Fountain Avenue
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Fountain Avenue is a north–south running street in Brooklyn, New York. Traffic on the avenue is bidirectional for most of its length.
Public housing along Fountain Avenue
Memorial at Fountain Avenue near Belt Parkway
Shirley Chisholm State Park
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Shirley Chisholm State Park is a 407-acre state park in southeastern Brooklyn, New York City. It is bound by Belt Parkway and Spring Creek Park to the north and Jamaica Bay to the south, situated atop
Fountain Avenue
…previously a swampland-like landfill near the Erskine Street exit off the Belt Parkway, has been developed as part of the neighborhood of Spring Creek and Shirley Chisholm State Park, built on the former Fountain Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue landfills. For many years, this segment of Fountain Avenue, between Flatlands Avenue and…
The Pennsylvania Avenue section of the park in 2019; the Fountain Avenue portion is in the background.
Penn Pier, part of the first phase of the park, in July 2019
The Pennsylvania Avenue Landfill in 2017, prior to the park's establishment
The Fountain Avenue Landfill (pictured in 2019) was developed into the second portion of the park opened in 2021.