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Linden Boulevard in East New York, Brooklyn
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.
Even 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 throughout its entire stretch in the borough, not any wider then the numbered avenues it runs parallel to, and hardly any busier, until it reaches Cambria Heights. In Brooklyn however, between the intersection with Kings Highway, to 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, as a large amount of trucks are often on Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn, 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.
Linden Boulevard gets cut off by Conduit Avenue in Queens. The majority of its traffic gets merged into the Nassau Expressway, which starts off near the Linden Boulevard/Conduit Avenue intersection. Linden Boulevard starts off again at Cross Bay Boulevard in Ozone Park, and gets cut of by the Aqueduct Racetrack. It then starts off again at Rockaway Boulevard in South Ozone Park, and continues into Nassau County from there.
