Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn)

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499-401 44th St, Brooklyn, NY 11220, USA

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N40° 38' 60" W74° 0' 32"   (40.65, -74.008888888889) Start navigation »

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Fourth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It stretches for 6 miles (9.7 km) south from Times Plaza, which is the triangle intersection created by Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in Downtown Brooklyn, to Shore Road and the Belt Parkway in Bay Ridge.
While southwestern Brooklyn is well served by expressways, Fourth Avenue provides an alternate for local traffic as it directly links the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Sunset Park and Bay Ridge with Downtown Brooklyn. Traffic signals along the avenue are coordinated for green wave in the peak direction.
The avenue was paved in the 1890s as a grand parkway resembling the later Park Avenue in Manhattan, and rebuilt after 1910 for more traffic.

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