Numbered Streets in Buffalo
One thing many people don’t understand is Buffalo’s numbered streets. Sure, we don’t have a perfect numbered grid like New York City, but our radial street pattern and unique street names are important to the City of Buffalo’s identity. (Also, it gives me a reason to blog).
While Buffalo does have some numbered streets, the numbered streets seem not to make any sense at all. They are scattered throughout the west side of Buffalo in a seemingly random fashion. We have the following numbered streets:
- 4th
- 7th
- 10th
- 14th
- 15th
- 16th
- 17th
- 18th
- 19th
Why do they start with number 4? Why do they skip numbers? Why don’t they make any sense?
Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time 