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Looking south at Fourth Street in 2008 | |
Owner | City of New York |
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Maintained by | NYCDOT |
Length | 5.9 mi (9.5 km)[1] |
Location | Brooklyn, New York City |
South end | ![]() |
Major junctions | ![]() ![]() |
North end | Flatbush Avenue / Atlantic Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn |
East | Fifth Avenue |
West | Third Avenue |
Fourth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It stretches for 6 miles (9.7 km) south from Times Plaza, which is the triangle intersection created by Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in Downtown Brooklyn, to Shore Road and the Belt Parkway in Bay Ridge.
While southwestern Brooklyn is well served by expressways, Fourth Avenue provides an alternate for local traffic as it directly links the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Sunset Park and Bay Ridge with Downtown Brooklyn. Traffic signals along the avenue are coordinated for green wave in the peak direction.