Metropolitan Avenue
Metropolitan Avenue is a major east-west street in Queens and northern Brooklyn, New York City. Its western end is at the East River in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the eastern end at Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens.- Type: Bridge
- Description: avenue in Brooklyn and Queens, New York
- Also known as: “Metropolitan Avenue Bascule Bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cooper Park and Grand Street station.
Cooper Park
Park
Cooper Park is an urban park in Brooklyn, New York City, between Maspeth Avenue, Sharon Street, Olive Street, and Morgan Avenue in East Williamsburg. It was established in 1895 and covers 6.40 acres.
Grand Street station
Metro station
The Grand Street station is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Grand Street and Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn, it is served by the L train at all times. Grand Street station is situated 2,700 feet west of Metropolitan Avenue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ridgewood and Williamsburg.
Ridgewood
Neighborhood
Williamsburg
Williamsburg is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, as little as one subway stop away from Manhattan, and is bordered to the north by Greenpoint, to the east by Bushwick and to the south by Bedford-Stuyvesant.Maspeth
Neighborhood
Maspeth is a residential and commercial community in the borough of Queens in New York City. It was founded in the early 17th century by Dutch and English settlers.
Metropolitan Avenue
- Categories: thoroughfare and transportation
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.71427° or 40° 42′ 51″ north
Longitude
-73.93153° or 73° 55′ 54″ west
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
Open location code
87G8P379+P9
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Metropolitan Avenue” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “大都会道”
- Chinese: “大都會大道”
- Chinese: “大都會道”
- Japanese: “メトロポリタン・アベニュー”
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