| Cross Island Parkway | |
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| Route information | |
| Length: | 10.57 mi[1] (17.01 km) |
| Existed: | 1940 – present |
| Major junctions | |
| South end: | Belt Parkway / Southern State Parkway in Cambria Heights |
| Grand Central Parkway on Bellerose/Douglaston/Glen Oaks/Oakland Gardens border I-495 on Douglaston/Oakland Gardens border I-295 in Bayside |
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| North end: | I-678 in Whitestone |
| Location | |
| Counties: | Nassau, Queens |
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Cross Island Parkway, also known as the 100th Infantry Division Parkway, is a parkway within New York State. The parkway is a part of the Belt Parkway system that runs along the perimeter of the borough of Queens in New York City. The Cross Island Parkway runs 10.6 miles (17.1 km) from the Whitestone Expressway (Interstate 678) in Whitestone past the Throgs Neck Bridge, along and across the border of Queens and Nassau County to meet up with the Southern State Parkway. The road is designated as New York State Route 907A, an unsigned reference route.
The Cross Island Parkway is the main route to Belmont Park in Elmont.
Being a part of the "Belt System", its exit numbering is a continuation of the Belt Parkway, with exit numbers increasing north. At exit 25A (Southern State Parkway), the Cross Island Parkway becomes the Belt Parkway (more specifically, the section once known as the Laurelton Parkway). Before its exits were renumbered to align with the Belt Parkway, they were numbered to co-align with the Southern State Parkway, which is why that parkway begins with exit 13 (the Cross Island Parkway was once exits 1 to 12).
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The Cross Island Parkway begins at an interchange with the Southern State Parkway and the Laurelton Parkway.[2] Exit 26A is for Belmont Park in Elmont, NY, however, the exit is only northbound.[3] Exits 26B and 26C are for the Hempstead Turnpike, also known as State Route 24. Exit 26D is for the northern end of Belmont Park. Exit 27 is split into E and W southbound and is for State Route 25 and Jamaica Avenue.[4] In Bellerose, the Cross Island leaves Nassau County for Queens again and interchanges with Route 25B and Union Turnpike at exits 28A and B.
The speed limit throughout the entire parkway is 50 miles per hour (80 km/h). Police services are primarily provided by the New York City Police Department Highway Patrol District 3, and, when the Highway Patrol is unavailable, the 105, 109 and 111 Precincts.
| County | Location | Mile[1] | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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| Queens | Cambria Heights | 0.00 | Belt Parkway west – Kennedy Airport, Brooklyn | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | |
| 0.00 | 25A | Southern State Parkway east – Eastern Long Island | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
| 25B | Elmont Road, Linden Boulevard | ||||
| Queens Village | 26A | Belmont Racetrack | No southbound exit | ||
| 1.56 | 26B | NY 24 (Hempstead Avenue) – Belmont Racetrack | Signed as exits 26B (east) and 26C (west) southbound | ||
| Nassau | Floral Park | 1.93 | 26D | Belmont Racetrack | |
| 2.52 | 27 | NY 25 (Braddock Avenue, Jamaica Avenue, Jericho Turnpike) | Signed as exits 27E (east) and 27W (west) southbound | ||
| Queens | Bellerose | 3.23 | 28A | NY 25B (Hillside Avenue) | |
| Bellerose, Glen Oaks | 3.76 | 28B | Union Turnpike | ||
| Bellerose, Glen Oaks, Oakland Gardens, Douglaston | 4.13 | 29 | Grand Central Parkway – Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, Eastern Long Island, Hauppauge | Signed as exits 29E (east) and 29W (west) | |
| Oakland Gardens, Douglaston | 5.05 | 30E | I-495 east (Long Island Expressway) – Eastern Long Island | ||
| 30W | I-495 west (Long Island Expressway) – Manhattan | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | |||
| Bayside, Douglaston | 5.95 | 31 | NY 25A (Northern Boulevard) | Signed as exits 31E (east) and 31W (west) | |
| Bayside | 8.33 | 32 | To I-295 south (Clearview Expressway) / Bell Boulevard | Signed as exit 33 southbound | |
| 8.83 | 33 | I-295 north (Throgs Neck Bridge) – Bronx, New England | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
| Whitestone | 9.06 | 34 | 160th Street, Utopia Parkway | ||
| 35 | 14th Avenue, Francis Lewis Boulevard | No northbound exit | |||
| 10.57 | 36 | I-678 (Whitestone Bridge, Whitestone Expressway) – Bronx, La Guardia Airport, Kennedy Airport | Northbound exit and southbound entrance; signed as exits 36N (north) and 36S (south) | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
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