Interstate 678 is a north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway that extends for 14 miles through two boroughs of New York City. The route begins at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Jamaica Bay a
I-678 in Jamaica as seen from the Long Island Rail Road tracks
I-678 northbound approaching the Bruckner Interchange
I-678 (Whitestone Expressway) southbound at 14th Avenue
I-678 exit 16 in College Point
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
Interstate 678
…to the Bronx. Early plans for I-678 had the highway following the Astoria Expressway, a proposed freeway that would run along the NY 25A corridor from I-278 to the Grand Central Parkway. These plans were mostly canceled by the late 1960s, leading to the truncation of I-78 to the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway…
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.