Little Orphan Avenues: Ave Y and Ave Z in Bath Beach
On a recent trip, I went to fix out some of the last streets I need to walk in Bath Beach , which runs south to Bay 50th Street . I don't know where the boundary would or should be. At this point, below Bay 50th, I wasn't in Coney Island yet, so the only other thing you might call it is Gravesend . The streets align with Gravesend, but the train yard slices these streets away from the rest. Basically, a bunch of streets and avenues are orphaned, cut off from the rest of their kind. In short, my trip took me up and down one Bay street, four West streets (plus part of Stillwell Ave), two lettered avenues, a piece of Shore Parkway , and a short "place". I found that a couple streets listed on Google Maps do not exist, or they are private roads, even if they have names. The creepiest street, even in the middle of the day, was West 13th Street . It extends for one block in either direction from Ave Z, ending in Dead Ends in each direct...