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This article covers the non-directionally labeled numbered east–west streets in the
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between and including 1st Street and 101st Street. Most are offset by about 40 degrees from true east–west, that is they run southeast–northwest, but by local convention they are called east–west. With avenues numbered from 1 to 28, they form a street grid. While similar to Manhattan's grid, this Brooklyn grid does not have strict rules of traffic direction based on whether a street number is odd or even. This grid starts with 1st Street in
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south of Garfield Place and ends with 101st Street just north of Shore Road and the Belt Parkway in
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. A separate grid of "West" and "East" streets (West 1st through West 37th Streets, and East 1st through East 108th Streets) lies on both sides of Dahill Road and run approximately north–south. A third grid on Bath Beach neighborhood specifies "Bay Streets" (facing
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), numbered from Bay 7th to Bay 50th Streets, with the first three streets having been taken over by Dyker Beach Park, and alternating with the numbered avenues from
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and
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Streets


Main grid (Carroll Gardens to Bay Ridge)


East/West Grid (Southern and Eastern Brooklyn)


Bay Streets (Bath Beach/Gravesend Bay)


See also

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List of Brooklyn thoroughfares This article provides a listing (with simple descriptions, where possible) of the streets in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, including Fort Hamilton, the last active-duty military post in New York City. State-named roadways Avenues N ...
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List of lettered Brooklyn avenues This article provides details of the lettered avenues in the flat south central portion of the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. Improved public transport brought urban sprawl to this area in the late 19th and early 20th ...
{{Streets of Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...