Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica Avenue at Guy R. Brewer Boulevard
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| Former name(s) | Jamaica Pass Jamaica Plank Road |
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| Part of |
 NY 25
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| Namesake | Jamaica, Queens |
| Owner | City of New York |
| Maintained by | NYCDOT |
| Length | 10.9 mi (17.5 km) |
| Location | Brooklyn, Queens |
| Postal code | 11207, 11208, 11421, 11418, 11435, 11433, 11423, 11428, 11426 |
| Nearest metro station |
Jamaica Line   Archer Avenue Lines 
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| West end | Fulton Street / East New York Avenue in East New York |
| Major junctions |
 Jackie Robinson Parkway in Cypress Hills I-678 in Jamaica Cross Island Parkway / NY 25 in Queens Village
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| East end |
NY 25 (Jericho Turnpike) in Floral Park
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Jamaica Avenue is a major avenue in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, New York, in the United States. Jamaica Avenue's western end is at Broadway and Fulton Street, as a continuation of East New York Avenue, in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood. Physically, East New York Avenue connects westbound to New York Avenue, where East New York Avenue changes names another time to Lincoln Road; Lincoln Road continues to Ocean Avenue in the west, where it ends. Its eastern end is at the city line in Bellerose, Queens, where it becomes Jericho Turnpike to serve the rest of Long Island.
Jamaica Avenue was part of a pre-Columbian trail for tribes from as far away as the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, coming to trade skins and furs for wampum. It was in 1655 that the first settlers paid the Native Americans with two guns, a coat, and some powder and lead, for the land lying between the old trail and "Beaver Pond," later, Baisley Pond. Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant dubbed the area "Rustdorp" in granting the 1656 land patent. The English, who took control of the colony in 1664, renamed the little settlement "Jameco," for the Jameco (or Yamecah) Native Americans.
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