Interstate 278 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in New Jersey and New York in the United States. The road runs 35.62 miles from US Route 1/9 in Linden, New Jersey, northeast to the Bruckner Intercha
View west along I-278 between the New Jersey Turnpike and US 1/9 in Elizabeth. The wide median provided room for an intended expansion and extension of the road which never occurred.
I-278 (Staten Island Expressway) westbound at Clove Road
The Gowanus Expressway during the 2008 Five Boro Bike Tour
The BQE under Brooklyn Heights Promenade as seen from the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge is a complex of bridges and elevated expressway viaducts in New York City. The bridges link the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. The viaducts cross Randalls a
Interstate 278
…and a part of the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx. I-278 also crosses multiple bridges, including the Goethals, Verrazzano–Narrows, Kosciuszko, and Robert F. Kennedy bridges. I-278 was opened in pieces from the 1930s through the 1960s. Some of its completed segments predated the Interstate Highway System and are…
Randalls and Wards Islands looking south, showing the RFK Bridge road complex, with the Hell Gate railroad bridge to the northeast (lower left)
The East River suspension bridge, pictured in 2022
The Harlem River lift bridge in 2007
Bronx Kill crossing in 2008