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  2. New York City Subway nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    The short-lived new Sea Beach Line super-express service was made NX. The Q, QT and T disappeared when the Chrystie Street Connection opened; thus they never had colors (until after the elimination of double letters, when the Q came back; by that time the current color system was in place). By 1968, all shuttles (SS) were green.

  3. Numbered street - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia's 10th Street written in English and Chinese. A numbered street is a street whose name is an ordinal number, as in Second Street or Tenth Avenue.Such forms are among the most common street names in North America, but also exist in other parts of the world, especially in Colombia, which takes the system to an extreme, and the Middle East.

  4. House numbering - Wikipedia

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    The original street numbering system followed the pattern of odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other side of the street, with lower numbers towards the center of town and higher numbers further away from the center. The infill numbering system avoids renumbering the entire street when developments are modified.

  5. List of numbered streets in Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    The highest numbered street on Manhattan Island is 220th Street, but Marble Hill is also within the borough of Manhattan, so the highest street number in the borough is 228th Street. The numbering system continues in the Bronx, up to 263rd Street, though east of Van Cortlandt Park the system ends at 243rd Street. [1]

  6. City block - Wikipedia

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    City blocks are the space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban fabric. City blocks may be subdivided into any number of smaller land lots usually in private ownership, though in some cases, it may be other forms of tenure. City blocks are usually built-up to varying degrees and thus form ...

  7. Manhattan address algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The Manhattan address algorithm is a series of formulas used to estimate the closest east–west cross street for building numbers on north–south avenues in the New York City borough of Manhattan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  8. Category:Short stories set in New York City - Wikipedia

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  9. List of numbered Brooklyn streets - Wikipedia

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    Cut-off between 7th and 8th Avenues by the BMT Sea Beach Line of the New York City Subway and the LIRR's Bay Ridge Branch. The New Utrecht Avenue/62nd Street subway station complex is located at New Utrecht Avenue. 63rd Street 2nd Avenue Dahill Road 1 West Cut-off between 6th and 8th Avenues by the BMT Sea Beach Line and LIRR Bay Ridge Branch.