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.