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Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, New York, is a 5.5-mile boulevard stretching from Prospect Park to Coney Island and Brighton Beach. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the 1860s, it was built between 1874 and 1876 to connect Prospect Park with Brooklyn’s southern waterfront, inspired by grand European boulevards like Paris’s Avenue Foch. The parkway, one of the first of its kind in the U.S., features a 210-foot-wide layout with a central roadway, landscaped medians, service roads, s