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. It is located roughly midway between LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport. Highways feeding into the Kew Gardens Interchange include the Grand Central Parkway, Interstate 678 (the Van Wyck Expressway), the Jackie Robinson Parkway, Queens Boulevard (New York State Route 25), and Union Turnpike.

Construction from the 1930s includes a distorted trumpet between Grand Central Parkway and Interboro Parkway, with Union Turnpike appearing somewhat as a service road. Connections to the Van Wyck Expressway were added later.

The Kew Gardens Interchange is an incomplete junction: some highways are not connected; some are indirectly connected by Main Street and Union Turnpike.

As of today, August 18th, 2010, the New York State Department of Transportation broke ground on the first phase of reconstruction of the Kew Gardens interchange.

References

News

External links

• Interchange of the Week, Monday, May 7, 2001 (with images)

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