Linden Boulevard

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Linden Boulevard
NY-27.svg
Central Avenue
Linden - Springfield Blvd jeh.JPG
Maintained by NYCDOT and NCDPW
Length12.7 mi (20.4 km) [1] [1] [2]
Combined length of three segments
Component
highways
NY-27.svg NY 27 from Flatbush to Ozone Park
Location Brooklyn and Queens
West end Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush
Major
junctions
NY-27.svg NY 27 in Ozone Park
I-678.svg I-678 in South Ozone Park
Cross Island Pkwy Shield free.svg Cross Island Parkway in Cambria Heights
Southern Pkwy Shield.svg Southern State Parkway in North Valley Stream
East endNY-27.svg NY 27 in Valley Stream

Linden Boulevard is a boulevard in New York City and Nassau County. Its western end is at Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, where Linden Boulevard travels as an eastbound-only street to Caton Avenue, where it becomes a two-way street. The boulevard stretches through both Brooklyn and Queens – in addition to southwestern Nassau County. This boulevard, especially the area of Cambria Heights between Springfield Boulevard and the Nassau County line represents a smaller version of shopping centers located on Jamaica Avenue and Queens Boulevard.

Contents

Within Nassau County, the road becomes the unsigned Nassau County Route C36. It is known as Linden Boulevard as far east as Valley Stream and then becomes Central Avenue, which was one of several former names of the street in Queens.

Description

New York City section

Linden Boulevard runs through both Brooklyn and Queens, but is interrupted by Aqueduct Racetrack and the street grid in Ozone Park, Queens. The street's character is very different in each borough. Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn, between Flatbush Avenue and Sapphire Street, is 6.0 miles (9.7 km) long. The five Queens stretches are a combined 6.4 miles (10.3 km) long.

Linden Boulevard in East New York LindenBlvd.jpg
Linden Boulevard in East New York

In Brooklyn, between the intersection with Kings Highway and Remsen Avenue, and the intersection with 79th Street and South Conduit Avenue one block east of the Brooklyn–Queens border, it is one of the widest boulevards in the entire city, being a multi-median divided, 8-lane wide boulevard, similar to Queens' Woodhaven Boulevard and Queens Boulevard. While the speed limit on the rest of Linden Boulevard was set at 25 miles per hour in 2015, in line with the city speed limit, this section of Linden Boulevard was lowered over time. [3] The speed limit was lowered to 30 MPH as part of the city's Vision Zero program in 2015, and was subsequently further lowered to 25 MPH in 2019. [4] [5] It is also one of Brooklyn's busiest streets, carrying many trucks, as it is the only direct route for commercial vehicles between Long Island and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge since commercial traffic is banned from the Belt Parkway, which runs between the same points. The stretch of Linden Boulevard from Caton Avenue to Conduit Avenue is part of New York State Route 27.

In Queens, it is mostly a simple two-lane, two-way residential street, no wider than the numbered avenues it parallels, and hardly busier until it reaches Cambria Heights, where it serves as a main commercial strip. Between Aqueduct Racetrack and Cross Bay Boulevard, there is a seven-block section of the boulevard that is mostly residential but is the only road between Rockaway Boulevard and Conduit Avenue on which traffic can flow east of the elevated railroad. One block west of Cross Bay Boulevard, contained within one block, are two short sections (each less than half a block), that are dead ends. One is off Desarc Road, and the other is located at the intersection of Sitka Street and Pitkin Avenue. [6]

Conduit Avenue in Queens interrupts Linden Boulevard. The majority of its traffic merges into the Nassau Expressway, which starts just east of the Linden Boulevard/Conduit Avenue intersection. Linden Boulevard becomes a dead-end street at Pitkin Avenue; another dead-end stretch of the boulevard is at Desarc Road, one block east of Pitkin Avenue. Linden Boulevard then resumes at Cross Bay Boulevard one block east of the dead-end stretches, is interrupted by Aqueduct Racetrack, resumes at Rockaway Boulevard in South Ozone Park, and continues into Nassau County from there.

Nassau County section

County Route C36

Location Valley StreamNorth Valley Stream
Length2.48 mi [7]  (3.99 km)

Upon entering Nassau County, Linden Boulevard assumes the Nassau County Route C36 designation, and runs 2.48 miles (3.99 km) between Valley Stream and North Valley Stream.

Route description

CR C36 begins as Central Avenue at Sunrise Highway (NY 27) in Valley Stream. From there, it travels north-northwest, soon intersecting Merrick Road (CR 27). It then continues north-northwest, intersecting Remson Avenue, thence meanders its way north-northwest to the Valley Stream–North Valley Stream border, at which point it enters the latter community. It then continues northwest, passing Margaret Drive and thence Fernwood Drive, at which point CR C36 curves towards the north-northwest and then crosses underneath the Southern State Parkway at Exit 13 N-S. At this point Central Avenue veers towards the west-northwest, becoming Linden Boulevard. [8] CR C36 then continues west-northwest along Linden Boulevard, soon intersecting Elmont Road (CR C71). It then continues west-northwest to the Queens–Nassau County border, where the CR C36 designation ends; Linden Boulevard continues west of this location through Queens and thence Brooklyn. [8] [9] CR C36 was formerly designated as part of CR 20, prior to the route numbers in Nassau County being altered. [10]

Transportation

Linden Blvd. at Flatbush Avenue Linden Blvd. with Flatbush Ave on the left 2012.jpg
Linden Blvd. at Flatbush Avenue

Linden Boulevard is served by the following:

Until 2010, the Q89 also served a small stretch of Linden Boulevard in Richmond Hill.

Under the Queens Bus Redesign, a new route would run between Rockaway Boulevard and Francis Lewis Boulevard. Buses would continue out of service to Nashville Boulevard before starting service to the Rockaway Boulevard station on the A line. This route would be given the Q51 label.

Rappers Q-Tip and Phife Dawg, the founding members of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, both grew up on Linden Boulevard in the neighborhood of St. Albans, Queens in the 1970s and 80s. They later referred to Linden Boulevard in their songs "Check the Rhime" and "Jazz (We've Got)" (from the album The Low End Theory ), "Steve Biko (Stir It Up)" (from Midnight Marauders ) and "1nce Again", "Mind Power" and "Get A Hold" (from Beats, Rhymes and Life ). The music video for "Check the Rhime" was mostly filmed on Linden Boulevard, and showed Q-Tip and Phife Dawg rapping above a crowd on the rooftop of a dry-cleaning store on Linden and 192nd Street. [11] In July 2016, several months after Phife Dawg's death, a mural honoring A Tribe Called Quest was put up on the side of that dry cleaning store. [11] In November 2016, the section of Linden Boulevard at the corner of 192nd St. was honorarily renamed to Malik 'Phife Dawg' Taylor Way. [12]

The 1998 film Belly features Linden Boulevard.

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi [1] [2] kmDestinationsNotes
Brooklyn Flatbush 0.00.0 Flatbush Avenue
0.20.32West plate.svg
NY-27.svg
NY 27 west (Caton Avenue) / Bedford Avenue
NY 27 leaves/joins Linden Boulevard
East Flatbush 0.50.80 Nostrand Avenue
1.93.1 Kings Highway No eastbound left turns; western terminus of service roads
Brownsville 2.54.0 Rockaway Parkway
East New York 3.76.0 Pennsylvania Avenue
Queens Ozone Park 6.09.7East plate.svg
NY-27.svg
NY 27 east (Conduit Avenue)
Partial interchange; NY 27 continues east
Gap in route, including a 0.4-mile (0.6 km) long segment with no major intersections [1]
South Ozone Park 0.00.0 Rockaway Boulevard
1.11.8I-678.svgAirport Sign.svg I-678 (Van Wyck Expressway) Kennedy Airport, Whitestone Bridge, Bronx Exit 3 on I-678; access via service roads
South Jamaica 2.64.2 Merrick Boulevard
Cambria Heights 4.47.1 Francis Lewis Boulevard
4.57.2 Springfield Boulevard
5.58.9West plate.svg
Belt Pkwy Shield free.svg
North plate.svg
Cross Island Pkwy Shield free.svg
Airport Sign.svg Belt Parkway west / Cross Island Parkway north Kennedy Airport, Whitestone Bridge, Bronx
Exit 25B on Belt / Cross Island Parkways; access via service roads
QueensNassau
county line
Cambria Heights
North Valley Stream line
5.6
2.48
9.0
3.99
Western terminus of unsigned CR C36
Nassau North Valley Stream 2.213.56To plate.svg
East plate.svg
Southern Pkwy Shield.svg
Elmont Road (CR C71) to Southern State Parkway east
1.752.82East plate.svg
Southern Pkwy Shield.svg
Central Avenue (CR C36) / Southern State Parkway east East Islip
Exit 13 on Southern Parkway; CR C36 continues south
Valley Stream 0.000.00NY-27.svg NY 27 (Sunrise Highway) At-grade intersection
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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