Liberty Avenue is an 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.
Liberty Avenue was co-named "Little Guyana Avenue" on May 29, 2021.
Transportation
Liberty Avenue is served by the following:
- The IND Fulton Street Line () runs above the avenue between 80th Street and Lefferts Boulevard. A station named Liberty Avenue () is located at Pennsylvania Avenue.
- The Q112 bus serves the avenue between Waltham Street and either Rockaway Boulevard (East New York) or Cross Bay Boulevard (Jamaica).
- East from 165th Street, the goes to 177th Street, and buses continue to the avenueâÂÂs eastern end.
- The runs on two portions. One is from 101st Avenue (west end) to Grant Avenue (Gateway Mall) or from Forbell Street to 76th Street in Queens (Jamaica Bus Terminal). The other portion is used only by Jamaica-bound buses from Waltham Street to Sutphin Boulevard.
- The runs from 153rd Street to Sutphin Boulevard (Jamaica) and from 101st Avenue to the Van Wyck Expressway (South Ozone Park). This portion is also run by the from Van Wyck Expressway in both directions, which continues until the avenueâÂÂs eastern end.
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