A | Belmont Racetrack | No southbound exit | ||
| 1.56 | 26B |  NY 24 (Hempstead Avenue) – Belmont Racetrack |
Signed as exits 26B (east) and 26C (west) southbound | ||
| Nassau | Floral Park | 1.93 | 26D | Belmont Racetrack | |
| 2.52 | 27 |  NY 25 (Braddock Avenue, Jamaica Avenue, Jericho Turnpike) |
Signed as exits 27E (east) and 27W (west) southbound | ||
| Queens | Bellerose | 3.23 | 28A |  NY 25B (Hillside Avenue) |
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| 3.76 | 28B | Union Turnpike | |||
| Glen Oaks | 4.13 | 29 | Grand Central Parkway – Triboro Bridge, Eastern Long Island, Hauppauge |
Signed as exits 29E (east) and 29W (west) | |
| 5.05 | 30E | .svg/25px-I-495_(NY).svg.png){kind=small} I-495 east (Long Island Expressway) – Eastern Long Island |
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| 30W | I-495 east (Long Island Expressway) – Manhattan |
Northbound exit and southbound entrance | |||
| Flushing | 5.95 | 31 |  NY 25A (Northern Boulevard) |
Signed as exits 31E (east) and 31W (west) | |
| Bayside | 8.33 | 32 | .svg/25px-I-295_(NY).svg.png){kind=small} To I-295 south (Clearview Expressway) / Bell Boulevard |
Signed as exit 33 southbound | |
| 8.83 | 33 | I-295 north (Throgs Neck Bridge) – Bronx, New England |
Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
| Whitestone | 9.06 | 34 | 160th Street, Utopia Parkway | ||
| 35 | 14th Avenue, Francis Lewis Boulevard | No northbound exit | |||
| 10.57 | 36 | .svg/25px-I-678_(NY).svg.png){kind=small} I-678 (Whitestone Bridge, Whitestone Expressway) – Bronx, La Guardia Airport, Kennedy Airport |
Northbound exit and southbound entrance; signed as exits 36N (north) and 36S (south) |
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