Interstate 78 New York

Interstate 78 New York
Its length in New York is only 1/2 mile (1 km) - half of the Holland Tunnel and the plaza immediately beyond. The route was planned to run east and north through New York City to end at Interstate 95 in the Bronx, but sections of the planned route, including the Lower Manhattan Expressway, were cancelled.

In New York City, I-78 continues through the Holland Tunnel plaza. The five separate exits from the tunnel are assigned numbers - exits 1 to 5 - in counterclockwise order. The last one - and the logical continuation east - is Exit 5, Canal Street. Under the original plans, I-78 was to continue across Manhattan as the Lower Manhattan Expressway onto the Williamsburg Bridge, and then beyond I-278 on the never-built Bushwick Expressway through Brooklyn into Queens near the JFK Airport. A section of I-78 at the airport was built as the Nassau Expressway, now Interstate 878, though most of the westbound side was never built. East of the airport, I-78 would have turned north on the Clearview Expressway (built north of Hillside Avenue in Queens and now I-295), run across the Throgs Neck Bridge, and forked into two spurs, ending at I-95 via the Throgs Neck Expressway (now I-695) and the Bruckner Interchange via the Cross Bronx Expressway (now part of I-295).