In addition, work would begin next year on 60,000 square feet of commercial retail space along Flushing Avenue, which would be used for neighborhood-oriented stores.

How did the area around Flushing Avenue become tortilla central for New York City?

The Brooklyn jail, at 136 Flushing Avenue, has 1,300 beds.

For recreation, they went to the Laundromat on Flushing Avenue.

After the Sands Street Gate the wall turns again onto Flushing Avenue.

This area is bounded roughly by Flushing Avenue to the north, and Evergreen Cemetery to the south.

As late as 1883, Bushwick maintained open farming land east of Flushing Avenue.

Both industries supported blacksmiths, wheelwrights, and feed stores along Flushing Avenue.

Flushing Avenue has seen considerable decline since its heyday in the early and mid-20th century.

Pfizer, which had moved its headquarters from Flushing Avenue to Manhattan in 1961, tried to attract other industrial tenants to the area but could not.