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Grand Central Parkway
The
Grand Central Parkway
(
GCP
) is a 14.61-mile (23.51 km) long
parkway
that stretches from the
Triborough Bridge
in
New York City
to
Nassau County
on
Long Island
. At the Queens–Nassau border, it becomes the
Northern State Parkway
, which runs across the northern part of Long Island through Nassau County and into
Suffolk
County, where it ends in
Hauppauge
. The westernmost stretch (from the Triborough Bridge to exit 4) also carries a short stretch of Interstate 278 (I-278). The parkway runs through
Queens
and passes the
Cross Island Parkway
,
Long Island Expressway
,
LaGuardia Airport
and
Citi Field
, home of the
New York Mets
. The parkway is designated
New York State Route 907M
(NY 907M), an unsigned
reference route
. Despite its name, the Grand Central Parkway was not named after
Grand Central Terminal
.
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