Last numbered street? (New York, Yonkers, Hyde Park: neighborhood, college, zip code)

[BigSwede]

I am just curious which street is the last with a number in NYC?
All maps I have seen ends on 207th street,but I have read that it continues north of Manhattan.

[SuperMario]

Originally Posted by BigSwede

I am just curious which street is the last with a number in NYC?
All maps I have seen ends on 207th street,but I have read that it continues north of Manhattan.

Hmmm....It's in the 200's somewhere.....

Not 207th.....Wakefield in the Bronx heads to the 240's.....and not sure but maybe Riverdale in the 250's........

[SeventhFloor]

i believe its West 263rd Street in Riverdale by the College of Mount St. Vincent.

[BigSwede]

Thanks for the answers!

[mead]

Yeah up by Riverdale would probably be it. In my neighborhood the city ends at 242nd Street.

[rlrl]

Definitely, W 263 street in Riverdale, E 242 street in Woodlawn

[holden125]

Originally Posted by rlrl

Definitely, W 263 street in Riverdale, E 242 street in Woodlawn

That's not the highest in the whole city, though.

W 263 on the Riverdale/Yonkers border, E 242 in Woodlawn are on the same Manhattan grid, though it gets funky in the Bronx, with W 263 the highest on that grid. Highest in Manhattan itself is W 228, W 220 if you don't count Marble Hill, which is now (thanks to moving the Harlem River) physically in the Bronx but still legally in Manhattan. Ironically, West 220 in Manhattan is actually south of W 193 in the Bronx just across the river.

But Glen Oaks Queens, by LI Jewish Hospital, has a 271st St. That's on the Queens grid, though. It is in Queens, though in the New Hyde Park zip code so many think it's in Nassau County, which it isn't.

Where I am, in LIC, it goes 2nd St., then 5th, then Vernon, then 11th, then 21st. Queens is screwy.

[SilkCity0416]

very screwy indeed. ^^^ What is the highest numbered Ave in NYC? It has to be in Queens (maybe 140 something out in the Southeastern part)

[SeventhFloor]

165th ave in howard beach right be4 the bridge to broad channel

[holden125]

NYC gets pretty high but the west is nuts. They have these rural counties where it's all on a grid and the numbers get huge. Then they just start with the next set of numbers in the next county. In North Bend, WA east of Seattle they have a 488th Av SE that intersects with SE 118th St. It's the same grid as in the city of Seattle 35 miles away.

In Phoenix there is a N 571st Avenue west of the city by a good 75 miles. It is a little dead end street with nothing on it at all. In the desert. I wanted to go see it but my friend said you can't get there; it's a closed off natural gas reserve owned by some private company. Those count by ones but do skip a lot of numbers for no good reason.

I looked this up out of curiosity and Minnesota has an area that goes to 930th St, but counting by 10s. The next one is on a different grid and is 440th St. Somewhere in Illinois, counting by 100s has a 3000th St, and the next block is 105th. But counting by 100s 3000th St is only 30. Salt Lake City also counts by 100s, which doesn't count.

I don't even think New England (which would never count by 100s and barely uses numbers) cracks triple digits. Newburyport, Mass. has a peninsula that goes to 82nd St. These streets are all one or two block dead ends on a barrier beach. Other than that I only knew of up to 27th St in an area near Cape Cod.

Someone once said to me, a typical address in in New York: 405 East 48th Street. In New England: 5 Winter St. A typical address in North Carolina: 13409 Whispering Dahlia Falls Road SW.