Fountain Avenue

The south end, previously a swampland-like landfill near the Erskine Street exit off the Belt Parkway,[1] has been developed as part of the neighborhood of Spring Creek and Shirley Chisholm State Park, built on the former Fountain Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue landfills.

At its north end, Fountain Avenue is just a side street, carrying one lane of southbound traffic only.

[3] 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".

[4] 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.

"[5] On February 12, 2004, New York City Sanitation filed a request to operate a yard waste composting facility.