Atlantic Avenue (New York City)

Atlantic Avenue

Atlantic Avenue descending Cobble Hill
Namesake	Atlantic Avenue Railroad
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	10.3 mi (16.6 km)[1]
Location	Brooklyn and Queens, New York City
Nearest metro station	Atlantic Avenue Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center ​​​​​​​​​
West end	Bridge Park Drive in Brooklyn Heights
Major junctions	I-278 in Brooklyn Heights
East end	I-678 / 94th Avenue in Jamaica

Atlantic Avenue is a major thoroughfare 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, and between Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill. This stretch of avenue is known for having a high rate of pedestrian fatalities and has been described as "the killing fields of the city."^[2]

Atlantic Avenue is the sole east–west through truck route across Brooklyn,^[3] mostly serving the purpose of the canceled Bushwick Expressway (Interstate 78) and the Brooklyn portion of the Cross Brooklyn Expressway (New York State Route 878, internally known as Interstate 878). The street connects to the existing segment of NY 878 via Conduit Boulevard, which splits from Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and connects to NY 878 in Queens.