what does it mean when someone says east 57th street? all information would be most helpful thank you
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The streets in NYC are numbered, and 5th ave makes east and west, west is towards Hudson river, and east towards East river.
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In mManhattan the streets followed no sense of order until a plan was devised in 1812 to fix that. above 14th Street things are pretty regular with the numbered streets running east west and only numbered streets. The blocks are twenty to a mile. Fifth Ave divides east from west for the most part. Avenues run North South and are numbered from East to West, but there are exceptions Lexington and Madison Aves fit in between Third and Fourth, now Park , And Fourth and Fifth, respectively. These blocks are much longer than the blocks between streets. When you get above 57th street avenues start to be less regular. Names change and more avenues are introduced.
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5th Avenue divides Manhattan into "west" and "east". An address that is "east" is lower than 5th avenue (e.g., 3rd Avenue, Park Avenue, Lexington Av)
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Well, briefly, below 14th Street it's a maze of streets going every which way, but above 14th it's very orderly, with numbered streets from 14th all the way up to 220th or so, and it's all divided into East and West by the famous Fifth Avenue. Take a look at the map at the link, below and it will all make sense. Good luck!... ☺
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The streets are numbered sequentially from south to north. For example, 57th Street is the street that is one block north of 56th Street and one block south of 58th Street. The part between the Hudson River and 5th Avenue is called "west". The part between 5th Avenue and the East River is called "east".
