METROPOLITAN AVENUE, Part 3

Forgotten New York -

PART 1 | PART 2 Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year, as a toll road and was known  along much of its length as the Williamsburg and Jamaica Turnpike until the mid-1800s, when it was bestowed its current name. [...]

Forgotten New York -