Roosevelt Avenue begins at 48th Street and Queens Boulevard in the neighborhood of Sunnyside.

[1] Roosevelt Avenue was nationally recognized for its cuisine when Good Magazine named it one of "America's Tastiest Streets".

[3] It’s also well known for its diversity of cultural representation, ranging from Indian to Latin American,[4] while in the 2020s, Downtown Flushing is undergoing rapid gentrification by Chinese transnational entities.

[5] More than three hundred languages are spoken along the street, and the neighborhoods it passes through are described as the most ethnically diverse in the world.

The eastern end of Roosevelt Avenue contains the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing.