why do new york streets have numbers instead of names?
359786
Since there is so many streets it is easier to numbered then to think of actual names.
881237
Today there is no practical distinction. What something is called nowadays has more to do how the words sound (calling a residential throughway "lane" as opposed to "street" might make it seem more pleasant and "homey.").\n\nIn the 19th century, however, the distinctions had legal ramifications. Back then, a "road" was a throughway capable of supporting carriage traffic in one way at a time. (Only one carriage could fit -- one lane).\n\na "street" could carry carriage traffic going in two lanes. \nAn "Avenue" could handle four lanes of traffic.\n\nThe reason this mattered was because mapmakers needed the information to create more accurate maps. And if they knew what the throughway was called (road, street, Avenue, etc), they knew which kinds of lines to draw on the map.
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Because the street was up on a hill so was high. Broadway was so called because the was was broad enough for fours carts at first then cars. Wall Street is called that because when they first started building NY they built a wall around it to protect it from Indians. \nPS, this is not a dumb question.
395542
the number of ur bulding and street name.
837611
All telephone numbers have 10 digits. All have an area code. There are many numbers in an area code. \nAll numbers have a set of city numbers(the next set of 3)\nThere are fewer in this set\nAll phone numbers are different in total numbers or they wouldnt get the right person when you called.
361919
same reason as people say PIN number basically I don't think we have been using acronyms for long enough yet to use them correctly.
233360
Because it was originally the abbreviation for the Italian word for number, "numero".  It spread to the English speaking world from there.
491443
Primarily because people don't use the right names for things.  Because some highways did not have a toll, they were called freeways to distinguish them from tollways.  Then people got lazy and started calling all highways freeways.  It's like people calling all carbonated beverages Cokes or all tissues Kleenex.
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i have an address in front that goes to egypt and i don't see a zip code like what we use in the united states...the address i got has a address in cairo...it is addressed as such:\nintended receiver here\nroad___building___apt___\nthe cities name, Egypt\n\ni only have the one address so i don't know if that is normal as far as the ,road number, building number, ect but it would be a good guess that they do not use zip codes there
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Numbers 1 - 9 are spelled out, once you get to10 and above, you can just use the numerals. Here's a web site to prove my point...\n\nhttp://www.grammarbook.com/numbers/numbers.asp
1134121
good question...but a better one is why is it eye st. instead of i st.
649073
The non-emergency number 311 is used in NC, CA, NY, AZ, TX, ... but it is by city, not state.\n\nAbout 40 cities so far.
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I watched map man a few weeks ago and he managed to answer this question. The answer is, because London is expanding so rapidly, not all the streets get named immediately. When the maps are produced the cartographers then have to name the streets themselves, usually after themselves or family members. This can cause great confusion when trying to discover where in London you actually are if you have a map which is over 5 years old. These streets are knnown as the Phantom Streets.
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I don't know about New York, but here is what I found about Toronto.\n\nThere are 10,033 different streets or 5,365 km of road (streets, expressways, ramps and laneways) covering 27.4 per cent of the city's area.
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Because every counting number is either a prime or is made up of them (except 1).  Maybe not the T.O.E., but they explain alot about how numbers relate to each other.
858164
Tough question.  Google phrases like "new york garbage dump"..."I-95 exits", etc.
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I agree most strippers use stage names. If you want to have a stripper name use your middle name as your first and then the street you grew up on as the last. Hasn't everyone gotten that e-mail when it went around.....