So a house number can be a fraction? That's something that should be added to https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
Wow, there are more: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6tk9q4/t...
75½ Bedford Street
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#12So a house number can be a fraction? That's something that should be added to https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
I had friends that had a 1/2 address in Chicago, sending them mail was a nuisance. Even the Post Office didn't know how to find it some of the times.
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#13Interestingly enough this house front is blurred on Google Street view: - https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7314243,-74.0048529,3a,75y,2...
So a homeowner is allowed to blur their property on Street View, but the affects cannot be undone[1]. 1: https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Google-Street-View...
"Once Google blurs an image, the effect is permanent,"
What's not clear to me is if you can put in a request to not have future images blurred (or if a new owner can make this request), or if you can blur images of the property from before you bought it.
Apparently, the current owner of this house bought it in 2013, but Street View has blurred out 2 images from before that. It's possible that the previous owner wanted it blurred, too. Who knows?
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#14Sold for 3.5 million in 2013. Undoubtedly worth more much now. https://streeteasy.com/building/75-and-a-half-bedford-street...
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#15So a house number can be a fraction? That's something that should be added to https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
That article actually links to a HN discussion (about the same article) from 2013[0] with more examples, which does indeed point out that street numbers do not need to be integers
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#16Here's the floorplan: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/75-1-2-Bedford-St-New-Yor...
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#17So a house number can be a fraction? That's something that should be added to https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
I wonder how many of those there are in the US.
I used to work on postal address recognition software and I don't recall that we had any capability for recognizing strings of digits that contained fractions.
It was a long time ago now, but it seems like something I would have remembered.
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#18I have a friend who used to live at 44⅔ which was an old house broken into 3 flats
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#19Speaking of fractional addresses, the original address of the Hidden Vine wine bar was ½ Cosmo Place* in the alley behind Le Colonial. IIRC, the front was a single doorway leading steeply down to a converted hotel basement containing a very nice wine bar.
http://www.vinography.com/archives/2007/06/san_francisco_win... (620 Post Street is the Fitz Hotel on the other side/above it.)
It looks like another business is/was there (Barrel Room Wine Bar) and the street number must have changed (2 instead of ½).
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7881276,-122.4120619,3a,15y,...
EDIT: * I just learned that ½ alone is, according to the USPS, an invalid street number. They still used it anyhow. https://pe.usps.com/text/pub28/28ape_004.htm
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#20For those wanting to see what it looks like inside, this video is nice: https://www.wsj.com/articles/grand-on-a-small-scale-13796435...
Seems to me it's actually a pretty comfortable home if you don't have or need a lot of stuff.