NYC Street Craziness
11:21 am July 22nd, 2008 by Sal Cangeloso
Somewhere there is a cartographer crying over this…
New York City is generally easy to navigate, thanks to a grid of streets and avenues in most of the city. The grid uses numbers and a few simple rules in order to make it easy to figure out where you are, but in parts of the city, especially downtown and the east/west sides the numbers are not always used. This means even New Yorkers get turned around when, say, visiting the West Village.
Things get really interesting though when you have to visit part of the gridded area, but get thrown a curve ball. A good example is pictured above, where 12th Avenue and 11th Avenue each become the West Side Highway, and just for good measure it’s called the Joe DiMaggio Highway as well. You rarely hear the highway referred to as 12th Avenue and then, for us downtowners, it’s sometimes labeled as 10th Avenue below 14th St. or so.
Anyway, just a bit of trivial for the map fans out there…
