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Ocean Parkway Bike Path image

Ocean Parkway Bike Path
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Stretching from the southwest entrance of Prospect Park to the ocean shore of Coney Island, Ocean Parkway spans just under five miles across the borough of Brooklyn. In 1894, the parkway became New York City’s first dedicated bicycle path, and the very first in the United States!

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Ocean Parkway and Church Avenue image

Ocean Parkway and Church Avenue

Ocean Parkway from Church Avenue, Ditmas Park / Prospect Park South, Brooklyn, September 5, 1914. Photographed for the Success Postal Card Company.
Ocean Parkway and Church Avenue image

Ocean Parkway and Church Avenue

Fatal crash Night photograph.Overturned automobile on street attended by fire fighters and police officer; pedestrians observing from sidewalk in background; superette or drugstore behind pedestrians. Caption: "Fatal crash -- Firemen wash down street at intersection of Ocean Parkway and Church Ave., where car driven by Max Lehrenbaum, 52, of 1771 Dahill Road, was overturned in collision with auto operated by Kenneth Olson, 21, of 310 Windsor Place. Lehrenbaum was fatally injured in the crash . . . ."
Ocean Parkway and Church Avenue image

Ocean Parkway and Church Avenue

\[Ocean Parkway.] Ocean Parkway - east side just north of Church Avenue.
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