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Posted by BMT Guy on Sat Mar 10 12:50:16 2007, in response to Re: It Finally Happenned: Q35 Limited Stops, posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Mar 10 12:30:27 2007. That becomes Foster Avenue EAST of Ocean Parkway....Just like Avenue D = Ditmas East of Ocean Parkway. And of course Beverly Road = Ave. B at some point. Brooklyn's wacky street naming is due to the fact that most neighborhoods east of Flatbush Avenue and south of Empire Boulevard were originally Dutch farming communities, like Flatlands and Midwood, while the Town of New Utrecht -- which was made up of nabes like Borough Park, Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst -- were owned by British-decendants. That is why streets west of Ocean Parkway use almost exclusively numbers and not names. Northern nabes in Brooklyn (which was the original City of Brooklyn) use almost exclusively NAMES in their street grid system.Also, nabes that were developed after most of Brooklyn was already developed, like Canarsie, Mill Basin and Marine Park had to use a numbered system since the Ciy of New York ran out of appropriate names to assign to these 'newer' neighborhoods. |
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