Looking northbound in Maspeth, Queens on Laurel Hill Boulevard over which the mid 1960s era BQE viaduct runs, at the corner of 48th Street, which a few blocks to the left will cross over the lower of the double decked Long Island Expressway lanes. A couple blocks ahead of us lies New Calvary Cemetery, hence the related burial support businesses located at the corner. This was shot July, 14th 2001 and the monument business is still there as of 2017. The expressway viaduct replaced an older 1930s elevated road that originally served as a connector from Queens Boulevard some blocks north to both the Queens Midtown Tunnel, whose own access road later morphed into the Long Island Expressway and the Kosciuszko Bridge, which back before WWII fed into the BQE's later Greenpoint, Brooklyn service road, Meeker Avenue.

The big braced SLECO light poles from 1966 that were still lining the edges of the highway have since been replaced by slimmer, plain vanilla aluminum standard that have only standard length mast arms. While the traffic signals attached to the elevated structure remain as is, the stand alone green Truck Route sign is now hanging on a lamp post. The white sign on the elevated's SLECO pole just past the traffic light is on the successor pole in the 2017 Google view. It reads "No trucks or buses in left lane".

One further note, about the BQE viaduct's unsung service road here, the strangely leafy sounding Laurel Hill Boulevard, which could be called the Meeker Avenue of Maspeth, unless one instead called Meeker Avenue the Laurel Hill Boulevard of Greenpoint. Look on Google Maps at the giant Calvary Cemetery to Laurel Hill Boulevard's immediately northwest. Trace the cemetery roads all the way up to Queens Boulevard. Every single one of them is Laurel Hill Boulevard. Even the eminent, hallowed dear departed who now call each and every one of those multiple Laurel Hill Boulevards home must be dizzy thinking about how to direct loved ones to their door steps, or stone steps as it were. Just think of what a mail person would have to go through to deliver mail to them. Bottom line is living life beneath a monstrous elevated expressway, Laurel Hill Boulevard doesn't exactly evoke images of laurels, hills or boulevards, but one has to admit, it certainly doesn't lack for idiosyncrasies to be known for.