Bruckner Interchange
The Bruckner Interchange is a large road junction in The Bronx, New York. It connects four major highways: the Cross Bronx Expressway, the Bruckner Expressway, the Hutchinson River Expressway, and the Hutchinson River Parkway.
It is located in the southeastern Bronx near Unionport and Schuylerville. The interchange is a long, tight cluster of ramps about half a mile long, and it crosses Westchester Creek a couple of miles from the East River.
Three major roads meet here, and their route numbers change as they pass through the interchange. The Cross Bronx Expressway comes in from the northwest and leaves to the southeast as I-295. The Bruckner Expressway comes in from the southwest and leaves to the northeast as I-95. The Hutchinson River Parkway runs from north to south and becomes I-678 (the Hutchinson River Expressway) near the interchange. Because of naming quirks in New York, parts of this highway are also associated with the Whitestone Expressway.
I-95 enters the interchange from the northwest and exits to the northeast. I-278, I-295, I-678, and the Hutchinson River Parkway all begin or end here. This is the southernmost point where the Hutchinson River Parkway crosses I-95 in the Bronx.
Historically, the site started as the connection between the Whitestone Parkway and Bruckner Boulevard (then NY 1A). In the 1940s, the Hutchinson River Parkway was extended to Bruckner Boulevard. The eastern end of the Cross Bronx Expressway was built in the 1950s, and Bruckner Boulevard was upgraded into a freeway. By 1961 the freeway network near here was largely complete, and the Cross Bronx Extension was finished as well.
The modern Bruckner Interchange was designed to fit these changes while preserving existing connections. It fully opened in December 1972, at a construction cost of about $68 million.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 05:08 (CET).