Interstate 278 (
I-278) is an
auxiliary Interstate Highway in
New Jersey and
New York in the United States. The road runs from U.S. Route 1/9 (US 1/9) in
Linden, New Jersey to the
Bruckner Interchange in the
New York City borough of
the Bronx. The majority of I-278 is in New York City, where it serves as a partial
beltway and is the only Interstate to pass through all five of the city's
boroughs. I-278 follows several freeways, including the
Union Freeway in
Union County, New Jersey, the
Staten Island Expressway (
SIE) across
Staten Island, the
Gowanus Expressway in southern Brooklyn, the
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (
BQE) across northern Brooklyn and Queens, a small part of the
Grand Central Parkway in Queens, and a part of the
Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx. I-278 also crosses multiple bridges, including the
Goethals Bridge, the
Verrazano Narrows Bridge, the
Kosciuszko Bridge and the
Triborough Bridge.