Editing Queens (section)

==Transportation==
{{See also|Transportation in New York City}}
According to 2011–2015 [[American Community Survey|ACS]] microdata, 38% of Queens households did not own a car; the citywide rate is 55%.<ref name="NYers-and-Cars 2018 Apr 5" />

===Vehicles for hire===
As of 2019, the city had about 80,000 for-hire vehicles, of which, two-thirds were [[Ridesharing company|ride-hail]] – [[Uber]], [[Lyft]], [[Via Transportation|Via]], and [[Juno (company)|Juno]].<ref name="Wired 2019 Jun 15" /> Until the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the ride-hail car offered a [[Ridesharing company|ride-share]] option. There are about 13,500 traditional taxis (yellow cabs with [[Taxi medallion|medallions]]) in the city, 7,676 [[boro taxis]], 38,791 black cars, 21,932 livery cars, 288 commuter vans, and 2,206 paratransit vehicles.

===Roundtrip car sharing===
Zipcar, and others, entered New York City market in 2002 offering [[Shared transport#Roundtrip Carsharing|roundtrip]] [[car sharing]] from private locations, mostly from parking garages. In 2018, the city partnered with the roundtrip car share companies, led by Zipcar, to launch the nation's largest on-street car-sharing program with the greatest [[:en:wikt:take-up|take-up]] in [[The Bronx]] and in Queens – [[Jackson Heights]], [[Jamaica, Queens|Jamaica]], and [[Far Rockaway]].<ref name="Martin-Stocker-Nichols-Shaheen 2021 Feb" /><ref name="DOT permanent-expansion 2021 Apr 22" /><ref name="DOT 2021 Apr 22" /><ref name="DOT 2021 Apr" /><ref name="Zipcar 2020" /> In 2020, during beginning throes of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], [[Enterprise Holdings#Enterprise CarShare|Enterprise CarShare]] suspended service in New York City. Among the traditional car rental locations in Queens, both international airports harbor larger fleets, conveniently close to Queens residents.

===Micromobility===
[[Citi Bike]] – a docked-[[Bicycle-sharing system|bike]] and e-bike sharing company had, as of July 2019, 169,000 annual subscribers. In 2021, the [[New York City Department of Transportation|Department of Transportation]] and Citi Bike announced that, as part of its Phase 3 expansion, it was doubling its service area to 70 square miles and tripling the number of bikes to 40,000. The expansion includes 52 new docking stations in Astoria, as well as new stations in Sunnyside and Woodside.<ref name="Astoria-Post 2021 Jan 15" />

Non-docked e-[[moped]] service was launched in the city by [[Revel Transit|Revel]] in 2019. Companies such as [[Bird (transportation company)|Bird]], [[Lime (transportation company)|Lime]], and Veo introduced non-docked [[Scooter-sharing system|e-scooter-sharing]] in 2021.<ref name="NYSERDA 2021 Feb" />

===Airports===
[[File:JFK Plane Queue.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[John F. Kennedy International Airport|John F. Kennedy Airport]] in Queens, the [[Busiest airports in the United States by international passenger traffic|busiest international air passenger gateway]] to the United States|alt=Five jumbo airplanes wait in a line on a runway next to a small body of water. Behind them in the distance is the airport and control tower.]]
[[File:LaGuardia Airport.JPG|thumb|upright=1|A multibillion-dollar reconstruction of [[LaGuardia Airport]] was announced in July 2015.<ref name="NYTs 2015 Jul 27" />]]
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|-valign="bottom" style="text-align:center"
| colspan=5 style="background-color:white"|{{line-height|1.5|'''<big>Airline Revenue Passengers<br />at Queens Airports</big>'''}}
{{line-height|1.5|'''2019 → pre-[[COVID-19 pandemic]]'''}}
|-valign="bottom" style="text-align:center"
| style="background-color:white"|
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| style="background-color:white"|Domestic
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| style="background-color:white"|International
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| style="background-color:white"|Rank*
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| style="background-color:white"|Total
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|-valign="bottom" style="text-align:right"
| style="background-color:#FFF8DC; text-align:left"|{{space|2}}[[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK]]
| style="background-color:#FFF8DC; |{{space|3}}28,233,791
| style="background-color:#FFF8DC; |{{space|3}}34,317,281
| style="background-color:#FFF8DC; text-align:center" |{{font color | green |'''❶'''}}
| style="background-color:#FFF8DC; text-align:right" |{{space|3}}62,551,072
|-valign="bottom" style="text-align:right"
| style="background-color:#EAEEF2; text-align:left"|{{space|2}}[[LaGuardia Airport|LGA]]
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| style="background-color:#EAEEF2"|28,875,041
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| style="background-color:#EAEEF2"|2,209,853
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| style="background-color:#EAEEF2"|
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| style="background-color:#EAEEF2"|31,084,894
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|-style="text-align:right"
| style="background-color:white; text-align:left"|{{hanging indent |text={{space|4}}Total }}
| style="background-color:white"|57,108,832
| style="background-color:white"|36,527,134
| style="background-color:white"|
| style="background-color:white"|93,635,966
|-
| colspan=5 style="background-color:white"|
|-valign="bottom" style="text-align:center"
| colspan=5 style="background-color:white"|{{line-height|2.5|'''2020 → mid-[[COVID-19 pandemic]]'''}}
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|-valign="bottom" style="text-align:right"
| style="background-color:#FFF8DC; text-align:left"|{{space|2}}[[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK]]
| style="background-color:#FFF8DC; |{{space|3}}8,267,666
| style="background-color:#FFF8DC; |{{space|3}}8,362,976
| style="background-color:#FFF8DC; text-align:center" |{{font color | green |'''❶'''}}
| style="background-color:#FFF8DC; text-align:right"|{{space|3}}16,630,642
|-valign="bottom" style="text-align:right"
| style="background-color:#EAEEF2; text-align:left"|{{space|2}}[[LaGuardia Airport|LGA]]
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| style="background-color:#EAEEF2"|7,853,368
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| style="background-color:#EAEEF2"|391,824
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| style="background-color:#EAEEF2"|
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| style="background-color:#EAEEF2"|8,245,192
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|-valign="bottom" style="text-align:right"
| style="background-color:white; text-align:left"|{{hanging indent |text={{space|4}}Total }}
| style="background-color:white"|16,121,034
| style="background-color:white"|8,754,800
| style="background-color:white"|
| style="background-color:white"|24,875,834
|-valign="bottom" style="text-align:left"
| colspan=5 style="background-color:white"|{{hanging indent |text={{space|4}}*National rank for international passengers}}{{space|5}}(enplanements + deplanements)<ref name="Port-Authority-JFK" /><ref name="US-Dept-Transportation-JFK" />
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Queens has crucial importance in international and interstate air traffic, with two of the [[New York metropolitan area]]'s three major airports located there.
[[John F. Kennedy International Airport|John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)]], in 2019, before the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], served 62.6 million passengers (enplanements + deplanements) – 34.3 million of which were international, ranking it the [[Busiest airports in the United States by international passenger traffic|busiest airport in the United States by international passenger traffic]]. In response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the United States imposed travel restrictions, first, in January 2020, on travelers from China and, in the following months, on travelers from other countries. 2020 annual passenger traffic at JFK dropped to 16.6 million (−73.4%) – 8.4 million (−73.4%) of which were international, still ranking it the busiest airport in the United States by international passenger traffic.<ref name="Port-Authority-JFK" /><ref name="US-Dept-Transportation-JFK" />

JFK is owned by the City of New York and managed, since 1947, by the [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]]. The airport's runways and six terminals cover an area of {{convert|4930|acres}} on [[Jamaica Bay]] in southeastern Queens.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.panynj.gov/airports/jfk-facts-info.html |title=Facts and Information |website=[[John F. Kennedy International Airport]] |access-date=July 6, 2016 |archive-date=July 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160715155348/http://www.panynj.gov/airports/jfk-facts-info.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The airport's original official name was New York International Airport, although it was commonly known as Idlewild, with the name changed to Kennedy in December 1963 to honor the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]], November 22, 1963.<ref name="TheStreet.com 2013 Dec 20" />

[[LaGuardia Airport]] is located in [[East Elmhurst, Queens|East Elmhurst]], in northern Queens, on [[Flushing Bay]]. Originally opened in 1939, the airport's two runways and four terminals cover {{convert|680|acres}}, serving 28.4&nbsp;million passengers in 2015.<ref name="Port-Authority-LGA 2016" /> In 2014, citing outdated conditions in the airport's terminals, Vice President Joe Biden compared LaGuardia Airport to a "[[third world]] country".<ref name="NYTs 2014 Feb 6" /> In 2015, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began a $4&nbsp;billion project to renovate LaGuardia Airport's terminals and entryways. The project is expected to be complete by 2021.<ref name="NYTs 2015 Jul 27" />

===Public transportation===
{{See also|Public transportation in New York City|List of New York City Subway stations in Queens|List of bus routes in Queens|Brooklyn–Queens Connector}}

====Subways====

[[File:NYCSub 7 station view.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[46th Street – Bliss Street (IRT Flushing Line)|46th Street – Bliss Street subway station]]]]

Queens is served by the [[New York City Subway]], with 81 stations located within the borough.<ref name="Subway-map" /> Two physical lines — the [[IRT Flushing Line]] and the [[IND Queens Boulevard Line]] — serve as the primary east–west trunk lines in the borough, with all services on the two lines continuing across the East River into Manhattan. Two additional lines are wholly within Queens: the [[BMT Astoria Line]], which serves the neighborhoods of [[Astoria, Queens|Astoria]] and Ditmars–Steinway, and the [[IND Rockaway Line]], which provides access to [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]] and the [[Rockaway, Queens|Rockaways]]. In addition, five other New York City Subway lines — the [[BMT Jamaica Line]], [[BMT Myrtle Avenue Line]], [[Archer Avenue lines|BMT/IND Archer Avenue Line]], [[IND Crosstown Line]], and [[IND Fulton Street Line]] — run between Brooklyn and Queens.

The [[A (New York City Subway service)|A]], [[G (New York City Subway service)|G]], [[J/Z (New York City Subway service)|J/Z]], and [[M (New York City Subway service)|M]] routes connect Queens to Brooklyn without going through Manhattan first. The [[F (New York City Subway service)|F]], [[N (New York City Subway service)|N]], and [[R (New York City Subway service)|R]] trains connect Queens and Brooklyn via Manhattan, while the [[E (New York City Subway service)|E]], [[W (New York City Subway service)|W]], and [[7 (New York City Subway service)|7/&lt;7&gt;]] trains connect Queens to Manhattan only. The [[L (New York City Subway service)|L]] train briefly enters Queens at [[Halsey Street station (BMT Canarsie Line)|Halsey Street]], connecting Queens to either Brooklyn or both Brooklyn and Manhattan, depending on the direction.<ref name="Subway-map" /> In addition, the [[Rockaway Park Shuttle]] operates strictly in the neighborhoods of [[Rockaway Park]] and [[Broad Channel, Queens|Broad Channel]].<ref name="Subway-map" />

====Long Island Rail Road====
[[File:Bombardier M7 7799 enters Flushing.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[Flushing – Main Street (LIRR station)|Flushing – Main Street LIRR station]]]]
The [[Long Island Rail Road]], also part of the [[Metropolitan Transportation Authority|MTA]], operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays – carrying an average of 301,000 customers a day (80 million a year, adjusting downward for weekends) on about 735 scheduled trains.<ref name="MTA-LIRR-info" /> It is the busiest commuter rail hub in the United States. Most of its branches originate or terminate at [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|Penn Station]]. All but one of its branches (the [[Port Washington Branch]]) pass through [[Jamaica station|Jamaica]]. Within the [[City Terminal Zone]], Queens has stations in [[Long Island City station|Long Island City]], [[Hunterspoint Avenue station (LIRR)|Hunterspoint Avenue]] (in [[Long Island City]]), [[Bayside station (LIRR)|Bayside]], [[Forest Hills station (LIRR)|Forest Hills]], [[Flushing–Main Street station (LIRR)|Flushing]], [[Woodside station (LIRR)|Woodside]], and [[Kew Gardens, Queens|Kew Gardens]]. There are also two stations where LIRR passengers can transfer to the subway.

Until 1998, the LIRR served 5 stations on the Lower Montauk branch between Jamaica and Hunterspoint Avenue. The LIRR used the track for non-stop service between Jamaica and Hunterspoint until 2012, when service was rerouted onto the main line and the line was leased to the [[New York and Atlantic Railway]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study |url=https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/lower-montauk-final-report-jan2018.pdf}}</ref>

[[Sunnyside Yard]] is used to store [[Amtrak]] intercity and [[NJ Transit]] commuter trains from Penn Station in Manhattan. The US$11.1&nbsp;billion [[East Side Access]] project, which brought LIRR trains to [[Grand Central Terminal]] in Manhattan, opened in 2023; this project created a new train tunnel beneath the [[East River]], connecting [[Long Island City]] in Queens with the [[East Side (Manhattan)|East Side]] of Manhattan.<ref name="WNBC 2018 Apr 16" /><ref name="Newsday 2018 Apr 15" />

====JFK AirTrain====
The elevated [[AirTrain JFK|AirTrain]] [[people mover]] system connects JFK International Airport to the New York City Subway and the Long Island Rail Road along the Van Wyck Expressway;<ref name="Port-Authority-JFK-AirTrain 2016" /> a separate AirTrain system is planned alongside the [[Grand Central Parkway]] to connect LaGuardia Airport to these transit systems.<ref name="NYDaily 2015 Jan 20" /><ref name="DNAinfo-NY 2015 Jan 20" /> Plans were announced in July 2015 to entirely rebuild LaGuardia Airport itself in a multibillion-dollar project to replace its aging facilities, and this project would accommodate the new AirTrain connection.<ref name="NYTs 2015 Jul 27" />

====MTA buses====
2019 bus ridership, citywide, on the MTA system, was 2.2 million per average weekday – about 678 million for the year. In Queens, the [[Q58 (New York City bus)|Q58]] and [[Q20 and Q44 buses#Q44|Q44]] [[Select Bus Service]] were the seventh and tenth, respectively, citywide, busiest local lines in 2019.<ref name="MTA-Bus-Facts 2020 Apr 14" /> In addition to regular bus lines serving [[LaGuardia Airport]], the MTA offers two [[Select Bus Service]]s, regular fare, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The [[M60 (New York City bus)|M60]] – terminals [[Marine Air Terminal|A]], [[LaGuardia Airport#Terminal B|B]], [[LaGuardia Airport#Terminal C|C]], [[LaGuardia Airport#Terminal D|D]] – to and from [[Manhattan]] via [[Grand Central Parkway]] and the [[Triborough Bridge]] – in [[Harlem]], along [[125th Street (Manhattan)|125th Street]] (with a stop at the [[Harlem–125th Street station|125th Street Metro-North station]]), ending in [[Morningside Heights]] on the [[Upper West Side]], a few blocks south of [[Columbia University]]. The [[Q70 (New York City bus)|Q70]] – terminals [[LaGuardia Airport#Terminal B|B]], [[LaGuardia Airport#Terminal C|C]], [[LaGuardia Airport#Terminal D|D]] – through Queens, ending in [[Woodside, Queens|Woodside]] at 61st Street and [[Greenpoint and Roosevelt Avenues|Roosevelt Avenue]]. Overall, about [[List of bus routes in Queens|100 local bus routes]] operate within Queens, and another [[List of express bus routes in New York City|20 express routes]] shuttle commuters between Queens and Manhattan, under the [[MTA Regional Bus Operations|MTA New York City Bus and MTA Bus]] brands.<ref name="Queens-Bus-Map" />

====Proposed streetcar====
A [[streetcar]] line [[Brooklyn Queens Connector|connecting Queens with Brooklyn]] was proposed by the city in February 2016.<ref name="The-Independent 2016 Feb 4" /><ref name="NY-Observer 2016 Feb 4" /> The planned timeline originally called for service to begin around 2024.<ref name="NYTs 2016 Feb 3" /> In September 2020, Mayor de Blasio deferred decisions on the project to after the [[2021 New York City mayoral election]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 4, 2020 |title=Brooklyn Queens Connector may be another victim of the pandemic |url=https://www.rtands.com/rail-news/brooklyn-queens-connector-may-be-another-victim-of-the-pandemic/ |access-date=September 15, 2020 |website=Railway Track and Structures |language=en-US}}</ref>

====Water transit====
{{main|East 34th Street Ferry Landing}}
[[File:Small tankers unload in Newtown Creek jeh.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1|[[Newtown Creek]] with the [[Midtown Manhattan]] skyline in the background]]
[[New York Water Taxi]] operates service across the [[East River]] from [[Hunters Point, Queens|Hunters Point]] in Long Island City to Manhattan at [[34th Street (Manhattan)|34th Street]] and south to Pier 11 at [[Wall Street]]. In 2007, limited weekday service was begun between [[Breezy Point, Queens|Breezy Point]], the westernmost point in the Rockaways, to Pier 11 via the [[Brooklyn Army Terminal]]. Summertime weekend service provides service from Lower Manhattan and southwest Brooklyn to the peninsula's [[Gateway National Recreation Area|Gateway]] beaches.

In the [[Effects of Hurricane Sandy in New York|aftermath]] of [[Hurricane Sandy]] on October 29, 2012, ferry operator [[SeaStreak]] began running a city-subsidized ferry service between a makeshift ferry slip at Beach 108th Street and [[Beach Channel Drive]] in [[Rockaway Park]] and piers in Manhattan and Brooklyn.<ref name="SeaStreak-info" /> The service was extended multiple times.<ref name="DNAinfo-NY 2014 Jan 20" /> finally ending on October 31, 2014.<ref name="NY1 2014 Nov 1" />

In February 2015, Mayor [[Bill de Blasio]] announced that the city government would begin a citywide ferry service called [[NYC Ferry]] to extend ferry transportation to communities in the city that have been traditionally underserved by public transit.<ref name="NYTs 2016 Jun 15" /><ref name="WNBC 2016 Mar 16" /> The ferry opened in May 2017,<ref name="NYDaily 2017 May 1" /><ref name="NYTs 2017 May 1" /> with the Queens neighborhoods of Rockaway and Astoria served by their eponymous routes. A third route, the [[East River Ferry]], serves [[Hunter's Point South]].<ref name="NYC-Ferry 2021 Aug 23" />

===Roads===
====Highways====
[[File:2024-06-19 12 05 10 View south along Interstate 678 (Van Wyck Expressway) from the overpass for Atlantic Avenue in Queens, New York City, New York.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[Air Train JFK]] path above the [[Van Wyck Expressway]]]]
Queens is traversed by three trunk east–west highways. The [[Long Island Expressway]] ([[Interstate 495 (New York)|Interstate 495]]) runs from the [[Queens Midtown Tunnel]] on the west through the borough to Nassau County on the east. The [[Grand Central Parkway]], whose western terminus is the [[Triborough Bridge]], extends east to the Queens/Nassau border, where the roadway continues as the [[Northern State Parkway]]. The [[Belt Parkway]] begins at the [[Gowanus Expressway]] in Brooklyn, and extends east into Queens, past [[Aqueduct Racetrack]] and JFK Airport. On its eastern end at the Queens/Nassau border, it splits into the [[Southern State Parkway]] which continues east, and the [[Cross Island Parkway]] which turns north.<ref name="Google-Maps-Queens" />

There are also several major north–south highways in Queens, including the [[Brooklyn-Queens Expressway]] ([[Interstate 278]]), the [[Van Wyck Expressway]] ([[Interstate 678]]), the [[Clearview Expressway]] ([[Interstate 295 (New York)|Interstate 295]]), and the Cross Island Parkway.<ref name="Google-Maps-Queens" />

Queens has six state highways that run west–east largely on surface roads. From north to south, they are [[New York State Route 25A]] (Northern Boulevard), [[New York State Route 25B]] (Hillside Avenue), [[New York State Route 25]] ([[Queens Boulevard]], Hillside Avenue, and Braddock Avenue), [[New York State Route 24]] (Hempstead Avenue), and [[New York State Route 27]] ([[Conduit Avenue]]). The only state highway that primarily uses an expressway is [[New York State Route 878]], which uses the Nassau Expressway in southern Queens.<ref name="Google-Maps-Queens" />

====Streets====
[[File:Parsons jewel.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Cross-street signs for a single-named boulevard and a co-named avenue in Queens]]
The streets of Queens are laid out in a semi-[[grid plan|grid]] system, with a numerical system of [[street name]]s (similar to Manhattan and the Bronx). Nearly all roadways oriented north–south are "Streets", while east–west roadways are "Avenues", beginning with the number 1 in the west for Streets and the north for Avenues. In some parts of the borough, several consecutive streets may share numbers (for instance, 72nd Street followed by 72nd Place and 72nd Lane, or 52nd Avenue followed by 52nd Road, 52nd Drive, and 52nd Court), often confusing non-residents.<ref name="NYTs 2000 Dec 15" /> Also, incongruous alignments of street grids, unusual street paths due to geography, or other circumstances often lead to the skipping of numbers (for instance, on Ditmars Boulevard, 70th Street is followed by Hazen Street which is followed by 49th Street). Numbered roads tend to be residential, although numbered commercial streets are not rare. A fair number of streets that were country roads in the 18th and 19th centuries (especially major thoroughfares such as [[New York State Route 25A|Northern Boulevard]], [[Queens Boulevard]], [[Hillside Avenue (Queens)|Hillside Avenue]], and [[Jamaica Avenue (Queens)|Jamaica Avenue]]) carry names rather than numbers, typically though not uniformly called "Boulevards" or "Parkways".

Queens [[house numbering]] was designed to provide convenience in locating the address itself; the first half of a number in a Queens address refers to the nearest cross street, the second half refers to the house or lot number from where the street begins from that cross street, followed by the name of the street itself. For example, to find an address in Queens, 14-01 120th Street, one could ascertain from the address structure itself that the listed address is at the intersection of 14th Avenue and 120th Street and that the address must be closest to 14th Avenue rather than 15th Avenue, as it is the first lot on the block. This pattern does not stop when a street is named, assuming that there is an existing numbered cross-street. For example, [[Queens College]] is situated at 65–30 Kissena Boulevard, and is so named because the cross-street closest to the entrance is 65th Avenue.<ref name="NYTs 2000 Dec 15" />

Many of the village street grids of Queens had only worded names, some were numbered according to local numbering schemes, and some had a mix of words and numbers. In the early 1920s, a "Philadelphia Plan" was instituted to overlay one numbered system upon the whole borough. The Topographical Bureau, Borough of Queens, worked out the details. Subway stations were only partly renamed, and some, including those along the [[IRT Flushing Line]] ({{NYCS trains|Flushing}}), now share dual names after the original street names.<ref name="Powell 1928 Feb" /> In 2012, some numbered streets in the [[Douglaston Hill Historic District]] were renamed to their original names, with 43rd Avenue becoming Pine Street.<ref name="NYTs 2012 Mar 26" />

The Rockaway Peninsula does not follow the same system as the rest of the borough and has its own numbering system. Streets are numbered in ascending order heading west from near the Nassau County border, and are prefixed with the word "Beach". Streets at the easternmost end, however, are nearly all named. [[Bayswater, Queens|Bayswater]], which is on Jamaica Bay, has its numbered streets prefixed with the word "Bay" rather than "Beach". Another deviation from the norm is [[Broad Channel, Queens|Broad Channel]]; it maintains the north–south numbering progression but uses only the suffix "Road", as well as the prefixes "West" and "East", depending on location relative to [[Cross Bay Boulevard (Queens)|Cross Bay Boulevard]], the neighborhood's major through street. Broad Channel's streets were a continuation of the mainland Queens grid in the 1950s; formerly the highest-numbered avenue in Queens was 208th Avenue rather than today's 165th Avenue in Howard Beach & Hamilton Beach. The other exception is the neighborhood of Ridgewood, which for the most part shares a grid and [[house numbering]] system with the Brooklyn neighborhood of [[Bushwick, Brooklyn|Bushwick]]. The grid runs east–west from the LIRR [[Bay Ridge Branch]] [[right-of-way (transportation)|right-of-way]] to Flushing Avenue; and north–south from Forest Avenue in Ridgewood to Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn before adjusting to meet up with the [[Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn|Bedford-Stuyvesant]] grid at Broadway. All streets on the grid have names.

====Bridges and tunnels====
{{see also|List of bridges and tunnels in New York City}}
[[File:Hell Gate and Triborough Bridges New York City Queens.jpg|thumb|upright=1|The [[Triborough Bridge]] connects Queens with [[Manhattan]] and [[The Bronx]].]]
Queens is connected to the Bronx by the [[Bronx–Whitestone Bridge]], the [[Throgs Neck Bridge]], the [[Triborough Bridge]] (also known as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge), and the [[Hell Gate Bridge]]. Queens is connected to Manhattan Island by the Triborough Bridge, the [[Queensboro Bridge]], and the [[Queens–Midtown Tunnel]], as well as to [[Roosevelt Island]] by the [[Roosevelt Island Bridge]].

While most of the Queens/Brooklyn border is on land, the [[Kosciuszko Bridge]] crosses the [[Newtown Creek]] connecting [[Maspeth, Queens|Maspeth]] to [[Greenpoint, Brooklyn]]. The [[Pulaski Bridge]] connects [[McGuinness Boulevard]] in Greenpoint to 11th Street, Jackson Avenue, and Hunters Point Avenue in [[Long Island City]]. The J. J. Byrne Memorial Bridge (a.k.a. [[Greenpoint Avenue Bridge]]) connects the sections of [[Greenpoint Avenue]] in Greenpoint and Long Island City. A lesser bridge connects [[Grand Street and Grand Avenue|Grand Avenue in Queens to Grand Street in Brooklyn]].

The [[Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge]], built in 1939, traverses Jamaica Bay to connect the Rockaway Peninsula to [[Broad Channel, Queens|Broad Channel]] and the rest of Queens.<ref name="MTA-Cross-Bay-Veterans-Memorial-Bridge-info" /> Constructed in 1937, the [[Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge]] links [[Flatbush Avenue]], Brooklyn's longest thoroughfare, with [[Jacob Riis Park]] and the western end of the Peninsula.<ref name="MTA-Gil-Hodges-Bridge-info" /> Both crossings were built and continue to be operated by what is now known as [[MTA Bridges and Tunnels]]. The [[IND Rockaway Line]] parallels the Cross Bay, has a mid-bay station at [[Broad Channel (IND Rockaway Line)|Broad Channel]] which is just a short walk from the [[Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge]], now part of [[Gateway National Recreation Area]] and a major stop on the [[Atlantic Flyway]].