In the East Village, there are four additional avenues beyond 1st Avenue: Avenue A eastward to Avenue D. As it criss-crosses the straight avenues, it creates large, open intersections (Union Square, Madison Square, Herald Square, Times Square, Columbus Circle, etc.). The street layout of the West Village defies logic and can be particularly difficult to navigate.īroadway, one of Manhattan’s oldest thoroughfares (and the world’s longest) runs perpendicularly as it progresses north from the tip of Manhattan up into the Bronx. The streets and avenues of Southern Manhattan have proper names and often run in irregular directions. The grid begins north of Houston Street, since the area to its south was well established when the grid came to be in 1811. Twenty city blocks (measuring north-south) are equivalent to 1 mile (1.6 km). (There is an algorithm for locating street numbers, but it is complicated and impossible to remember).Ĭity blocks vary in size, and are generally much longer in between avenues, and shorter in length between streets. The following block would have address numbers 200-299, the next 300-399, and continuing to the rivers. In general, blocks bordering Fifth Avenue would have address numbers 1-100.
Street address numbers begin at Fifth Avenue, and increase as they move outward (the higher the number, the farther to the east or west). East 46th St), and to its west are titled “west” (i.e. Streets running to its east are titled “east” (i.e. (For more Avenue name variations, see below)įifth Avenue is Manhattan’s central dividing line. Apart from numbers, Lexington, Park and Madison Avenues (east-west in that order) run between 3rd and 5th Avenues. Street numbers ascend as they move northward, from 1st street in Greenwich Village to 220th street in the Inwood section.Īvenues run south-north, with numbers beginning on the east side of the island and ascending to the west. The majority of streets are numbered (as opposed to having proper names). Manhattan is laid out on a uniform grid of streets and avenues (well, most of it), making it easy to navigate.
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