Looking for 144 Liberty Avenue, Jamaica (houses, live, rated)

[Traceroots]

Anyone know if there is still a block on Liberty Avenue, Jamaica, Queens, numbered 144? Would like to know more about the area. Relatives lived there until the 1920s.

[SeventhFloor]

144 liberty avenue in queens does not exist, because queens uses a continental numbering system for houses. for example if i lived on 115th avenue near 144th street, my address may be 144-12 115th avenue.....there may be a 144 liberty avenue in brooklyn.

[omigawd]

THere may be a block on Liberty in Jamaica where the addresses start with 144 --- like the previous poster stated it would be 144-_ _ Liberty Avenue.

[Dark of the Moon]

Originally Posted by omigawd

THere may be a block on Liberty in Jamaica where the addresses start with 144 --- like the previous poster stated it would be 144-_ _ Liberty Avenue.

Googlemaps says that 144-00 Liberty Avenue in Queens is at the intersection of Liberty and Pinegrove. The numbers increase as you travel roughly northeasterly on Liberty.

[Walter Greenspan]

Most Queens street names changed between the 1920 and 1930 censuses. Many more evolved at times during the 19th century.

This page on Steve Morse's site has several conversion tables: http://www.stevemorse.org/census/changes/QueensChanges0.htm

[tooldude]

Originally Posted by omigawd

THere may be a block on Liberty in Jamaica where the addresses start with 144 --- like the previous poster stated it would be 144-_ _ Liberty Avenue.

why do some ny addresses have some numbers right next to the street number?

[babadi]

why do some ny addresses have some numbers right next to the street number?

Here's my understanding of how this works. Street addresses numbers in Queens are made up of two numbers separated by a hyphen. As an example, take a house located on 26th Street halfway between 23rd and 24th Avenues.

The first number indicates the lower numbered cross street of the house. In this case, that'd be 23.
The second indicates the relative proximity to the lower numbered cross street. So the house on the block that's closest to 23rd Avenue might be 01 or 02 (depending on which side of the street it's on), the house second closest to 23rd Avenue might be 03 or 04, and so on. If your house is halfway down the block, it might be, say, 15.

That would make your address 23-15 26th Street.