Flushing Avenue
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#Streets_in_Brooklyn
#Streets_in_Queens,_New_York
#Williamsburg,_Brooklyn
#Bushwick,_Brooklyn
#Maspeth,_Queens
#Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn
#Clinton_Hill,_Brooklyn
Western Flushing Avenue All Saints Catholic Church at Flushing and Throop Avenues Flushing Avenue is a street running through northern Brooklyn and western Queens, beginning at Nassau Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and ending at Grand Avenue in Maspeth.
It divides the neighborhood of Williamsburg from Clinton Hill and East Williamsburg from Bushwick.
After crossing the Queens border, the avenue serves as the dividing line between Ridgewood, Queens and West Maspeth.
Flushing Avenue then terminates in Maspeth.
Despite its name, however, the avenue does not extend to Flushing.
Flushing Avenue has seen considerable decline since its heyday in the early and mid-20th century.
Some sections began to gentrify, to varying degrees, at the turn of the 21st century.
In 2004, the city began a project to upgrade the water and sewer infrastructure on the western part of the road, and to repave it; the project was completed in 2008.
The avenue is primarily an industrial thoroughfare.
On its extreme western end, it serves the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a former naval shipyard turned industrial park.
Part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway bike path runs alongside Flushing Avenue in this area.
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.
This section of Flushing Avenue, between the expressway and Broadway, has seen considerable redevelopment over recent years by Williamsburg's Hasidic population, as young urban professionals have moved into the northern end of Williamsburg.
The north side of Flushing Avenue in this section is a primarily resid...
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