Fountain Avenue
Fountain Avenue is a north-south running street in Brooklyn, New York. Traffic on the avenue is bidirectional for most of its length.
Its north end is at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Conduit Avenue. The south end is Exit 15 off the Belt Parkway. The area is mostly composed of landfill and has areas of swampland-like forest growth where improvements are contemplated.
At its north end, Fountain Avenue is just a side street, carrying one lane of southbound traffic only. Between Sutter Avenue and Linden Boulevard, Fountain Avenue is a six-lane, undivided roadway. South of Linden Boulevard, the avenue gains a median. South of Flatlands Avenue, Fountain Avenue continues through past Seaview Avenue, where it curves under the Belt Parkway. The publicly accessible portion of Fountain Avenue ends just south of the Belt Parkway, at the site of the former Fountain Avenue Landfill. The Fountain Avenue Landfill is currently being developed for public use as part of Spring Creek Park.
Various tests of the Fountain Avenue area and landfills were conducted in 1985 and 1986.
A December 4, 1998 press announcement by Congressman Vito Fossella stated that Fossella "laid out a compelling argument for deauthorizing the property as part of Gateway National Recreation Area and restoring it as a temporary waste disposal site only for trash generated in Brooklyn".
Bill Farrell, writing for the New York Daily News, summarized the condition of the area during a 2003 article: "The malodorous, toxic and visual nightmare reviled by drivers along the Belt Parkway will soon be transformed into 400 acres (1.6 km2) of parkland along Jamaica Bay."
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