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Encyclopedia > Jackie Robinson Parkway

The Jackie Robinson Parkway formerly known as the Interborough Parkway, serves as a link between the Kew Gardens (Grand Central Parkway-Van Wyck Expressway) interchange in central Queens and Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. Proposed as early as 1901, when a bill had been introduced in the New York State Legislature amending the Cemetery Act to provide for its construction, the Jackie Robinson Parkway serves as a spur of the Grand Central Parkwa.


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New York City Parkways
Manhattan FDR East River Drive - Harlem River Drive - Henry Hudson - West Side Hwy (north of 57th)
Bronx Bronx River - Henry Hudson - Hutchinson River - Mosholu - Pelham
Brooklyn-Queens Belt Parkway system: Cross Island - Laurelton - Shore - Southern
Others: Grand Central - Jackie Robinson (Interborough)
Former: Gowanus - Whitestone
Staten Island Korean War Veterans (Richmond)

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Jackie Robinson (2288 words)
Jackie Robinson's honors at UCLA were impressive: for two years, he was the highest scorer in basketball competition in the Pacific Coast Conference, national champion long jumper, All-American football halfback and varsity baseball shortstop.
Jackie Robinson's debut at first base with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, in which he batted 0 for 3, was one of the most eagerly awaited events in baseball history, and one of the most profound in the history of the U.S. civil rights movement.
Jackie Robinson was pronounced dead in Stamford, Connecticut on October 24, 1972 and was interred in the Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York; the highway that goes through the cemetery (Interborough Parkway) has been renamed the Jackie Robinson Parkway.
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