Brooklyn-Queens Expressway South from Queens Boulevard

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway South from Queens Boulevard Image 0The 65th Place overpass crossing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, colloquially known simply as the BQE. We're gazing south from the Queens Boulevard overpass on a June day in 1998. The overpass has been glossed over since then, as you'll find by looking it up on Google Earth. These overpasses even in long ago 1998 were rarities in having no "nutjob netting", overarching cyclone fencing to prevent lunatics and thugs from tossing heavy objects, or any objects down onto onrushing traffic. They sported the original rails as well from the 1950s. As written on another page, 65th Place was the powerful Terminator of all Places, a rare "Place" designated thoroughfare that ran longer than one block, let alone being a major neighborhood route and highway crosser. The badly rusted center median twin lamper is history.