I-495 in Queens with heavy traffic in both directions. Because the interchanges in this area are close together, the highway employs two sets of collector/distributor roads through this area: one between 69th and 99th Streets, and one between the Grand Central Parkway and I-678. I-495 heads northeast through Corona to Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, intersecting both the Grand Central Parkway and the Van Wyck Expressway ( I-678) within the park limits. It continues to the Rego Park neighborhood, where it connects to New York State Route 25 (NY 25, named Queens Boulevard) and becomes the Horace Harding Expressway. A mile after entering Queens, I-495 meets I-278 (the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway) at exit 17. Once on Long Island, the highway passes through the tunnel's former toll plaza and becomes known as the Queens–Midtown Expressway as it travels through the western portion of the borough. The route heads eastward, passing under FDR Drive and the East River as it proceeds through the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority-maintained tunnel to Queens. The expressway begins at the western end of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. 4.1 Mid-Manhattan Expressway (canceled).2.3 Service roads and proposed interchange.2.1.2 Horace Harding Expressway and western Nassau.The service roads which run parallel to either side of the expressway in Queens are signed as Borden Avenue and Queens Midtown Expressway and as Horace Harding Expressway and Horace Harding Boulevard from the Queens–Nassau line to Sills Road, they are designated as the unsigned New York State Route 906A and New York State Route 906B. The section from the Queens–Midtown Tunnel to Queens Boulevard is known as the Queens–Midtown Expressway, and the section between Queens Boulevard and the Queens-Nassau county line is known as the Horace Harding Expressway. The Long Island Expressway designation, despite being commonly applied to I-495 in full, technically refers to the stretch of highway in Nassau and Suffolk counties. The 2017 route log erroneously shows the section of highway between I-278 in Long Island City and I-678 in Corona as New York State Route 495 (NY 495). I-495 intersects with I-295 in Bayside, Queens, through which it connects with I-95. Spanning approximately 71 miles (114 km) along a west–east axis, I-495 traverses Long Island from the western portal of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Manhattan to CR 58 in Riverhead in the east. It is jointly maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), MTA Bridges and Tunnels (MTAB&T), and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). Interstate 495 ( I-495), commonly known as the Long Island Expressway ( LIE), is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. Sagtikos State Parkway / Sunken Meadow State Parkway in Commack.
Cross Island Parkway in Alley Pond Park.Grand Central Parkway in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.