Utica Avenue is a major avenue in
Brooklyn,
New York, one of several named for
a city in
Upstate New York. It runs north–south and occupies the position of East 50th Street in the Brooklyn street grid, with East 49th Street to its west and East 51st Street to its east for most of its path. Its south end at
Flatbush Avenue, and is continued by Malcolm X Boulevard (formerly Reid Avenue) in
Bedford-Stuyvesant north of
Fulton Street. Malcolm X Boulevard continues to
Broadway, where it terminates.