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Subject: Name of R.C. Church
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:17:25 EST

On 3/13/06 (3:04:09 PM MST), in a posting to , Annie
() asked,

"I would like to know name and address of nearest Catholic Church to 1791
First Ave NYC and also nearest street to 1791 First Ave. NYC."


To answer your second question, 1791 First Avenue would be approximately 92nd
or 93rd Street.

The formula for First Avenue is to cancel the final number, "1", then divide
the remaining part of the address, 179, by 2 to arrive at 89.5, and then add
the key number for First Avenue, +3, to yield the nearest cross street as
approximately 92nd or 93rd Street.

To help you acclimate yourself with the geography of the Island of Manhattan,
here's the Manhattan Address Locator: Avenue Address Chart

To locate avenue addresses, cancel the last number in the address, divide by
2 and add (or subtract) the key number below. The answer to this calculation
is the nearest numbered cross street, approximately.

Avenue A...............add 3
Avenue B...............add 3
Avenue C...............add 3
Avenue D...............add 3
1st Ave..................add 3
2nd Ave.................add 3
3rd Ave..................add 10
4th Ave..................add 8
5th Ave..................see special instructions
6th Ave..................subtract 12 (Avenue of the Americas)
7th Ave..................see special instructions
8th Ave..................add 9
9th Ave..................add 13
10th Ave................add 14
11th Ave................add 15
Amsterdam Ave......add 59
Audubon Ave..........add 165
Broadway...............see special instructions
Central Park West...see special instructions
Columbus Ave.........add 59 or 60
Convent Ave............add 127
Edgecomb Ave........add 134
Ft. Washington Ave.add 158
Lenox Ave...............add 110
Lexington Ave.........add 22
Madison Ave...........add 27
Manhattan Ave........add 100
Park Ave................add 34
Park Ave South.......add 8
Pleasant Ave..........add 101
Riverside Drive........see special instructions
St. Nicholas Ave.....add 100
Wadsworth Ave.......add 173
West End Ave.........add 59
York Ave.................add 4

Special Instructions:

for 5th Avenue
from number 643 to 108..........add 11
...................109 to 200..........add 13
...................201 to 400..........add 16
...................401 to 600...........add 18
...................601 to 775...........add 20
...................776 to 1286.........cancel last number and subtract 18
.................1310 to 1494.........cancel last number and subtract 20;
.............................................for each additional 20 numbers,
.............................................increase deduction by 1

for 7th Avenue
from number 1 to 1800............add 12
.........above 1800...................add 20

for Broadway
anything from 1 to 754 is south of 8th Street and hence is a named street
from number 756 to 846........subtract 29
...................847 to 953........subtract 25
....................above 953........subtract 31

Central Park West (CPW)
cancel last figure and add 60

Riverside Drive
cancel last figure and
................up to 567.............add 72
................568b and over.......add 78


Looking at the "eastside, westside" split ...

Here, a formula is not needed to locate an address on a crosstown street. In
midtown (the area between 14th Street and 59th Street) the street numbers
begin east and west of Fifth Avenue. Street addresses west of Fifth Avenue are
spaced 100 numbers apart between avenues; addresses east of Fifth Avenue are
divided by 50 numbers between avenues, until Third Avenue when 100 numbers
separate each block.

Street addresses with odd numbers are always located on the north side of the
street; even numbers are on the south side.

Now, the Manhattan Address Locator: Crosstown Address Chart.

East Side Street Numbers
1- 49 between 5th & Madison Avenues
50- 99 between Madison & Park Avenue*
100-149 between Park & Lexington Avenues
150-199 between Lexington & 3rd Avenues
200-299 between 3rd & 2nd Avenues
300-399 between 2nd and 1st Avenues
400-499 between 1st & York Avenues**
500-599 between Avenue A & B

* Park Avenue is 4th Avenue south of 14th Street
** York Avenue is Avenue A south of 14th Street


West Side Street Numbers Below 59th Street
1- 99 between 5th & 6th Avenues
100-199 between 6th & 7th Avenues
200-299 between 7th & 8th Avenues
300-399 between 8th & 9th Avenues
400-499 between 9th & 10th Avenues
500-599 between 10th & 11th Avenues

West Side Street Numbers Above 59th Street
1- 99 between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue
100-199 between Columbus & Amsterdam Avenues
200-299 between Amsterdam & West End Avenues
300-399 between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive



I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.

Happy Purim*,

Walter Greenspan
Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY

* One-day celebration of Purim begins at sunset on Monday, March 13.

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