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Why don't all addresses in the City of New York end in New York, NY?

  • Every other city that I know of if a person lives in the borders of a city, all addresses end with the name of that city why not New York. Second how do you know if an address is within the city if the address is New York, NY or just across a border. People that I know in DC address ends in Wash,DC Boston it ends in Boston, MA Philly ends in Philadelphia, PA Houston ends in Houston, TX Baltimore ends in Baltimore, MD and so fourth

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    The postal addresses in NYC predate the unification of NYC in 1898, after which NYC resembled the city as wen currently know it. There is a good reason for this - many street names in the different boroughs are exactly the same as street names in Manhattan, causing there to be many identical addresses. S you always need to know which borough you are talking about when you write an address. For example: do you mean 1 Fulton Street, Brooklyn or 1 Fulton Street, Manhattan? Do you mean 1 5th Avenue, Brooklyn or 1 5th Avenue, Manhattan. Since Manhattan was where the original City of New York was, it gets to keep NY as the city name in postal addresses.

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Until 1898 New York City consisted only of Manhattan Island. Queens had several cities and towns, Staten Island had four towns, Brooklyn was a separate city. Upon unification, the post office retained the names for much of these, since NYC was so enormous.

tham153

New York is unique in that the city is larger than the county. Address protocol names the county, then the state. Manhattan is New York County so those places are all in New York, NY. Send something to Brooklyn and you will send it to Brooklyn, NY, etc. Queens is an exception because some weird allowance is made to use the area name, then the state. Also, the county names aren't really used as Brooklyn is Kings County and Staten Island is Richmond County. I would imagine either one would work, though.

beau guss

Manhattan is the original NYC, and the other boroughs were annexed in 1898. Since NYC is so large (Manhattan, and The Bronx have the same population as Philadelphia, and Brooklyn and Queens are even larger), they split the postal codes into the 5 boroughs (and Queens is divided even further). I hope this information was very helpful.

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William L

The zip code tells the post office what borough the address is in.

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