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!
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!
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.
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?
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!
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.
BrooklynCouch,
Nassau County was actually the eastern part of Queens County; it seceded rather than become part of Greater New York in 1898.
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..
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..
Well, for now on anything I’m using :
Crown Heights, New York 112**
lol
If you address something to Fort Greene, NY 11216 it till get there. So will “Queens, NY”