Which City has the best Alphabet Streets?

[shoe01]

Lubbock, TX maybe takes it to an extreme:

From east to west: Ave. A to Ave. Y
Continuing: Akron Ave., Boston Ave., Canton Ave., etc., to York Ave.
More: Albany, Bangor, Chicago avenues to Yuma Ave.

Then you have the numbered streets going south from First.

Going north from downtown: Auburn, Baylor, Cornell, etc. to Yale Street

East from downtown: Ash, Birch, Cedar avenues to Zenith Ave.

There are odd roads that don’t follow the pattern, usually named after nearby towns, landmarks, or people, like Slide Rd., Mac Davis Ln., Buddy Holly Ave., University Ave., etc.

[Joakim3]

Live in SD and can confirm the alphabetic street names helps.

That being said DC is probably the best example of it in the US even more so than NYC.

[kyle19125]

Another insight into DC's system. Once the alphabet to Y is exhausted, the street names are double syllable words from A to Y followed by triple syllable words A to Y, followed by the names of trees and flowers.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by Joakim3

Live in SD and can confirm the alphabetic street names helps.

That being said DC is probably the best example of it in the US even more so than NYC.

New York has lettered streets only on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Otherwise, all the streets there that don't have names have numbers (including almost every street above Houston in Manhattan).

[PHILLYUPTOWN]

Originally Posted by AshbyQuin

Once you tart seeing single-letter streets in Philly, it's time to turn around.

I laughed. Lol.

But it’s true.

Our alphabet streets are mostly in Kensington which is not a safe area at all. The streets are east of front street; the neighborhood is east of downtown Philly where the grid began, so they act as the numbers; ascending from Front.

[Borntoolate85]

Fenwick Island, Delaware alphabetizes its streets from south to north beginning with Atlantic and running to Logan, with the southern third of the town being named after states.

But the shortest alphabet I know of is in Laurel, MD, which only uses A, B, and C streets in a single block of its main street, which I find to be lame and better off which just regular named streets.

In addition to the Back Bay streets as one Boston poster pointed out, South Boston has its own alphabet grid as well, extending as far as P Street, although like in DC, J Street is skipped. However, the grid rotates 45 degrees between F and G streets, giving the appearance of a completely different neighborhood (D St/West Broadway)

Southeastern Baltimore city has its own grid featuring parallel Alphabet streets beginning in the Highlandtown/Brewers Hill neighborhood, and extending east to the city line. It actually has two sets of alphabets, although the first skips A, which would be where Highland Ave, the original eastern border of Baltimore lies, and the last street in the second alphabet just inside the city limit is Quinton. The first alphabet ends with Umbra and then jumps to Angelsea, due to a major hospital, a cemetery, and an industrial area.