How Fifth Avenue bigwigs kept New York City from getting a new address system

Sep 19, 2017 |

Fifth Avenue from the Metropolitan. Image: Wiki Commons. Finding addresses on most of Manhattan’s streets and avenues is a pretty easy task in most places. Cross streets make sense thanks to the decimal system-based numbering that began in 1861, when each street block between two major avenues was assigned a set of 100 numbers. And […more]

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