[com2kid]

Manhattan is weird, it is like an early beta version of a grid system, where they had the right idea, but the implementation is just way off.

In the majority of cities laid out on a grid, you can give an address and a street number, and that is enough to navigate to your destination. Houses are numbered according to the cross street, so on 6th ave and 12th st, if my house faces out towards 6th ave, my house address would be 12xx.

For whatever reason Manhattan neglected that particular part of the grid system algorithm.

First time I visited Manhattan this threw me off. Navigation should be reasonable, but instead it is almost reasonable.