Linden Boulevard
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East end | Southern State Parkway in North Valley Stream |
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Linden Boulevard is a
Description
Linden Boulevard runs through both Brooklyn and Queens, but is interrupted by Aqueduct Racetrack and the street grid in Ozone Park, Queens. The street's character is very different in each borough. Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn, between Flatbush Avenue and Sapphire Street, is 6.0 miles (9.7 km) long. The five Queens stretches are a combined 6.4 miles (10.3 km) long.
In Brooklyn, between the intersection with
In Queens, it is mostly a simple two-lane, two-way residential street, no wider than the numbered avenues it parallels, and hardly busier until it reaches Cambria Heights, where it serves as a main commercial strip. Between Aqueduct Racetrack and
Conduit Avenue in Queens interrupts Linden Boulevard. The majority of its traffic merges into the
Transportation
In Brooklyn, the
In popular culture
Rappers Q-Tip and Phife Dawg, the founding members of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, both grew up on Linden Boulevard in the neighborhood of St. Albans, Queens in the 1970s and 80s. They later referred to Linden Boulevard in their songs "Check the Rhime" and "Jazz (We've Got)" (from the album The Low End Theory), "Steve Biko (Stir It Up)" (from Midnight Marauders) and "1nce Again", "Mind Power" and "Get A Hold" (from Beats, Rhymes and Life). The music video for "Check the Rhime" was mostly filmed on Linden Boulevard, and showed Q-Tip and Phife Dawg rapping above a crowd on the rooftop of a dry-cleaning store on Linden and 192nd Street.[7] In July 2016, several months after Phife Dawg's death, a mural honoring A Tribe Called Quest was put up on the side of that dry cleaning store.[7] In November 2016, the section of Linden Boulevard at the corner of 192nd St. was honorarily renamed to Malik 'Phife Dawg' Taylor Way.[8]
The 1998 film Belly features Linden Boulevard.
Major intersections
County | Location | mi[1][2] | km | Destinations | Notes | ||
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Flatbush | 0.0 | 0.0 | Flatbush Avenue | ||||
0.2 | 0.32 | NY 27 west (Caton Avenue) / Bedford Avenue | NY 27 leaves/joins Linden Boulevard | ||||
East Flatbush | 0.5 | 0.80 | Nostrand Avenue | ||||
1.9 | 3.1 | Kings Highway | No eastbound left turns; western terminus of service roads | ||||
Brownsville | 2.5 | 4.0 | Rockaway Parkway | ||||
East New York | 3.7 | 6.0 | Pennsylvania Avenue | ||||
Queens | Ozone Park | 6.0 | 9.7 | NY 27 east (Conduit Avenue) | Partial interchange; NY 27 continues east | ||
Gap in route, including a 0.4-mile (0.6 km) long segment with no major intersections[1] | |||||||
South Ozone Park | 0.0 | 0.0 | Rockaway Boulevard | ||||
1.1 | 1.8 | service roads | |||||
Merrick Boulevard | |||||||
Cambria Heights | 4.4 | 7.1 | Francis Lewis Boulevard | ||||
4.5 | 7.2 | Springfield Boulevard | |||||
5.5 | 8.9 | Bronx | Exit 25B on Belt / Cross Island Parkways; access via service roads | ||||
Queens–Nassau county line | Cambria Heights– North Valley Stream line | 5.6 | 9.0 | Western terminus of unsigned CR C36 | |||
Nassau | North Valley Stream | 5.8 | 9.3 | Elmont Road (CR C71) to Southern State Parkway east | |||
6.3 | 10.1 | Central Avenue (CR C36) / Southern State Parkway east – East Islip | Exit 13 on Southern Parkway; CR C36 continues south | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- ^ a b c d Google (July 2, 2018). "Linden Boulevard" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
- ^ a b Google (July 2, 2018). "Linden Boulevard" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
- ^ "current, pre-vision zero speed limit maps" (PDF).
- ^ Miller, Stephen (10 June 2015). "DOT's Linden Boulevard Plan Improves the Basics and Not Much Else". Streetsblog New York City.
- ^ Ricciulli, Valeria (24 October 2019). "The city's "Green Wave" inches forward with more protected bike lanes and signal-timing measures". Curbed NY.
- ^ Forgotten NY: Familiar roads in unfamiliar scenes
- ^ a b Diep, Eric (September 23, 2016). "Here's How A Tribe Called Quest's Latest Mural Was Created in Queens". Complex.
- ^ Kim, Michelle (November 19, 2016). "NYC Street Is Now Officially Named After A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg". The Fader.
External links
- Media related to Linden Boulevard (Brooklyn) at Wikimedia Commons