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

Numbered Avenues

Apart from the portion of 3rd through 7th Avenues beyond 86th Street, the numbered avenues run approximately 40 degrees west of south, but by local custom are called North–south.

Boulevards

Courts

Lanes

Loops

Parkways

Places

Roads

Streets

Named streets

Named streets in Greenpoint

The east–west streets in Greenpoint are in mostly alphabetical order from north to south. Originally, these streets were simply given lettered names such as "A Street" and "B Street", but in the mid-19th century, the streets were given longer names. This system persists today with a few exceptions: Ash, Box, Clay, Dupont, Eagle, Freeman, Greene, Huron, India, Java, Kent, Greenpoint Avenue (formerly Lincoln Street), Milton, Noble, Oak, and Quay streets. Greenpoint Avenue was formerly named Lincoln Street. There would have been a street starting with the letter "P" between Oak and Quay Streets, but it was named Calyer Street early in Greenpoint's history, after the patriarch of a nearby family.

Directionally numbered streets

North Streets

The following chart lists and describes the numbered streets directionally labeled 'North', delineated by Grand Street in Williamsburg.

South Streets

The following chart lists and describes the numbered streets directionally labeled "South", delineated by Grand Street in Williamsburg.

West Streets

There are streets which are designated as "West #" Street.