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Heading into the center of the borough now we come across a different feature. This one, a boulevard connecting the beaches to the centralized park of the borough. This is the Ocean Parkway and the neighborhood of Midwood as well as the area of Kensington and Parkville


Ocean Parkway is a Fredrick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux planned boulevard in the center of Brooklyn that runs from Prospect Park to Brighton Beach. It is a pretty wide boulevard serving as an expressway at its north to the park and it features grassy medians with playing tables and bike lanes. The bike path is heavily tree lined and on either side of the parkway between the residential neighborhoods, east-west, are linear parks. The Parkway crosses through quite a few neighborhoods but I’m only going to showcase a couple of them. The area of Midwood and the Kensington/Parkville area

Here is a sample of life on the parkway as well as off..













Off the Ocean Parkway in south central Brooklyn is a neighborhood with quiet middle class streets. The neighborhood of Midwood is a polyglot, a cornucopia of cultures growing in an area that has been predominantly Jewish. Now while its orthodox and Hasidic Jewish community still dominates this Ocean Parkway hood is a lesser known of New York’s most diverse. Its leafy tree lined residential blocks, set for the most part off the crowded commercial streets as well as quick access to Prospect Park, served by the B and Q lines has been attracting new immigration since the Koch administration. Among the residents of Midwood are the Polish, Guyanese, Turkish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Persian Gulf States, Korean, Jamaicans, Chinese, Mexican and Israeli.













Kensington & Parkville are a middle class residential area near Prospect Park and off the Ocean Parkway. The neighborhood is extremely diverse with large Jewish & Hasidim, Pakistani, Irish, Albanian, Russian, Bangladeshi, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Arabic and Caribbean communities.