Flushing Promenade 7 --Whitestone Parkway Traditional Cache
Tatanka49: Never was a good location.
Flushing Promenade 7 --Whitestone Parkway
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This is the 7th in the series along the 1.4 mile Flushing Bay walkway. FP2, 3 and 8 are for premium members only.
These are overflow parking fields for baseball games near the intersection of the Whitestone Expressway, Northern Boulevard and the Grand Central Parkway. The fields are otherwise occupied by recreation seekers along Flushing Bay. The cache location is almost identical to the 'Flushing Bay' cache that I archived in October 2006..
Whitestone Expressway
Within one year of the opening of the Triborough Bridge in 1936, Robert Moses decided that the solution to relieving traffic congestion between the New York City-Long Island area and points north was building another bridge. The Bronx-Whitestone Bridge opened three months ahead of schedule, on April 29, 1939.
It was just in time, because Moses needed people to come to his 1939-1940 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. In order to get people traveling from upstate New York and New England to the Fair, Moses built the Whitestone Parkway from the base of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge to Northern Boulevard (NY 25A), where the parkway would meet Grand Central Parkway (via Northern Boulevard). Newspaper articles touting the opening of the fair in April 1939 also described the opening of the new Bronx-Whitestone Bridge.
The original Whitestone Parkway had two 12-foot-wide lanes in each direction. The northbound and southbound roadways were separated by a large grassed median, and stone-arch overpasses were used for all grade separations. Near College Point, a drawbridge was constructed to carry the parkway over the Flushing River.
The original four-lane drawbridge over the Flushing River became the northbound lanes of I-678. (The drawbridge was left permanently in the closed position.) A parallel fixed span was constructed for the expressway's southbound lanes.
In 1955, the Federal Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) considered converting the Whitestone Parkway into an Interstate highway that allowed access to all vehicles. The Interstate route was to connect the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge to proposed Interstate corridors along Horace Harding and Astoria boulevards in Queens.
The expressway initially received an I-595 designation in June 1958; it had changed to I-695 two weeks later because it linked two Interstates. The final I-678 designation appeared on the Whitestone Expressway in April 1959, and the original plan called for the designation to continue west through Queens on the unbuilt Astoria Expressway. (The I-678 designation was rerouted south along the Van Wyck Expressway in 1971.)
Cache is now an ornamental pill bottle.
The westbound Q19 and Q66 buses stop nearby.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Qba'g cvar sbe guvf pnpur. Rlr yriry vs gnyy.
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