I’ve always wondered if some of the downtown Manhattan/downtown Brooklyn streets were continued continuations of one and the same street, maybe connected by ferries in earlier days, or just references to the same namesake (or possibly each other).

And speaking of Brooklyn, I really wonder what city planners were thinking with that thing in Williamsburg where numbered streets exist twice, once as “<j> North <i>th Street” and once as “South <i>th Street”, which completely clashes with Manhattan naming the Eastern/Western part of the same street (“<j> <E/W> <i>Th Street”). Not to mention the completely separate set of numbered streets (“<j> <i>th Street”, without cardinal direction indicators) in the south or Brooklyn…