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    The Belt Parkway is the name given to a series of controlled-access parkways that form a belt-like circle around the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn...
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    The Cross Island Parkway is a controlled-access parkway in New York City and Nassau County, part of the Belt System of parkways running along the perimeter...
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    Island, New York, in the United States. The parkway begins at an interchange with the Belt and Cross Island parkways in Elmont, in Nassau County, and travels...
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    A parkway is a landscaped thoroughfare. The term is particularly used for a roadway in a park or connecting to a park from which trucks and other heavy...
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    which both form the Nassau Expressway. NY 878's western terminus is the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue (NY 27) in Ozone Park, within southern Queens. Its...
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    Avenue Line. The parkway was completed in 1941 and became part of the Belt Parkway that received the NY 27A designation. The Gowanus Parkway was to be reconstructed...
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    Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, with Flatbush Avenue to Floyd Bennett Field, Belt Parkway, and the Marine Park neighborhood in Brooklyn. The bridge is designated...
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    Circumferential (Belt) Parkway, but in early 1957, Harriman vetoed a bill that stipulated that the main approach connect to the Belt Parkway. By May 1957...
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  • like the M240 and Mk 48. Steel belt, a type of conveyor belt Belt, North Holland Belt, Montana, United States Belt Parkway, a series of highways around...
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    Nassau Expressway and over NY 27 east (South Conduit Avenue) and the Belt Parkway, and then over NY 27 west (North Conduit Avenue) at exit 1B. At this...
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    Utrecht, and Brooklyn. Belt Parkway runs on the shorefront north of Bay Parkway and is close to the shorefront south of Bay Parkway. Parks in Bath Beach...
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    east, passing through Springfield Gardens, Laurelton and crossing the Belt Parkway before leaving Queens into Nassau County, where it becomes Merrick Road...
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  • southeast. By May 1942, the Gowanus Parkway was completed between Hicks Street and the Belt Parkway. The parkway also included a bridge over the Gowanus...
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    between Mill and Paerdegat basins later used for the construction of the Belt Parkway.: 77  Most of the earliest filling operations along the island were private;...
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    Gardens, crossing multiple exits of the Belt Parkway until entering Laurelton. In Laurelton, the Belt Parkway turns northward while NY 27 continues eastbound...
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    Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, commonly known as O'Block and formerly Wiiic City, is an apartment complex in the Greater Grand Crossing community area...
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    intended to be part of I-295 but was constructed only as far north as the Belt Parkway. The existing section of the Clearview Expressway that carries the I-295...
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    previously a swampland-like landfill near the Erskine Street exit off the Belt Parkway, has been developed as part of the neighborhood of Spring Creek and Shirley...
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    Coney Island proper at Ocean Parkway to the west, Manhattan Beach at Corbin Place to the east, Sheepshead Bay at the Belt Parkway to the north, and the Atlantic...
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  • Thumbnail for Pennsylvania Avenue (Brooklyn)
    generally runs north to south, from the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Broadway Junction to the Belt Parkway in Starrett City. Pennsylvania Avenue is also known...
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  • seriously beaten. While fleeing the attack, Griffith ran onto the nearby Belt Parkway where he was struck and killed by a motorist. His body was found on the...
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    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...
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    New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered to the north by the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue in Ozone Park, to the south by Jamaica Bay in Broad...
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  • was part of the $700 million Belt Parkway reconstruction project connecting highways in Brooklyn and Queens. The Belt Parkway reconstruction project received...
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    Sunset Park to the north, Dyker Heights to the east, the Narrows and the Belt Parkway to the west, and Fort Hamilton Army Base and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge...
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    it passes underneath the Belt Parkway in Sheepshead Bay. It runs parallel to Ocean Avenue for much of its route. Ocean Parkway ends at Surf Avenue in Brighton...
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    American English: sidewalk) and road verges (North American English: tree belt, parkway, or other regional variants). A dual carriageway road (North American...
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    Avenue; on the southwest by Paerdegat Basin; and on the southeast by Belt Parkway and Jamaica Bay. It is adjacent to the neighborhoods of East Flatbush...
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    necessary to connect the proposed Belt Parkway (now Cross Island Parkway) on the Queens side with the Hutchinson River Parkway and Bruckner Boulevard on the...
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    The highway was expanded in 1940 as part of the construction of the Belt Parkway. The Brooklyn section was originally supposed to host Interstate 78 within...
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