The Crescents
Historic site · Rego Park, New York
The neighborhood's semi-circular streets, which Forgotten New York records "were laid out and given aristocratic-sounding alphabetized names from A through F: Asquith, Boelsen, Cromwell, Dieterle, Elwell and Fitchett."
History
The same article records that "Two lines of the LIRR, the Main Line and the Rockaway Branch, border the Crescents, and prevented them from being completed as circles."
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