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Wassup New York. Help me figure this out please. When using your postal address in Brooklyn you put Brooklyn, in Manhattan you put New York, in The Bronx you put The Bronx, in Staten Island you put Staten Island, yet in Queens you have to put Rego Park, NY or Forest Hills, NY or LIC, NY or Carona, NY etc...why is Queens the only boro you have to do this in?? Thanks
Actually it does matter. Your mail might arrive as long as the address contains the zip code.
BUT if you live in Queens and you are filling in a form on the internet, you must not enter "New York" in the box asking for "city". I find this amazing and irrational, and am only now beginning to realise how much time I have wasted, and how much I might have missed out on, by doing so. When attempting to sign up for Paypal in order to buy a ticket for an event, I kept getting this message:
"Please enter a valid combination of City, State, and ZIP code" Eventually I gave up the attempt and missed the event. I'm now thinking this kind of thing has happened frequently, as I do have problems with on-line forms and try to avoid them. I later found out that I should have written "Jackson Heights" in the box called "City" and when I complained I received some very aggressive dismissals about neighbourhood pride, tradition, "everybody knows this from schooldays", "Queens is a series of historical villages". Well, I'm from London, which really is composed of historical villages, but nobody objects to putting "London". Jackson Heights is a planned neighbourhood only about a hundred years old. Why should it attempt to deny being part of New York City? Nobody stops you putting Queens, or the neighbourhood, as part of the address, but the "city" is surely New York. It's inconsistent, and irrational, and it's taken me three years to find out about it.
Most of us grew up on the story that it's called 'The Bronx' because it referenced the Dutch family that owned the property - 'The Bronks'. So the answer as to who owned the land was - The Bronk(x)s.
And that stuck.
i always thought the DC IN WASHINGTON DC stood for DA CAPITAL.
This has been discussed in the past. Queens was never one city. It was a county with several different towns and villages and that got incorporated in the postal zip code (address) system.
Rather like Long Island one assumes. I mean you write "Garden City, LI" not "Long Island, NY".
However as pointed out modern postal sorting machinery looks to the Zip Code for instructions. In fact even if you have say "Astoria, Queens", but the incorrect ZC chances are great the item will returned with a notice of "incorrect address" or some such. That or the thing will be shunted aside for manual sorting, something the USPS has been cutting back on for years IIRC.
I'm from London, which really is composed of historical villages, but nobody objects to putting "London". Jackson Heights is a planned neighbourhood only about a hundred years old. Why should it attempt to deny being part of New York City? Nobody stops you putting Queens, or the neighbourhood, as part of the address, but the "city" is surely New York. It's inconsistent, and irrational, and it's taken me three years to find out about it.
Waaaay back in the day, for Queens addresses, people would put "Long Island, NY" because Queens is part of Long Island. (When I was with my ex-BF back in the 1980s, we were going through old paperwork from his house that he bought back in the 1960s and all the addresses said "Long Island, NY". He lived in Ozone Park.)
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