Long Island Expressway
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Map of New York with I-495 highlighted in red
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| Maintained by NYSDOT, NYCDOT, MTAB&T, and PANYNJ | ||||
| Length: | 71.02 mi (114.30 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1958 – present | |||
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| West end: | Queens–Midtown Tunnel portal in Murray Hill | |||
 I-278 in Long Island City  I-678 / Grand Central Parkway in Forest Hills I-295 in Bayside Cross Island Parkway in Oakland Gardens Northern State Parkway in Jericho Sagtikos State Parkway in Brentwood
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 CR 58 in Calverton
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Interstate 495 (I-495, also known as the LIE or simply the Expressway by locals) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway on Long Island in New York in the United States. The route extends for 71 miles (114 km) from the western portal of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Manhattan to County Route 58 (CR 58) in Riverhead, Suffolk County. I-495 does not intersect its parent route, I-95. However, it does connect to I-95 through I-295, which it meets in Queens. The portion of I-495 in Nassau and Suffolk counties is known as the Long Island Expressway (LIE), a name commonly applied to the entirety of I-495. The section of the route from the Queens-Midtown Tunnel to Queens Boulevard is also named the Queens–Midtown Expressway west of Queens Boulevard, and the Horace Harding Expressway east of Queens Boulevard until the Queens-Nassau county line, though both names are not often used in common parlance and most signage refers only to the Long Island Expressway. The service roads which run in parallel along either side of the expressway in Queens are signed Horace Harding Expressway and also addressed as Horace Harding Boulevard; from the Queens-Nassau line to Sills Road, they are officially designated, but not signed, as New York State Route 906A and New York State Route 906B. There is a gap in designation between I-278 and I-678, where the segment in between is designated as New York State Route 495.
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