Atlantic Avenue (New York City)

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Atlantic Avenue
I-678 / 94th Avenue in Jamaica

Atlantic Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the

Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, and between Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill. This stretch of avenue is known for having a high rate of pedestrian fatalities and has been described as "the killing fields of the city."[2]

Atlantic Avenue is the sole east–west through truck route across Brooklyn,

Conduit Boulevard
, which splits from Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and connects to NY 878 in Queens.

Route description

In Brooklyn, the area of Atlantic nearest the

Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill and passes through Boerum Hill near Downtown Brooklyn. This section of Atlantic Avenue is the site of the Atlantic Antic, an annual street fair
involving local and visiting merchants and artists, held in early October.

Atlantic Avenue in 1922
Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, 1922[4]

At Flatbush Avenue and

Forest City Ratner
.

The face of Atlantic Avenue east of Flatbush Avenue, the site designated for the

Bedford Avenue), above (from Bedford Avenue to Dewey Place), and beneath again in East New York
until Lefferts Boulevard in Queens.

The Atlantic Avenue Railroad (now LIRR) originally ran along Atlantic Avenue as streetcars pulled by horses. With electrification, other traffic was eliminated from the roadway and Atlantic Avenue became discontinuous. When railway sections west of Jamaica station were put underground in the early 1940s, that portion of Atlantic Avenue became continuous again. Northeast of Bedford Avenue, the railway is still at (or above) ground level.

Just east of the

Van Wyck Expressway, the roadway narrows to one lane and carries eastbound traffic only to 95th Avenue (westbound traffic diverges to 94th Avenue past this point). The one-block section between the Van Wyck Expressway and 95th Avenue opened in July 2020 as part of the $17 million Gateway Park project.[5][6] Atlantic Avenue from the Brooklyn Docks to Gateway Park at Van Wyck Expressway is 10.3 miles long, with 7.4 miles in Brooklyn, making it one of Brooklyn's longest streets.[1]

Pre-electrification maps from 1909[7] and 1910[8][9] show Atlantic Avenue, at that time, continued to the city line.

Other iterations of this road

Short roadways still named Atlantic Avenue exist further east adjacent to the LIRR Main Line within Nassau County. A stretch of road still named Atlantic Avenue, just under one mile long, runs just south of the Main Line from the

Floral Park station.[10]

Just north of the

Farmingdale LIRR station
.

Similarly named roads in New York

There is a four-block-long Atlantic Avenue in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.

Transportation

Atlantic Avenue subway station. The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower
is shown in the background.

The

Van Sinderen Avenue
.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Google (January 9, 2017). "Atlantic Avenue (New York City)" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  2. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2023-05-01.
  3. ^ New York City Department of Transportation, New York City Truck Route Map, 2007
  4. ^ Tom (2015-05-15). "This is Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue in the 1920s". Cool Old Photos. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  5. ^ "Morris Park, Queens". Forgotten NY. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  6. ^ Clark, Roger (July 21, 2020). "Atlantic Avenue Extension Project Includes New Jamaica Park". Spectrum News NY1. Retrieved October 11, 2023.
  7. ^ "1909 Map of Hollis". Retrieved 2012-09-17.
  8. ^ "1910 Map of Queens". Retrieved 2012-09-17.
  9. ^ "1910 map showing Atlantic Avenue extending to Nassau County". Archived from the original on 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
  10. ^ "1914 map, Nassau County just east of Belmont Park (opened 1905)". Retrieved 2012-09-17.
  11. ^ "Queens Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. August 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
  12. ^ a b c "Brooklyn Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. October 2020. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  13. ^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
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