Two views of the Jackie Robinson Parkway at Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens, Queens. In the top view, the eastbound lanes of both the Jackie Robinson Parkway and Union Turnpike are emerging from the dangerous, narrow and sharply curved Queens Boulevard underpass. The parkway's westbound lanes will soon encounter a sharp curve at the end of the underpass. Nothing short of blasting away this entire scene, or limiting each direction to a single lane, can rectify this hazardous section of distinctly un-park-like parkway.

The eastbound Jackie Robinson Parkway is near the end of the line. Motorists will soon have to choose between getting on the northbound Van Wyck Expressway, or the eastbound Grand Central Parkway.
The two lanes on each side belong to Union Turnpike, doing thankless yeoman's work in a short stint as the service road to the most maligned, and unimproved arterial highway in New York City. Further east, Union Turnpike comes into its own as the major east-west thoroughfare through the Queens neighborhoods of Kew Gardens Hills, Hillcrest, Fresh Meadows, Glen Oaks and Bellerose, before finally expiring in New Hyde Park, just over the Nassau County line.
West of this Kew Gardens mess, Union Turnpike is relatively sedate and residential, rolling alongside Forest Park, past Woodehaven Boulevard, to its western end at Myrtle Avenue in Glendale.
Why so much story about a secondary road that isn't even the subject of this page? What can I say? I tend to digress.
Shot in the spring 1998.