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October 23, 2009
Mailing Addresses: BK vs QNS
Why is that for any address in any neighborhood in Brooklyn it is simply Brooklyn, NY ZIP.. While in Queens it is usually Neighborhood, NY ZIP .. (i.e. Long Island City, NY.. Astoria, NY etc etc)
Was just wondering!
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Because Brooklyn was a City, whereas Queens was carved out of Nassau County; as to why Bronx, NY exists, I'm guessing that's because the Bronx was pretty empty and undeveloped when it was invented?
Posted by: BrooklynCouch at October 23, 2009 11:41 AM
You know I always wondered the same thing. Interesting!
Posted by: A CrownHeightsLady at October 23, 2009 12:00 PM
Let me just say it is totally inconsistent. And note that New York, NY is Manhattan. Even though the other boroughs are also New York.
Posted by: mopar at October 23, 2009 12:09 PM
Manhattan is New York County. That's why it's New York, NY. (Of course, we're not Kings, NY, because the system is inconsistent.)
I'm sure the reasons are all just the path-dependent nature of big cities. Nobody much cares to take on the political fights involved in rationalizing the nomenclature, so it stays funky.
Posted by: bkrules at October 23, 2009 12:14 PM
Because Brooklyn was a city when NYC absorbed it and Queens was a combination of many smaller towns and villages.
Posted by: Adam Dahill at October 23, 2009 12:59 PM
Brooklyn was also made up of seperate villages also before it incorperated into Brooklyn city (Brooklyn, Willamsburgh, Gravesend, Flatlands, Flatbush, Bushwick and New Utrecht)_.. Queens was incorporated into NYC May 4 1897 and Brooklyn in 1898.. so that doesn't make sense as a valid answer to this question! Both counties were made up of 6 or so towns/villages and both joined the city around the same time.......!
Posted by: hazenyc at October 23, 2009 2:12 PM
If you address something to Fort Greene, NY 11216 it till get there. So will "Queens, NY"
Posted by: serpentor at October 23, 2009 2:50 PM
Well, for now on anything I'm using :
Crown Heights, New York 112**
lol
Posted by: A CrownHeightsLady at October 23, 2009 3:08 PM
well yeah you can right anything NY, 112XX it's the zip codes that really matter! I'm talking more about the convention of writing the addresses as such..
Posted by: hazenyc at October 23, 2009 3:38 PM
well yeah you can write anything NY, 112XX it's the zip codes that really matter! I'm talking more about the convention of writing the addresses as such..
Posted by: hazenyc at October 23, 2009 3:38 PM
BrooklynCouch,
Nassau County was actually the eastern part of Queens County; it seceded rather than become part of Greater New York in 1898.
Posted by: Bob Marvin at October 23, 2009 6:50 PM
hazenyc,
The City of Brooklyn gradually annexed the other towns of Kings County and expanded to include all of Kings by 1894. Brooklyn merged with New York in 1898.
Posted by: Bob Marvin at October 23, 2009 6:54 PM
OMG Bob Marvin I had it backwards! Thank you! That explains why the numbered street grid extends into Nassau; I just assumed there was a plan, aborted, to extent Queens County!
Posted by: BrooklynCouch at October 23, 2009 8:29 PM
To be consistent, every address should just be the street and number and then ny, ny. I wonder if this would have worked before zips. Isn't anyone here a postmaster general?
Posted by: mopar at October 23, 2009 10:57 PM
Though I can see how that would get confusing quickly, considering all the numbered streets in at least three of the boroughs. I guess there's the answer.
Posted by: mopar at October 23, 2009 10:59 PM
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