Belt Parkway

Belt Parkway
Map of New York City with Belt Parkway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT and NYCDOT
Length:	25.29 mi (40.70 km)
Component highways:	NY 27 along service roads from Howard Beach to Laurelton
Restrictions:	No commercial vehicles
Major junctions
West end:	I-278 in Sunset Park and Fort Hamilton
	NY 27 in Howard Beach NY 878 in South Ozone Park I-678 in South Ozone Park NY 27 in Laurelton
East end:	Cross Island Parkway / Southern State Parkway in Cambria Heights
Location
Counties:	Kings, Queens
Highway system
New York Highways Interstate U.S. State Reference Parkways

The Belt System is a series of connected limited-access highways that form a belt-like circle around the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The system comprises four officially separate parkways; however, three of the four are signed as the Belt Parkway. The three parkways that make up the signed Belt Parkway—the Shore Parkway, the Southern Parkway (not to be confused with the Southern State Parkway), and the Laurelton Parkway—are a combined 25.29 miles (40.70 km) in length. The Cross Island Parkway makes up the fourth parkway in the system, but is signed separately.

The Shore Parkway, Southern Parkway, Laurelton Parkway, and Cross Island Parkway are collectively known as the "Belt System". The four components of the Belt System are designated as New York State Route 907C (NY 907C), NY 907D, NY 907B, and NY 907A, respectively, by the New York State Department of Transportation. All four numbers are reference route designations and are not signed. Excluding the Cross Island Parkway, the other three segments are now known collectively as the official "Belt Parkway". It is designated an east–west route, and its exit numbering system begins, in standard fashion, at the western terminus of the Shore Parkway, the westernmost parkway in the system. The numbering increases as the parkway proceeds eastward, and continues onto the Cross Island at the eastern terminus of the Belt Parkway. The north–south parkway retains the numbering scheme to its northern terminus.