Greenpoint and Roosevelt Avenues

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"Greenpoint Avenue" redirects here. For other uses, see Greenpoint Avenue (disambiguation).
"Roosevelt Avenue" redirects here. For the road in the Philippines formerly known as Roosevelt Avenue, see Fernando Poe Jr. Avenue.
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Roosevelt Avenue and Greenpoint Avenue are main thoroughfares in the

Northern Boulevard.[1]

The

Good Magazine named it one of "America's Tastiest Streets".[6]

Roosevelt Avenue is well known for its diversity of cultural representation, ranging from Indian to Latin American,

Downtown Flushing is undergoing rapid gentrification by Chinese transnational entities.[8] 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.[9]

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.

References

  1. ^ a b Google (January 9, 2017). "Greenpoint and Roosevelt Avenues" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  2. ^ "NYCDOT - Greenpoint Avenue Bridge over Newtown Creek". Archived from the original on 2010-02-21. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
  3. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
    from the original on 2020-03-30. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  4. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
    from the original on 2020-03-30. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  5. ^ a b Mbugua, Martin (August 3, 1999). "Make Tracks to Big Avenue". New York Daily News. Retrieved September 13, 2008.
  6. ^ Matthews, Adam (February 28, 2008). "America's Tastiest Streets". GOOD Magazine. Archived from the original on 2008-08-04.
  7. Village Voice
    . December 28, 1999. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  8. The Guardian US
    . Retrieved 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.
  9. ^ "More than 300 languages are spoken along this NYC street". National Geographic. 2022-04-18. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
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