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Belt Parkway

Index Belt Parkway

The Belt Parkway is the name given to a series of connected limited-access highways that form a belt-like circle around the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. [1]

92 relations: Aqueduct Racetrack, Bay Parkway (Brooklyn), Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, Boroughs of New York City, Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, Brooklyn, Cambria Heights, Queens, Canarsie, Brooklyn, Cloverleaf interchange, Conduit Avenue, Coney Island, Coney Island Avenue, Coney Island Creek, Controlled-access highway, Cropsey Avenue, Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge, Cross Bronx Expressway, Cross Island Parkway, East New York, Brooklyn, Fifth Avenue Line (Brooklyn elevated), Flatbush Avenue, Floyd Bennett Field, Fort Hamilton, Fountain Avenue, Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn), Francis Lewis Boulevard, Frontage road, Gateway Center (Brooklyn), Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, Gerritsen Creek, Grand Central Parkway, Gravesend, Brooklyn, Howard Beach, Queens, IND Rockaway Line, Interstate 278, Interstate 495 (New York), Interstate 678, Jamaica Bay, JFK Expressway, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Landfill, Laurelton, Queens, Limited-access road, Linden Boulevard, List of New York City Subway yards, List of reference routes in New York, Long Island, Long Island Rail Road, Manhattan, ..., Marine Park, Brooklyn, Merrick Road, Mill Basin, Brooklyn, Neptune Avenue (IND Culver Line), New Jersey, New York and Atlantic Railway, New York City Council, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, New York City Department of Transportation, New York City Subway, New York State Department of Transportation, New York State Route 27, New York State Route 878, Ocean Parkway (Brooklyn), Ozone Park, Queens, Paerdegat Basin, Parkway, Parkways in New York, Pennsylvania Avenue (Brooklyn), Queens, Regional Plan Association, Robert Moses, Rockaway Boulevard, Rockaway Parkway, Rockaway, Queens, Routledge, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Southern State Parkway, Spring Creek, Brooklyn, Springfield Boulevard, Starrett City, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Station wagon, Stillwell Avenue, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, The New York Times, Unsigned highway, Upper New York Bay, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Westchester County, New York, Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards, Woodhaven, Queens. Expand index (42 more) »

Aqueduct Racetrack

Aqueduct Racetrack is a Thoroughbred horse-racing facility and racino in South Ozone Park, Queens, New York City. Its racing meets are usually from late October/early November through April.

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Bay Parkway (Brooklyn)

Bay Parkway is a 2.7-mile (7.82 km) boulevard/parkway in the west portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Bergen Beach, Brooklyn

Bergen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Boroughs of New York City

New York City encompasses five county-level administrative divisions called boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.

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Bronx–Whitestone Bridge

The Bronx–Whitestone Bridge (colloquially referred to as the Whitestone Bridge or simply the Whitestone) is a suspension bridge in New York City that crosses the East River and connects the boroughs of Queens on Long Island, and the Bronx on the United States mainland via Interstate 678.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Cambria Heights, Queens

Cambria Heights is a residential middle-class neighborhood in the southeastern portion of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Canarsie, Brooklyn

Canarsie is a working- and middle-class residential and commercial neighborhood in the southeastern portion of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, United States.

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Cloverleaf interchange

A cloverleaf interchange is a two-level interchange in which left turns (reverse directions in left-driving regions) are handled by ramp roads (US: ramps, UK: slip roads).

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Conduit Avenue

Conduit Avenue (Conduit Boulevard in Brooklyn) is an arterial road in New York City, the vast majority of which is in Queens.

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Coney Island

Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination of Long Island on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.

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Coney Island Avenue

Coney Island Avenue is a roadway in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that runs north-south for a distance of roughly five miles, almost parallel to Ocean Parkway and Ocean Avenue.

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Coney Island Creek

Coney Island Creek is a long tidal inlet in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.

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Cropsey Avenue

Cropsey Avenue is a major street in Brooklyn, New York.

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Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge

The Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge (originally Cross Bay Bridge or Cross Bay Parkway Bridge) in New York City is a toll bridge that carries Cross Bay Boulevard from Broad Channel in Jamaica Bay to the Rockaway Peninsula, and is located in Queens.

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Cross Bronx Expressway

The Cross Bronx Expressway is a major freeway in the New York City borough of the Bronx, conceived by Robert Moses and built between 1948 and 1972.

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Cross Island Parkway

Cross Island Parkway, also known as the 100th Infantry Division Parkway, is a parkway on Long Island, New York.

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East New York, Brooklyn

East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, United States.

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Fifth Avenue Line (Brooklyn elevated)

The Fifth Avenue Line, also called the Fifth Avenue Elevated or Fifth Avenue-Bay Ridge Line, was an elevated rail line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States.

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Flatbush Avenue

Flatbush Avenue is a major avenue in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn.

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Floyd Bennett Field

Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighorhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay.

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Fort Hamilton

Historic Fort Hamilton is located in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, and is one of several posts that are part of the region which is headquartered by the Military District of Washington.

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Fountain Avenue

Fountain Avenue is a north-south running street in Brooklyn, New York.

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Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn)

Fourth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Francis Lewis Boulevard

Francis Lewis Boulevard is a boulevard in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Frontage road

A frontage road (also known as an access road, service road or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road.

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Gateway Center (Brooklyn)

Gateway Center, also referred to as Gateway Plaza Mall or simply Gateway Mall, is a shopping complex in the Spring Creek section of East New York, Brooklyn, in New York City.

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Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn

Gerritsen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Sheepshead Bay to the west and Marine Park to the east.

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Gerritsen Creek

Gerritsen Creek is a short watercourse in Brooklyn, New York that empties into Jamaica Bay.

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Grand Central Parkway

The Grand Central Parkway (GCP) is a 14.61-mile (23.51 km) long parkway that stretches from the Triborough Bridge in New York City to Nassau County on Long Island.

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Gravesend, Brooklyn

Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Howard Beach, Queens

Howard Beach is an upper middle class neighborhood in the southwestern portion of the New York City borough of Queens.

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IND Rockaway Line

The IND Rockaway Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, operating in Queens.

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Interstate 278

Interstate 278 (I-278) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in New Jersey and New York in the United States.

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Interstate 495 (New York)

Interstate 495 (I-495) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of New York.

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Interstate 678

Interstate 678 (I-678) is a north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway that extends for through two boroughs of New York City.

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Jamaica Bay

Jamaica Bay is located on the southern side of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York, near the island's western end.

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JFK Expressway

The JFK Expressway is a short freeway connecting the Belt Parkway with John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York City.

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John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport (often referred to as Kennedy Airport, New York-JFK or simply JFK) is the primary international airport serving New York City.

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Landfill

A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.

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Laurelton, Queens

Laurelton is a largely middle class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens and part of the former town of Jamaica.

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Limited-access road

A limited-access road, known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway, expressway, and partial controlled access highway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway (freeway or motorway), including limited or no access to adjacent property, some degree of separation of opposing traffic flow, use of grade separated interchanges to some extent, prohibition of some modes of transport such as bicycles or horses, and very few or no intersecting cross-streets.

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Linden Boulevard

Linden Boulevard is a boulevard in New York City.

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List of New York City Subway yards

The New York City Transit Authority operates a total of 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system.

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List of reference routes in New York

A reference route is an unsigned highway assigned by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) to roads that possess a signed name (mainly parkways), that NYSDOT has determined are too minor to have a signed touring route number, or are former touring routes that are still state-maintained.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Long Island Rail Road

The Long Island Rail Road, legally known as the Long Island Rail Road Company and often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marine Park, Brooklyn

Marine Park is the name of a neighborhood and the largest public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn,, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

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Merrick Road

Merrick Road, known as Merrick Boulevard inside New York City, is an east–west urban arterial in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties, New York, United States.

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Mill Basin, Brooklyn

Mill Basin is a affluent peninsular residential neighborhood in New York City in the southern portion of the borough of Brooklyn lying along Jamaica Bay and bounded to the north by Avenue U, and to the east, south, and west by the Mill Basin/Mill Island Inlet.

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Neptune Avenue (IND Culver Line)

Neptune Avenue is a station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, located in Coney Island, Brooklyn, at the intersection of Neptune Avenue and West 6th Street.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New York and Atlantic Railway

The New York and Atlantic Railway (NY&A) is a short line railroad formed in 1997 to provide freight service over the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road, a public commuter rail agency which had decided to privatize its freight operations.

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New York City Council

The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of the City of New York.

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New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, also called Parks Department and NYC Parks, is the department of the government of New York City responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's residents and visitors.

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New York City Department of Transportation

The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) is the agency of the government of New York City responsible for the management of much of New York City's transportation infrastructure.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

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New York State Department of Transportation

The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is the department of the New York state government responsible for the development and operation of highways, railroads, mass transit systems, ports, waterways and aviation facilities in the U.S. state of New York.

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New York State Route 27

New York State Route 27 (NY 27) is an east–west long state highway extending from Interstate 278 (I-278) in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to Montauk Point State Park on Long Island, New York, in the United States.

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New York State Route 878

New York State Route 878 (NY 878) is a state highway on Long Island, in the southern portion of the U.S. state of New York.

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Ocean Parkway (Brooklyn)

Ocean Parkway is a boulevard in the west-central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Ozone Park, Queens

Ozone Park is a neighborhood located in the southwestern section of the borough of Queens, in New York City, New York, United States.

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Paerdegat Basin

Paerdegat Basin is a channel that connects to Jamaica Bay in western Canarsie, on the eastern end of Brooklyn, New York, United States.

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Parkway

A parkway is a broad, landscaped highway thoroughfare.

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Parkways in New York

The majority of parkways in the US state of New York are part of a statewide parkway system owned by several public and private agencies but mostly maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT).

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Pennsylvania Avenue (Brooklyn)

Pennsylvania Avenue is a major north-south street in Brooklyn, New York.

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Queens

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Regional Plan Association

The Regional Plan Association of the United States is an independent, not-for-profit regional planning organization, founded in 1922, that focuses on recommendations to improve the quality of life and economic competitiveness of a 31-county New York–New Jersey–Connecticut region in the New York metropolitan area.

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Robert Moses

Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American public official who worked mainly in the New York metropolitan area.

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Rockaway Boulevard

Rockaway Boulevard is a major road in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Rockaway Parkway

Rockaway Parkway is a major commercial street in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

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Rockaway, Queens

The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is the name of a peninsula within the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, New York.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

Sheepshead Bay is a bay separating the mainland of Brooklyn, New York City, from the eastern portion of Coney Island, the latter originally a barrier island but now effectively an extension of the mainland with peninsulas both east (the neighborhood of Manhattan Beach) and west (the neighborhoods of Coney Island and Sea Gate).

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Southern State Parkway

The Southern State Parkway (also known as the Southern State or Southern Parkway) is a limited-access highway on Long Island, New York, in the United States.

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Spring Creek, Brooklyn

Spring Creek, previously called Spring Creek Basin, is a neighborhood within the East New York section of Brooklyn in New York City.

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Springfield Boulevard

Springfield Boulevard is a major north/south roadway that runs through the eastern section of Queens, New York.

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Starrett City, Brooklyn

Starrett City (informally and colloquially known as the Spring Creek Towers) is a housing development in the Spring Creek (East New York) section of Brooklyn, New York City.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost and westernmost of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.

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Station wagon

A station wagon, also called an estate car, estate wagon, or simply wagon or estate, is an automotive body-style variant of a sedan/saloon with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume with access at the back via a third or fifth door (the liftgate or tailgate), instead of a trunk/boot lid.

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Stillwell Avenue

Stillwell Avenue is a major two-way north/south thoroughfare in southern Brooklyn and the central section of Coney Island.

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Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Unsigned highway

An unsigned highway is a highway that has been assigned a route number, but does not bear road markings that would conventionally be used to identify the route with that number.

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Upper New York Bay

Upper New York Bay, or Upper Bay, is the traditional heart of the Port of New York and New Jersey, and often called New York Harbor.

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Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (also referred to as the Verrazano Bridge and formerly the Narrows Bridge) is a double-decked suspension bridge that connects the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn and is named for Giovanni da Verrazzano.

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Westchester County, New York

Westchester County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.

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Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards

Woodhaven Boulevard and Cross Bay Boulevard (formerly Jamaica Bay Boulevard) are two parts of a major boulevard in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Woodhaven, Queens

Woodhaven is a middle-class neighborhood located in the central section of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Belt Pkwy, Belt State Parkway, Belt parkway, Circumferential Parkway, Laurelton Parkway, Leif Erikson Drive, Leif Erikson drive, NY 907B, NY 907C, NY 907D, New York State Route 907B, New York State Route 907C, New York State Route 907D, Shore Parkway, Shore parkway, Southern Parkway (Queens).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_Parkway

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