Nostrand Avenue

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Nostrand Avenue (/ˈnoʊstrənd/) is a major street in Brooklyn, New York, that runs for 8 miles (13 km) north from Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay to Flushing Avenue in Williamsburg, where it continues as Lee Avenue. It occupies the position of East 30th Street in the Brooklyn street grid. It is named after Gerret Noorstrandt whose family was one of the first families that settled in New Utrecht, Brooklyn, when New York was still a Dutch colony. Between 1790 and 1820, the Nostrand family owned approximately 43 enslaved people.^[1]