About the Random New York Address Generator
Each address is assembled from three pieces: a house number between 1 and 899, a street drawn from 64 genuine New York thoroughfares, and a city and ZIP pair drawn from 68 real New York postal entries. The street list mixes Manhattan avenues, Brooklyn and Queens arteries, Bronx boulevards and Staten Island roads, so results look like the kind of thing a New Yorker would actually write on a form.
The parts are combined at random, which means a Brooklyn street can land beside a Buffalo ZIP code. That is deliberate. These are throwaway addresses for filling a database, checking that a form accepts long street names, or drafting a design mock-up. They are plausible in shape but are not real deliverable locations, so nothing here can be mistaken for a person's home.
The ZIP codes and city names themselves are real, which is what makes the output useful when a validator checks the state field against the postal code. If you need addresses from other places, the Random Street Address Generator covers the wider United States and the Random Texas Address Generator stays inside Texas. For whole rows of fake records rather than addresses alone, use the Random CSV Generator.
How to use
- Pick how many addresses you need, up to 200 in one run.
- Choose One per line for a list, or Comma to paste into a single cell.
- Press Generate, then use Copy or Download to move the addresses into your test fixture.
Common questions
- Are these real addresses?
- No. The street names, city names and ZIP codes are real, but they are shuffled together, so the combination does not point to an existing building.
- Which parts of New York are covered?
- All five boroughs plus upstate cities including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Ithaca and Poughkeepsie.
- Can I use these for shipping tests?
- They are fine for format and validation tests, but a carrier API will reject them because the combinations are not deliverable.
- Does anything leave my computer?
- No. The word lists are bundled with the page and the addresses are assembled locally as you click.