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by Lambent_Cactus 5332 days ago
The naming is a little off, isn't it? South of Houston all bets for street numbers are off, so I'm fine with making up South Xth street, but you should maintain the consistency the grid currently has.

You've lost the East/West distinction between the streets, so the West streets are just Xth Street, instead of West Xth Street like they should be. Worse, the avenues East of 1st should be named alphabetically, not as E Xth Ave. For consistency, I'd increment them as Ave A, Ave B, Ave C ... Ave Y, Ave Z, Ave AA, ... You've turned Alphabet City into just the East Avenues. Sacrilege.

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I considered doing that, but I thought Ave AAA might just confuse people, especially people who don't know NYC. And I kind of like that I'm squashing all the nuances with this simple cruel grid :P