It runs from Sønder Boulevard in the east to the point where Pile Allé turns into Valby Langgade at the southeastern corner of the park Søndermarken in the west.

Carl Jacobsen responded by purchasing Gamle Bakkegård and constructing his own brewery on part of the land.

The Ny Carlsberg Brewery buildings were designed with the assistance of some of the leading architects of the time, including Vilhelm Dahlerup.

A housing development for workers at the brewery was also constructed along the no longer existing street Theofilus Hansens Gade.

[4][5] In 1887, Camilla Nielsen acquired a dilapidated property on Ny Carlsberg Vej which she adapted to house 75 small apartments for needy families with children.

The street section from Enghavevej to Vesterfælledvej was in the 1910s and 1920s redeveloped by the city, both with the creation of Enghave Park and a number of new housing estates.

The small round guardhouse at the corner with Valby Langgade, which guarded the entrance both to Jacobsen's villa and the brewery, is from 1905 and was also designed by Hack Kampmann.

The Grey House on the other side of the street is a former villa constructed by Laurits Albert Winstrup in 1875.

The Ny Carlsberg Complex was built in stages in the ornate Historicist style with the assistance of changing architects.

They commemorate Louis Pasteur (1884, Paul Dubois),[8] Gabriel Sedlmayr (1900, Alexis Møller)[9] and Emil Christian Hansen (Nicolai Outzen Schmidt).

[10] The corner tower of the building is topped by a copy of the Ancient Greek statue Praying Boy (original in Altes Museum).

One of the arches of the loggia above the elephant features a double bust of Ottilia and Carl Jacobsen by Ludvig Brandstrup.

The Enghave Plads City Circle Line metro station is located at the eastern end of the street.