Interstate 278 Staten Island Expressway / Goethals Bridge West

Continuing from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Exits 14 and 15 immediately leave I-278 mainline for Lily Pond Avenue / Father Capodanno Boulevard south to South Beach and Midland Beach. Narrows Road lines both sides of the Staten Island Expressway from Fingerboard Road west to Concord and Grasmere.

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A split diamond interchange (Exit 13) follows in one half mile for Targee Street, Richmond Road, and Clove Road. Interstate 278 on Staten Island is designated the POW MIA Memorial Highway.

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Hylan Boulevard meets adjacent Narrows Road at a traffic circle above Interstate 278 to the east of Exit 13 at Concord. Clove Road stems northwest from Hylan Boulevard to Grasmere and Emerson Hill, where the road crosses the Staten Island Expressway.

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Exit 13 joins Interstate 278 west with Narrows Road N ahead of Targee Street and Richmond Road. Richmond Road leads northeast from Arthur Kill Road and Richmond to Grant City, Linden Park and Vanderbilt Avenue by Fox Hills. Clove Road continues northwest from Exit 13 to Port Richmond.

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Passing over Clove Road, one half mile from the parclo interchange (Exit 12) with Slosson Avenue on I-278 west.

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Slosson Avenue becomes Todt Hill Road four blocks to the south of Exit 12 near Westwood Avenue. Todt Hill Rill continues the road south by Todt Hill to Richmond Road at New Dorp.

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I-278 (Staten Island Expressway) west at the abandoned directional T interchange for the unconstructed Richmond Parkway. Richmond Parkway constitutes a freeway from NY 440 and the Outerbridge Crossing northward to Arthur Kill Road. The Parkway from Arthur Kill Road to I-278 was never built.

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Exit 12 departs from Interstate 278 west from under the unused flyover ramps for Richmond Parkway. Slosson Avenue north serves the Castleton Corners neighborhood.

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Frontage streets (N/S Gannon Avenue) accompany I-278 westward rom Manor Road. Exit 11 utilizes the parallel roadways to make the connection with Bradley Avenue.

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Traveling between Castleton Corners and Willowbrook along Interstate 278, one quarter mile east of the diamond interchange (Exit 11) with Bradley Avenue.

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Bradley Avenue heads north from Interstate 278 to Victory Boulevard and Watchogue Road and south to Brielle Avenue.

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A half diamond interchange (Exit 10) joins Interstate 278 with Gannon Avenue ahead of Victory Boulevard. NY 440 (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Expressway) south converges with I-278 west at the following directional cloverleaf interchange (Exit 9).

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Victory Boulevard crosses Interstate 278 from Castleton Corners to Bulls Head and Travis, ending just shy of Arthur Kill. Victory Bouievard was a part of NY 439A until 1972 (Sinsabaugh, n.d.a), when the route between Richmond Avenue (then NY 440) and Forest Avenue (then NY 439) was decommissioned.

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Interstate 278 curves northwesterly toward NY 440 (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Expressway) north to Elm Park, Port Richmond and Jersey City, New Jersey. NY 440 travels 12.73 miles from Outerbridge Crossing at Perth Amboy, New Jersey to the Bayonne Bridge.

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Named Willowbrook Expressway until 1990, NY 440 north to the Bayonne Bridge was part of a longer parkway proposed to lead southeast from Victory Boulevard nearby to Richmondton, Oakwood Beach and the planned Shore Front Drive.

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NY 440 transitions into New Jersey Route 440 (formerly numbered Route 169) upon crossing the Kill Van Kull River into Bayonne. Route 440 continues north to Interstate 78 (New Jersey Turnpike Extension).

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NY 440 follows Staten Island Expressway 1.10 miles west to Exit 5 and the West Shore Expressway. The succeeding exit is for Richmond Avenue (old NY 440).

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Richmond Avenue heads north from Exit 7 to Graniteville and south to Annadale. NY 440 followed the street south to Drumgoole Road until 1976 (Sinsabaugh, n.d.b).

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Exit 6 is a slip ramp onto adjacent Goethals Road N to South Avenue. South Avenue mirrors the course of the West Shore Expressway southward to Chelsea. Northward, the road continues to Forest Avenue (former NY 439) and Mariners Harbor.

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Three lanes of Staten Island Expressway west continue to a directional interchange (Exit 5) with West Shore Expressway south. Opened in November 1976 (Anderson, n.d.a), NY 440 follows the freeway southwest to Korean War Veterans Memorial Parkway and Outerbridge Crossing.

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NY 440 south parts ways with Interstate 278 west and reaches Outerbridge Crossing and Perth Amboy, New Jersey in eight miles. New Jersey Route 440 continues the freeway west to Interstate 287 at the New Jersey Turnpike near Metuchen.

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The last exit on Staten Island connects Interstate 278 west with Goethals Road N ahead of Western Avenue.

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An entrance ramp joins I-278 west from Goethals Road near Forest Avenue (former NY 439). NY 439 was the original designation of the forthcoming Goethals Bridge into Linden, New Jersey.

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Exit 3 to Western Avenue serves industrial areas at Port Ivory.

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The former toll plaza for the Goethals Bridge was located at Exit 3. Tolls are charged along I-278 eastbound.

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Constructed between 1925 and 1928, the original Goethals Bridge spanned the Arthur Kill River between Staten Island and Linden, New Jersey. Measuring 8,600 feet in length, the steel-truss cantilever bridge traveled 135 feet above the river at mid span (Anderson, n.d.b).

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The old Goethals Bridge was narrow with four ten foot lanes with no shoulders. A study determined that it was near the end of its life span, resulting in the Port Authority project to replace it. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) followed and a Record of Decision (ROD) was awarded on January 31, 2011 for a new cable-stayed bridge. Opened initially in 2017, the new bridge system accommodates six 12 foot lanes with full shoulders.

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Cresting over the Arthur Kill River, Interstate 278 enters Union County, New Jersey. Designated as MSR 439 between 1952 and 1972, the Goethals Bridge became part of I-278 in 1958 (Anderson, n.d.b).

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