(this is a real map in Queens)
Lol, I used to live near there and recognized it immediately.
Queens is a silly place.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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I know its real but were the roads named this way as a joke?
In my city, there are also things like "60th Road Place" and "60th Avenue Court"...the possibilities are endless!
Let me introduce you to 4th Street in Mountain Home, Idaho
4th north, east 4th north, and south 4th east. Did I find them all?
You found E 4th N, but did you find the second E 4th N?
The one by the coffee place?
We're at 60th and 60th. Take a left on 60th and take it to the second stop sign. If you see 60th, you've gone too far.
"Public School 153" sounds like it came out of Half-Life or something
I think public schools in NYC are just numbered. There are so many, I imagine it makes it a lot easier to administer
Are they all one district? I thought larger cities broke them up...
That's your cue it's in NYC.
Welcome to City 17
I thought so highly of its education that I elected to make my administration here.
link to this place:
Of course it's in a place called 'Flushing.' Who was memeing when making this place?
I was about to falsely call out OP for yet another fake post... but they do this for 59th as well.
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Why did they stop and move to 61 without exhausting all the options?
According to Wikipedia (US section)
- Alley (Allee, Ally, or Aly)
- Annex (Anex, Annx, or Anx)
- Arcade (Arc)
- Avenida
- Avenue (Av, Ave, Aven, Avenu, Avn, or Avnue)
- Bayou (Bayoo or Byu)
- Beach (Bch)
- Bend (Bnd)
- Bluff (Bluf or Blf)
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- Bottom (Bot, Bottm, or Btm)
- Boulevard (Boul, Boulv, Bld, Blv, or Blvd)
- Branch (Brnch or Br)
- Bridge (Brdge or Brg)
- Brook (Brk)
- Brooks (Brks)
- Burg (Bg)
- Burgs (Bgs)
- Bypass (Bypa, Bypas, Byps, or Byp)
- Calle
- Camino
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- Isle
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- Spur
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- Strasse (the German word for street, used in Summit Park, Utah and one road in Niederwald, Texas)
- Stravenue (Strav, Straven, Stravn, Strvn, Strvnue, or Stra; unique to Tucson, Arizona)
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Pike and Pine are both options? We could have had Pike Pike and Pine Pine in Seattle.
As well as Pine Pike and Pike Pine?
I grew up near Seattle, and I think only that could make it worse. There's no naming convention whatsoever, except east/west, which is the least important direction. Most of the suburbs use numbers, but again, they make no sense since half of them come from the city plan and the other half come from the county's plan.
Before I had GPS on my phone, I had to print out directions and even then ended up asking directions at a gas station more often than not.
60th Ct? What's Ct for? Cunt?
It has never occurred to me that Court might be a regional thing. This is kind of blowing my mind.
You've never seen a court before?
The kind with a judge or the kind with basketball hoops?
But no, first time I've heard of it.
I think 'cul-de-sac' is the closest translation for yanks
We definitely have "courts" in the US
Like this one. My uncle also lives on a court as well. They're more common in fancier neighborhoods.
Not a yank, or from any of the current or former british territories, but that one I recognize. AFAIK it means "ass of bag" in french, which makes me giggle.
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Right? This is the most amazing discussion I've ever been part of.
I don't think I'll ever be able to pass a court again without impulsively telling whoever I'm with "You know they don't have those everywhere".
It'll be my new Aragorn's broken toe.
I would guess, circuit? Or maybe crescent.
the list below says it might stand for "court", so a very good question indeed
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Meet me at Road and Street.
Oh, I'm at Lane and Drive. Be there in a sec.
I just watched it and it's peak 90s:
- Kramer calls from a payphone
- Kramer makes a collect call and puts his message as his name
- Jerry answers on the overly large wireless phone
- Nobody has a cell phone or any way to communicate after Jerry leaves
Nothing in this snippet would make sense today, it's glorious.
This is probably my favourite joke in all of seinfeld.
Or the monologue from "The ~~whale~~ marine biologist", with the line of "The sea was angry that day my friends; like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli"
[..] I could see directly into the eye of the great fish.
Mammal.
whatever.
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it's a confusing system at first, but once you learn it it's actually not too hard to figure out where something is, because Queens is (mostly) on a grid system.
This is really interesting. They needed a sub-grid within a grid of Streets and Avenues and so they went insane.
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Even more confusing if you want to meet at an intersection
I knew this was Queens before I even looked at the map.
Public School 153 got me as far as NYC. :)
"We're near the public school."
"Which one???"
No wonder there's so many angry people in New York.
As soon as I saw the title I knew it was Queens lol
40.71597° N, 73.90479° W Roughly.
Where I grew up they had certain streets end when they intersected perpendicularly with another one. Turn, and go down this other street and you'd eventually be able to find the original street continuing in the same direction, just not in a straight line. Named the same, too! Made trying to find a specific address before GPS and smartphones needlessly difficult.
Also, the font and size was the worst. You couldn't tell if '1 ST' was '1st' or '1 Street'. Same with '3 RD': was it '3rd' or '3 Road' (they had both separate streets in the same town).
That's in addition to 4th Ave intersecting with 4th Rd, like in this image...
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