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Rev. Floyd H. Flake Way

Unknown photographer, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Rev. Floyd H. Flake (b. 1945) is a former congressman and the longtime pastor of the Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1997; served as president of Wilberforce University from 2002 to 2008; and is the senior pastor of the Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica. Rev. Flake is also the author of the books "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.

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Gil Tauber, "NYC Honorary Street Names," accessed June 15, 2022, http://www.nycstreets.info/

Michael Gannon, "Merrick Boulevard renamed for Floyd Flake,” Queens Chronicle, October 5, 2020, https://www.qchron.com/editions/central/merrick-boulevard-renamed-for-floyd-flake/article_024a294c-0740-11eb-b17b-374421822103.html

Todd Maisel, "Hundreds jam Queens street for roadway renaming honoring longtime leader Floyd Flake,” amny, October 5, 2020, https://www.amny.com/news/hundreds-jam-queens-street-for-roadway-renaming-honoring-longtime-leader-floyd-flake/

Wikidata contributors, "Q3510629”, Wikidata, accessed December 7, 2023, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3510629

“15420867,” OpenStreetMap, accessed December 7, 2023, https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/15420867

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