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Newer cities created on grid patterns often used street naming systems based on numbers. The closest street to an important urban feature became 1st Street. Numbers increased from there. Distinct patterns emerged in different cities, of course. Maybe numbered streets increased outward in two directions, north and south or east and west. Plenty of other variations existed too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wondered about the highest numbered street, though. Apparently a lot of other people on the Intertubes wanted to know the same thing according to what I found as I searched<\/a>. Specifically though, I sought something within a single city in a generally contiguous manner. There shouldn’t be huge gaps. Otherwise I’d look at something like 1010th Street<\/a> way outside of Eau Claire, Wisconsin and be done with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New York City<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Queens County Farm Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

New York City seemed like a logical starting point. The city sprawled densely across five boroughs and used a numerical grid for much of it. The highest numbered street seemed to land in the Glen Oaks neighborhood of Queens. There, way out on the distant edge of the city near its border with Nassau County, appeared 271st Street. This quiet middle class neighborhood consisted primarily of a large garden apartment complex<\/a>. On 271st St. however, just three blocks long, the houses all appeared to be detached single-family homes (map<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This neighborhood sat so far away from the action that it contained an actual farm. A farm in New York City? Well, actually, that might be a slight exaggeration. A few blocks away from 271st Street stood the Queens County Farm Museum<\/a>. I guess that counted as a farm in a sense. As the museum explained,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Queens County Farm Museum’s history dates back to 1697; it occupies New York City’s largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland. The farm encompasses a 47-acre parcel that is the longest continuously farmed site in New York State.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Where could someone go on a hay ride in New York City? Only way out near 271st Street, I’d imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, DC<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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