East Tremont Avenue cuts through the Bronx like a swollen femoral artery.
That Myrtle Avenue cuts at least partly through the borough of Queens is small consolation, for it is clear that Brooklyn is the target of Miller's loathing.
Avenues cut across in diagonals with large traffic circles, parks, malls and public buildings placed appropriately.
Through the palm-lined avenues cut out of the rainforest - such as Avenido do Turismo that leads away from the airport en route towards the stadium, there is an almost colonial feel to the scenery.
In a shampooable homage to the view outside, the living-room rug, designed by Mr. Schwartz and made by the firm V'Soske, is an abstract view of the park, as well as rosy-tufted streets and avenues, cut-pile "blocks," and silk and wool turquoise rivers.
The area of crooked, congested streets was considerably larger and less commercialized in those days, before Sixth and Seventh Avenues were cut through.
"Normally, this place is jammed right now," Mr. Lewis, 44, said forlornly as he scanned the avenue that cuts along Cleveland's downtown waterfront.
"The administration is not interested in Cuba, it is interested in Calle Ocho," says Philip Peters, vice-president of the Virginia-based Lexington Institute, referring to the main avenue that cuts through Miami's Little Havana district.
I wandered over to the Gran Via, the broad avenue that cuts across the city, to find it lighted festively and full of people happily perusing the offerings at a toy market.
Roaming along Flagler Street, a four-lane avenue that cuts east-west through Little Havana not far from the house where 6-year-old Elian had stayed, the demonstrators overturned Dumpsters and threw old appliances and garbage into the street.
