From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!nscs!rew Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Missing street names Article-I.D.: nscs.407 Posted: Tue Jan 11 09:01:19 1983 Received: Thu Jan 13 04:20:49 1983 References: ixlpc.198 Consecutive numbering of houses on a street is a rather old practice and leads to some interesting situations in older cities -- like New York. Buildings on North-South streets such as Broadway were numbered consecutively from the Battery (that's the southern tip of Manhattan). Many visitors to NYC expect building numbers to be tied into the east-west street grid, so that 4500's are one block north of 4400's and so on. Sometimes they find themselves walking considerable distances to go 'one block's worth of numbers'. Bob Warren cbosgd!nscs!rew