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This article provides a listing (with simple descriptions, where possible) of the streets in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, including Fort Hamilton, the last active-duty military post in New York City.

State-named roadways

Avenues

Numbered Avenues

Apart from the portion of 3rd through 7th Avenues beyond 86th Street, the numbered avenues run approximately 40 degrees west of south, but by local custom are called North–south.

Avenue	North-end	South-end	Length	# of lanes	Traffic direction	Additional notes	Image
First Avenue	39th Street	58th Street		2	North–south	Rail tracks are embedded along the center of the avenue for most of its length. Renamed "Colonial Road" in Bay Ridge.
Second Avenue	Dead-end north of 5th Street	64th Street		2	North–south	Exists in two sections; Fifth Street to Hamilton Avenue, and 28th to 64th streets. Renamed "Ridge Boulevard" in Bay Ridge.
Third Avenue	Flatbush Avenue	Shore Road		2–10	North–south	Serves as service road for Gowanus Expressway between Prospect Avenue and 65th Street. Served by the B37 bus along the entire avenue and northbound B103 bus north of the Prospect Expressway (but only has one stop at State Street)
Fourth Avenue	Flatbush Avenue	Shore Road		4–6	North–south	The BMT Fourth Avenue Line runs underneath.
Fifth Avenue	Flatbush Avenue	4th Avenue		2	North–south	B63 runs the entire length of the avenue.
Sixth Avenue	Atlantic Avenue	Fort Hamilton Parkway		1–2	Varies	Exists in three segments, separated by 36th–38th Street Yard and Sunset Park.
Seventh Avenue	Flatbush Avenue	Cropsey Avenue		2–5	North–south	Exists in three segments. Serves as service road for Gowanus Expressway from 65th to 79th Streets. Has subway stations on the IND Culver Line and BMT Brighton Line. The B67 and B69 buses run on it between 20th Street and Flatbush Avenue. The avenue widens south of 65th Street.
Eighth Avenue	Flatbush Avenue	73rd Street		2	Varies	Exists in two segments. B70 runs along the avenue from Bay Ridge Avenue to 39th Street. Has a station on the BMT Sea Beach Line
Ninth Avenue	Flatbush Avenue	Bay Ridge Parkway		2–3	North–south	Exists in four segments. Has one station on the BMT West End Line
10th Avenue	Prospect Park SW	86th Street		2	North–south	Exists in three segments.
11th Avenue	Prospect Park SW	86th Street		2	North–south	Exists in two segments, separated by Green-Wood Cemetery and Fort Hamilton Parkway. Has an entrance to Fort Hamilton Parkway on the BMT Sea Beach Line
12th Avenue	Dahill Road	86th Street		2	Varies	Exists in two segments.
13th Avenue	36th Street	86th Street		2	North–south	B64 bus runs along the avenue from 86th Street to Bay Ridge Avenue. Bay Ridge-bound B16 buses run along the avenue from 37th Street to 57th Street.
14th Avenue	McDonald Avenue	Cropsey Avenue		2	North–south	Prospect Park-bound B16 bus runs on the avenue from 56th to 36th Streets
15th Avenue	McDonald Avenue	Shore Parkway		2	North–south
16th Avenue	38th Street	Shore Parkway		2	North–south
17th Avenue	Dahill Road	17th Court		2	North–south	Has an entrance to 18th Avenue on the BMT Sea Beach Line
18th Avenue	Coney Island Avenue	Shore Parkway		3	North–south	The B8 runs along the entire Avenue; has subway stations on the BMT West End Line, BMT Sea Beach Line, and IND Culver Line; merges with Ditmas Avenue east of Coney island Avenue
19th Avenue	51st Street	Shore Parkway		2	North–south
20th Avenue	McDonald Avenue	Shore Parkway		2	North–south	Has subway stations on the BMT West End Line and BMT Sea Beach Line
21st Avenue	Dahill Road	Shore Parkway		2	North–south
Bay Parkway (formerly 22nd Avenue)	Ocean Parkway	Caesar's Shopping Plaza		4	North–south	The B6 bus runs along most of the street, until Ave J. The B82 runs south of Kings Highway. Three subway stations on the BMT West End Line, BMT Sea Beach Line, and IND Culver Line.
23rd Avenue	Stillwell Avenue	Cropsey Avenue		2	North–south
23rd Avenue	59th Street	Dahill Road		2	North–south
24th Avenue	Stillwell Avenue	Gravesend Bay		2	North–south	Split into two sections by the Belt Parkway
24th Avenue	60th Street	McDonald Ave		2	North–south
25th Avenue	Stillwell Avenue	Gravesend Bay		2	North–south	Has a station on the BMT West End Line and served by the B3 bus; Split into two sections by the Belt Parkway
26th Avenue	Stillwell Avenue	Shore Parkway		2	North–south
27th Avenue	Stillwell Avenue	Shore Parkway		2	North–south
28th Avenue	Stillwell Avenue	Cropsey Avenue		2	North–south
95th Avenue	Elderts Lane	Drew Street (continues into Queens)		1	East-west	This two-block long Queens-numbered avenue is divided by the border of Brooklyn and Queens, with the Brooklyn half on the southern side, but having Queens-style (73-xx and 74-xx) addresses.
101st Avenue	Liberty Avenue/Forbell Street	Drew Street (continues into Queens)		2	West–east	This Queens-numbered avenue runs one block entirely in Brooklyn, with Brooklyn addresses.

Boulevards

Name	From	To	Distance	# of lanes	Traffic direction	Additional notes	Photo
Brooklyn Bridge Boulevard	Brooklyn Bridge	Fulton Street	0.84 mile	8	North to south	Co-named Adams Street
Conduit Boulevard
Empire Boulevard						Formerly called Malbone Street, renamed after the Malbone Street wreck.
Highland Boulevard							East New York
John Berry Boulevard						Kingsborough Community College	Manhattan Beach
Linden Boulevard
Malcolm X Boulevard						Formerly known as Reid Avenue
Marcus Garvey Boulevard						Formerly known as Sumner Avenue
McGuinness Boulevard	Pulaski Bridge/Dead-end	Humboldt Street	1.34 miles	4	North to south	Continues north as 11th Street in Queens after crossing the Pulaski Bridge; continues south as Humboldt Street.
Mother Gaston Boulevard						Formerly known as Stone Avenue
Oriental Boulevard							Manhattan Beach
Ridge Boulevard	65th Street	Shore Road	1.8 Miles	2	Bidirectional	Continuation of Second Avenue, above.
Shore Boulevard

Courts

Lanes

Loops

Parkways

Name	From	To	Distance	# of lanes	Traffic direction	Additional notes	Photo
Bay Ridge Parkway	Shore Road	Bay Parkway	3.1 miles	4	Bidirectional East/West
Eastern Parkway	Prospect Park at Grand Army Plaza	Bushwick Avenue	3.9 miles	6-8	North to south	Continues as a dead-end street east of Bushwick Avenue. Known as "Eastern Parkway Extension" east of Broadway.
Fort Hamilton Parkway	Ocean Parkway	101st Street	4.15 miles	2-4	North to south	Known as Fort Hamilton Avenue prior to 1892
Marine Parkway	Nostrand Avenue	Fillmore Avenue	.6 miles	4	Northwest to Southeast
Ocean Parkway	Prospect Park at Park Circle	Surf Avenue and Sea Breeze Avenue	5.37 miles	2-8	North to south	Continues as Surf Avenue once it reaches Coney Island.
Rockaway Parkway
Shore Parkway						Service road for Belt Parkway between exits 4 and 9B

Places

Name	From	To	Distance	# of lanes	Traffic direction	Additional notes
1st Place						Carroll Gardens
2nd Place						Carroll Gardens
3rd Place						Carroll Gardens
4th Place						Carroll Gardens
Aitken Place	Sidney Place	Clinton Street	0.06	1	East
Amersfort Place
Anchorage Place
Arion Place
Ashland Place
Auburn Place
Balfour Place
Bancroft Place
Bay Ridge Place	69th Street/Bay Ridge Avenue	Ovington Avenue	0.08 mile	1	South
Bayview Place
Beach Place					Pedestrian-only alley on East 88th Street and Stillwells Place, south of Avenue K and Canarsie Cemetery
Bergen Place	Wakeman Place	67th Street	0.07 mile	1	South
Berkeley Place
Billings Place
Boerum Place
Borinquen Place
Boynton Place
Bulwer Place
Bushwick Place
Cass Place
Cathedral Place	Jay Street	Flatbush Avenue Extension	0.11 mile	1	East
Caton Place
Cheever Place
Claver Place
Clifford Place
Clifton Place
Colin Place
College Place	Dead-end	Love Lane	0.07	1	North to south
Columbia Place	Joralemon Street	State Street	0.11 mile	1	South
Columbus Place
Corbin Place						Brighton Beach
Dahlgren Place	Fort Hill Place	86th Street	.4 mile	2	North
Delmonico Place
Dennet Place
Denton Place
Dewey Place
Dinsmore Place
Division Place
Dunham Place
Durland Place
Elizabeth Place	Old Fulton Street	Doughty Street	0.04 mile	1	South
Elm Place	Fulton Street	Livingston Street	0.07 mile	1	North
Emerson Place
Fairview Place
Fanchon Place
Farragut Place
Fiske Place	Garfield Place	Carroll Street	0.08 mile	1	North-South (2 way)
Fleet Place
Friel Place
Fort Greene Place
Fort Hill Place	Battery Ave	Dahlgren Place	.05 mile	1	West
Fuller Place
Gallatin Place	Fulton Street	Livingston Street	0.07 mile	1	North
Garden Place	Joralemon Street	State Street	0.12 mile	1	South
Garfield Place	Prospect Park West	Fourth Avenue	0.71 mile	1	West
Gatling Place	86th Street	92nd Street	.3 mile	2	South
Grove Place	Hanover Place	Dead-end	0.05	1	West to east
Gunther Place
Hampton Place
Hanover Place	Fulton Street	Livingston Street	0.07 mile	1	North
Hanson Place
Harrison Place
Hart Place
Havens Place
Hillel Place
Hinckley Place
Howard Place
Irvington Place
Jackson Place
Jardine Place
Juliana Place
Kane Place
Kenilworth Place	Farragut Road	Hillel Place
Kermit Place
Kossuth Place
Lake Place
Lefferts Place
Lewis Place
Lincoln Place
Lott Place
Louis Place
Ludlam Place
MacKay Place						Bay Ridge
Madison Place
Martin Luther King Jr. Place
McKeever Place
Micieli Place
Miller Place
Monaco Place
Montgomery Place
North Elliott Place
O'Brien Place						Sometimes transcribed as O Brien Place or Obrien Place
Overbaugh Place
Park Place
Parrott Place
Pierrepont Place	Pierrepont Street	Montague Street	0.05 mile	1	North
Pleasant Place
Polhemus Place	Garfield Place	Carroll Street	0.07 mile	1	North-South (2 way)
Poly Place						Dyker Heights (street address of the elite Poly Prep Country Day School)
Prescott Place
Prospect Place
Radde Place
Raleigh Place
Red Cross Place	Cadman Plaza East	Adams Street	0.05	1	East
Reeve Place
Revere Place
Ridgewood Place
Robert Place
Rockwell Place
Roosevelt Place
Royce Place	East 72nd Street	Bergen Avenue		1	Northeast-Southwest (2 way)	Bergen Beach
Rutherford Place
Sedgwick Place	Wakeman Place	67th Street	0.07 mile	1	North
Sherlock Place
Sidney Place	Joralemon Street	State Street	0.13 mile	1	North
Sloan Place
South Elliott Place
Spencer Place
St Andrews Place
St Charles Place
St Francis Place
St James Place
St Johns Place
St Marks Place
St Pauls Place
Sterling Place
Stillwell (or Stillwells) Place						Canarsie
Stoddard Place
Strong Place
Sullivan Place
Sumner Place
Taaffe Place
Tech Place	Adams Street	Jay Street	0.08	1	East	Renamed portion of Johnson Street
Terrace Place
Tiffany Place
Tompkins Place
Turner Place
Veronica Place
Visitation Place
Wakeman Place	Colonial Road	3rd Avenue	0.3 mile	1	East
Warren Place
Warsoff Place
Webster Place
Whitney Place
Whitwell Place
Williams Place
Willow Place	Joralemon Street	State Street	0.11 mile	1	South
Windsor Place
Wolf Place
Wythe Place

Roads

Name	From	To	Distance	# of lanes	Traffic direction	Additional notes	Photo
Albemarle Road	north	south
Argyle Road	one-way
Assembly Road	idek					Brooklyn Navy Yard
Beverley Road	north-south
Brooklyn Ave		north-south
Buckingham Road		one-way
Campus Road		one-way				Brooklyn College
Clarendon Road	north-south
Colonial Road	Wakeman Place	92nd Street	1.48 miles	2	North to south	Continuation of First Avenue, above.
Cortelyou Road	Coney island ave and Flatbush Avenue.	north-south
Coventry Road
Cripplebush Road						No longer extant (now part of Wythe Avenue)
Dahill Road (in four segments)	Caton Avenue	Kings Highway	4.8 miles (discounting interruptions)	2 for most of its length	North/South	Dahill Road was formerly called West Street, and still continues as West Street south of Avenue T (this continuation was not counting in the termini and length shown here). It serves as the dividing line between the East-numbered streets and West-numbered streets of southern Brooklyn, and forms the western border of the old town of Flatbush (which can be seen in its division of several street grids, especially along its northern portion).
Dorchester Road
Farragut Road
Glenwood Road
Gravesend Neck Road						Also known as just "Neck Road"
Grimes Road
Ivy Hill Road
Lenox Road
Lincoln Road
Marlborough Road
Old Mill Road
Old New Utrecht Road
Quentin Road
Rugby Road
Rutland Road
Sheepshead Bay Road
Shell Road
Shore Road	68th Street	Fourth Avenue		2	North to south
Stanton Road
Stratford Road
Varkens Hook Road (formerly Varkens Hook Lane)		No longer extant			Canarsie
Village Road East/North/South
Wallabout Road
Welding Road							Steiner Studios
Westminster Road
Woodpoint Road

Streets

Named streets

Name	From	To	Distance	# of lanes	Traffic direction	Additional notes	Photo
Adams Street	John Street	Fulton Street	0.84 mile	1-6	Varies	Cut-off at two points. One-lane one-way street in Dumbo; six-lane boulevard south of Brooklyn Bridge
Adelphi Street
Ainslie Street
Amboy Street							Brownsville
Amherst Street							Manhattan Beach
Amity Street	Hicks Street	Court Street	0.3 mile	1	East
Anthony Street
Apollo Street
Ashford Street
Bainbridge Street
Baltic Street
Banker Street	Franklin Street	Nassau Avenue	0.36 mile	1	North
Barbey Street
Barnell Street
Bartlett Street
Batchelder Street
Bayard Street
Beadel Street
Beard Street
Beaumont Street							Manhattan Beach
Beaver Street
Berry Street
Bogart Street
Bond Street
Bowne Street
Bradford Street
Bragg Street
Branton Street
Bridge Street
Bridgewater Street
Brigham Street
Bristol Street
Brown Street
Bryant Street
Burnett Street
Bush Street
Butler Street
Carroll Street
Cedar Street
Centre Street
Chapel Street	Jay Street	Flatbush Avenue Extension	0.1 mile	1	East
Chauncey Street
Cherry Street
Chester Street
Chestnut Street
Clara Street
Cleveland Street
Clinton Street
Clymer Street
Coffey Street
Coleman Street
Coleridge Street							Manhattan Beach
Columbia Street	Atlantic Avenue	Dead-end at Columbia Street pier	1.88 miles	2	South	Cut-off by Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel
Concord Street
Conover Street
Conselyea Street
Conway Street
Cook Street
Cooper Street
Cornelia Street
Court Street	Montague Street	Dead-end	1.84 miles	1-4	Varies
Covert Street
Coyle Street
Cranberry Street	Columbia Heights	Henry Street	0.18 mile	1	East
Crescent Street
Cross Street
Crown Street
Crystal Street
Cumberland Street
Cypress Hills Street
Danforth Street
Dean Street
Debevoise Street
Decatur Street
Degraw Street
Delavan Street
Devoe Street
Dikeman Street
Ditmars Street							Bushwick
Dobbin Street
Dock Street	Water Street	Front Street	0.05 mile	1	North	Continues as Old Dock Street.
Dodworth Street
Dooley Street							Sheepshead Bay
Dorset Street
Doughty Street	Furman Street	Vine Street	0.13 mile	1	Varies
Douglass Street
Dover Street							Manhattan Beach
Downing Street
Duffield Street
Eckford Street
Egan Street
Eldert Street
Ellery Street
Elton Street
Erasmus Street
Erskine Street							Starrett City
Essex Street
Etna Street
Everit Street	Columbia Heights & Doughty Street	Old Fulton Street	0.03 mile	1	North	Continuation of Columbia Heights
Exeter Street							Manhattan Beach
Falmouth Street							Manhattan Beach
Fayette Street
Fenimore Street
Ferris Street
Fleet Street
Floyd Street
Ford Street
Forrest Street
Franklin Street	Commercial Street	Kent Avenue and North 14th Street	0.83 mile	2	South	Continues as Kent Avenue
Front Street	Old Fulton Street	Hudson Avenue	0.64 mile	1-2	Varies
Frost Street
Furman Street	Old Fulton Street	Columbia Street	0.86 mile	1	South
Fulton Street	Adams Street	Eldert Lane	6.72 miles	2	Varies
Garden Street
Garnet Street
Gem Street
George Street
Gerry Street
Girard Street							Manhattan Beach
Gold Street
Grand Street
Grattan Street
Green Street
Guernsey Street
Hall Street
Halleck Street
Halsey Street
Hancock Street
Harden Street
Haring Street
Harman Street
Hart Street
Hastings Street							Manhattan Beach
Havemeyer Street
Hawthorne Street
Hemlock Street
Hendrickson Street
Hendrix Street
Henry Street
Herbert Street
Herkimer Street
Herzl Street						Named for Theodor Herzl
Heyward Street
Hewes Street
Hicks Street	Fulton Street	Bay Street	2.04 miles	1-4	Varies	Cut-off at several points; Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and at the Red Hook Houses. Hicks Street serves as the service road for BQE between Congress Street and Hamilton Avenue.
High Street
Himrod Street
Hinsdale Street
Hooper Street
Hope Street
Hopkins Street
Hoyt Street
Hubbard Street
Hull Street
Humboldt Street
Huntington Street
Imlay Street
Ingraham Street
Irwin Street							Manhattan Beach
Jackson Street
Jaffrey Street							Manhattan Beach
Jay Street
Jefferson Street
Jerome Street
Jewel Street
John Street	Adams Street	Little Street	0.46 mile	1	West	Cut-off between Bridge and Gold streets.
Johnson Street
Joralemon Street
Judge Street
Junius Street							Brownsville
Kane Street
Keap Street
Kensington Street							Manhattan Beach
Kimball Street
King Street
Knapp Street
Kosciuszko Street
Lake Street
Langham Street							Manhattan Beach
Lawrence Street
Lawton Street
Leonard Street
Linwood Street
Little Nassau Street
Livingston Street
Locust Street
Logan Street
Lombardy Street
Lorimer Street
Lorraine Street
Lott Street
Louisa Street
Luquer Street
Lynch Street
MacDonough Street
Mackenzie Street							Manhattan Beach
Macon Street
Madison Street
Main Street	Plymouth Street	Front Street	0.09 mile	1	North
Maple Street
Marginal Street East/West
Marion Street
Center, North and South Market Street
Marshall Street	Gold Street	Plymouth and Little streets.	0.25 mile	1	Varies	Continues as Little Street.
Martense Street
Maujer Street
McKibbin Street
Meadow Street
Melrose Street
Meserole Street
Middagh Street
Middleton Street
Midwood Street
Milton Street
Minna Street
Moffat Street
Monitor Street						Named after the USS Monitor built in Greenpoint.
Monroe Street
Montague Street
Montgomery Street
Montieth Street
Moore Street
Morton Street
Nassau Street
Navy Street							Brooklyn Navy Yard
Nelson Street
Nevins Street
New Dock Street	Ferry Landing	Water Street	0.09 mile	1	North to south
Newel (or Newell) Street
Newport Street
Newton Street
Noble Street
Noll Street
Norfolk Street							Manhattan Beach
Norman Street
North Henry Street
North Oxford Street
Old Dock Street	Dead-end	Water Street	0.04 mile	1	Varies	Continues as Dock Street.
Old Fulton Street
Olive Street
Oliver Street	Shore Road	Marine Avenue	0.13 mile	1	East
Orange Street	Columbia Heights	Henry Street	0.18 mile	1	West
Osborn Street
Otsego Street
Oxford Street							Manhattan Beach
Pacific Street
Palmetto Street
Park Street
Paulding Street
Pearl Street	Dead-end	Fulton Street	0.5 mile	1	Varies	Cut-off by MetroTech Center.
Pembroke Street							Manhattan Beach
Pence Street
Penn Street
Pierrepont Street
Pine Street
Pineapple Street	Dead-end	Henry Street	0.21 mile	1	East
Pioneer Street
Plymouth Street	Main Street	Little Street	0.56 mile	1	East
Polar Street							Seagate
Poplar Street	Willow Street	Henry Street	0.13 mile	1	East	Continuation of Willow Street.
Powell Street							Brownsville
Powers Street
President Street
Prince Street
Provost Street
Pulaski Street
Quincy Street
Randolph Street
Rapelye Street						This street is split up into two parts.
Reed Street
Rewe Street							Williamsburg
Richardson Street
Rodney Street	Metropolitan Avenue	Kent Avenue	0.8 mile	1	North	The street is split up into three parts.	Williamsburg
Roebling Street
Rose Street
Ross Street
Russell Street
Rutledge Street
Ryder Street
Ryerson Street
Sackett Street
Sackman Street
Sandford Street
Sands Street
Schaefer Street
Schermerhorn Street
Scholes Street
Seabring Street
Schenck Street
Seeley Street
Seigel Street
Senator Street	Colonial Road	6th Avenue	0.75 mile	1	East	The street is not aligned, continues to 6th Avenue south of where it first reaches 5th Avenue.
Sharon Street
Sherman Street
Skillman Street
Smith Street
Somers Street
South Oxford Street
Spencer Street
St Edwards Street
St Felix Street
Stagg Street
Stanhope Street
Stanwix Street
Starr Street
State Street
Sterling Street
Steuben Street
Stockholm Street
Stockton Street
Story Street						Formerly called Story Court
Strauss Street
Stryker Street
Stuart Street
Sullivan Street
Sumpter Street
Sutton Street
Suydam Street
Tapscott Street
Taylor Street
Tehama Street
Ten Eyck Street
Thames Street
Thomas Street
Thomas S. Boyland Street
Thornton Street
Tillary Street
Townsend Street
Troutman Street
Truxton Street
Union Street
Van Brunt Street
Van Buren Street
Van Dam Street
Vanderbilt Street
Van Dyke Street
Van Sicklen Street
Varet Street
Verona Street
Wallabout Street
Walton Street
Walworth Street
Warren Street
Warwick Street
Water Street	Old Fulton Street	Hudson Avenue	0.68 mile	1	West	Cut-off by Manhattan Bridge.
Waterbury Street
Watkins Street
Weirfield Street
West Street (Gravesend)	Avenue T	Shore Parkway North	1.08 miles	1-2	Varies
West Street (Greenpoint)	Eagle Street	Quay Street	0.59 mile	1	Varies
Whipple Street
Willmohr Street
Willoughby Street
Wilson Street
Winthrop Street
Withers Street
Wolcott Street
Wyckoff Street
Wyona Street
York Street	Front Street	Navy Street and Hudson Avenue	0.6 mile	1	West