Flatbush Avenue (Brooklyn)

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Flatbush Avenue is one of the major avenues in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Flatbush Avenue runs from the Manhattan Bridge southeastward to Jamaica Bay, where it becomes the Marine Parkway Bridge which connects Brooklyn to the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.

The diagonal path of Flatbush Avenue creates a unique street pattern in every neighborhood it touches. It is the central artery of the borough, carrying traffic to and from Manhattan past landmarks such as Junior's, Long Island University, the Fulton Mall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Terminal, Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Flatbush Avenue creates the borders of neighborhoods including Brooklyn Heights / Downtown Brooklyn, Prospect Heights / Park Slope, and Flatbush / East Flatbush. It also touches many other neighborhoods en route to Queens, including Flatlands and East Flatlands.

Flatbush Avenue is the main thoroughfare through the Borough of Brooklyn, and was originally an Indian trail. Historic homes line the neighborhoods around the Avenue, and in the late 1920s it was straightened to its current form. Remnant streets such as Amersfort Place still remain in the city grid as an echo of the past.

Major streets of Brooklyn
Atlantic Avenue • Bay Parkway • Coney Island Avenue • Eastern Parkway • Flatbush Avenue • Fulton Street • Kings Highway • Myrtle Avenue • Ocean Parkway