The streets here were all named after Manhattan thoroughfares by homesick engineers.
Baron Haussmann got a Parisian thoroughfare named after himself in the mid-nineteenth century by reconfiguring the city's circulatory road systems into wide, grand avenues.
Another direction offers a glimpse of Porsche Street, Wolfsburg's main thoroughfare, named in honour of the German car dynasty that created the VW Beetle and the eponymous sports car company.
On a chilly evening at a café not far from Avenue Bourguiba, a ficus-lined thoroughfare named for the first Tunisian President after independence, a young woman told me about her recent experiences with the authorities.
The Everyman Bistro, Hope Street Up the hill and above the clamour of central scouseland is a tranquil, dignified thoroughfare named Hope Street, with a cathedral at either end and Georgian houses all around.
By the time he died, Craxi had been sentenced to a total of 11 years for corruption and illegal party funding, and been convicted or indicted in five other cases.Yet the residents of Milan, his birthplace, may soon find a thoroughfare named in his honour.
And, yes, on Meserole Avenue, a thoroughfare named for one of Greenpoint's founding families, Café Grumpy, a Wi-Fi-compliant virtual office for hoards of freelancers, set up shop and started roasting its own beans in a vintage Probat in 2005.
The enormous Nordiska Kompaniet (N-K) Department Store with its beautiful atrium and specialty foods department in the basement is located minutes away on the busy thoroughfare named Hmangatan.
The checkout lanes are not numbered but named after main Bronx thoroughfares like Webster Avenue.
This is a place where major thoroughfares are named after water engineers (Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles) and literary essays ("Holy Water" by Joan Didion, for instance) and films ("Chinatown") have been devoted to its power and mystique.
Poole Avenue, a major thoroughfare, is named for the family.
