Interstate 495 (
I-495, also known as
the LIE or simply
the Expressway by locals) is an
auxiliary Interstate Highway on
Long Island in
New York in the United States. The route extends for from the western portal of the
Queens–Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of
Manhattan to
County Route 58 (CR 58) in
Riverhead,
Suffolk County. I-495 does not intersect its parent route,
I-95. However, it does connect to I-95 through
I-295, which it meets in
Queens. The portion of I-495 in
Nassau and Suffolk counties is known as the
Long Island Expressway (
LIE), a name commonly applied to the entirety of I-495. The section of the route from the Queens-Midtown Tunnel to
Queens Boulevard is also named the
Queens–Midtown Expressway west of Queens Boulevard, and the
Horace Harding Expressway east of Queens Boulevard until the Queens-Nassau county line, though both names are not often used in common parlance and most signage refers only to the Long Island Expressway. The service roads which run in parallel along either side of the expressway in Queens are signed
Horace Harding Expressway and also addressed as
Horace Harding Boulevard; from the Queens-Nassau line to Sills Road, they are officially designated, but not signed, as
New York State Route 906A and
New York State Route 906B.