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Northeast end of Flushing Avenue
Northeast end of Flushing Avenue

Flushing Avenue is an approximately five mile thoroughfare running through northern Brooklyn and western Queens beginning at the termination of Nassau Street, on the northern fringe of Fort Greene, and ending where it merges with Grand Avenue, in Maspeth. A street is a Public thoroughfare in the built environment It is a Public parcel of land adjoining Buildings in an urban context Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Maspeth is a small community in the borough of Queens in New York City. It serves as the dividing line for the neighborhoods of Southside Williamsburg and Clinton Hill and the neighborhoods of East Williamsburg and Bushwick. Clinton Hill is a neighborhood in north-central portion of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. East Williamsburg is a name for the area in the northwestern portion of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, United States, which lies between Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. After crossing the Queens border, the avenue divides Ridgewood from West Maspeth. It finally terminates in Maspeth.

Overview

The B57 bus runs the entire length of the Avenue. The G line has a Flushing Avenue station, as has the J/Z lines, and the L line stops nearby Jefferson Street. Flushing Avenue is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway, Brooklyn, United States. Flushing Avenue is a station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Jefferson Street is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway.

The avenue is primarily an industrial thoroughfare, especially on its extreme western end, where, on its northside, it serves the Brooklyn Navy Yard Industrial Park. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" The United States Navy Yard New York - better known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard or the New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY - is an American shipyard located The industrial park rents to over 200 tenants, primarily distributorships and light manufacturing concerns, though they also rent to a few artists. Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a redevelopment of the yard that would put retail space in the yard's west side and television and film studios the yard's east side. Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and the Mayor of New York City. In this district, the south side of Flushing Avenue contains many abandoned business that were supported by sailors and ship workers before the government closed the yard.

Continuing eastward, Flushing Avenue crosses the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE). The Brooklyn Queens Expressway ( BQE) is an Expressway which runs from southern Brooklyn, New York to the Grand Central Parkway Here, many motorists hoping to avoid congestion exit the BQE and continue westward to the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. This section of Flushing Avenue, between the BQE and Brooklyn's Broadway, has seen considerable redevelopment over recent years by Williamsburg's Hasidic population, as young urban professionals displace them in the northern end of Williamsburg. Hasidic Judaism (also Chasidic, etc from the Hebrew: he '''''חסידות''''', Chassidus, meaning "piety" from the Hebrew The north side of Flushing Avenue in this section is primarily newly constructed residential, whereas the south side is primarily industrial, the most notable exception being the Marcy Houses project. Within a urban area there is a tendency for land uses to Aggregate. The Marcy Houses is a low income public housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in New York City. Here, at Marcy Avenue and Flushing Avenue the G line stops.

The commercial heart of Flushing Avenue is the intersection with Broadway and Graham Avenue, in the extreme southern end of East Williamsburg. This business improvement district is serviced by the JMZ line. A business improvement district ( BID) is a Public-private partnership in which businesses in a defined area elect to pay an additional tax in order to fund improvements Here, one can find cheap retail shopping and excellent authentic Boricua food. This primarily Puerto Rican and Hasidic area is becoming increasingly populated with students and young professionals looking for cheap rent, cheap shopping, and proximity to lower Manhattan and Northside Williamsburg's nightlife. Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}}

After crossing Bushwick Avenue, Flushing avenue becomes gritty again. To the south is residential Bushwick, and on the north are the massive Bushwick Houses. Where the L Train approaches Flushing Avenue, at Morgan and at Wyckoff Streets, a blossoming artist community has moved into the low rise lofts that were once abandoned. The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating In fact, this artist community is growing so large, that it is able to support the two new bars that have sprung up on this section of Flushing Avenue.

Continuing past Wyckoff Street, the avenue turns active industrial on both sides again as it crosses into Queens. Upon entering Maspeth, it is a residential street.

Flushing Avenue has seen considerable decline since its heyday. But it seems as if the Brooklyn renaissance may finally reach this decrepit turnpike. A toll road, (also known as a tollway, turnpike, pike, or toll highway, especially if it is constructed to Freeway standards In 2004, the city began a project to upgrade the water and sewer infrastructure on the road, and to repave it. The project is estimated to be complete in 2007. Until then Flushing Avenue will be mostly a trench, but perhaps this rebuilding will be the catalyst for industries, artists, and residents to return to these abandoned buildings.

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