Staten Island Expressway

The Staten Island Expressway is a 7.7 mile (12.39 km) long highway running through the borough of Staten Island, New York in the United States. It is designated as Interstate 278. Its western

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Staten Island, New York - United States - Interstate 278

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terminus is the Goethals Bridge linking the island to New Jersey over the Arthur Kill. The eastern terminus is the Verrazano Narrows Bridge linking to Brooklyn over the Narrows. Named the Clove Lakes Expressway when originally proposed, it opened under its actual name in November of 1964, the same month the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was completed.

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Goethals Bridge - New Jersey - Arthur Kill - Verrazano Narrows Bridge - Brooklyn - The Narrows - November - 1964

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It connects to the West Shore Expressway, as well as to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway (formerly the Willowbrook Parkway), both of which are designated as segments of New York State Highway 440. Including these two interchanges, the expressway has a total of 13 exits, six of which are one-directional.

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In addition to local traffic on Staten Island, the freeway provides the most direct route from Brooklyn and Long Island to central and southern New Jersey.

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The Staten Island Expressway is widely regarded as an important demographic boundary since, due to coincidence or not, virtually all of the island's African-American population, and the vast majority of its Hispanic population, resides in the approximately one-fourth of the island's total area which is situated north of the expressway. The portion of the island north of the highway is also coterminous with the territory served by the 120th Precinct of the NYPD, one of the three police precincts located on Staten Island, and also one of the island's three Community Board districts.

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Demographic - African-American - Hispanic - NYPD

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