Greenpoint and Roosevelt Avenues

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Greenpoint Avenue
Roosevelt Avenue
Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue Terminal.JPG
Roosevelt Avenue Bus Terminal in Jackson Heights
Namesake Greenpoint Bluff
Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Owner City of New York
Maintained by NYCDOT
Length8.3 mi (13.4 km) [1]
2.4 mi (3.86 km) as Greenpoint Avenue
5.9 mi (9.50 km) as Roosevelt Avenue
Location Brooklyn, Queens
Postal code11222, 11101, 11104, 11377, 11372, 11373, 11368, 11354
Nearest metro station Greenpoint Avenue NYCS-bull-trans-G-Std.svg
Flushing Line NYCS-bull-trans-7-Std.svg NYCS-bull-trans-7d-Std.svg
Roosevelt/74th NYCS-bull-trans-7-Std.svg NYCS-bull-trans-E-Std.svg NYCS-bull-trans-F-Std.svg NYCS-bull-trans-Fd-Std.svg NYCS-bull-trans-M-Std.svg NYCS-bull-trans-R-Std.svg
West endWest Street in Greenpoint
Major
junctions
I-495.svg I-495 in Long Island City
NY-25.svg NY 25 (Queens Boulevard) in Sunnyside
Grand Central Pkwy Shield free.svg Grand Central Parkway in Willets Point
East endNY-25A.svg NY 25A (Northern Boulevard) / 156th Street in Murray Hill

Roosevelt Avenue and Greenpoint Avenue are main thoroughfares in the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. Roosevelt Avenue begins at 48th Street and Queens Boulevard in the neighborhood of Sunnyside. West of Queens Boulevard, the road is named Greenpoint Avenue and continues through Sunnyside and Long Island City across the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge into the borough of Brooklyn, terminating at WNYC Transmitter Park on the East River in the neighborhood of Greenpoint. [2] Roosevelt Avenue goes through Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (adjacent to Citi Field) and Flushing. In Flushing, Roosevelt Avenue ends at 156th Street and Northern Boulevard. [1]

Contents

History

Roosevelt Avenue was nationally recognized for its cuisine when Good Magazine named it one of "America's Tastiest Streets". [3] It’s also well known for its diversity of cultural representation, ranging from Indian to Latin American, [4] while in the 2020s, Downtown Flushing is undergoing rapid gentrification by Chinese transnational entities. [5] More than three hundred languages are spoken along the street, and the neighborhoods it passes through are described as the most ethnically diverse in the world. [6]

Landmarks

Structures along the avenues include Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory on the western end of Greenpoint Avenue and the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant just west of the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge. The eastern end of Roosevelt Avenue contains the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing.

Transportation

The corridor is served by the following subway lines:

The following bus routes serve Roosevelt:

The B24 is the only bus route to serve Greenpoint Avenue, from 47th Street to West Street (Greenpoint), and from Manhattan Avenue to 48th Street (Williamsburg). Greenpoint service runs east on the avenue non-stop from Franklin Street to Manhattan Avenue before switching to Williamsburg.

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