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| | Neighborhoods: Ocean Parkway -- Congressman Anthony D. Weiner, New York's 9th District |
 | | Ocean Parkway is a neighborhood in west central Brooklyn, lying along a thoroughfare of the same name running about six miles north to south from Prospect Park to the southeastern edge of Coney Island. |
 | | The parkway was suggested in the 1860s in reports to the park commissioners of Brooklyn by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who together drew up a plan influenced by boulevards in Paris and Berlin. |
 | | Begun in 1874 and completed by 1880, the parkway resembled Eastern Parkway; it had a width of 210 feet, a central roadway, two malls, two side roads, and two sidewalks, and was lined with trees, benches, playing tables, and a bicycle path. |
| www.house.gov /weiner/neighborhoods/hoods_oceanparkway.htm (255 words) |
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