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The intersection of Bellevue Place, Bellevue Court, and Bellevue Ave in Seattle: https://maps.app.goo.gl/4RyEKj3ArdhoJYp69
If you want confusing look for an address on El Camino in South Bay. When you cross over to another city, they remember the addresses on El Camino so it’s easy to get lost and not know where a particular address is unless you correlate to a city which pre-GPS was tough.
For goodness sake no-one tell the author about London. In almost every area of London there is a street called “high street”, and most of them have a “church street” also. Locals (and many maps) helpfully prepend the area name onto the street eg “Chiswick High Street”, “Kensington High Street”[1], “Stoke Newington Church Street” etc, but the actual address is “High street” or whatever meaning just several completely…
”With a turn to the left Mr Verloc pursued his way along a narrow street by the side of a yellow wall which, for some inscrutable reason, had No. I Chesham Square written on it in black letters. Chesham Square was at least sixty yards away, and Mr Verloc, cosmopolitan enough not to be deceived by London’s topographical mysteries, held on steadily, without a sign of surprise or indignation. At last, with business-like persistency, he reached the Square, and made diagonally for the number 10. This belonged to an imposing carriage gate in a high, clean wall between two houses, of which one rationally enough bore the number 9 and the other was numbered 37; but the fact that this last belonged to Porthill Street, a street well known in the neighbourhood, was proclaimed by an inscription placed above the ground-floor windows by whatever highly efficient authority is charged with the duty of keeping track of London’s strayed houses. Why powers are not asked of Parliament (a short Act would do) for compelling those edifices to return where they belong is one of the mysteries of municipal administration. Mr Verloc did not trouble his head about it, his mission in life being the protection of the social mechanism, not its perfectionment or even its criticism.”
Used to drive me insane living in NYC. Funny that Google Maps even highlights both Gold street in Brooklyn and the Gold street in the financial district if you do a search and zoom out. I wonder if that’s intentional or not.
And speaking of Brooklyn, I really wonder what city planners were thinking with that thing in Williamsburg where numbered streets exist twice, once as “ North th Street” and once as “South th Street”, which completely clashes with Manhattan naming the Eastern/Western part of the same street (“ Th Street”). Not to mention the completely separate set of numbered streets (“ th Street”, without cardinal direction indicators) in the south or Brooklyn…
For goodness sake no-one tell the author about London. In almost every area of London there is a street called “high street”, and most of them have a “church street” also. Locals (and many maps) helpfully prepend the area name onto the street eg “Chiswick High Street”, “Kensington High Street”[1], “Stoke Newington Church Street” etc, but the actual address is “High street” or whatever meaning just several completely…
I believe it’s pretty common for cities that used to be several independent municipalities that were merged relatively recently, or at least where street names were already too established to make renaming for uniqueness feasible at that point.