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Henry:

--- Quote from: kphoger on December 06, 2022, 10:42:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: 1995hoo on December 06, 2022, 09:33:57 AM ---It occurs to me that nobody in this thread so far has mentioned the infamous Rockaway Freeway in Queens. Supposedly the name "Freeway" was applied to denote that it was largely "free" of cross streets.

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...which is why freeways are called freeways, after all.

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And besides, New York is a strange place to put a "freeway", because they call the actual ones expressways.

paulthemapguy:
I was really confused about the definition of a boulevard as a child, because of the nearest street named "Boulevard" to my childhood home.  The first street I knew with the name "Boulevard" was a dinky little two-lane road called "Park Boulevard" in the Lisle/Glen Ellyn area.  https://goo.gl/maps/ieEHY7tan31aBxMZ8

kphoger:

--- Quote from: paulthemapguy on December 07, 2022, 09:54:59 PM ---I was really confused about the definition of a boulevard as a child, because of the nearest street named "Boulevard" to my childhood home.  The first street I knew with the name "Boulevard" was a dinky little two-lane road called "Park Boulevard" in the Lisle/Glen Ellyn area.  https://goo.gl/maps/ieEHY7tan31aBxMZ8

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And, see, I'm very familiar with Park Boulevard, but not as a "dinky little two-lane road"—rather, as a four-lane arterial.

My daughter's home daycare provider was ... ummm ... somewhere around here (can't remember the exact house 17 years later).  And I took evening/weekend classes as COD, just east of this intersection.  I only ever used it north of Butterfield Road, so in my mind it was only a "dinky little two-lane road" north of Roosevelt (i.e. between the Jewel and Glenbard).

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