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Eastbound, the LIE has just crossed over 6 lane wide Woodhaven
Blvd and now blows by 10 lane wide Queens Blvd. This is the border
between Elmhurst & Corona on the northwest, to the left and
Rego Park on the southeast, mostly to the right. Visible on the
left, past Queens Blvd, is the office tower and apartment buildings
of Lefrak City. Unseen to the west of Lefrak City, is the Queens Center shopping mall anchored by JC Penney. The big apartment complex on the right is Park City and Park City Estates. Unseen to the right is another shopping mall, anchored by Sears, Marshalls, Old Navy, Circuit City and a parking garage that partially collapsed a couple of years ago. The Woodhaven Blvd. subway station is unseen below the interchange. It is a woefully inadequate local stop handling a workload that would give most big city central stations fits. Queens Blvd is one of the nation's most massive secondary roads and certainly one of the chanciest pedestrian crossings. It annually makes the playoffs for the worst pedestrain deathtrap in the city. The section just west of the LIE was where, in 1967, I first saw GE's doubtful looking M400A2 cobrahead luminaires, fastened to SLECO bigloop poles, a number of whom still persevere on this stretch of the LIE. |
| This view is looking westbound, approximately 1.5 blocks east of the top view. The LIE is just about to jump over Junction Blvd, with it's viaduct over Queens Blvd immediately following. The lanes above the retaining wall on the right are for shunting traffic exiting to and entering from, both Queens and Woodhaven Blvds. Like the counterpart lanes on the eastbound side, they were put up within the last decade. |
