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Every street is named for someone. Meet them where you stand.

StreetLore reads the New York City street under your feet and tells you the story behind its name — the person, the place, the moment it remembers.

669storied streets

5boroughs

∞numbered streets, grid history

1811–nowDutch farms to today

The app

The card that finds you.

Your location, the street you're on, its crossing, and the story of the name — updated the second you move.

How it works

STEP 01

No searching, no typing. StreetLore watches your location and snaps to the street you're actually on.

STEP 02

A card gives you the origin of the name: the person or place it honors, the nearest cross street, the neighborhood.

STEP 03

Every named street you pass is logged. Fill in a neighborhood, earn its badge, and see how much of the map you've walked.

Real streets, real stories

Humboldt StBrooklyn

Alexander von Humboldt

Named for the Prussian naturalist and explorer whose expeditions reshaped how the world understood the natural world.

Bowne StQueens

John Bowne

Honors the Quaker whose 1662 arrest for hosting worship in his Flushing home became a foundation of American religious freedom.

Wall StManhattan

The Dutch wall of 1653

Takes its name from the defensive wall the Dutch built across the northern edge of New Amsterdam.

Bogart StBrooklyn

A 1650s Dutch settler

Named for an early Dutch farmer who happens to be Humphrey Bogart's direct ancestor. Here's looking at you, Bushwick.

Coverage

Hundreds of named streets carry a researched, sourced fact — and every numbered street tells the story of the grid that gave it its number.

Brooklyn 451 Manhattan 116 The Bronx 55 Queens 33 Staten Island 10

Now in TestFlight

StreetLore is in private beta for iPhone. Ask for an invite and start reading the city block by block.