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Liberty Av

East New York, Brooklyn

Said to recall ‘the liberty road’, free for farmers to travel.

An old Brooklyn street guide says the thoroughfare was known as 'the liberty road' because it was free to farmers travelling over it. Liberty Avenue runs about 8 miles through Brooklyn and Queens. On May 29, 2021, it was co-named 'Little Guyana Avenue', after the Indo-Caribbean neighbourhood along its stretch in South Richmond Hill, Queens.

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Sources

  1. Brooklyn street names (from 'Getting About Brooklyn') Brooklyn Genealogy Info
  2. Liberty Avenue (New York City) Wikipedia
  3. Liberty Avenue station Wikipedia

This text was written with the help of AI from the sources above and checked against them.