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Interstate 878
Interstate 878 is an unsigned route number for the Nassau Expressway in Queens, New York. It is signed as NY 878.
At 0.72 miles (1.2 km) long, I-878 is said to be the shortest 3-digit interstate in the nation. A strange fact about it is that it is a one-way only thoroughfare that leads from the Belt Parkway to the John F. Kennedy International Airport. Also, I-878 doesn't intersect with its "parent" route, I-78. However, it does have an intersection with I-678.
Previously, I-878 was used for a section of what is now Interstate 278 (Bruckner Expressway) between the Sheridan Expressway (I-895) and the Cross-Bronx Expressway (Interstate 95) in the Bronx. I-278 was routed north on the Sheridan, while its present route was taken by I-878. During the time that I-878 was routed in the Bronx, it was a signed route there.
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