Linden Boulevard
Looking east at Springfield Boulevard in Cambria Heights
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| Former name(s) | Central Avenue |
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| Part of |
 NY 27
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| Owner |
City of New York Village of Valley Stream |
| Maintained by | NYCDOT and Valley Stream |
| Length | 12.6 mi (20.3 km) Combined length of three segments |
| Location | Brooklyn, Queens |
| Nearest metro station |
Church Avenue   New Lots Avenue 
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| West end | Flatbush Avenue in East Flatbush |
| Major junctions |
NY 27 from East Flatbush to Lindenwood I-678 in South Jamaica Cross Island Parkway in Cambria Heights
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| East end | Central Avenue in North Valley Stream |
Linden Boulevard is a boulevard in New York City. It starts off at Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn as a one-way street to Caton Avenue, where it becomes a two-way boulevard, and stretches through both Brooklyn and Queens. This boulevard, especially the area of Cambria Heights between Springfield Boulevard and the Nassau County line represents a smaller version of shopping centers located on Jamaica Avenue and Queens Boulevard. Linden Boulevard also continues into Nassau County to Valley Stream where it turns into Central Avenue; this was one of several former names of the street in Queens.
Linden Boulevard runs through both Brooklyn and Queens, but is interrupted by Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. The street's character is very different in each borough.
In Queens, it is mostly a simple two-lane, two-way residential street, no wider than the numbered avenues it parallels, and hardly busier until it reaches Cambria Heights, where it serves as a main commercial strip. Between Aqueduct Racetrack and Cross Bay Boulevard, there is a seven-block section of the boulevard that is mostly residential but is the only road between Rockaway Boulevard and Conduit Avenue on which traffic can flow east of the elevated railroad. One block west of Cross Bay Boulevard, contained within one block, are two short sections (each less than half a block), that are dead ends. One is off Desarc Road, and the other is located at the intersection of Sitka Street and Pitkin Avenue.
Conduit Avenue in Queens interrupts Linden Boulevard. The majority of its traffic merges into the Nassau Expressway, which starts just east of the Linden Boulevard/Conduit Avenue intersection. Linden Boulevard becomes a dead-end street at Pitkin Avenue; another dead-end stretch of the boulevard is at Desarc Road, one block east of Pitkin Avenue. Linden Boulevard then resumes at Cross Bay Boulevard one block east of the dead-end stretches, is interrupted by Aqueduct Racetrack, resumes at Rockaway Boulevard in South Ozone Park, and continues into Nassau County from there.
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