Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
McDonald Avenue is a north-south street in Brooklyn, New York City. The avenue runs about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) between the intersection of 86th Street and Shell Road in Gravesend , and 20th Street and 10th Avenue in Windsor Terrace .
Broadway is an avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that extends from the East River in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in a southeasterly direction to East New York for a length of 4.32 miles (6.95 km). It was named for the Broadway in Manhattan.
21st Street was part of the first phase of the IND Crosstown Line, with service south to Nassau Avenue in Brooklyn. [2] The site of the station was excavated by April 1929. [4] The station opened on August 19, 1933. [2] The secondary name "Van Alst" refers to Van Alst Avenue, the former name of 21st Street.
Brooklyn 11223, an American reality-TV series about a divided group of friends, has also been filmed in parts of Bensonhurst. Mob Wives filmed some scenes in Bensonhurst at the local boxing joint, Evolution Boxing, where Drita D'Avano is trained by Anthony Pezzolanti. Spike of Bensonhurst was filmed around Bensonhurst and won a Spirit Award. [88]
[10] [11] On October 30, 1954, [10] [12] the connection between the IND South Brooklyn Line at Church Avenue and the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue opened. With the connection completed, all service at the stations on the former BMT Culver Line south of Ditmas Avenue, including this one, were from then on served by IND trains.
Prior to the consolidation of Williamsburg and Greenpoint into the city of Brooklyn in 1855, what is now Manhattan Ave. existed in two unconnected segments. The segment in Williamsburg was called Ewen Street (signs can still be seen in the masonry of some buildings) and the segment in Greenpoint was named Orchard Street below Greenpoint Avenue ...
[10] [11] On October 30, 1954, [10] [12] the connection between the IND South Brooklyn Line at Church Avenue and the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue opened. With the connection completed, all service at the stations on the former BMT Culver Line south of Ditmas Avenue, including this one, were from then on served by IND trains.
The modern-day Canarsie Line platforms, known as Broadway Junction, opened in 1928 when that line was connected to the 14th Street–Eastern District Line. The Independent Subway System's Fulton Street Line was extended to Broadway–East New York in 1946, and the three stations were combined as one station complex on July 1, 1948. The names of ...