I was able to slap FESTIVUS and AVENUE Q in the grid right away, and then I came to a dead halt.
The new streets and avenues dictated by the grid plan produced an awkward intersection here.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND As evidenced by requests for directions from camera-toting tourists, Manhattan's straightforward grid of avenues and streets meets defeat in the West Village.
During the following decades, builders leveled its hills, filled its valleys, and imposed an unyielding, two-dimensional grid of avenues and streets.
The sloping, curving streets of the Gardens, an area about 14 blocks long and 8 wide at its widest point, offer a notable contrast to the often confusing avenue-street-and-road grid of Queens.
With its diagrammatic aerial view of nested circles and squares, its grid of avenues and waterways, boundaries and transition points, the image is as hypnotic as a mandala and as prosaic as a Manhattan street map.
Picture a flat city grid with every avenue having a pop-up barrier at each intersection, capable of diverting traffic down any side streets.
Zagreb's upper town, Gornji Grad, rises proudly above the plain where the rest of the city is arranged in a grid of uniform avenues.
To the west, there's Golden Gate Park and the long avenues of the Outerlands, the grid that stretches all the way to the Pacific; to the east, there's the Mission and Market Street and the glistening bay.
The optimistic spirit of the town is apparent in the street plan adopted in 1811, a grid of blocks, avenues, streets, and lots extending to the northern reaches of the island.
