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 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.