page_title: Coney Island Creek
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Coney Island Creek / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking west along en:Coney Island Creek from Macdonald Avenue (Shell Road) bridge on a sunny midday. See also File:Shore Pkwy CI Creek jeh.jpg.
context_page_description: Coney Island Creek is a 1.8-mile-long tidal inlet in Brooklyn, New York City. It used to be a 3-mile-long continual strait and a partial mudflat connecting Gravesend Bay and Sheepshead Bay, making Coney Island an actual island, but the eastern half of the creek was filled in by land owners and city construction projects during a period spanning the early to mid 20th century.
context_section_description: Coney Island Creek extends eastward 1.8 miles (2.9 km) from Gravesend Bay to Shell Road and separates the west end of Coney Island from the neighborhoods of Gravesend and Bath Beach. The west end of the creek is bordered by Coney Island Creek Park and Kaiser Park on the south side, and Calvert Vaux Park on the north side. The creek is crossed by the Cropsey Avenue and Stillwell Avenue bridges as well as two parallel rail trestles carrying the West End and Sea Beach subway lines (respectively served by the D train and N train). The eastern end is bordered by the Shore Parkway on the north side and Neptune Avenue on the south side. Marine traffic is restricted by a cable net between Cropsey and Stillwell Avenues. The eastern portion of Coney Island Creek runs along private industrial property and several acres owned by Keyspan, the local electricity provider. The creek terminates at Shell Road where a storm sewer emerges from under the road (designated stormwater outfall CI-641 in city plans).
caption: Shell Road terminus of Coney Island Creek
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