That way, she said, her family wouldn't have to cross into Nassau County to catch a film.

It was teen-agers from Queens who had crossed the border into Nassau County in search of a better education.

Past the Cross Island Parkway, NY 25A goes through Douglaston and Little Neck before crossing the New York City line into Nassau County.

NY 25A, still carrying the Northern Boulevard name, crosses into Nassau County at the Great Neck hamlet known as University Gardens.

But people in Queens will cross into Nassau County and in the Bronx, they'll go to Westchester.

To the east, the freeway connects to the Cross Island Parkway at exit 31 in the park prior to crossing into Nassau County and becoming the Long Island Expressway (LIE).

Important state highways in Queens include the Grand Central Parkway, which becomes the Northern State Parkway when it crosses the Queens border into Nassau County.

The highway continued on a northeasterly track to the New York City line, where it turned slightly eastward as it crossed into Nassau County.

The turnpike crosses into Nassau County at the city's easternmost point on Langdale Street, two blocks past the city's highest-numbered street (271st Street).

Mr. Appleton said the sites in Queens were near where Northern Boulevard crosses into Nassau County, but he would not say exactly where any of the test sites were.