The parkway Olmsted and Vaux designed to run from Prospect Park to the Atlantic.
Ocean Parkway runs from Prospect Park to the Atlantic Ocean waterfront at Brighton Beach. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed it in the 1860s, together with Eastern Parkway, to connect Prospect Park with neighbourhoods further afield; it was built between 1874 and 1876. Despite the name, the Olmsted firm counted it as a boulevard, a ‘formal pleasure drive’, rather than a parkway.