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| Owner | City of New York |
|---|---|
| Maintained by | NYCDOT |
| Length | 7.9 mi (12.7 km)[1] |
| Location | Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, New York, United States |
| Nearest metro station | Fulton Street Line   |
| West end | Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville |
| Major junctions |  I-678 in Jamaica |
| East end | Farmers Boulevard in St. Albans |
Liberty Avenue is an 8-mile (13 km) long west-east avenue in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City. It is bidirectional for most of its length, running between Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brooklyn in the west and Farmers Boulevard in Queens in the east.
A portion of Liberty Avenue in South Richmond Hill is known as "Little Guyana" because it runs through an Indo-Caribbean American neighborhood with mostly Indo-Guyanese and Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian cultures and people there. Indian clothing stores, puja stores, roti shops, Caribbean bakeries, Hindu temples, mosques, and other Indo-Caribbean American businesses are on this portion of Liberty Avenue. Parallel to Liberty Avenue is 101st Avenue which was renamed Little Punjab, due its similar presence of Punjabi and other South Asian cultures.[2][3]
Liberty Avenue was co-named "Little Guyana Avenue" on May 29, 2021.[4]
- ^ "Liberty Avenue" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- ^ Cavanaugh, Ray (October 9, 2014). "Little Guyana, an Indo-Guyanese enclave in Queens". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ O'Reilly, Anthony (March 2, 2017). "Fearing the ICEman in Little Guyana". Queens Chronicle. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ "Little Guyana Avenue Unveiled In Richmond Hill, Queens". WLNY CBS News New York. May 29, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2021.