There are several sets of numbered streets in Brooklyn that don't conform to a uniform street grid. NY1's Jeanine Ramirez helps sort them out as we continue our series "What's in a Name"?

Brooklyn's numbered streets — try to make sense of them and they don't add up.

In Coney Island, numbered streets begin with West, but the neighborhood is on the borough's southern end. South-numbered streets are found in Williamsburg, located on the borough's northern end. In Flatbush through Flatlands, numbered streets start with East, yet they run north and south.

There's more. Brighton Beach has numbered streets that begin with Brighton, and the Gravesend area has numbered streets that begin with Bay.

So much for a uniform street grid.

"These were independent towns," said John Manbeck, author of "The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn." "They didn't expect to be ever joined to Brooklyn, so they named their streets 1, 2, 3, 4, and everybody else did, too. When the consolidation happened in 1898, you suddenly had these independent towns with duplicate names."

Other street names are easier to figure out. Many are a nod to early landowners before Brooklyn consolidated.

In Brooklyn Heights, there are blocks for the Pierreponts, the Hicks, the Remsens, the Middaghs. In Prospect Park, the Lefferts Historic House is set up as a museum. The Lefferts were early Dutch settlers.

"The Lefferts family was one of the first families to establish and buy large tracts of land here in the Flatbush area and played a role in building infrastructure, roads and farms," Manbeck said.

Today, there is Lefferts Avenue and the neighborhood east of Prospect Park, Prospect Lefferts Gardens. In the 1800s, there were names for developers. Brownsville is named for Charles Brown who invested here. And for surveyors. Jonathan Williams was hired to map out streets in what became Williamsburg.

Surveying Gravesend in the 1870s also had naming privileges.

"The Gravesend town commissioner commissioned surveyors to map out a future street grid through the area. Mr. Knapp, Mr. Bachelder, Mr. Coyle. Mr Ford. and they were given permission to name the street," Manbeck said.