- Linden Boulevard
Linden Boulevard is a boulevard in
New York City . It starts off at Flatbush Avenue inBrooklyn and stretches through both Brooklyn andQueens . This boulevard, especially the area of Cambria Heights betweenSpringfield Boulevard and the Nassau County line represents a smaller version of shopping centers located onJamaica Avenue andQueens Boulevard . Linden Boulevard also continues into Nassau County to Valley Stream where it turns into Central Avenue.Though Linden Boulevard runs through both Brooklyn and Queens, the street's character is very different in each borough. In Queens, it is mostly a simple two-lane, two-way street, no wider then the numbered avenues it parallels, and hardly busier until it reaches Cambria Heights. In Brooklyn however, between the intersection with Kings Highway and the intersection with Conduit Avenue at the Brooklyn/Queens border, it is arguably Brooklyn's widest street, and one of the widest in the entire city, being a multi-median divided, 10-lane wide boulevard, similar to
Woodhaven Boulevard andQueens Boulevard in Queens. It is also one of Brooklyn's busiest streets, carrying many trucks, as it is the only direct route for commercial vehicles betweenLong Island and theVerrazano Narrows Bridge since commercial traffic isn't allowed on theBelt Parkway . The Brooklyn stretch of Linden Boulevard is part ofNew York State Route 27 .In Brooklyn, the B20 bus runs on Linden Boulevard between Pennsylvania Avenue and Elderts Lane in East New York. In Queens, The Q4 bus line serves Linden Boulevard between Merrick Boulevard and the Nassau County border. The Q9 also serves a small stretch of Linden Boulevard in Richmond Hill.
Conduit Avenue in Queens interrupts Linden Boulevard. The majority of its traffic merges into the Nassau Expressway, which starts near the Linden Boulevard/Conduit Avenue intersection. Linden Boulevard resumes at
Cross Bay Boulevard in Ozone Park, is interruped byAqueduct Racetrack , resumes at Rockaway Boulevard in South Ozone Park, and continues into Nassau County from there.
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