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Key to Manhattan Streets The following chart is a New York City travel survival tool. Drop the las t figure of the address you are looking to find, divide by 2, and add or subtract according to the chart below. Add 127 Central Park West Divide street number by 10 and add 60 Edgecombe Ave. Add 101 Riverside Drive Divide house number by 10 and add 72, up to 165 St. Add 60 Finding an Address on a Crosstown Street Fifth Avenue divides Manhattan into East Side and West Side; street addre sses increase with their distance west and east from Fifth Avenue, usual ly by 100 per block. East Side 1 is at 5th Ave 101 is at Park or 4th Ave 201 is at 3rd Ave 301 is at 2nd Ave 401 is at 1st Ave 501 is at York or Avenue A 601 is at Avenue B West Side 1 is at 5th Ave 101 is at Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave) 201 is at 7th Ave 301 is at 8th Ave 401 is at 9th Ave 501 is at 10th Ave 601 is at 11th Ave Downtown means south of wherever you happen to be at the moment; If youre at 34th Street and your destination is 59th Street, youll be traveling uptown to get there. As a general rule, traffic is one-way going east on even-numbered streets , one-way going west on odd-numbered streets. Main east-west streets are two-way and some smaller streets don't follow this rule. but most New Yorke rs will refer to it as Sixth Avenue even though the street signs read Av enue of the Americas. Fourth Avenue becomes Park Avenue South above 14th Street.
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