Flatbush Avenue Extension | |
Flatbush Avenue sign near Brooklyn Botanic Garden | |
Namesake | Flatbush (Dutch) |
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Owner | City of New York |
Maintained by | NYCDOT |
Length | 9.9 mi (15.9 km)[1] |
Location | Brooklyn, New York City |
South end | Marine Parkway Bridge at Floyd Bennett Field |
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Flatbush Avenue is a major avenue in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn. It runs from the Manhattan Bridge south-southeastward to Jamaica Bay, where it joins the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, which connects Brooklyn to the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. The north end was extended from Fulton Street to the Manhattan Bridge as "Flatbush Avenue Extension".[2]
Flatbush Avenue, including the extension, is 9.9 miles (15.9 km) long. The avenue is a four-lane street throughout the majority of its run. North of Atlantic Avenue and south of Utica Avenue, it is a six-lane-wide median-divided street.
The Flatbush Avenue extension was built 100 years ago through the 1850s-era Vinegar Hill neighborhood to connect Flatbush Avenue with the anticipated Manhattan Bridge, which opened in 1909.