Coney Island Avenue

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Coney Island Avenue
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Coney Island Avenue & Avenue M
Coney Island Avenue
Owner City of New York
Maintained by NYCDOT
Length5.3 mi (8.5 km) [1]
Location Brooklyn, New York City
Coordinates 40°36′44.56″N73°57′46.11″W / 40.6123778°N 73.9628083°W / 40.6123778; -73.9628083
South end Riegelmann Boardwalk in Brighton Beach
Major
junctions
Belt Pkwy Shield free.svg Belt Parkway in Brighton Beach
NY-27.svg NY 27 in Prospect Park South
North endNY-27.svg NY 27  / Parkside Avenue in Windsor Terrace
East11th/12th Streets
West9th/10th Streets

Coney Island Avenue is a road in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that runs north-south for a distance of roughly five miles, almost parallel to Ocean Parkway and Ocean Avenue. It begins at Brighton Beach Avenue in Coney Island and goes north to Park Circle at the southwest corner of Prospect Park, where it becomes Prospect Park Southwest. Near-parallel Ocean Parkway terminates five blocks south and three blocks west of that intersection, becoming the Prospect Expressway (New York State Route 27). Ocean Parkway originally extended north to Park Circle, where Coney Island Avenue meets Prospect Park, until construction of the Prospect Expressway replaced the northern half-mile of Ocean Parkway but included ramps to the edge of Prospect Park.

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Coney Island Avenue frontage is dominated by mixed-use housing: pre-war apartment buildings, small shops, including many antique shops, and service businesses. It is also one of the most dangerous streets in New York City, with many avoidable accidents happening because of poor road design. [2]

Public transportation

Coney Island Avenue is served by the following:

History

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South end of Coney Island Avenue

An area surrounding about 1 mile (1.6 km) of Coney Island Avenue is home to a sizable population of Pakistani Americans, and is informally called "Little Pakistan". [3] In 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that approximately 7,000 Pakistanis lived in a region bordering the street, and they made up nearly 10% of the population of the region. [4]

References

  1. "Coney Island Avenue" (Map). Google Maps . Retrieved May 23, 2019.
  2. Brachfeld, Ben (January 27, 2022). "Truck critically injures teen on deadly Coney Island Avenue". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  3. Afridi, Humera (June 19, 2005). "The Coney Island of Their Mind". The New York Times . Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  4. "U.S. Census Bureau" . Retrieved December 9, 2022.