It runs for 4.1 miles from the neighborhood of Windsor Terrace to Bay Ridge, its southern end at the entrance to its namesake military base at Fort Hamilton.

[2] The renaming was intended to boost the desirability of real estate along its route.

In 1915, responsibility for this road was transferred from Parks to the Brooklyn Borough President.

[6] As Fort Hamilton Parkway cuts diagonally through the local street grid, triangular intersections that are too small to be developed were designated as parks, including Bocchino-Dente Memorial Plaza and Lt. William E. Coffey Square.

[13] Along its route, it shares its name with three stations of the New York City Subway: Until 1975, there was another station also called Fort Hamilton Parkway on the now-demolished section of the BMT Culver Line.