What's the deal with Queens' street names?

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Ever wonder why there is a hyphen on an address in Queens, New York? What about why street numbers repeat themselves? Queens has Avenues, Roads, Drives, Courts, Streets, and Terraces. At first glance the street grid system of Queens seems confusing. But its city grid is not as complicated as it looks. In this video we are going to talk about how to navigate and understand the Queens street grid layout and how to interpret a Queens address. Queens is the largest borough in New York City in terms of land area so these tip can be useful (some day).
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VIDEO CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
02:19 Chapter 1 - Avenue, Road, Drive, Court, Street, Place, Lane, Terrace
04:36 Chapter 2 - How to read a Queens address? Why is there a hyphen in a Queens address?
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@dolemite401 2 года назад

I worked in Queens for 4 years and still couldn’t figure out the rd vs av thing. Kudos for you for understanding. It’s like learning a whole new language.

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

Thanks! When I first saw the street numbers I was so confused as well. I can't believe that's how they decided to name them.

@langstonreese7077 Год назад

@@UrbanCaffeine isn’t their also cress for avs

@samuelitooooo Год назад

As a lifelong resident of Queens, I'm familiar with this, but I didn't know there was a systematic intention for the alternative names. Fascinating to learn that they baked into the naming system which streets are newer than others.

@realityblooms Год назад

I lived in queens almost my whole 30 YO life. I had no clue about any of this. Thank you

@seelap958 2 года назад

i like the way thea saying "EASY PEASY LEMON SQUEEZY !!!", so lets squeeze the queens borough in new york city hahahahaha :)

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

Easy peasy! Thanks!

@jackpine4347 Год назад

I have lived in Queens all told nearly 30 years and did not know why the streets were named as they are until I saw this. Thanks!

@starrwulfe Год назад

OMG, I’ve been wondering about the hyphenated addresses in Queens since I was a kid! The pattern is simple! BTW, numbered streets in Los Angeles also do the street > place > terrace thing too.

@UrbanCaffeine Год назад

Omg, that's too funny.

@certifiedpeedealer4933 2 года назад

I'm from across the pond and haven't been to nor plan to in the near future go to New York City but I can't stop watching this channel wth am I doing

@murdelabop 2 года назад

I understood the numbering system instantly, as it's not that different from where I'm from in St. Petersburg, FL. Ours doesn't have the hyphen, which can complicate things for people unfamiliar with our area.

@rackstraw 2 года назад

To muddy the waters some more, some historical Queens street names survive in the subway. Examples include 33rd St - Ralston, 40th St - Lowery, 46th St - Bliss (7); and 21st St - Van Alst (G).

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

I was wondering about some of those names. Thanks for sharing!

@blakemcnamara9105 Год назад

Don't forget the ones that they actually kept too like Skillman Avenue, Laurel Hill Blvd, etc.

@today273 2 года назад

I always thought that the Ave/Rd thing in Queens was mysterious, and the address prefix even more so. Thanks for the video!

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

You bet! Thanks for tuning in.

@anlasbry 2 года назад

I grew up in Queens and I had no idea. Thanks. And there’s also the town names from when Queens was a bunch of towns.

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

Thanks! I'm wondering if the streets that are names (and not numbers) are from the original town.

@anlasbry 2 года назад

@@UrbanCaffeine i think so. I grew up in Elmhurst, which used to be called Newtown by the Dutch, and some of the streets had names that sounded Dutch, like Van Horn.

@excalipoor Год назад

Growing up in queens, I’m so used to drives and lanes plus the hyphen street address. Didn’t realize our street addresses is weird even for other boroughs. No wonder my Brooklyn friends making fun of our street addresses. Just like this video. It is so easy to figure out where I live. Lol.

@jamiecinder9412 Год назад

I think Queens' addresses can most easily be explained as something of a prototype version of the address block numbering system that the US uses outside of the Northeast. Especially since the USPS no longer requires the hyphens in mail going to addresses in Queens.

@Aidan_Au 2 года назад

The street number in Queens is interesting. Thank you for making a video specially about it!

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

My pleasure! It is indeed "interesting"

@pat9532 2 года назад

Staying n queens n March 22 looking forward to it

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

Have fun!!

@eltronics 2 года назад

Another video well done. It is confusing, but you made it sound easy.

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

Thanks! 🍋

@juanenriquetoro5941 2 года назад

Great joy Thea! I don't think I'll ever understand, but you did a great job of presenting it. Thank you.

@richardritz8358 2 года назад

Thank you Thea, your videos are very entertaining and informative

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

Glad you think so! As always, thanks for watching.

@makarmusicrocks Месяц назад

You’re awesome, thanks for the simple coherent explanation.

@SasserReturns Год назад

great video! there was one minor part i thought you'd include though, how in queens a queens address wouldn't typically be "Queens, NY" but the neighborhood of queens it's in, like "Astoria, NY" or "Forest Hills, NY" because i also wanted to know why that is, and why some queens addresses DO just say "Queens, NY"

@trien30 День назад

People write Queens, NY when short on time but I've noticed people write Flushing, NY like it was in 1800s where you at one point only had Flushing, NY, Jamaica, NY, Hempstead, NY and Newtown, NY. Queens were settled by the Dutch where there was a lot of farmland and swamps and marshes. You read it right: Hempstead used to belong to Queens, not Long Island. Iirc. In other words, even when not considered as part of the neighborhood of Flushing, Queens, some people still do write it, because that was how it was like 200+ years ago, but then again some people write Flushing, NY for wherever they live because of laziness when they actually do not actually live in the neighborhood of Flushing but in Maspeth, NY for example. So, people can actually write Flushing, NY if they live between like 45th Avenue in Flushing, NY all the way to Union Turnpike, in the Fresh Meadows neighborhood of Queens. But from Union Turnpike all the way to 236th Avenue, in the neighborhood of Rosedale, people can write "Jamaica, NY" as a part of their addresses like 200+ years ago.

@tombsofak 2 года назад

Fascinating! Never got around to exploring Queens unfortunately so that's something I'm hoping to make right next time! Had no idea the layout was this complex but this was a great help! I'll be returning to this one for sure when the time for me to travel eventually returns! Thanks!

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

I hope you can visit Queens as well. Lots of diversity and good food!

@arklu8341 5 дней назад

They do that in Philly too - all the numbers past 1st St are 1xx then the number jumps to 2xx after crossing 2nd St

@jaede.9275 2 года назад

Thank youuuu I've been waiting for this

@beppo2814 Год назад

You're most recent (as I type this) video on Queens from July 15, 2023, brought me here. I'm much less confused about the hyphen in Queens street addresses, but I'm still confused.

@FelixBaez510 2 года назад

Very entertaining video, could you explain how the numbering of buildings works on say Metropolitan Avenue between Woodhaven Blvd and Union Turnpike or Forest Hills in general?

@meloliver6726 2 года назад

I once spent an hour going up and down a residential building in LIC looking for a friends apartment not realizing I should've gone to 47th street not 47th Drive (turns out all I had to do was go to the building across the street). And I'm actually moving to 52d Court in Maspeth (which you showed in the video)....I KNOW that's gonna cause problems when giving directions. Yah Queens has a quirky address system.

@worldsfunniestvideosandbes3684 Год назад

I live in Fresh Meadows, so I completely understand the confusing situation. 😅

@user-pf2xc9xc4u Год назад

The question I still have is why do most Queens mailing addresses include the neighborhood rather than the borough? Everything in Brooklyn is Brooklyn, NY, but when sending something to Queens it's usually Flushing, NY or Glendale, NY or Long Island City, NY. What's up with that?

@brianholmes1812 Год назад

Just earlier today I was looking at the apartment my parents lived in when I was born, and saw it was on 69th. then noticed that a block to the north was... also 69th. needless to say, I was a bit confused, but now it all make sense (ish!)

@gcvrsa Год назад

My family has lived in NYC for 100 years, most of that in College Point, and I so rarely see College Point in RU-vid videos, so it was nice to see my old neighborhood here.

@christianryan6980 2 года назад

Happy to say that when I went to NYC Friday to look at apartments in LIC, I conquered the subway on my first try no problem thanks to these videos. Thanks so much Thea 😁😁

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

Awesome! And Friday had good weather too.

@christianryan6980 2 года назад

@Urban Caffeine Yes it was great Friday. That was my first time ever being in NYC and unfortunately I was running around looking at Apts. But I look forward to getting to explore more soon. Especially the LIC area. Definitely going to check out that arepa place. Haha I love arepas

@yukuhana 2 года назад

Excellent vid. Thanks so much! I visit my MIL every month in LIC. This helps tremendously. Subbed :)

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

Thanks for the sub! Glad to help out. 😊

@andy5272 Год назад

2:50 Little bit confusing, the Av in Queens does not run from North to south, and in Manhattan there are not running from east to west. Better say we cross them from north to south, I did misunderstood it the first time in the video.

@alk61695 Год назад

I never knew the meaning behind drives, courts and I've lived in Queens for a while.

@paulkrikler 11 месяцев назад

Have you ever done a video on why bits of the Bronx are called “Sections” and Manhattan and Brooklyn are mostly Neighborhoods?

@HarryPotterEncyclopedia Год назад

Born and raised in Flushing and I would receive mail every other day that was meant for the house with the exact same address but on the # Rd version (I lived on # Ave) 😂😂

@UrbanCaffeine Год назад

That must be so frustrating! Especially if you were waiting for an important package.

@ahsans5350 Год назад

WOW mind blown

@hiremathdarshan Год назад

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy indeed 😂

@bonoki3870 11 месяцев назад

not all Starbuck locations will have bathrooms you can use. i work in Brooklyn & the 5 in Downtown Brooklyn do not have any public restc rooms you can use even if to make a purchase. iam glad you were able to put video to, with all you have to do for your trip because i needed to pose a question to you 2morow... starting Sunday, as you know, MTA is raising fare prices, do you know off hand if this affects OMNY cards? hava safe trip & thank you.

@matthewread79 2 года назад

I thought Avenues go north and south and streets west and east in Manhattan

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

They run lengthwise (north-south). But the avenue's number increases as you go from east to west.

@ethanbeharry9478 Год назад

2:49 are you sure you got that right? edit: nvm i forgot that you were talking about the numbering sorry

@supaspydamn 6 месяцев назад

I'm born and raised in Queens and still get lost in Astoria. The street and avenue numbers are too similar 😂

@JimAllen-Persona 2 года назад

Should you decide to venture to Queens by auto, be advised the school zones run until 10:00 PM. I got a ticket in the mail because on a rainy night I missed a school zone marking on the street on Thompson (road from Van Dam to the 59th Street/Queensboro Bridge) b/w 30th Pl and 30th St… which I now understand thanks to Thea 😂

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

Thanks for the advise! Although I probably won't be driving 😅 I haven't been in a driver's seat for almost 4 years now!

@Ronaldofan2008 2 года назад

When i first heard the Drive in Avenue in 2016 I thought it was Doctor but my mom said it was Drive and I have seen Road in Avenue

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

Yeah, they are both written as Dr. Thank you for watching!

@christinachristofi7313 2 года назад

‘Urbanism to the max 👌 when your head is spinning 😵‍💫 Thea smooths the way with ‘Gobbledygook’ ‘Easy peasy 🍋 squeezy’ fun as always thanks 👏

@blakemcnamara9105 Год назад

Then you throw named streets in there too. Maybe we should have kept the old named streets for everything, I don't know.

@stephenblomfield6 2 года назад

What utter confusion LOL ... Only in America :P

@BattleRidesNYC Год назад

Well I just found a street in Queens that runs North to South and not East to West. Mind Freak 😂

@richt.4900 2 года назад

I would love to have been a fly on the wall when they came up with this bizarre 🤔 erm, logical system. There must have been an awful lot of alcohol involved and, someone wanting to be remembered for showing Manhattan how to do really it. Unfortunately, what seems quite sensible when your a hot mess may be a little different to how everyone else views it. 😳🥳😂

@UrbanCaffeine 2 года назад

So silly right?