Belt Parkway: NYC's Best Looking Freeway
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Happy Independence Day! Today we celebrate the proud American tradition of gorging ourselves on hot dogs and 44 ounce beers. What better road to celebrate than New York's own Belt Parkway, which passes our most classic amusement park boardwalk, one of our most beautiful bridges, and our 73rd best airport!
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Fun Fact, NY-878, the Nassau Expressway, is actually I-878. It is only an Official Interstate in the East bound direction coming off the Belt for about a mile. It is unsigned but it is in the official records as the shortest Interstate. It is up to standards from the Belt Parkway to Rockaway Boulevard only.
There's also a big gap and a downgraded section of the road in the Five Towns Area, and that whole segment should be converted into a real expressway.
The great thing about these videos is i can look at the Belt Parkway without driving in that nightmare traffic....
Love the Seinfeld reference!
4:05 I initially wondered why Brooklyn’s minor-league team was called the “Cyclones”, as NYC isn’t thought of as being in “Tornado Alley” - but when I see the name of the roller coaster, the name of the team makes sense now!
To be fair, hurricanes and tropical storms are cyclones.
I've been on the Belt Parkway multiple times to get from I-278 to JFK. The fact that there's an exit for the Belt Parkway on both decks of the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge is very helpful. Otherwise, the only nice thing I have to say is that the water views on the BP itself help you stay calm when you're in the middle of traffic no matter what time of day it is and you're trying to catch a flight.
Before my cousins moved from Staten Island to Nassau County, spent a lot of time on the Belt when we would go to visit them, so this brought back a few memories....
When I was in grade school in the 1980s (in Pittsburgh), we learned that the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world. That hasn't been true for quite some time, but for some reason I remember that fact. I have no idea why that was something we learned.
12:21 I think the N-S is used for arterial roads with exits in both directions, while A-B is just for 2 options for the exit.
The exit numbers on the Belt Pkwy. are on the mileage system. There are gaps in exit numbers between Exits 9 (Knapp St.) thru 17 (Cross Bay Blvd.) where there are a couple of miles in between exits.
Westbound belt pkwy to JFK airport would take the JFK expressway exit. Also, the ordinal numbering with the a/b/c vs E/W/N/S, the story goes, that the a/b/c are additional exits added after the road was built. They would not re-order the ordinal exits with a new exit, but instead just add an a/b/c, so you would have an exit 26, then 26a, 26b and so on. The cardinal directions are mainly cloverleaf exits where the first ramp may be intended to go north, and then the cloverleaf under the overpass is the one going south. Note that the two can be combined, as with the interchange with 135 and the Southern State Parkway, which is exits 28 A N and 28 A S.
The parkways used to have gas stations at various intervals but a lot of them, especially outside NYC, are gone now.
Hutchinson River Parkway still has one in the Harrison-White Plains area.
I haven't driven the entire Belt Pkwy or checked it in Google maps, but I'm expecting the N/S exits only apply when one street has separate exits for travel in each direction. If it's distinct streets/roads, they probably assign letters A, B, etc.
7:32 NY 878 has its first .7 mile as interstate. (I-878]
if you travel west on the belt parkway, you get a nice view of the coney island yard with the subway trains before the cropsey avenue exit
I like that.
Other than a few pronunciation errors this was a good video. I'm originally from Long Island and spent many hours driving on the Belt Parkway, mainly going to work in Coney Island from Cropsey Avenue to Surf Avenue. I had also gone through various local streets in Brooklyn and Queens to avoid the Belt Parkway traffic jams. And yes, I've had lunch many times at the original Nathans.
Coney Island got its name from the abbreviation City Of NEw York
Oh cool! Never knew that
Happy fourth Todd as a fellow new Londoner I travel to Long Island down too nyc and travel this highway all the time
Happy 4th!
9:40 Hofstra is now called the Pride.
I didn't realize you were going to do the Cross Island as well. Got a freebie of the Utopia Parkway exit, near where my grandparents used to live.
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Happy 4th!
@@ControlCityFreak you too my interstate hero
You should do Trans-Canada Highway 1 East to West, would be a great video
The belt went through a pretty significant renovation a few years ago. I just wish they made it suitable for trucks. The BQE in Brooklyn is in serious disrepair and sadly it’s only a matter of time before it collapses. That would cause a major disruption for traffic.
Also thanks for including some of the cross island parkway on here. When I saw that you were doing the belt parkway I felt the belt was too short for it’s own video and that the cross island should be included.
The formerly proposed Cross Brooklyn Expressway was supposed to be the truck route through Brooklyn. NIMBYism killed that.
@@DTD110865 New York has to be the nimby capital of the world. I-78 was supposed to go through lower Manhattan and Brooklyn right outside of JFK. The airport would be accessible via I-878 and I-678. Then I-78 would follow present day I-295 over the throgs neck bridge where it would terminate at I-95.
@@ErikCB912 That's true, and not only have they gone NIMBYist against necessary road projects, they've done so against rapid transit projects as well.
@@ErikCB912 An interstate going right through lower manhattan will never not be a bad idea. Highways shouldn't go through cities regardless, much more than one of the biggest cities in America
This is a pretty cool road, with nice views of the VN Bridge, some nice overpasses, and of course even a nice view of the Manhattan skyline. Good video, Todd!!! Happy 4th of July, and as always, keep on trucking! :) 👍
Thanks, Happy 4th!
I remember back in the 90s they used to fly beautiful kites on Manhattan beach
Then is was stopped because of auto accidents
Belt parkway is famous for it's slow traffic and traffic jams. It's also a highway where many have died in car wrecks.
The southern state parkway is even worse especially between the belt/cross island interchange and the meadow brook parkway. It’s extremely windy, narrow, and the on ramps are really short with almost no time to build up speed and merge. Many have died on that stretch of road.
@@ErikCB912 I know of at least one exit east of Meadowbrook State Parkway that should be permanently closed (specifically Meadowbrook Road), and one that should be extended (the east to southbound ramp to NY 135).
@@DTD110865 wow, I just looked at at that interchange on google maps. It’s completely pointless lol. I forgot it even existed because I avoid the SSP like the plague.
I really like those old-fashioned looking overpasses, too.
10:00 That is a cool looking overpass. :)
I hope you eventually get to I 278. But yeah that New England control region might be the answer to all those suspect New Haven ones for I 95
I remember when my grandmother drove my brother and I on the Belt then get onto the Verrazano to visit my great grandfather in Staten Island. I remember that red sign "explosives prohibited" lol. Happy 4th!
Great video! I just went to coney island yesterday and had a chance to see the belt parkway coming back (we were taking the subway (the superior form of transit in NY)).
There were setting up for the hotdog eating contest all day! They blocked off the street you see between Nathans and that sugar store.
I took the F train the one time I ever went.
Happy 4th, Todd!
Happy 4th!
Happy 4th!
Happy 4th!
Here’s Speedboy14’s the way it should be for NYC’s Belt Parkway
Eastbound: Queens, JFK, Eastern Long Island
Westbound: JFK, Brooklyn, Verrazano Narrows Bridge, Manhattan
I wouldn’t even bother with putting Queens or Brooklyn; Airport then Eastern LI eastbound, Airport then Verrazano westbound. Just putting 278 as a control destination after exit 2 is good enough since you have many options to get to other places and just ‘queens’ doesn’t make sense
Happy 4th! I had a small book about 15 years that gave a list of the Top 10 roller coasters in the United States. The Cyclone ranked at #10 behind two (9 and 7) at Kings Island near Cincinnati, one (8) at Universal Orlando, two (6 and 2) at Cedar Point in Sandusky, one (5) at a Six Flags near Springfield MA, one (4) at Lake Compounce near Waterbury, one (3) at a Six Flags in Los Angeles County, and the top one at a Six Flags in the Jersey Shore region of greater New York.
For some reason, the weather app on my iPhone has New York as one of three defaults (along with the current location and Cupertino, a city 8.6 miles NW of San Jose); it looks like it’ll be a very nice Independence Day there at 84/68. Wish I could say the same for where I am in Reno; in spite of my mid-latitude location and high altitude, we’re looking at 98/60 today. Unbelievably, this is about average for July in Northern Nevada, and this weekend will only be worse, approaching 105!
That’s when I’m going to hit the road for a counterclockwise loop around the country across two weeks. I plan to document the mileage signs and overheads at major interchanges. We’ll see if punching bags like NM, LA, MS, NC, PA, MN and OR live up to their reputation on this channel. In the meantime, I thought I’d give a preview of what to expect, based off of what I see leaving my workplace 20 miles east of Reno 3/4 times a week, along with how I’d rate them, trying to take the overall environment into consideration.
Just after I 80 West NV Exit 32
Sparks 14 Reno 17 Sacramento 147
Rating: 9.5/10
At I 80 West NV Exit 15
I 80 Sacramento-I 580/US 395 Carson City/ Susanville
Rating; 10/10.
Happy 4th!
I have been on most of the belt parkway (99%)
Those pathways wear built to prevent horse drawn Carriages from riding on them
The Brooklyn cyclones are my all time favorite minor league baseball team
The southern state parkway is my all time favorite road
NY 27 FTW
Pretty cool video I like new york But next week's video will be in my home area
i had been in Bulfflo New york (toked 3 hours)
Happy 4th to you as well!!
Happy 4th of July, Todd! We're back in the Big Apple for something special and we're staying in Long Island again since the LIE.
Happy 4th!
Are you doing a road in the DFW Metroplex next week for the All-Star Game, which is in Arlington?
Yep, 360!
Happy Fourth!
Happy 4th!
12:21 depends if it’s more than one road or if it’s one road and then that would be directional.
10:30 - The Whitestone Expressway also goes to the Whitestone Bridge?
nah that’s what the roads called. like van wyck
6:15 Exit 11N for Flatbush Avenue North should be signed
Manhattan Br
Marine Park
It’s not actually signed a such, but it would be better than just Marine Park
A note on the ordinal numbers
Brooklyn and Queens don't use them. So 64 street is sixty four street. Manhattan is the only place with ordinal numbers (not sure about the Bronx or Staten Island). The signs even say 42nd st, sixth ave. Why they decided to do that? I have no idea...
I used to have to drive around Brooklyn and Queens visiting clients and performing IT work. I've noticed that myself, even my GPS used to say things like that.
They don't in Manhattan either. I first noticed it on the subway, every stop is 42 street, 34 street, etc. Just looked at 30th and 3rd Ave randomly, and the street signs are 30 St and 3 Av
@@ControlCityFreakon the subway? That's absolutely the case. Especially the stations where the street names are in tile. Though now I'm questioning my own sanity because I could swear the 1, 2 and 3 signs at Penn Station say 34th St... I'm going to have to take a real careful look at those signs next time I go.
On the surface, you're right, but it really depends. The streets i mentioned above, 42nd and 6th, are signed that way. 6th is even spelled out sixth. Why those two in particular? I have no idea ha ha!
I'm sure there's more.
For a grid city it's got a lot of inconsistencies
It's a good thing you used street view instead of driving the Belt to take the pictures, you would've been rear ended about 12 times.
we took this going to the india pakistan cricket game as we were staying at jfk
Belt Parkway: one of the many armpit highways on Long Island 💀😭
do US 60
You are leaving Brooklyn. FUGGETABOUTIT !
Are you going to do a roadway in Paris or France later in the month for the Olympics?
Yes the A1
this road sort of uses the milage system but not sure if it was intentional or not
Nothin’ like the BP!
Flatbush! Mario's Hometown!
I’m still wondering if other states uses different letters besides exit#A-B-C. The only states I know are N.J and N.Y since I grew up in the metro area.
I'm not aware of any outside the Alphabet Loop in KC where the exits get up to Y or so.
i used to live right down the street from ohio SR 315 in columbus… where there’s exit 1A-F. but alphabet loop is by far the best example
Can you do 265 I need to find out how far gene Snyder goes to west to east
I did 264, that's probably it for Louisville content for at least the next couple years.
I thought the song is new york new york
First hi
Sadly the Belt Parkway does not live up to its name