[john70t]

This last week I been trying to do a crash course in NYC map geography.
Before last week I only knew it was an island with a park. YMMV.

A couple highlights spring to mind:
1). Avenues go east to west like San Francisco, except 4th is replaced by three streets and 6th is called Avenue of Americas.

2). Streets start south to north.

3) Central Park is between 5th Ave to 8th Ave, and 59th street to 110 street.

4). At 8th Ave and 59th is Columbus circle with Trump Hotel and the TimeWarner mini twin towers.
This is where Broadway breaks off the grid and goes diagonal.
Broadway goes through Times Square at 7th, past a park, through two parks, and all the way down to Battery Park/Ferry/Tunnel to Brooklyn.

5) There are a couple cross-streets to remember:
-The Chrysler Building is on 42nd. Follow that west and you arrive at other attractions.
-34 and 14th look like throughways.
-The Brooklyn Bridge lands at city hall.
-The Manhattan Bridge turns into Canal st. to create the Tribeca (triangle below canal street) neighborhood on the west side.
-Or the Manhattan path goes north along the nice parkway on Chrystie in Little Italy.
-The Williamsburg bridge is next up around the bend heading north. The Holland Tunnel to Newark is across the island from that.
-The next bridge up is Queens Midtown which hops over the FDR Island.
-Then a series of bridges from Harlem to Bronx at the top of the island.
-The busy George Washington at the very north is the only bridge to west NJ side.There are only two tunnels below it.


If you can break the map down into parts, it's easy to remember.