Linden Boulevard is a boulevard in New York City. It starts off at Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn and stretches through both Brooklyn and Queens. This boulevard, especially the area of Cambria Heights between Springfield Boulevard and the Nassau County line represents a smaller version of shopping centers located on Jamaica Avenue and Queens Boulevard. Linden Boulevard also continues into Nassau County to Valley Stream where it turns into Central Avenue.
Though Linden Boulevard runs through both Brooklyn and Queens, the street's character is very different in each borough. In Queens, it is mostly a simple two-lane, two-way street, no wider than the numbered avenues it parallels, and hardly busier until it reaches Cambria Heights. In Brooklyn however, between the intersection with Kings Highway and the intersection with Conduit Avenue at the Brooklyn–Queens border, it is arguably Brooklyn's widest street, and one of the widest in the entire city, being a multi-median divided, 10-lane wide boulevard, similar to Woodhaven Boulevard and Queens Boulevard in Queens. It is also one of Brooklyn's busiest streets, carrying many trucks, as it is the only direct route for commercial vehicles between Long Island and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge since commercial traffic isn't allowed on the Belt Parkway. The Brooklyn stretch of Linden Boulevard is part of New York State Route 27.
In Brooklyn, the B20 bus runs on Linden Boulevard between Pennsylvania Avenue and Elderts Lane in East New York. In Queens, The Q4 bus line serves Linden Boulevard between Merrick Boulevard and the Nassau County border. The Q9 also serves a small stretch of Linden Boulevard in Richmond Hill.
Conduit Avenue in Queens interrupts Linden Boulevard. The majority of its traffic merges into the Nassau Expressway, which starts near the Linden Boulevard/Conduit Avenue intersection. Linden Boulevard resumes at Cross Bay Boulevard in Ozone Park, is interruped by Aqueduct Racetrack, resumes at Rockaway Boulevard in South Ozone Park, and continues into Nassau County from there.
Hip-Hop group, A Tribe Called Quest gives a shout out to Linden Boulevard in the song Steve Biko (Stir It Up) from their Midnight Marauders LP.
External links
- 1910 map showing Linden Boulevard when it was called Central Avenue - Queens section extending into Nassau County. In Queens, Linden Boulevard was formerly called Lazy Lane, Central Avenue, and Foch Boulevard.
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