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 on 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, serving the purpose of the canceled Bushwick Expressway (I-78) and Cross Brooklyn Expressway (I-878).
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