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
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