 Roosevelt Avenue Bus Terminal inJackson Heights | |
 Interactive map of Greenpoint Avenue Roosevelt Avenue | |
| Namesake | Greenpoint Bluff Theodore andFranklin D. Roosevelt |
|---|---|
| Owner | City of New York |
| Maintained by | NYCDOT |
| Length | 8.3 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 code | 11222, 11101, 11104, 11377, 11372, 11373, 11368, 11354 |
| Nearest metro station | Greenpoint Avenue Flushing Line   Roosevelt/74th      |
| West end | West Street inGreenpoint |
| Major junctions |  I-495 inLong Island City NY 25 (Queens Boulevard) inSunnyside Grand Central Parkway inWillets Point |
| East end |  NY 25A (Northern Boulevard) / 156th Street inMurray Hill |
Roosevelt Avenue andGreenpoint Avenue are main thoroughfares in theNew York Cityboroughs ofQueens andBrooklyn.Roosevelt Avenue begins at 48th Street andQueens Boulevard in the neighborhood ofSunnyside. West of Queens Boulevard, the road is namedGreenpoint Avenue and continues through Sunnyside andLong Island City across theGreenpoint Avenue Bridge into the borough of Brooklyn, terminating atWNYC Transmitter Park on theEast River in the neighborhood ofGreenpoint.[2] Roosevelt Avenue goes throughWoodside,Jackson Heights,Elmhurst,Corona,Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (adjacent toCiti Field) andFlushing. In Flushing, Roosevelt Avenue ends at 156th Street andNorthern Boulevard.[1]
Roosevelt Avenue was nationally recognized for its cuisine whenGood 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 rapidgentrification 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] Roosevelt Avenue is a known area forstreet prostitution.[7]
Structures along the avenues includeEberhard Faber Pencil Factory on the western end of Greenpoint Avenue and theNewtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant just west of the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge. The eastern end of Roosevelt Avenue contains theProtestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing.
The corridor is served by the following subway lines:
The following bus routes serve Roosevelt:
TheB24 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.
The three developers have stressed in public hearings that they are not outsiders to Flushing, which is 69% Asian. 'They've been here, they live here, they work here, they've invested here,' said Ross Moskowitz, an attorney for the developers at a different public hearing in February...Tangram Tower, a luxury mixed-use development built by F&T. Last year, prices for two-bedroom apartments started at $1.15m...The influx of transnational capital and rise of luxury developments in Flushing has displaced longtime immigrant residents and small business owners, as well as disrupted its cultural and culinary landscape. These changes follow the familiar script of gentrification, but with a change of actors: it is Chinese American developers and wealthy Chinese immigrants who are gentrifying this working-class neighborhood, which is majority Chinese.
