Prospect Avenue (Brooklyn)

Prospect Avenue is a major street in Brooklyn, New York. It generally runs northwest-southeast, from Hamilton and Third Avenues in Gowanus and Park Slope; southeast of Eleventh Avenue it turns nearly due south and runs through Windsor Terrace, terminating at Ocean Parkway.

Prospect Avenue intersects every numbered avenue from Third to Eleventh. Due to steep slopes, Seely Street crosses Prospect Avenue on a masonry bridge. Originally two-way throughout its length, Prospect Avenue is now one-way northbound in two sections as a result of the construction of the Prospect Expressway through the area. It runs one way for one block between Ocean Parkway and Greenwood Avenue, with an on ramp leading to the Prospect Expressway westbound. Between Sixth and Third Avenues, it is one-way for the remainder of its length. Exit 2 from the westbound Prospect Expressway merges into Prospect Avenue between Fifth and Fourth Avenues.

Public transportation

Prospect Avenue is served by the New York City Subway's BMT Fourth Avenue Line station at Prospect Avenue and the IND Culver Line Fort Hamilton Parkway station.