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The Ocean Parkway station opened on April 22, 1917. [2] It was served only by a single-track shuttle that ran to Brighton Beach , which was the southern terminal for all trains on the Brighton Line. When the West Eighth Street station opened in 1919, all four tracks were extended west to serve that stop, which was a two-level station.
Ocean Parkway is a boulevard in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it was built between 1874 and 1876.Ocean Parkway runs roughly 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north to south from the intersection with Prospect Park (Machate) Circle, at the southwestern corner of Prospect Park, to the Atlantic Ocean waterfront at Brighton Beach.
In the early 1950s, proposals surfaced for the Willowbrook Parkway, which would extend from Staten Island Marine Park (later Great Kills Park and now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area) on the island's East Shore to the Bayonne Bridge via Egbertville and Bulls Head. [7] [8] A second highway, the West Shore Expressway, was proposed c ...
A short distance into the park, the Ocean Parkway enters a cloverleaf interchange with the Robert Moses Causeway. [3] After the causeway, the Ocean Parkway reduces to four lanes as it crosses into the town of Islip, reaching the tollbooths that mark the eastern terminus of the Ocean. On the other side of the tollbooths, the right-of-way enters ...
Alice Austen (1866–1952), photographer, lifelong resident of Staten Island [5] Sir Roderick W. Cameron (1825–1900), shipping company owner; Nicole Malliotakis (born 1980), Republican member of the New York Assembly, U.S. House of Representatives and first Hispanic-American elected to a Staten Island district [6] Gianni Russo (born 1943 ...
Shore Acres is a small neighborhood of Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. It is situated along the Upper New York Bay, just north of Fort Wadsworth and south of Rosebank. Shore Acres is generally considered to be bounded by Bay Street on the west, the Upper New York Bay on the east, Nautilus Street on the north, and ...
Old Place is a neighborhood located in the northwestern section of Staten Island. The neighborhood is located south of Arlington , and west of Mariners Harbor . It is part of Community Board 1 .
Richmond Avenue is served by the following bus routes: [7] The primary buses are the S59 and S89, serving the entire corridor except for two portions: between Platinum Avenue and either Staten Island Mall’s north entrance/exit (S59), or Richmond Hill Road (S89), and between Yukon Avenue and Forest Hill Road (S59 only).