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Interstate 678

Index Interstate 678

Interstate 678 (I-678) is a north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway that extends for through two boroughs of New York City. [1]

93 relations: AirTrain JFK, Andrew Cuomo, Astoria Boulevard, Atlantic Avenue (New York City), Bascule bridge, Belt Parkway, Boroughs of New York City, Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, Bruckner Expressway, Bruckner Interchange, Bus lanes in New York City, Citi Field, College Point, Queens, Conduit Avenue, Cross Island Parkway, Cut (earthmoving), East River, Esso, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952, Ferry Point Park, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Flushing River, Flushing, Queens, Frontage road, Fultonhistory.com, General Drafting, George Washington Bridge, Google Books, Grand Central Parkway, Greenpoint and Roosevelt Avenues, Herbert H. Lehman, High-occupancy vehicle lane, Holland Tunnel, Hutchinson River Parkway, Internet Archive, Interstate 278, Interstate 295 (New York), Interstate 495 (New York), Interstate 78 in New York, Interstate Highway standards, IRT Flushing Line, Jackie Robinson Parkway, Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica Bay, Jamaica, Queens, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Kew Gardens Interchange, Laurelton, Queens, Liberty Avenue (New York City), ..., Linden Boulevard, List of auxiliary Interstate Highways, Long Island Rail Road, Main Street (Queens), MTA Bridges and Tunnels, Nelson Rockefeller, New Haven, Connecticut, New York City, New York City Subway, New York State Department of Transportation, New York State Route 25, New York State Route 25A, New York State Route 25B, New York State Route 27, New York State Route 878, Open road tolling, Ozone Park, Queens, People mover, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Queens, Queens Boulevard, Rand McNally, Regional Plan Association, Right-of-way (transportation), Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Robert Moses, Rockaway Boulevard, Sinclair Oil Corporation, The Bartlett, The Bronx, The New York Times, TimesLedger Newspapers, Traffic bottleneck, Trenton, New Jersey, Triborough Bridge, Union Turnpike (New York), United Airlines, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Whitestone, Queens, Williamsburg Bridge, World's Fair Marina, 1939 New York World's Fair, 1964 New York World's Fair. Expand index (43 more) »

AirTrain JFK

AirTrain JFK is a 3-line, people mover system and elevated railway in New York City, serving John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens.

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Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957) is an American politician, author, and lawyer serving as the 56th and current Governor of New York, since 2011.

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Astoria Boulevard

Astoria Boulevard is an important east-west commercial street in northwestern Astoria, Queens, New York City.

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Atlantic Avenue (New York City)

Atlantic Avenue is an important street in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

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Bascule bridge

A bascule bridge (sometimes referred to as a drawbridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or "leaf", throughout its upward swing to provide clearance for boat traffic.

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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.

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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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Bruckner Expressway

The Bruckner Expressway is a freeway in the borough of the Bronx in New York City.

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Bruckner Interchange

The Bruckner Interchange is a complex interchange in the New York City borough of The Bronx in the United States.

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Bus lanes in New York City

Since 1963, New York City has been using a system of bus lanes that are intended to give priority to buses, which contain more occupants than passenger and commercial vehicles.

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Citi Field

Citi Field is a baseball park located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens.

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College Point, Queens

College Point is a working-middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

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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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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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Cut (earthmoving)

In civil engineering, a cut or cutting is where soil or rock material from a relative rise (elevated landscape) to an earlier section of the route is cut out to make way for a further section of the route, whether canal, road or railway line.

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East River

The East River is a salt water tidal estuary in New York City.

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Esso

Esso is a trading name for ExxonMobil and its related companies.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation.

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Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952 authorized $25 million for the Interstate Highway System on a 50–50 matching basis, meaning the federal government paid 50% of the cost of building and maintaining the interstate while each individual state paid the balance for interstate roads within their borders.

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Ferry Point Park

Ferry Point Park is a park in the Bronx, New York and the site of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge across the East River.

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Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park, or simply Flushing Meadows, is a public park in New York City.

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Flushing River

The Flushing River, more properly and historically known as Flushing Creek, is a waterway that flows through the northern part of central Queens in New York City (mostly through Flushing Meadows–Corona Park) and empties into the East River.

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Flushing, Queens

Flushing is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States.

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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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Fultonhistory.com

Fultonhistory.com or Old Fulton NY Postcards is a historic newspaper website which contains archives of over 1000 New York newspapers, and some from other states and Canada.

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General Drafting

General Drafting Corporation of Convent Station, New Jersey, founded by Otto G. Lindberg in 1909, was one of the "Big Three" road map publishers from 1930 to 1970, along with H.M. Gousha and Rand McNally.

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George Washington Bridge

The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River between the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, and the borough of Fort Lee in New Jersey.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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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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Greenpoint and Roosevelt Avenues

Roosevelt Avenue and Greenpoint Avenue are main thoroughfares in the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.

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Herbert H. Lehman

Herbert Henry Lehman (March 28, 1878 – December 5, 1963) was a Democratic Party politician from New York.

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High-occupancy vehicle lane

A high-occupancy vehicle lane (also known as an HOV lane, carpool lane, diamond lane, 2+ lane, and transit lane or T2 or T3 lanes in Australia and New Zealand) is a restricted traffic lane reserved at peak travel times or longer for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and one or more passengers, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses.

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Holland Tunnel

The Holland Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River.

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Hutchinson River Parkway

The Hutchinson River Parkway (also known as The Hutch) is a north–south parkway in southern New York in the United States.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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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 295 (New York)

Interstate 295 (I-295) is an Interstate Highway within New York City.

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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 78 in New York

Interstate 78 (I-78) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Union Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, to New York City.

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Interstate Highway standards

Standards for Interstate Highways in the United States are defined by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) in the publication A Policy on Design Standards: Interstate System.

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IRT Flushing Line

The IRT Flushing Line is a rapid transit route of the New York City Subway system, operated as part of the A Division.

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Jackie Robinson Parkway

The Jackie Robinson Parkway is a parkway in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

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Jamaica Avenue

Jamaica Avenue is a major avenue in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, New York, in the United States.

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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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Jamaica, Queens

Jamaica is a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

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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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Kew Gardens Interchange

The Kew Gardens Interchange is a complex junction in Kew Gardens, in the center of the New York City borough of Queens.

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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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Liberty Avenue (New York City)

Liberty Avenue is an long west-east avenue in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City.

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Linden Boulevard

Linden Boulevard is a boulevard in New York City.

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List of auxiliary Interstate Highways

The auxiliary Interstate Highways (also called three-digit Interstate Highways) are a supplemental subset of the freeways within the Interstate Highway System of the United States.

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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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Main Street (Queens)

Main Street is a major north-south street in the borough of Queens in New York City, extending from Queens Boulevard in Briarwood to Northern Boulevard in Flushing.

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MTA Bridges and Tunnels

The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, doing business as MTA Bridges and Tunnels, is an affiliate agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that operates seven intrastate toll bridges and two tunnels in New York City.

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Nelson Rockefeller

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and previously as the 49th Governor of New York (1959–1973).

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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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 25

New York State Route 25 (NY 25) is an east–west state highway in downstate New York in the United States.

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New York State Route 25A

New York State Route 25A (NY 25A) is a state highway on Long Island in New York in the United States.

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New York State Route 25B

New York State Route 25B (NY 25B) is a east–west state highway located on Long Island in New York, United States.

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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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Open road tolling

Open road tolling (ORT) or free-flow tolling is the collection of tolls on toll roads without the use of toll booths.

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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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People mover

A people mover or automated people mover (APM) is a type of small scale automated guideway transit system.

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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is a joint venture between the United States, New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United States Congress.

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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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Queens Boulevard

Queens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Queens connecting Midtown Manhattan, via the Queensboro Bridge, to Jamaica.

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Rand McNally

Rand McNally is an American technology and publishing company that provides mapping, software and hardware for the consumer electronics, commercial transportation and education markets.

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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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Right-of-way (transportation)

A right-of-way (ROW) is a right to make a way over a piece of land, usually to and from another piece of land.

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Robert Anderson Van Wyck

Robert Anderson Van Wyck (Paumgarten, Nick., The New Yorker, June 11, 2001. Accessed September 12, 2008. July 20, 1849November 14, 1918) was the first mayor of New York City after the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of Greater New York in 1898.

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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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Sinclair Oil Corporation

Sinclair Oil Corporation is an American petroleum corporation, founded by Harry F. Sinclair on May 1, 1916, as the Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation by combining the assets of 11 small petroleum companies.

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The Bartlett

The UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment (The Bartlett) is the Faculty of the Built Environment of University College London (UCL).

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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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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TimesLedger Newspapers

The TimesLedger Newspapers is a chain of paid circulation weekly newspapers covering news, sports and events of concern to residents of the borough of Queens, New York.

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Traffic bottleneck

A traffic bottleneck is a localized disruption of vehicular traffic on a street, road, or highway.

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Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County.

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Triborough Bridge

The Triborough Bridge, known officially as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge since 2008, and sometimes referred to as the RFK Triborough Bridge or RFK Bridge, is a complex of three separate bridges and their connecting viaducts or elevated expressways in New York City.

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Union Turnpike (New York)

Union Turnpike is a thoroughfare stretching across central and eastern Queens in New York City.

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United Airlines

United Airlines, Inc., commonly referred to as United, is a major United States airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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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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Whitestone, Queens

Whitestone is an upper middle-class residential neighborhood in the northernmost part of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Williamsburg Bridge

The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278).

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World's Fair Marina

The World's Fair Marina is a public marina in Flushing Bay, Queens, New York.

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1939 New York World's Fair

The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair), was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St.

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1964 New York World's Fair

The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations (hosted by 37), 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_678

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