Conduit Avenue

Conduit Avenue
Route information
Maintained by NYCDOT
Length:	8.0 mi (12.9 km)
Major junctions
West end:	Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills
	NY 27 (Linden Boulevard) in Lindenwood I-878 / Belt Parkway in South Ozone Park I-678 in South Ozone Park JFK Expressway in South Ozone Park Belt Parkway in Laurelton
East end:	NY 27 / Hook Creek Boulevard in Rosedale
Highway system
New York Highways Interstate U.S. State Reference Parkways

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Conduit Avenue (Conduit Boulevard in Brooklyn) is an arterial road in New York City, the vast majority of which is in Queens. The divided highway runs from Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn to Hook Creek Boulevard in Rosedale, Queens at the Nassau County border. The thoroughfare is named after an aqueduct in its right-of-way. Conduit Avenue and Conduit Boulevard were conceived in 1921 as part of the Conduit Highway, later the Sunrise Highway, with the original highway opening in 1929. The highway was expanded in 1940 as part of the construction of Belt Parkway.

Conduit Avenue and Conduit Boulevard are named for the conduit of the Brooklyn Water Works which fed Ridgewood Reservoir and were constructed on the former right-of-way of the aqueduct. The conduit was known as the Ridgewood Aqueduct.

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