Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Flatbush Avenue is one of the major avenues in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Flatbush Avenue runs from the Manhattan Bridge southeastward to Jamaica Bay, where it becomes Marine Parkway and the Marine Parkway Bridge which connects Brooklyn to the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. The north end was extended to serve the Manhattan Bridge, the new roadway being named "Flatbush Avenue Extension". The diagonal path of Flatbush Avenue creates a unique street pattern in every neighborhood it touches. It is the central artery of the borough, carrying traffic to and from Manhattan past landmarks such as Junior''s, Long Island University, the Fulton Mall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Long Island Rail Road''s Atlantic Terminal at Times Plaza, Grand Army Plaza, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Prospect Park, Erasmus Hall High School and Floyd Bennett Field.