Photo Gallery Roadway Fixtures
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Exit sign on Conduit Blvd. in
Lindenhurst, Queens, shot in 1992. These Whitestone style sign
poles were installed on virtually all expressways within NYC,
through the early 60's building of the Long Island. They began
to disappear only a few years later, as huge, green signs began
to take their place during the Worlds Fair era. You can still
find them here and there, most still sporting their white &
black signs, many badly rusting. This barren stretch of Conduit Blvd. was supposed to contain the semi-built Bushwick/Nassau Expwy, which was intended to extend from JFK Airport, to link up with the Prospect Expwy in Flatbush, Brooklyn and to the Verazzano from there, as part of Interstate 78. Master roadbuilder Robert Moses lost his power before that could happen. The Nassau remains a ridiculous, one way Expressway from the Belt, just east of Cross Bay Blvd, to Rockaway Blvd and Farmers. The Bushwick section never got built at all. Neither did the more southerly Cross Brooklyn, which also would have fed into this section. Conduit was to be the Bushwick's service road, up to at least Atlantic Avenue, in East New York, Brooklyn. |