Cross Island Parkway

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Cross Island Parkway
Reference Route 907A
Length:	10.57 mi[1] (17.01 km)
Formed:	1940
South end:	Belt Pkwy/Southern Pkwy in Cambria Heights
Major junctions:	Grand Central Pkwy on Bellerose/Douglaston/Glen Oaks/Oakland Gardens border I-495 on Douglaston/Oakland Gardens border I-295 in Bayside
North end:	I-678 in Whitestone
Counties:	Nassau, Queens
Numbered highways in New York Interstate – U.S. – N.Y. (former) – Reference

Driving southbound on Interstate 295 (New York) South on the Throgs Neck Bridge merging onto the Cross Island Parkway

Approaching Route 25A on Cross Island Parkway South

Exit to Southern Parkway

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 mph (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.

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The "numbering" system along the Belt System is unusual; it uses both alphabetic (A, B, C, D) and directional (N, S, E, W) lettering.

County	Location	Mile[1]	#	Destinations	Notes
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)

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[edit] External links

• Cross Island Parkway @ NYCROADS.com