In a related page we were heading from the southbound I-278 BQE toward the Williamsburg Bridge. Here we're making the return trip back to the Queens bound BQE. At the foot of the bridge landing, traffic for the Brooklyn Queens Expressway veers to the left, while local traffic headed for Brooklyn's Broadway, Williamsburg in general, or the Fort Greene bound Brooklyn Queens go right. It was starting to get late that August 2001 afternoon and the loopy cross between a bishop creek lamppost and a davit pole can't wait to light up. The elevated subway structure carries the J, M and Z trains between the Lower East Side in Manhattan that we just left and either Middle Village (the M), or Jamaica, Queens (J/Z). Ever wonder if rapper Jay-Z named himself that after the J and Z lines?

The normally 4-lane arterial-like ramp was undergoing major rebuilding at that time. Somehow a badly rusting twin masted light standard from the 1950s managed to survive up to then, striving to make itself as useful as possible by hogging a bunch of signs. The red billboard ahead advertised a movie I don't recall at all, "Two Can Play That Game".

The driving lane starts to get kind of tight at this point.

With the concrete barriers closing in on you here, you definitely don't want to be taking your eyes off the road to see what that obviously forgettable movie was about.

One last passing shot of the forgettable flick's billboard. So unusual to see such red movie ads.

Almost home free as we near the merge into the BQE.

Just about made it through the concrete barrier gauntlet.

Home free onto the Queens bound BQE.