On its extreme western end, it serves the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a former naval shipyard turned industrial park.

[2] Part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway bike path runs alongside Flushing Avenue in this area.

[3] In this district, the south side of Flushing Avenue contains many abandoned business that were supported by sailors and ship workers before the government closed the yard.

At Morgan and at Wyckoff Avenue, a community of artists and young professionals have moved into the low-rise lofts that were once abandoned.

An effect of this gentrification was the opening of two bar-restaurants, Life Cafe and the Wreck Room, on an adjacent section of Flushing Avenue.