[net.misc] NYC Geography

jdd (01/20/83)

I don't know about Jimmy Walker's ghost, but I do know that Gay Street in
the West Village (NYC) is fairly normal, running one short block from
Waverly to Christopher with only one turn.  Waverly St., on the other hand,
seems to be the one that hou5a!mat was thinking of: it intersects itself,
creating a corner of Waverly and Waverly.  A map:

				  CC
		     WW 	CC
		       WW     CC GG
			 WW CC	   GG		legend: C = Christopher St.
			  CCW	    G			W = Waverly St.
			CC   WW     G			G = Gay St.
		      CCWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
		    CC
		  CC

The extension of Waverly (diagonal in this map) did not used to be part of
Waverly: it was named something like Industry St. or Factory St. in 19c.
Waverly, of course, was named as a reference to Sir Walter Scott's work.

Cheers,
John ("I live two blocks away") DeTreville
Bell Labs, Murray Hill

rew (01/21/83)

In addition to Gay perhaps being Waverly, I'd
like to differ on Jimmy Walker's house.  Walker
lived in a house on St. Luke's Place -- still
a lovely little street, especially in Spring when
the leaves are just starting to come out on the
trees.  Walker lived in No. 6 St. Luke's Place,
which is between Hudson & Seventh Ave.

Bob Warren
cbosgd!nscs!rew

death (02/22/83)

I thought St. Lukes place wasn't actually a street, but rather a small
group of houses on the north side of Leroy street between Seventh &
Hudson.

dws (02/23/83)

what public or rapid transit service runs between manhatten and yonkers?
and what is the fare?

ntt@dciem.UUCP (07/28/83)

Title: Road with a wye ("Re: NYC Geography")

Another instance of a road with more than two endpoints was provided
for years by Ontario's Queen Elizabeth* Way.  It ran from the Toronto
city limits around the west end of Lake Ontario to a point just outside
Niagara Falls, where it divided at a traffic circle into a short
eastward route into Niagara Falls and another going south and east to
Fort Erie**, something like this:

                                      Toronto
                                QQQQQ
                            QQQQQ
                        QQQQQ  (1)
                    QQQQQ
             Hamilton
                    QQQQQ   (2)
                        QQQQQ         (3)
                            QQQQoQQQ Niagara Falls
                                Q
                                Q
                            (4) QQQQ Fort Erie

Because of the sharp variations in overall direction, the conventional
labelling by compass directions would be awkward, so the "southbound"
direction was labelled "QEW Hamilton" on part 1, "QEW Niagara Falls" on
parts 2 and 3, and "QEW Fort Erie" on part 4, and the other direction
was labelled "QEW Toronto".
  However, in recent years the Niagara Falls branch has become highway 420.

*The eponymous Queen Elizabeth is the present Queen's mother, Queen by
 virtue of being married to King George VI.
**The place across the border from Buffalo, N.Y.; Ontario destination signs
 seem to be written as if all that traffic crossing the border was going
 down a black hole.  The "Niagara Falls" no doubt refers to NF, Ontario.

                                         Mark Brader, NTT Systems Inc.