Liberty Avenue (New York City)

Liberty Avenue is an 8-mile (13 km) long west-east avenue in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City. It is bidirectional for most of its length, running between Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brooklyn in the west and Farmers Boulevard in Queens in the east.

Liberty Avenue
At Lefferts Boulevard
At Lefferts Boulevard
OwnerCity of New York
Maintained byNYCDOT
Length7.9 mi (12.7 km)[1]
LocationBrooklyn and Queens, New York City, New York, United States
Nearest metro stationFulton Street Line "A" train​"C" train
West endMother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville
Major
junctions		 I-678 in Jamaica
East endFarmers Boulevard in St. Albans

A portion of Liberty Avenue in South Richmond Hill is known as "Little Guyana-Trinidad" because it runs through an Indo-Caribbean American neighborhood with mostly Indo-Guyanese and Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian cultures and people there. Indian clothing stores, puja stores, roti shops, Caribbean bakeries, Hindu temples, mosques, and other Indo-Caribbean American businesses are on this portion of Liberty Avenue. Parallel to Liberty Avenue is 101st Avenue which was renamed Little Punjab, due its similar presence of Punjabi and other South Asian cultures.[2][3]

Liberty Avenue was co-named "Little Guyana Avenue" on May 29, 2021.[4]

Transportation

The IND Fulton Street Line (A train) runs above the avenue between 80th Street and Lefferts Boulevard. Also, there is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line named Liberty Avenue (A and ​C trains).

The Q83 and Q112 buses serve the street in Queens; no buses run along it in Brooklyn.[5][6]

References
  1. Google (January 14, 2017). "Liberty Avenue" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  2. Cavanaugh, Ray (2014-10-09). "Little Guyana, an Indo-Guyanese enclave in Queens". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  3. O'Reilly, Anthony (2017-03-02). "Fearing the ICEman in Little Guyana". Queens Chronicle. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  4. "Little Guyana Avenue Unveiled In Richmond Hill, Queens". WLNY CBS News New York. 29 May 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  5. Q83 bus map
  6. Q112 bus map
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