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Look at a map of ABQ. Interstate I-25 and I-40 divide the area up into generally 4 quadrants... More or less. I have heard some say that crime stays south of I-40 (which is not true). Etc...
It's just the four general areas...
Sometimes the dividing lines were Central Avenue and I forget which north/south streets were used.
Look at a map of ABQ. Interstate I-25 and I-40 divide the area up into generally 4 quadrants... More or less. I have heard some say that crime stays south of I-40 (which is not true). Etc...
It's just the four general areas...
Sometimes the dividing lines were Central Avenue and I forget which north/south streets were used.
It is not a "more or less" thing or a "sometimes" thing, and has nothing to do with the interstates. It is very specific: every address in Albuquerque is in one of the four quadrants: NW, NE, SW, SE. The dividing lines are Central Avenue (N-S) and the railroad (E-W). Many other cities use a similar system, like Washington DC.
The main post office is at 1135 Broadway NE. It lies south of I-40 and west of I-25. It is "NE" because it is north of Central and east of the railroad.
Addresses are differentiated by these quadrant designations. 300 San Mateo NE is a different address from 300 San Mateo SE. The numbering starts at Central and increases as you head in either direction. The same for the east-west designations. 1500 Lomas Blvd. NW is not the same as 1500 Lomas Blvd. NE. Again, the numbering starts at zero at the railroad and goes up in either direction. Generally each block adds 100 to the street address. So an address that is 1500 is going to be about 15 blocks from the dividing line.
No. All addresses on 1st Ave. are NW or SW. The railroad alone is the dividing line.
This system goes back to the time after the railroad went through in the late 1800s. The interstates weren't built through the city until about 1957 and had no impact on the existing system of street addresses.
Again, the numbering starts at zero at the railroad and goes up in either direction. Generally each block adds 100 to the street address. So an address that is 1500 is going to be about 15 blocks from the dividing line.
There are exceptions; Hotel Circle NE, for instance, is certainly far enough from Central to merit an address number in the hundreds if not thousands, but "45 Hotel Circle NE" is an address. Not sure if it was able to do so by deliberately platting outside the city limits before it was annexed, or something else happened.
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Originally Posted by aries63
No. All addresses on 1st Ave. are NW or SW. The railroad alone is the dividing line.
1st Street, not Avenue.
Some additional trivia about Albuquerque's street names:
"Street" or "Drive" is a north-south street.
"Avenue" or "Road" is an east-west street.
"Boulevard" can be either.
I have no doubt there are exceptions to be found (especially since many streets, mine included, curve and curl) but the rule is pretty handy.
No. All addresses on 1st Ave. are NW or SW. The railroad alone is the dividing line.
You are correct.
" The north-south dividing line is Central Avenue (the path that Route 66 took through the city) and the east-west dividing line is the BNSF Railway tracks" Albuquerque Quadrants |
To throw in another monkey wrench, when people refer to the "west side" they are referring to west of the river (Rio Grande). Not necessarily the west quadrants. So I live in the SW quadrant but east of the river and am not considered to live on the west side.
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