38th St Between 2nd Ave and 3rd Ave

    

Besides being home to a very imposing Verizon building, this street has very few notable features. One of the only exceptions is the fact that it's intersected by my favorite named streets in the city: Tunnel Exit Street. With such a functional name, the no-frills street, which is nothing more than an off-ramp for I-495 and the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, doesn't even attempt to welcome other cars or pedestrians on to it. As you look down the block you can almost see the individual plots and buildings it destroyed when it was built – of course that was over 70 years ago.