Sorry, my bad. The street that I am talking about which is some times referred to as South Avenue is actually Gulf Avenue. It runs along as a service road to the south bound(Outer-bridge direction)West shore expressway.
During the Summer racing season, it would be covered by tall elephant type grass weed and infested with mosquito's. At the very end was a stable of horse carriage houses or a farm of some type.
The tarmac was like concrete, it gripped pretty good with some (High tech DOT sticky)crappy tires of the day.
South Avenue which was on the other side Northbound was also long and smooth, but eerily deserted. Maybe remnants of that horrible night.