Liberty Avenue (New York City)
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Liberty Avenue is an long west-east avenue in
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. 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. Liberty Avenue is known as "Little
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cultures and people there. Liberty Avenue was co-named "Little Guyana Avenue" on May 29, 2021.


Transportation

The
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() runs above the avenue between 80th Street and
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. Also, there is a station on the
IND Fulton Street Line The IND Fulton Street Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, running from the Cranberry Street Tunnel under the East River through all of central Brooklyn to a terminus in Ozone Park, Queens. The IND Ro ...
named Liberty Avenue (). The Q83 and Q112 buses serve the street in Queens; no buses run along it in Brooklyn.Q112 bus map
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