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Staten Island Expressway, Verrazano Bridge, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway,
RFK Bridge, Bruckner Expressway
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Direction: East/West
Western Terminus: Goethals Bridge at the New York-New Jersey border
Eastern Terminus: I-95 in the Bronx
The New York section of I-278 begins at the Goethals Bridge at the New York-New
Jersey border. The first section is the Staten Island Expressway, which crosses
Staten Island. At the end of the Staten Island Expressway, I-278 goes over the
Verrazano Bridge to Brooklyn, where it becomes the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
The section immediately after the bridge is also known as the Gowanus Expressway,
but the signs all say "Brooklyn-Queens Expressway" so as not to confuse people.
The expressway runs to the northeast along the water through Brooklyn. It passes
the Battery Tunnel (I-478), the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, and the
Williamsburg Bridge. It then goes over the Kosciuszko Bridge to Queens, where it
has interchanges with the Long Island Expressway (I-495), Queens Boulevard
(NY 25), and Northern Boulevard (NY 25A). It merges with the Grand Central
Parkway and goes over the RFK Bridge, which was formerly known as the Triboro
Bridge, to the Bronx, where it becomes the Bruckner Expressway. It ends at I-95
near the Whitestone Bridge (I-678) and the Throgs Neck Bridge (I-295).
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