Rockaway Boulevard is a major road in the New York City borough of Queens. Unlike the similarly named Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Rockaway Freeway, it serves mainland Queens and does not enter the Rockaways.
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| Former name(s) | Rockaway Road Rockaway Plank Road |
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| Owner | City of New York |
| Maintained by | NYCDOT |
| Length | 8.0 mi (12.9 km)[1] |
| Location | Queens |
| Nearest metro station | Rockaway Boulevard  |
| West end | Eldert Lane in Woodhaven |
| Major junctions |  I-678 in South Ozone Park  Belt Parkway / NY 27 in Springfield Gardens NY 878 in Springfield Gardens |
| East end | Rockaway Turnpike in Lawrence |
Route description
editIt begins as an undivided road at Eldert Lane, a small one-way street that runs along the border between Queens and Brooklyn. West of Atlantic Avenue, it is a two-lane road. When it crosses Atlantic Avenue, it widens to four lanes.
Rockaway Boulevard generally runs east-southeast. It crosses the Van Wyck Expressway (I-678) and the Belt Parkway. Just south of the parkway, the Queens segment of the Nassau Expressway (NY 878) ends at Rockaway Boulevard, in a Y-shaped, at-grade junction. Rockaway Boulevard becomes a six-lane divided road at this point and continues southeast to the Queens-Nassau border, where it splits. One branch continues as Rockaway Turnpike (Nassau County Route 257), and the other leads to the southern part of NY 878. Rockaway Boulevard and Rockaway Turnpike were formerly known as Rockaway Road (or Rockaway Plank Road) and the Jamaica and Rockaway Turnpike. The portion of Rockaway Turnpike in Queens (a separate road towards Jamaica) is now called Sutphin Boulevard.[2][3][4][5]
Parks along Rockaway Boulevard
editAs Rockaway Boulevard cuts diagonally through the rectangular street grid of southeastern Queens, triangular intersections that were too small to develop were designated as parks. These include Legion Triangle, Dixon Triangle, Lynch Triangle, Ruoff Triangle, Corporal Ruoff Square, Wellbrook Triangle, O'Connell Square, Catholic War Veterans Triangle, and Sergeant Colyer Square. Larger parks along the route include Playground One Forty, Baisley Pond Park, and Idlewild Park.[citation needed]
Transportation
editRockaway Boulevard is served by the following:
- The IND Fulton Street Line (A train) of the New York City Subway has a station located at the intersection of Cross Bay, Rockaway, Woodhaven Boulevards, and Liberty Avenue.
- The Q7 is the primary bus server of the boulevard, running between 150th Street and the Rockaway Boulevard station, the two rush hour terminals.[6] Under the Queens Bus Redesign, it has been proposed to reroute the Q7 further along the boulevard to its western end.
- The Q6 runs on the corridor between Sutphin Boulevard and Farmers Boulevard.[7]
- The Q113 and Q114 run between Guy R. Brewer Boulevard and Nassau Expressway. The Q113 heads west on the expressway, while the Q114 continues on the Turnpike portion to Mott Avenue. It is joined by the N31 from West Broadway, which continues until Central Avenue.
- Q10 local buses serve the boulevard between Lefferts Boulevard and 130th Street. Under the Redesign, this portion is to be eliminated as all Q10 buses would be labeled “Limited”.
- The Q37 runs between 114th Street and either Aqueduct Road (Aqueduct Racetrack/Resorts Casino), or 111th Street (Q37B).
- The Q41 runs between the Rockaway Boulevard station and 109th Avenue.
- The Q40 runs between 142nd and 143rd Streets.
- Westbound Q112 buses run from 99th Street to the Rockaway Boulevard station, where it terminates.
Under the Redesign, a new route would also terminate at the Rockaway Boulevard station, but provide service from Linden Boulevard. Cambria Heights-bound service would originate at 99th Street. This route would be given the Q51 label.
References
edit- ^ "Rockaway Boulevard" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- ^ New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1920). New York Legislative Documents: One Hundred and Forty-Third Session. pp. 159–161.
- ^ New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1913). Documents of the Senate of the State of New York. pp. 593–603.
- ^ Tuttle, Arthur S. (October 27, 1922). "Street System-Territory Bounded by Van Wyck Boulevard, Foc Boulevard, 140th Street, 116th Avenue, Sutphin Boulevard (Rockaway Turnpike), and 120th Avenue. Borough of Queens-Approval of Map Showing Subdivision of Private Property (Cal. No. 118)". The City Record. 50 (9–10): 6998. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ^ Digital Collections, The New York Public Library. "(still image) Plate 41: Bounded by Bergen Landing Road, Rockaway Plank Road, Rockaway Turnpike, Meyer Avenue, New York Avenue, Farmers Avenue, Rockaway Plank Road, (Idlewild Park)Three Mile Road and (Richmond Hill Circle) Old South Road., (1909)". The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundation. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
- ^ Q7 bus schedule
- ^ Q6 bus schedule
External links
edit- Rockaway & Farmers Boulevards (Jeff Saltzman's Expressway Site)
- Triangles of Rockaway Boulevard (Forgotten-NY)
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