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GETTING AROUND NEW YORK

With more than 6,000 miles (9,650 km) of Subways are the quickest way to get
streets, getting around New York might around. Service is frequent, inexpensive
seem a problem, but the city is actually a and reliable, and the trains make stops
network of small neighborhoods that are throughout Manhattan. The city’s bus
connected via subway or bus. Each one is service is also reliable and convenient but
also quite walkable or easy to get around on can be slow in traffic. Weekly or unlimited
public transportation. Midtown Manhattan, MetroCards, valid for all public transportation,
for example, with many of the major sights, provide excellent value. Taxis are the
runs 25 blocks from 34th to 59th streets, best option for door-to-door transit, but
and, if you should tire, you can hop on a bus they can be expensive if you are held up
that goes down Fifth Avenue or up Sixth. by traffic.

Green Travel Finding Your Way
cleanest in the world. It was
New York is working hard to be the first in the US to switch Around New York
more energy-efficient for those all diesel buses to ultra-low- Manhattan’s avenues run north to
traveling around town. Back in sulfur fuel. Cleaner-burning south; New Yorkers say “uptown”
the 1990s, the city was a engines have been installed, and “down town.” Streets (except
pioneer in launching an alter- and buses have been equipped in the older areas) run east to
native-fuel vehicle program with filters, cutting emissions west, and are referred to as
aimed at cutting emissions and by as much as 95 per cent. “cross-town.” Fifth Avenue is
making its bus fleet one of the The MTA currently has around the divider between East and
2,000 hybrid-electric or West street addresses.
natural-gas powered buses Most streets in Midtown are
in operation. Numerous one-way. In general, traffic is
bicycle lanes have also been eastbound on even-numbered
added around town for those streets and westbound on odd-
brave enough to use them numbered streets. Avenues also
amid the heavy city traffic. tend to be one-way. First, Third
When it comes to leaving (above 23rd Street), Mad ison,
the city, the US train system Avenue of the Americas (Sixth),
is quite limited, but New Eighth, and Tenth avenues are
York has some of the better northbound, while Second,
connec tions, especially Lexington, Fifth, Seventh, and
Amtrak’s East Coast Ninth avenues, and Broadway
Metroliner and Acela trains below 59th Street, are south-
Cyclist in Central Park (see pp374–5). bound. There is two-way traffic

Finding an Address Avenue Key Avenue Key
Address Number Address Number
A useful formula has been devised to help pinpoint 1st Ave +3 9th Ave +13
any avenue address. By dropping the last digit of 2nd Ave +3 10th Ave +14
the address, dividing the remainder by 2, then 3rd Ave +10 Amsterdam Ave +60
adding or subtracting the key number given 4th Ave +8 Audubon Ave +165
here, you will discover the nearest cross street. 5th Ave, up to 200 +13 Broadway above
For example: to find No. 826 Lexington Avenue, 5th Ave, up to 400 +16 23rd St -30
you have to drop the 6; divide 82 by 2, which is 5th Ave, up to 600 +18 Central Park W, divide
41; then add 22 (the key number). Therefore, the 5th Ave, up to 775 +20 full number by 10 +60
nearest cross street is 63rd Street. 5th Ave 775–1286, Columbus Ave +60
do not divide by 2 -18 Convent Ave +127
5th Ave, up to 1500 +45 Lenox Ave +110
Numbers increase 5th Ave, up to 2000 +24 Lexington Ave +22
W E S T 2 5 T H S T R E E T Madison Ave +26
(6th) Ave of the
Americas -12 Park Ave +35
W E S T 2 4 T H S T R E E T 7th Ave below Park Ave South +8
Numbers increase Numbers decrease 110th St +12 Riverside Drive, divide
7th Ave above full number by 10 +72
«258
EIGHTH AVENUE
«225
W E S T 2 3 R D S T R E E T St Nicholas Ave +110
SEVENTH AVENUE
«100 110th St+20
Chelsea
23rd St Hotel «200 «210 23rd St 8th Ave +10 West End Ave +60
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