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i'm guessing OP is in Queens, as there are a lot of these narrow two way residential streets that barely fit two cars wide (and aren't divided by a double yellow line). i dont think bronx or brooklyn have these kind of streets; i feel almost all residential blocks are one way in those boroughs
You might be right
I dont know Bronx streets that well from driving memory, but I'm trying to think in Brooklyn where it may be like that and I'm drawing blanks
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i'm guessing OP is in Queens, as there are a lot of these narrow two way residential streets that barely fit two cars wide (and aren't divided by a double yellow line). i dont think bronx or brooklyn have these kind of streets; i feel almost all residential blocks are one way in those boroughs
I live on one of those narrow two way streets which is why I'm having such a hard time visualizing this. I can't even figure out where a car would turn around to park backwards!
i'm guessing OP is in Queens, as there are a lot of these narrow two way residential streets that barely fit two cars wide (and aren't divided by a double yellow line).
This needs to change. It's too crowded to have 2 way narrow streets anymore.
i'm guessing OP is in Queens, as there are a lot of these narrow two way residential streets that barely fit two cars wide (and aren't divided by a double yellow line). i dont think bronx or brooklyn have these kind of streets; i feel almost all residential blocks are one way in those boroughs
Yes it’s a narrow two way residential street in Queens where two cars can’t pass each other without one stopping or slowing to a crawl depending on how many cars are parked.
Yes it’s a narrow two way residential street in Queens where two cars can’t pass each other without one stopping or slowing to a crawl depending on how many cars are parked.
Queens probably has the most streets like that. The NYCDOT will convert a street to one-way if community groups or elected officials request a traffic study.
I live on one of those narrow two way streets which is why I'm having such a hard time visualizing this. I can't even figure out where a car would turn around to park backwards!
I've done it a couple of times late at night when the only spot was a super tight fit and was on the left side of the street since I'm way better at parking on the right side of the street
Yes, schools and police precincts (111 recently) mostly so far.
Maybe they have a plan somewhere for all streets in the future.
It amazes me that they developed the Manhattan grid system in 1811,
when most of Manhattan was still forests/woods.
Talk about long-range planning! George Washington was dead only 12 years,
and lots of the Founding Fathers were still alive.
Grid plan being imposed on Manhattan was one thing, creating one way streets totally another.
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By 1916 The Times reported that 27 streets had been designated one-way, especially narrow ones like Cortlandt, Thomas and Dey Streets, ''to find a solution to the vexing traffic problem'' caused by the increase in the number of automobiles.
In 1920 the Real Estate Record & Guide reported that Fifth and Park Avenues would become one-way from 34th to 57th Streets, with Fifth running south and Park running north, during the daytime. But it appears this was only a temporary experiment.
In 1924 the one-way system was extended to almost all narrow cross streets south of 57th. The success of that rule sparked a suggestion in 1925 by a real estate broker, Aaron Herrmann, that one-way sidewalks be imposed, along with rules discouraging ''those men or women who greet a friend and chatter on and on in the middle of crowded sidewalks.''
In February 1927 the one-way regulation was extended in Manhattan up to 110th Street. The major north-south Manhattan avenues were not converted to one-way traffic until after World War II, over the period 1951-1966.
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