Linden Boulevard is a

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. It starts off at

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as a one-way street to

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, where it becomes a two-way boulevard, and stretches through both Brooklyn and

Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...

. This boulevard, especially the area of

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between

Springfield Boulevard Springfield Boulevard is a major north/south roadway that runs through the eastern section of Queens, New York (state), New York. It is long and goes from New York State Route 25A, Northern Boulevard in Bayside, Queens, Bayside, to 147th Avenue ...

and the Nassau County line represents a smaller version of shopping centers located on

Jamaica Avenue Jamaica Avenue is a major avenue in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, New York, in the United States. Jamaica Avenue's western end is at Broadway and Fulton Street, as a continuation of East New York Avenue, in Brooklyn's ...

and

Queens Boulevard Queens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Queens connecting Midtown Manhattan, via the Queensboro Bridge, to Jamaica. It is long and forms part of New York State Route 25. Queens Boulevard runs northwest to s ...

. Linden Boulevard also continues into Nassau County to

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where it turns into Central Avenue; this was one of several former names of the street in Queens.

Description

Linden Boulevard runs through both Brooklyn and Queens, but is interrupted by

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and the street grid in

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. The street's character is very different in each borough. Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn, between

and Sapphire Street, is long. The five Queens stretches are a combined long. Linden Blvd

In Brooklyn, between the intersection with Kings Highway and Remsen Avenue, and the intersection with 79th Street and South Conduit Avenue one block east of the Brooklyn–Queens border, it is one of the widest boulevards in the entire city, being a multi-median divided, 8-lane wide boulevard, similar to Queens'

Woodhaven Boulevard Woodhaven Boulevard and Cross Bay Boulevard (formerly Jamaica Bay Boulevard) are two parts of a major boulevard in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Queens. Woodhaven Boulevard runs roughly north–south in the central p ...

and

. While the speed limit on the rest of Linden Boulevard was set at 25 miles per hour in 2015, in line with the city speed limit, this section of Linden Boulevard was lowered over time. The speed limit was lowered to 30 MPH as part of the city's Vision Zero program in 2015, and was subsequently further lowered to 25 MPH in 2019. It is also one of Brooklyn's busiest streets, carrying many trucks, as it is the only direct route for commercial vehicles between

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and the

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since commercial traffic is banned from the

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, which runs between the same points. The stretch of Linden Boulevard from Caton Avenue to

Conduit Avenue Conduit Avenue (Conduit Boulevard in Brooklyn) is an arterial road in New York City, the vast majority of which is in Queens. The divided highway runs from Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn to Hook Creek Boulevard in Rosedale, Quee ...

is part of

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. In Queens, it is mostly a simple two-lane, two-way residential street, no wider than the numbered avenues it parallels, and hardly busier until it reaches Cambria Heights, where it serves as a main commercial strip. Between Aqueduct Racetrack and

Cross Bay Boulevard Woodhaven Boulevard and Cross Bay Boulevard (formerly Jamaica Bay Boulevard) are two parts of a major boulevard in the New York City borough of Queens. Woodhaven Boulevard runs roughly north–south in the central portion of Queens. South o ...

, there is a seven-block section of the boulevard that is mostly residential but is the only road between

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and

on which traffic can flow east of the elevated railroad. One block west of Cross Bay Boulevard, contained within one block, are two short sections (each less than half a block), that are

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s. One is off Desarc Road, and the other is located at the intersection of Sitka Street and Pitkin Avenue. Conduit Avenue in Queens interrupts Linden Boulevard. The majority of its traffic merges into the

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, which starts just east of the Linden Boulevard/Conduit Avenue intersection. Linden Boulevard becomes a dead-end street at Pitkin Avenue; another dead-end stretch of the boulevard is at Desarc Road, one block east of Pitkin Avenue. Linden Boulevard then resumes at

one block east of the dead-end stretches, is interrupted by Aqueduct Racetrack, resumes at

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, and continues into Nassau County from there.

Transportation

In Brooklyn, the B20 bus runs on Linden Boulevard between Ashford Street and Elderts Lane in

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. The B8 runs on Linden Boulevard between Rockaway and Church Avenues. 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.

In popular culture

Rappers Q-Tip and

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, the founding members of the hip-hop group

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, both grew up on Linden Boulevard in the neighborhood of St. Albans, Queens in the 1970s and 80s. They later referred to Linden Boulevard in their songs "

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" and "

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" (from the album '' The Low End Theory''), "Steve Biko (Stir It Up)" (from ''

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'') and " 1nce Again", "Mind Power" and "Get A Hold" (from '' Beats, Rhymes and Life''). The music video for "Check the Rhime" was mostly filmed on Linden Boulevard, and showed Q-Tip and Phife Dawg rapping above a crowd on the rooftop of a dry-cleaning store on Linden and 192nd Street. In July 2016, several months after Phife Dawg's death, a mural honoring A Tribe Called Quest was put up on the side of that dry cleaning store. In November 2016, the section of Linden Boulevard at the corner of 192nd St. was honorarily renamed to Malik 'Phife Dawg' Taylor Way. The 1998 film ''

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In popular culture

Major intersections

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