From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!hou5d!hou5a!hou5e!dwl
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Street Names
Article-I.D.: hou5e.190
Posted: Tue Jan 11 08:26:57 1983
Received: Wed Jan 12 05:27:30 1983
References: linus.2828

It may be that First Street is often called something else -- like
Main or Center -- but every city I've lived in which numbered its
streets started with a "Zero Street" named something like Broad or
Main.  The first block from that was called First.  

Washington, DC (my home town) is divided into four quadrants.  North
Capitol Street (which runs North from the US Capitol) divides the
Northeast and Northwest quadrants, each of which begin with a First
Street, one block East or West of North Capitol.

-Dave Levenson
-ABI Holmdel