Cropsey Avenue is a major street in Brooklyn, New York. It generally runs northwest-southeast, from Bath Beach

Bath Beach, Brooklyn

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 to Coney Island

Coney Island

Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York, United States. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by landfill....

. It forms the northeastern boundary of Dreier Offerman Park.

Cropsey Avenue intersects the Belt Parkway

Belt Parkway

The Belt System is a series of connected limited-access highways that form a belt-like circle around the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The system comprises four officially separate parkways; however, three of the four are signed as the Belt Parkway...

 at exits 6-N and 6-S. South of its bridge crossing Coney Island Creek

Coney Island Creek

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, Cropsey Avenue continues as West 17th Street at Neptune Avenue. For about half of its length, Cropsey Avenue has a central median

Central reservation

On divided roads, such as divided highways or freeways/motorways, the central reservation , median, parkway , median strip or central nature strip is the area which separates opposing lanes of traffic...

, making it a divided highway

Dual carriageway

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The street is named for the Cropsey family, one of the first to settle in New Utrecht

New Utrecht, Brooklyn

New Utrecht was the last of six towns to be founded in what is today the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It was named after the city of Utrecht, Netherlands. In 1652 Cornelius van Werckhoven, a surveyor born in Utrecht and a principal investor in the Dutch West India Company, began purchasing...

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