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Posted by X-Astorian on Wed Dec 1 12:27:01 2021, in response to Re: History of Q18 Thirtieth Avenue, posted by Snilcher on Wed Dec 1 10:43:34 2021. I wrote this for a Motor Coach Age article about Old new York a few years ago. I hope it helps explain thingsA Note About Streets Names In Queens – Since it developed as a collection of mostly small communities, Queens contained multiple streets of the same name, e.g., ten Main Streets, about 30 named Washington, and several Grand thoroughfares. To rationalize a system for the emerging urban borough, most roads were given numerical names (1st to 271st Streets, west to east, and 1st to 165th Avenues, north to south, and other intervening ones) beginning in 1915 (in the Richmond Hill area) and ending in 1926 (Springfield). The Rockaway Peninsula has its own street numbers preceded by Beach. Despite the changes, some of the names officially out of use for close to 100 years live on through subway station signs and common usage. |
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