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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.
The 5.5-mile-long Ocean Parkway runs north/south through the heart of Kensington. Today, flocks of children amble along the pedestrian path, older folks play chess on city provided tables, and vehicles race to beat traffic lights.
Part of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s larger design for a Brooklyn parkway system, Ocean Parkway, along with Eastern Parkway, was built from what was originally planned as four legs radiating from Prospect Park.
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While Eastern Parkway stopped short of its intended terminus, Ocean Parkway was built as Olmsted and Vaux envisioned, stretching five and a half miles from Prospect Park to Brooklyn’s beaches at Coney Island.
Ocean Parkway, the first road of its kind built in the United States, established a new concept in road building. The road is about six miles long and stretches from Coney Island to just south of Prospect Park.
Today, January 28, in 1975, Brooklyn's Ocean Parkway, the first road of its kind in the U.S., was designated a NYC Scenic Landmark by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission.