Clearview Interchange

File:Clearview Interchange Diagram, Bayside, Queens, New York.jpg

The interchange is a windmill interchange, connecting two major, controlled-access expressways: the Long Island Expressway (Interstate 495) and the Clearview Expressway (Interstate 295) – the latter highway being the interchange's namesake.{{Cite web |title = Compact NYSDOT Highway Record Plans: Beginning 1900 |url = https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/Compact-NYSDOT-Highway-Record-Plans-Beginning-1900/6bx3-2s36 |access-date = November 29, 2023 |publisher = New York State Department of Transportation |language = en }} The frontage roads for the Long Island Expressway curve around the interchange, in order to accommodate its ramps.{{google maps |url = https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7450369,-73.7710323,840m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu |title = Clearview Interchange |access-date = November 29, 2023 }} The Long Island Expressway and its frontage roads travel above the Clearview Expressway, while the ramps connecting the two expressways travel above both the Long Island Expressway and its frontage roads.

Additionally, the Clearview Interchange forms the northern border of Cunningham Park.{{Cite web |title = Clearview's Tail Park |url = https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/clearviews-tail/history |access-date = November 29, 2023 |publisher= New York City Department of Parks and Recreation }}{{cite news |author1 = Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority |author-link = Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority |date = January 4, 1957 |title = The Facts About The Clearview Expressway |page = 7 |work = Long Island Star-Journal |url = http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/Long%20Island%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal/Long%20Island%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal%201957/Long%20Island%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal%201957%20-%200104.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=665db749&DocId=4466781&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20U%2dF%2dP&HitCount=6&hits=1d+1e+8c+8d+f9+fa+&SearchForm=%2fFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf |access-date = February 28, 2017 |via = Fultonhistory.com }}

The Clearview Interchange was planned by Robert Moses when he planned the construction of the two highways through the area back in the 1950s. Construction on the interchange commenced in January 1959, and it opened on the afternoon of August 12, 1960.{{cite news |date = August 13, 1960 |title = 18-Month Bottleneck Is Ended On L.L. Expressway at Clearview |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1960/08/13/archives/18month-bottleneck-is-ended-on-ll-expressway-at-clearview.html |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180621194234/https://www.nytimes.com/1960/08/13/archives/18month-bottleneck-is-ended-on-ll-expressway-at-clearview.html |archive-date = June 21, 2018 |access-date = June 21, 2018 |website = The New York Times }}{{cite news |date=August 9, 1960 |title=L. I. Expressway To Be Formally Opened |page=3 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1325619619}}}}{{Cite news |date = August 9, 1960 |title = L.I. Highway Link Will Open Friday: Clearview Interchange Will End Long Traffic-Snarling Detour in Queens |language = en-US |work = The New York Times |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1960/08/09/archives/li-highway-link-will-open-friday-clearview-interchange-will-end.html |access-date = November 29, 2023 |issn = 0362-4331 }}{{Cite news |last = Wood |first = Francis |date = August 13, 1960 |title = Expwy Detour Gone, Drivers' Anguish, Too |page = 7 |work = Newsday |via = ProQuest }} With the opening of the Clearview Interchange and the associated {{convert|0.9|mi|km|adj=on}} segment of the Long Island Expressway between Peck Avenue and 224th Street built as part of the project, the entirety of the Long Island Expressway within New York City was completed – along with the initial Interstate 495 designation for the highway (first designated in October 1958); the opening of the Long Island Expressway portion of the interchange closed a temporary, brief highway gap between the completed segments in Queens.{{cite web |last = Anderson |first = Steve |title = Long Island Expressway |url = http://www.nycroads.com/roads/long-island/ |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100402155918/http://www.nycroads.com/roads/long-island/ |archive-date = April 2, 2010 |access-date = March 18, 2010 |work = NYCRoads }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=November 2023}}

While the Long Island Expressway portions of the interchange had been officially opened and placed into service in 1960, the rest of the interchange would open shortly thereafter, upon the opening of the Clearview Expressway (then designated as a segment of Interstate 78) between the interchange and the Throgs Neck Bridge.

Upon opening the Clearview Interchange served as the eastern terminus of Interstate 495 – all portions of the expressway east of the interchange was designated as New York State Route 24, and then as New York State Route 495; the route east to Riverhead retained this designation until 1985, when the Interstate 495 designation was extended east to Riverhead.{{cite map |title = New York and New Jersey Tourgide Map |publisher = Gulf Oil Company |author = Rand McNally and Company |year = 1960 }}{{cite map |title = New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher = Sunoco |author = H.M. Gousha Company |year = 1961 |edition = 1961–62 }}{{cite map |title = New York with Sight-Seeing Guide |publisher = Esso |author = General Drafting |year = 1962 |edition = 1962 }}

The interchange was renovated in the 2000s.{{Cite web |last = Boniello |first = Kathianne |date = January 17, 2002 |title = Clearview/LIE interchange construction moves ahead |url = https://qns.com/2002/01/clearview-lie-interchange-construction-moves-ahead/ |access-date = November 29, 2023 |website = QNS.com |language = en-US }}{{Cite web |title = Project Overview: Long Island Expressway/Clearview Expressway Interchange Improvement Project |url = https://www.dot.ny.gov/regional-offices/region11/projects/project-repository/ce_lie/overview.html |access-date = November 29, 2023 |publisher = New York State Department of Transportation }} The $30 million project (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|30|2003|fmt=c|r=1}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}), known as the Long Island Expressway / Clearview Expressway Interchange Improvement Project, commenced in May 2001 and was completed on August 31, 2003.

• Bruckner Interchange, another interchange serving Interstate 295, located at the Interstate's northern end in The Bronx
• Kew Gardens Interchange, another interchange in Queens

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