This neighborhood and Avenue are named after the first European settler on Long Island (a founder of New Netherland, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Albany) Wolferts Gerritse Van Kouwenhoven. Many famous Americans including Humphrey Bogart, Michael Douglas, The Wright Brothers, Caitlyn Jenner, Andy Roddick, and both President Theodore Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (but oddly enough, not President Franklin Douglas Roosevelt) are direct descendants of Wolferts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfert_Gerritse_van_Couwenhoven