Jamaica Avenue (Queens)

New York State Route 25
Jamaica Avenue
Route information
Maintained by NYCDOT
Length:	10.9 mi (17.5 km)
Major junctions
West end:	Fulton Street / East New York Avenue in East New York
	Jackie Robinson Parkway in Cypress Hills I-678 in Jamaica Cross Island Parkway / NY 25 in Queens Village
East end:	NY 25 (Jericho Turnpike) in Floral Park
Highway system
New York Highways Interstate U.S. State Reference Parkways

Route map: Google

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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