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Ocean Parkway (Brooklyn)

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Ocean Parkway

• ... that horse and sleigh racing once took place on Ocean Parkway? Source: "Ocean Parkway Malls Highlights : NYC Parks". New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
  • ALT1: ... that though 10,000 cyclists attended the opening of a bike path on Ocean Parkway in 1895, few people even knew about the path a century later? Source: Cooper, Michael (June 18, 1995). "Neighborhood Report: Central Brooklyn; Bike Path, Once Grand, Is Now Ignored". The New York Times
  • ALT2: ... that in the 21st century, houses on streets parallel to New York City's Ocean Parkway were much cheaper than houses on the parkway itself? Source: Selin-Davis, Lisa (December 29, 2017). "Mansion – the Market: Where Teardowns Sell for Millions – for Some Brooklyn Buyers, Ocean Parkway is the Only Option". The Wall Street Journal. p. M.3.
  • ALT3: ... that New York City's Ocean Parkway was once called "the finest drive in the world"? Source: "The Ocean Drive and Its Future". Times Union. November 20, 1876. p. 2.
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  • Comment: I am not finished with my expansion, but I'm nominating it before the 7-day deadline for a fivefold expansion.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 663 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 20:58, 13 July 2024 (UTC).

• I like the ALT0. Source checks out and is cited in-article. Article is eligible via 5x and in good shape. Great work here! It'll be nice to see road GAs that aren't highways and freeways, lol. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 05:07, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
  • Thanks Generalissima, I'm glad you liked it. By the way, I forgot to do a QPQ before; I've now done a QPQ. Epicgenius (talk) 18:19, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • we're good to go here! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 17:47, 15 July 2024 (UTC)