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Bookmark or Share- Eastern Parkway | HDCEastern Parkway, one of Brooklyn’s finest assets, established a new concept in urban thoroughfare. Begun in 1870 and completed in 1874, it was the first of Frederick Law Olmsted 1 S parkways to see completion.
- Eastern Parkway - TCLFEastern Parkway is now one of the busiest roads in the city. At its origin at the northern tip of Prospect Park, the Parkway consists of a broad six-lane roadway flanked by two tree-lined pedestrian malls that also serve as bike lanes, and two service roadways for slower local traffic.
- Eastern Parkway Highlights : NYC ParksEastern Parkway, the world's first parkway, was conceived by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1866. The term parkway was coined by these designers as a landscaped road built expressly for "pleasure-riding and driving" or scenic access to Prospect Park (also designed by Olmsted and Vaux).
- History of Streets: The Birth of Eastern Parkway and the Evolution of ...By 1866, Eastern Parkway was in the works as the world’s first parkway, meant to mirror the far-stretching, spacious boulevards of Western European cities by urban planners like Georges-Eugène...
- Eastern Parkway - WikipediaEastern Parkway is a major east–west boulevard in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it was built between 1870 and 1874 and has been credited as the world's first parkway. At the time of its construction, Eastern Parkway extended to the eastern edge of the then-independent city of Brooklyn.
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