Sentence examples for avenues running from inspiring English sources

There are several intermittent avenues east of First Avenue, including four additional lettered avenues running from Avenue A eastward to Avenue D in an area now known as Alphabet City in Manhattan's East Village.

Inscribed within this square, it stipulates that there must be "nine avenues running north-south and nine running east-west, each of the former being nine chariot tracks wide" – a principle that perhaps set the precedent for the scale of modern-day Beijing's agoraphobia-inducing highways.

He was also instrumental in creating New York City's "vast grid of 12 parallel avenues running eight miles up the length of the island and 155 streets at right angles to them".

The address system is mostly numbered, with streets running south to north and avenues running east to west.

They named the area New Kensington, surveyed it, and laid out avenues, running parallel to the Allegheny River, and numbered streets running perpendicular to the river.

The streets were laid out on a grid plan of broad avenues running on a south-west to north-east axis and narrower roads running north-west to south-east.

Sometimes the avenues run consecutively with nothing in between, depending on the neighborhood.

Only the two "feeder" arteries, Continental and Ascan Avenues, run straight.

Finally, we reached Marshan, a genteel neighborhood just west of the medina, where broad avenues ran past grandly decaying mansions and pristine palaces.

The system works like this: avenues run east and west and streets run north and south, the opposite of Manhattan's system.

Part of the rationale was that new names would distinguish the haut-bourgeois West Side from the lower part of the city through which the numbered avenues ran, particularly the undistinguished factories, flats and tenements of the West 30s, 40s and 50s.