Coney Island Avenue

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. The central lanes of near-parallel Ocean Parkway terminate five blocks south and three blocks west of that intersection, becoming the Prospect Expressway (New York State Route 27). Ocean Parkway originally extended uninterrupted north to Park Circle, where Coney Island Avenue meets Prospect Park, until construction of the Prospect Expressway broke it up, replacing the central portion of the northern half-mile of Ocean Parkway and including ramps to the edge of Prospect Park. Narrow roadways on either side of Ocean Parkway (showing as "Ocean Parkway" on street signs) still continue to Park Circle.

Coney Island Avenue

Coney Island Avenue & Avenue M
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	5.3 mi (8.5 km)[1]
Location	Brooklyn, New York City
Coordinates	40°36′44.56″N 73°57′46.11″W
South end	Riegelmann Boardwalk in Brighton Beach
Major junctions	Belt Parkway in Brighton Beach NY 27 in Prospect Park South
North end	NY 27 / Parkside Avenue in Windsor Terrace
East	11th/12th Streets
West	9th/10th Streets

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:

• The B68 bus line serves most of the corridor, connecting the Prospect Park area to the famous oceanfront attractions of Coney Island and Brighton Beach.
• The Brighton Beach station on the BMT Brighton Line is located adjacent to Coney Island Avenue at the thoroughfare's intersection with Brighton Beach Avenue.
• The 15th Street-Prospect Park station on the IND Culver Line is located at the north end of Prospect Park Southwest at Bartel Pritchard Square.
• The B103 Limited and BM3/BM4 express buses serve the corridor between Church Avenue and Cortelyou Road.
• The BM1/BM2 express buses also run on the avenue, but they don’t make any stops. The corridor is used between Cortelyou Road and either Park Circle for Manhattan terminals, or Caton Avenue for Brooklyn terminals.
• The B8 runs on the corridor between 18th Avenue and Foster Avenue.
• The B11 runs on the corridor between Avenue I and Avenue J.

History

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]