Cross-Bronx Expressway

Cross Bronx Expressway
Map of the Bronx in New York City with Cross Bronx Expressway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT
Length:	6.5 mi (10.5 km)
Existed:	1955 – present
Component highways:	I-95 from Morris Heights to Throggs Neck US 1 from Morris Heights to Tremont I-295 in Throggs Neck
Major junctions
West end:	I-95 / US 1 in Morris Heights
	I-87 in Morris Heights US 1 in Tremont Bronx River Parkway in Soundview I-95 / I-278 / I-295 / I-678 in Throggs Neck
East end:	I-295 in Throggs Neck
Highway system
Interstate Highway System Main Auxiliary Suffixed Business Future New York Highways Interstate U.S. State Reference Parkways

The Cross Bronx Expressway is a major freeway in the New York City borough of the Bronx, conceived by Robert Moses and built between 1948 and 1972. It carries traffic on Interstate 95 (I-95) through the city, and serves as a portion of I-295 toward Long Island; a portion is also designated U.S. Route 1 (US 1). The Cross Bronx begins at the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem River, where the Trans-Manhattan Expressway continues west across Upper Manhattan to the George Washington Bridge. While I-95 leaves at the Bruckner Interchange in Throgs Neck, following the Bruckner Expressway and New England Thruway to Connecticut, the Cross Bronx Expressway Extension continues east, carrying I-295 to the merge with the Throgs Neck Expressway near the Throgs Neck Bridge. Though the road goes primarily northwest-to-southeast, the nominal directions of all route numbers west of the Bruckner Interchange are aligned with the northbound route number going southeast, and the southbound route number going northwest.