The highway is mainly elevated in Brooklyn, with some open-cut sections. In Queens, the highway is a mix of elevated, open-cut and at-grade sections. The BQE was built from the 1950s, and was completed in 1964 as a crowning achievement of Robert Moses, who still sparks debate today. The part that passes over the Gowanus Canal leading to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, as well as its southern extension to the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, is known as the Gowanus Expressway.
A section along the harbor in downtown Brooklyn is partially covered to create the Brooklyn Promenade.
Motorists who drive the BQE know that it can be hard to find an entrance onto the elevated highway from Brooklyn side streets. Perhaps the funniest BQE sight gag was in the 1990 movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100449/)Quick Change starring Bill Murray, in which Murray robs a Manhattan bank disguised as a circus clown. Murray and his cohorts escape from Manhattan in their getaway car, only to take the wrong turn from the BQE -- they find it impossible to get back on. Murray finds a sign reading "To I-278," but the arrow at the bottom of the sign rotates around, and around....
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For a brief period in late 1958, the expressway was proposed to carry the I-87 designation from EXIT 32 (Williamsburg Bridge / Metropolitan Avenue) north to the Triborough Bridge (and thence to the Major Deegan Expressway); I-278 was to begin at the Williamsburg Bridge exit and continue to the south and west.
The BQE connector ramp to the Williamsburg Bridge, a four-lane steel viaduct built in the 1950's, was recently replaced with pre-cast, post-tensioned segmental box girder bridge.
The temporary bridge over the BQE collapsed, and with the raging fire threatening the nearby Roosevelt Avenue overpass and trestle carrying the IRT #7 subway line, vehicular and train traffic was stopped, as was traffic on the BQE, for at least 24 hours.
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