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Queens isn’t a city, it’s a borough/county that used to be a bunch of little towns. It’s like asking for directions in Boston using Suffolk, MA.

Queens was like Long Island of the 1950s... the house I grew up in had been a 250 acre farm, with 50 acres left as late as 1898. There are also plenty of dupe street addresses in Queens, especially if you leave a hyphen out. The reference to “Flushing” is a legacy left over from the pre-zipcode era.

A sample of some of the complexity: https://gothamist.com/2011/08/21/does_queens_still_need_hyph...



I’m well aware. But every other map handles this correctly except Google Maps. It’s not that hard.




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