Floyd H. Flake Boulevard  (Queens)
Present name:Merrick Boulevard
Location:Between Jamaica Avenue and the Cross Island Parkway
Honoree: Rev. Floyd H. Flake (b. 1945) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives serving from 1987 to 1997; a former president of Wilberforce University; and senior pastor of the Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral. Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral has become one of the nation’s foremost Christian churches and is listed among the top twenty churches in America in Outreach Magazine’s Annual Survey. Rev. Flake is also the author the best-selling book The Way of the Bootstrapper: Nine Action Steps for Achieving Your Dreams, and The African American Church Management Handbook. In Congress, he funded the Nation’s first One Stop Small Business Capital Center. It has been the model for additional centers that are now operating in the Federal Empowerment Zones and provides technical assistance and loans to small businesses. (Miller)
LL:2021/14