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Originally Posted by mitsguy2001
On the topic of numbered streets within institutions that don't actually exist: MSN maps show an access road to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, off of Navy Street, as 1st Street. Google maps labels that same street as Perry Ave. No idea which is correct. Street view doesn't show a street sign. There could be as many as 2 Perry Avenues in Brooklyn, since both map programs also show a Perry Ave within Kingsborough Community College. No idea if that is signed or not, and street view doesn't show anything within the college. Presumably both streets (at least the one within the Navy Yard) are named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. Which makes me wonder, was Kingsborough Community College ever a Naval base?
Back to the original topic: 4 boroughs have a Perry Avenue, and Manhattan has a Perry Street. Even if neither Perry Avenue in Brooklyn really exists under that name, there is a Perry Place: a very small street connecting Atlantic Ave to Herkimer Place (itself a very small street), just east of Bedford Avenue. That is definitely signed in street view.
The other Perry Avenues are:
Queens: diagonal from 64th Street to the LIE South Service Road. A stub also seems to exist north of the LIE which is basically a ramp from 68th Street to Borden Avenue (and is signed in street view). That section of Borden Avenue itself is a stub that breaks off from the LIE North Service Road
Bronx: From the Mosholu Parkway Service Road to E. 211 Street.
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I realized that there is also a section of Perry Ave between Bedford Park Blvd and the Mosholu Parkway South Service Road (the one I mentioned above starts at the north service road).
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Staten Island: Exists in 2 sections: One from the Staten Island Expressway South Service Road (Gannon Ave South) to Westwood Avenue. And a longer section between the Staten Island Expressway North Service Road (Gannon Ave North) and Victory Blvd.
And Manhattan has Perry Street in West Village, between West Street and Greenwich Avenue.
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It's interesting that the 3 non-institutional Perry Avenues (Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island) are all split by either an expressway or a parkway.
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