View Single Post
  #28  
Old Posted Jul 17, 2020, 8:45 PM
pj3000's Avatar
pj3000 pj3000 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Pittsburgh & Miami
Posts: 7,565
Quote:
Originally Posted by iheartthed View Post
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.
Yeah, that’s another good point
Reply With Quote