Photo Gallery: Queens Blvd |
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Taking in the wider view, the newer
outer lanes of the westbound Long Island Expressway pass overhead
in the background, while the express lanes of eastbound Queens
Boulevard descend into their three block stretch of limited access
highway heaven, where the killer thoroughfare escapes the pedestrians
and dreams of fulfilling its aborted aspirations of joining the
LIE as a superhighway. The already tortoisish 30 MPH is now under
heavy artillery assault and likely to go lower, due to the hue
and cry about Death Blvd's dangers. The two most typical lamppost/mastarm combos found along Death Blvd stand back to back here, the hexpole quarterloop and the classic, grooved aluminum SLECO stanchion bearing its famed bigloop mast. The two do not seem to like one another; they appear to be snubbing each other. 59th Avenue metamorphisizes into perhaps the second most dangerous boulevard in Queens as it crosses onto the brickfaced 1930's era overpass - Woodhaven Blvd, which itself becomes yet another unfortunate high profile sub-highway, Cross Bay Blvd of Howard Beach infamy, before crossing Jamaica Bay into the Rockaways. |
© 2001, Jeff Saltzman.