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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.
These efforts also encompassed Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange President Jeremiah Johnson, Jr.'s circa 1891 Kensington Heights [5] and circa 1894 Kensington-in-Flatbush developments, the former in the vicinity of Ditmas Avenue and the latter possibly in the vicinity of Church Avenue; detached suburban villas on and adjoining Ocean Parkway that ...
Ocean Parkway: New York City Brooklyn Brooklyn Ocean Parkway: Long Island Jones Beach State Park Captree State Park NYS OPRHP NYSDOT Palisades Interstate Parkway: 1958 [12] Hudson Valley Fort Lee, NJ Bear Mountain State Park PIPC NYSDOT/NJDOT: Pelham Parkway: 1911 [13] New York City The Bronx Pelham Bay Park NYCDOT NYCDOT
The Ocean Parkway (abbreviated as OP) is a 15.59-mile (25.09 km) limited-access parkway that traverses Jones Beach Island between Jones Beach State Park and Captree State Park on Long Island, New York, United States.
A long-closed plot of land under the Brooklyn Bridge has reopened to the public after 15 years — restoring another slice of greenspace for one of the city’s most crowded neighborhoods.
Ditmas Park is a historic district in the neighborhood of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York City.The traditional boundaries of Ditmas Park, including Ditmas Park West, are Ocean Avenue and greater Flatbush to the east, Dorchester Road and the Prospect Park South neighborhood to the north, Coney Island Avenue and the Kensington neighborhood to the west, and Newkirk Avenue to the south. [2]
New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.Each borough has the same boundaries as a county of the state. The county governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county.