Random New York Address Generator (NYC & NY State)

In New York City the borough is the city

The last line of a New York City address does not say “New York City”. Manhattan addresses use New York, NY; the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island use their borough name: Brooklyn, NY 11215, Bronx, NY 10458, Staten Island, NY 10314. Queens is different again: its post offices carry neighbourhood names, so a Queens address reads Flushing, NY 11354, Jamaica, NY 11432 or Astoria, NY 11103, and “Queens, NY” is not the preferred city name.

For testing that means a city field can hold six or more different names for one municipality. Code that maps city to county or tax jurisdiction by name will get New York City wrong; derive it from the ZIP code instead. The generator picks from Manhattan, the boroughs and the Queens neighbourhood names above.

Queens house numbers have a hyphen

Most Queens addresses use a hyphenated house number such as 45-12 Queens Blvd or 108-20 71st Ave. The part before the hyphen is the nearest cross street, the part after is the house number on that block. Parsers that read “the leading digits” as the house number, forms that strip punctuation, and geocoders that split on the hyphen all fail on these. Generated addresses in the Queens neighbourhoods use this pattern so the case turns up in your fixtures.

Apartments, floors and line 2

Most New Yorkers live in multi-unit buildings, so a second address line is the norm rather than the exception: Apt 5C, Apt 12, Fl 3, sometimes PH for a penthouse. Letters after the number (5C, 14F) are common and break validators that expect a numeric unit. The generator adds a unit to about half of New York addresses — twice the rate it uses for the rest of the US.

ZIP codes from 005 to 149 — and one in Connecticut’s range

New York’s ZIP codes start with 100 to 149: Manhattan uses 100–102, Staten Island 103, the Bronx 104, Brooklyn 112 and Queens mostly 111, 113, 114 and 116. Two exceptions catch validators out. Holtsville on Long Island has 00501 and 00544, the lowest ZIP codes in the country, used by an IRS processing centre. Fishers Island, a hamlet of Southold reached by ferry from Connecticut, has 06390, a code from Connecticut’s range. A rule such as “New York ZIP codes start with 1” rejects real addresses.

Area codes: 212 is not all of New York

Manhattan is 212, 646 and 332; the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island share 718, 347 and 929; 917 covers the whole city and is mostly used by mobile phones. Outside the city, Nassau County is 516/363, Westchester 914, Albany 518/838, Buffalo 716, Rochester 585 and Syracuse 315/680. Generated phone numbers use an area code of the generated city with the fictional 555-0100–555-0199 block, so a Brooklyn address never gets a 716 number.

Sales tax on a New York address

State rate: 4%. New York charges a 4% state sales tax and lets counties and cities add their own. In New York City the combined rate is 8.875% (4% state, 4.5% city, 0.375% for the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District). Clothing and footwear under $110 per item is exempt from the state share — and in New York City from the city share too — which makes NY one of the better states to test item-level exemptions in a tax engine.

Cities in the New York generator

The generator picks one of these 23 places, then one of its real ZIP codes and one of its area codes. New York has 2,154 ZIP codes in 1,610 places in the data we use.

New York ZIP code prefixes

The first three digits of a ZIP code identify the sectional center facility that sorts its mail. New York uses 52 prefixes; each is shown with the place that has most of its ZIP codes and how many codes it holds.

New York area codes

Phone numbers in generated addresses always use 555-0100 to 555-0199, the block the North American Numbering Plan reserves for fiction, so they never ring a real line.

Sources

• GeoNames US postal codes (CC BY 4.0): ZIP codes, places and counties
• North American Numbering Plan area code assignments
• USPS Publication 28 – Postal Addressing Standards
• NYS Department of Taxation – sales tax rates

Checked October 2026. Street names and house numbers in the generator are synthetic. General US address format, ZIP code structure and form-testing tips are on the US address generator page; ZIP codes on their own come from the ZIP code generator.

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