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For Immediate Release: 04/18/2025
Contact:
Region 11 | R11-INFO@dot.ny.gov | 718-482-4526
www.dot.ny.gov
TRAVEL ADVISORY
Long Term Closure at the Liberty Avenue Entrance Ramp to the northbound Van Wyck Expressway (I-678) in Queens
On or about Monday Morning, April 21, at 7 AM through Monday morning, September 29, 2025, at 7 AM
(Weather Permitting)
The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is advising motorists that there will be a long-term closure at the Liberty Avenue entrance ramp to the northbound Van Wyck Expressway from the northbound Van Wyck Expressway Service Road in Queens, on or about Monday morning, April 21, at 7 a.m. through Monday morning, September 29, 2025, at 7 a.m.
To access northbound Van Wyck Expressway, motorists should use the entrance ramp at Atlantic Avenue from the northbound Van Wyck Expressway Service Road.
Inclement weather could cause these closures to be rescheduled.
This permanent ramp closure is necessary to facilitate construction of the retaining wall on the Van Wyck Expressway as part of NYSDOT’s Van Wyck Expressway Capacity and Access Improvements Project (Contract 3).
For up-to-date travel information, call 511, visit www.511NY.org or download the free 511NY mobile app.
Motorists are urged to slow down and drive responsibly in work zones. Fines are doubled for speeding in a work zone. Convictions of two or more speeding violations in a work zone could result in the suspension of an individual’s driver license.
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