When the pandemic emptied NYC of its usual road traffic, NYC streets transformed into an open speedway where drivers drag raced down major roads, racked up thousands of tickets and in some cases left fatal wreckage in their wake as its mentioned in NYC road map. The limit will also drop to 25 miles per hour on Shore Parkway Service Road and Dahlgren Place in Brooklyn, Webster Avenue in the Bronx and Targee Street in Staten Island of NYC.

 

There are no county routes within the five boroughs of NYC. With the exception of the expressways and parkways that are under the jurisdiction of the state, all roads in the five boroughs are owned and maintained by the NYC Department of Transportation. There are no route numbers other than on interstates and state routes that run through NYC. In 2003, the NYCDOT began installing oversized street name signs on certain major roadways. These are large signs that hang from traffic light poles and give the name of the cross street. While these major roadways are not officially a route system, they do form a network of the city major roads and are the closest thing to county routes that NYC has.