  Prokopowicz Member Username: Prokopowicz Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2005 |
I was looking for my Grandmother's old house on Sheehan, and learned that the street is now only one block long. As far as I know, it is the shortest street in Detroit. Are there any shorter ones? http://maps.google.com/maps?f= q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Sheehan+St, +Detroit,+MI+48213&sll=41.9020 1,-87.788405&sspn=0.010205,0.0 17982&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr& om=1 | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 1582 Registered: 11-2003 |
Middle Street is pretty short. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1684 Registered: 01-2005 |
Gage street, around Forest and Trumbull, used to be just a quarter block long. I'm not sure if it even exists any more. It ran east from Hobart. Spaulding Court was listed as a street, but it's really just a courtyard for an old apartment complex that never got developed. It runs off'n 12th street up around Buchanan. Scuse my oldness. Rosa Parks up around Buchanan. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 4923 Registered: 08-2004 |
Middle Street runs behind the Michigan Building from Clifford until Cass. It is only about 280 feet long. | ||
Motorcitydave Member Username: Motorcitydave Post Number: 54 Registered: 11-2004 |
What about Phelps??...lol. http://maps.google.com/maps?f= q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Sheehan+St, +Detroit,+MI+48213&sll=41.9020 1,-87.788405&sspn=0.010205,0.0 17982&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=42.38359 1,-83.017609&spn=0.007719,0.01 5128&z=16 | ||
Hockey_player Member Username: Hockey_player Post Number: 343 Registered: 10-2003 |
Detroit street, off Cadieux, is a very short block. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2728 Registered: 12-2005 |
This would make an excellent trivia question. I hope we can resolve it. | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 3815 Registered: 10-2003 |
What about Short Street? | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 3485 Registered: 10-2004 |
Johnson--by the MCS--is huge... | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1740 Registered: 05-2005 |
shipherd court | ||
Ddaydave Member Username: Ddaydave Post Number: 475 Registered: 04-2005 |
I see some short ones downtown mullet mechanic and middle | ||
Eric_c Member Username: Eric_c Post Number: 1010 Registered: 11-2003 |
Looks like Phelps has this one beat, but I always thought Lucky Place was pretty damn short. The street is essentially a bridge over 94 for most of its' length. The long road that connects with Lucky Place is actually the GM plant's private road. http://maps.google.com/maps?f= q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Lucky+Place ,+Detroit,+MI+482&sll=42.40102 4,-83.021879&sspn=0.007115,0.0 14462&ie=UTF8&ll=42.377441,-83 .038466&spn=0.007117,0.014462& z=16&om=1 | ||
Dbest Member Username: Dbest Post Number: 38 Registered: 03-2007 |
Downtown has some pretty short streets, I know on one of my first trips to downtown I couldnt find my car that was parked in a garage on Bates, even asked some people who lived downtown who had no clue. | ||
Bumble Member Username: Bumble Post Number: 259 Registered: 11-2004 |
Union Street, ~200 feet. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1948 Registered: 10-2003 |
Mullett used to be longer before it got cut and became urbane... er, eliminated due to urban renewal. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2729 Registered: 12-2005 |
Google Earth has a pretty nice measuring tool. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1335 Registered: 04-2006 |
Radio PL is pretty short, its really more of a driveway off of an alley. | ||
Jeduncan Member Username: Jeduncan Post Number: 113 Registered: 11-2006 |
What about that short stint of 4th street between new center and WSU? That one's pretty short. | ||
Ddaydave Member Username: Ddaydave Post Number: 477 Registered: 04-2005 |
if you add all the sections of forth together its pretty long ..I am wondering If the section I was in saturday is measured by feet or how many hippies it could hold ?? (forth street fair ) | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 1356 Registered: 08-2006 |
Right Barnes! Short St.! Any one else know where it is? | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 815 Registered: 11-2005 |
Jacoby Alley (which does have its own street sign) in Bricktown is short. As is Shady Lane in SW Detroit. | ||
Goggo Member Username: Goggo Post Number: 187 Registered: 11-2003 |
Mechanic Street might not be the shortest, but it's worth a mention. It's a narrow, seemingly pointless street that separates two parking lots. It's somewhere around Gratiot and Brush. | ||
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott Post Number: 560 Registered: 12-2006 |
I like this game but it needs rules. First of all, let's set the bar somewhere: Mechanic St. is about 360 feet long. Know of anything shorter? Second: it's truer to the concept if we stick with stand-alone short roads; there are plenty of roads that are, overall, fairly long but which have some segment or another cut into absurdly short pieces by an expressway (or whatever). Mullett appears to be such an animal; it was probably longer before it was cut off by I-375. By the way, has anyone else noticed the ridiculous irony that a street named "Mullett" was cut badly? Just wondering. Third: I think anything named "X Alley" was probably at one time an alley and so perhaps should be out of the running - but correct me if that assumption is wrong. So has anyone got a complete street, end to end, shorter than 360 feet? Bonus points for the shortness not being caused by an expressway cutting off the road. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 3493 Registered: 10-2004 |
Check out Johnson with the pedometer. It's got to be much shorter than 360 feet. | ||
Bumble Member Username: Bumble Post Number: 260 Registered: 11-2004 |
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Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott Post Number: 561 Registered: 12-2006 |
Where is Johnson, LY? Google Maps doesn't seem to think it exists. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 3495 Registered: 10-2004 |
Johnson: Try mapquest.com for locating it. It's about a block west of Alexander--err. oops! showing my age ~100 years old--Newark. Then revert to Google Earth for the measurement. | ||
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott Post Number: 562 Registered: 12-2006 |
Bumble, Sorry I missed your earlier post! My mapping software measures Union to be 308' long, which is more than 200' but still shorter than Mechanic. So now the bar is 308' by my measure. Scott | ||
Savannahsmiles Member Username: Savannahsmiles Post Number: 64 Registered: 05-2005 |
How about Yale or Dill in Delray? | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 492 Registered: 08-2006 |
I375 is the shortest signed interstate in the interstate system. |
