Greenpoint and Roosevelt Avenues explained

Greenpoint Avenue Roosevelt Avenue
Image Alt:	Roosevelt Avenue terminal in Jackson Heights
Namesake:	Greenpoint Bluff Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Owner:	City of New York
Maint:	NYCDOT
Length Mi:	8.3
Length Notes:	2.4miles as Greenpoint Avenue 5.9miles as Roosevelt Avenue
Location:	Brooklyn, Queens
Postal Code:	11222, 11101, 11104, 11377, 11372, 11373, 11368, 11354
Direction A:	West
Terminus A:	West Street in Greenpoint
Direction B:	East
Terminus B:	in Murray Hill
Junction:	in Long Island City in Sunnyside in Willets Point

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.^[1] 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.

History

Roosevelt Avenue was nationally recognized for its cuisine when Good Magazine named it one of "America's Tastiest Streets".^[2] It’s also well known for its diversity of cultural representation, ranging from Indian to Latin American,^[3] while in the 2020s, Downtown Flushing is undergoing rapid gentrification by Chinese transnational entities.^[4] 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.^[5]

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 trains run on the elevated IRT Flushing Line tracks above the street with ten stations until it reaches Flushing – Main Street, its eastern terminus.^[6] The rail line opened in 1917, when Roosevelt Avenue was formed from the combination of other streets into one main avenue.^[7] ^[8]
The street, itself named after Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt,^[8] provides the name for the Roosevelt Avenue / 74th Street station (trains) in Jackson Heights.
The train stops at the Greenpoint Avenue station located at Greenpoint Avenue and Manhattan Avenue.

The following bus routes serve Roosevelt:

The runs between Queens Boulevard and either 81st Street (Jackson Heights), or 82nd Street (Midtown, Manhattan).
The runs between 108th and Main Streets. Flushing service heads west on Roosevelt non-stop from Union Street to Main Street before switching to LaGuardia Airport.
The runs between Broadway and 61st Street, where it terminates.
The runs between 69th Street and either 74th Street (LaGuardia Airport), or 75th Street (Glendale).
The runs between Broadway and either 82nd Street (Jackson Heights), or 83rd Street (East Elmhurst).
Most buses run from 83rd Street to 82nd Street, where it terminates.
The East Elmhurst-bound runs from Broadway to 74th Street.
The run between Bowne and Union Streets. In addition, Main Street is a drop-off stop for the Q26 to Flushing, and a pick-up stop for the Q15 to Beechhurst.
The Nassau-bound n20G runs from Bowne Street to Main Street.
The westbound and buses run from Prince Street to Main Street, where service originates.

The 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.

Notes and References

Web site: NYCDOT - Greenpoint Avenue Bridge over Newtown Creek . 2008-11-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100221073357/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bridges/green.shtml . 2010-02-21 . dead .
Web site: America's Tastiest Streets . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080804082415/http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Features/americas_tastiest_streets . 2008-08-04 . Matthews . Adam . February 28, 2008 . GOOD Magazine.
News: Queens for a Day . . December 28, 1999 . November 21, 2022.
News: 'Not what it used to be': in New York, Flushing's Asian residents brace against gentrification. Sarah. Ngu. The Guardian US. January 29, 2021. August 13, 2020. 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..
Web site: 2022-04-18 . More than 300 languages are spoken along this NYC street . https://web.archive.org/web/20220418171310/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/more-than-300-languages-are-spoken-along-this-nyc-street . dead . April 18, 2022 . 2023-03-05 . . en.
News: Fernandez. Manny. Track Work Disrupts Service on No. 7 Train in Queens. 2008-01-13. The New York Times. 2020-03-30. en-US. 0362-4331. https://web.archive.org/web/20200330022832/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/nyregion/13subway.html. 2020-03-30. live.
News: Kilgannon. Corey. Under the Elevated Track, a New Sensation: Silence. 2005-12-21. The New York Times. 2020-03-30. en-US. 0362-4331. https://web.archive.org/web/20200330022832/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/21/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/under-the-elevated-track-a-new-sensation-silence.html. 2020-03-30. live.
News: Mbugua . Martin . Make Tracks to Big Avenue . . August 3, 1999 . September 13, 2008.