Atlantic Avenue (New York City)

Atlantic Avenue (New York City)

Atlantic Avenue is an important street in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. It stretches from the Brooklyn waterfront along the East River all the way to Jamaica, Queens. Atlantic Avenue runs parallel to Fulton Street for much of its course through Brooklyn, where it serves as a border between the neighborhoods of Prospect Heights and Fort Greene and between Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights.

Atlantic Avenue is the sole east-west through truck route across Brooklyn, [New York City Department of Transportation, [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/trucks.shtml New York City Truck Route Map] , 2007] serving the purpose of the canceled Bushwick Expressway (I-78) and Cross Brooklyn Expressway (I-878).

West to east

In Brooklyn, the area of Atlantic nearest the South Ferry waterfront has long been known for its antique shops and its notable Arab community, including mosques, specialty shops (such as Sahadi Importing Company, also known as Sahadi's) and restaurants specializing in Middle Eastern food. As it stretches east toward Flatbush Avenue, Atlantic passes through the rapidly-changing neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and Downtown Brooklyn. This section of Atlantic Avenue is the site of the Atlantic Antic, a street fair involving local and visiting merchants and artists, held in September.

At Flatbush, the smaller shops, restaurants, churches and boutiques give way to the Atlantic Avenue Terminal, where nine subway lines of the MTA converge with the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). The area is dominated by massive buildings, formerly factories, now used by storage companies, the Atlantic Center mall (opened in 1996, with tenants including P.C. Richard & Son and Modell's) and the Atlantic Terminal Mall (opened in 2004, with tenants including Target). Both malls are products of developer Forest City Ratner.

The rail yard area is currently the focus of controversy surrounding plans for development of the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards complex. This megaproject, designed by noted architect Frank Gehry and proposed by Forest City Ratner, includes a convert|800000|sqft|m2|-4|sing=on, 20,000-seat basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets, convert|2100000|sqft|m2 of offices, convert|310000|sqft|m2|-3 of retail, as many as 4,500 apartments, and six acres of parks that would replace the existing landscape of bombed-out low-rises and trash-strewn railroad tracks.

The face of Atlantic Avenue east of Flatbush Avenue, the site designated for the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards, is defined by the LIRR tracks that run beneath (from Flatbush Avenue to Bedford Avenue), above (from Bedford to near Ralph Avenue), and beneath again (in East New York). The elevated portion of the LIRR tracks greatly limits the viability of the businesses and residences along Atlantic Avenue; many shops are derelict or defunct, a trend that continues on into Queens.

At one time the LIRR ran along Atlantic Avenue as streetcars pulled by horses. With electrification, other traffic was eliminated from the roadway and Atlantic Avenue became discontinuous. When railway sections west of Jamaica station were put underground in the late 1940s, Atlantic Avenue became continuous again. Remnants of the continuous roadway (that existed before electrification) which are still called Atlantic Avenue, extend as far east as Carle Place in Nassau County. Remnants no longer called Atlantic Avenue can be found as far east as Hicksville.

See also

*Atlantic Avenue Tunnel
*Atlantic Branch of the Long Island Rail Road
*Atlantic Terminal Mall
*Bedford-Stuyvesant
*Crown Heights
*Fort Greene
*Prospect Heights

References

External links

* [http://bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Map/Queens.1910.2.html 1910 map showing Atlantic Avenue extending into Nassau County]


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