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Gowanus Expressway

The Gowanus Expressway is an expressway in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York. A part of Interstate 278, it connects the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, with junctions along the way with the Shore Parkway (part of the Belt Parkway) and the Prospect Expressway . The portion north/east of its junction with the Belt Parkway is a reconstruction of the former Gowanus Parkway, a cars-only highway, considered part of the Belt Parkway. Part of the Gowanus Parkway was built on the structure of the BMT Third Avenue Line , a closed elevated railway.

Recently, the New York State Department of Transportation has considered putting part or all of the elevated road underground.

	Destination	Notes
Begins at the east end of the double-decker Verrazano Narrows Bridge
–	Belt Parkway (Shore Parkway ) - eastern Long Island	eastbound exit to eastbound Belt Parkway only; right exit from upper level and left exit from lower level)
17	92nd Street	exit number is only signed westbound
18	Fort Hamilton Parkway	eastbound only
19	86th Street	westbound only
20	Seventh Avenue /65th Street	eastbound only
–	Sixth Avenue	westbound only
–	Belt Parkway (Shore Parkway )	westbound left exit only to the beginning of the Belt Parkway
–	39th Street	westbound only original Belt Parkway exit 3
–	38th Street	eastbound only original Belt Parkway exit 3
24	Route 27 east - Prospect Expressway	left exit westbound westbound exit closed 05:00 to 11:00 weekdays due to reversible HOV lane original Belt Parkway exit 2
25	Battery Tunnel (I-478) - Manhattan	eastbound left exit only formerly exit 26A
26	Hamilton Avenue	eastbound only formerly exit 26B original Belt Parkway exit 1
Becomes the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

10-26-2009 08:16:03
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