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Originally Posted by pj3000
It’s because the borough is so big, with so many portions, identities, and zip codes. You see it similarly in Brooklyn... Flatbush NY, Greenpoint NY, Canarsie NY
And the Bronx too... Mott Haven NY, Hunts Point NY
Not suggesting that a weak cohesive borough identity isn’t present in Queens, just that you see the neighborhood mailing addresses elsewhere too
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I think the habit of addressing places in Queens by the local post offices, instead of as "Queens", is because Queens itself was never a city, but a lot of the neighborhoods in Queens
were incorporated cities before the amalgamation. Brooklyn was a city pre-amalgamation.