Thirteenth Avenue (Brooklyn)

Thirteenth Avenue

13th Avenue near 50th Street
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	2.5 mi (4.0 km)[1]
Location	Brooklyn, New York City
South end	86th Street in Dyker Heights
Major junctions	NY 27 in South Slope
North end	36th Street in Borough Park
East	Fourteenth Avenue
West	Twelfth Avenue

Thirteenth Avenue (or 13th Avenue) is a roughly 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) street in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Thirteenth Avenue is the commercial center^[2] of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park, and Dyker Heights.

13th Avenue starts at 36th Street in Kensington. It maintains a relatively straight route through Borough Park and ends at 86th Street in Dyker Heights. The avenue is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long. It is part of a one-way pair with Fourteenth Avenue, being one-way southbound to 60th Street (14th Avenue is one-way northbound north of New Utrecht Avenue and 60th Street). While New York neighborhoods have no official boundaries, the two neighborhoods meet approximately in the area of 65th Street.^[3]

In an approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) section traversing Borough Park, the street contains a huge variety of stores, businesses and food establishments catering to the local and international Haredi Jewish community.