By February 1939, when the eleventh contract for the Belt Parkway was let, the project was already 26% along, with parts being built or completed of the $6.1 million (1939 USD) section of the Belt Parkway system. On February 24, 1939, the city let a contract to National Excavation Corporation for construction of the Cross Island Parkway between Hillside Avenue and 91st Avenue in Queens, that should be completed by November 1, 1940 at the cost of $339,584. The thirteenth contract of the project, let on March 10, would pave the Cross Island Parkway from Hempstead Turnpike to Linden Boulevard, a long stretch in Queens, a new separation between 115th Avenue and one at Linden Boulevard, with a completion date to be finished by December 1, 1940. Good Roads Engineering and Contracting Company of Wantagh won the contract with a bid of $597,794.