Ocean Parkway is a boulevard that cuts through Brooklyn from the Prospect Park Expressway to Coney Island. The street is approximately 30 blocks long and almost every street that crosses Ocean Parkway can be easily recognized (Avenue T, Avenue U, etc.) The street is mostly residential and consists of middle class homes. A typical boulevard in Valencia, California. ... A map highlighting Brooklyn and the rest of New York City. ... Image of Coney Island (middle left of picture) taken by NASA. The peninsula at right is Rockaway, Queens. ...
In the 1920s, the parkway system around New York City grew extensively under the direction of master builder Robert Moses, who saw parkways as a active means to promote automobile use and to transfer population from crowded urban areas onto undeveloped areas on Long Island.
In the 1930s, the concept of the parkway was extended to the federal government, which constructed several national parkways designed for recreational driving and to commemorate historic routes.
A recurring bit of humor about the name parkway has had some fun poked at it, as it is ironic that one would park on a driveway, and instead drive on a parkway.
Parkways created by and under the supervision of the Long Island State Park Commission are of the same high standard as the parks and no less useful to the public.
On February 13, 1987, the NYSOPRHP determined that the Meadowbrook State Parkway (south of the Southern State Parkway), Wantagh State Parkway (south of the Southern State Parkway), OceanParkway, Loop Parkway, Bay Parkway and Bethpage State Parkway, retained sufficient historic integrity to be eligible for inclusion in the State and National Register of Historic Places.
A parkway gas station lies abandoned in the center median of the Northern State Parkway in Dix Hills, Suffolk County, between EXIT 42 and EXIT 43.
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