# Street Addresses

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-addresses/146316>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 3, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-addresses/146316 "2003-01-03T00:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-addresses/146316/21 "2003-01-03T18:27:59Z")

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In Silicon Valley, there is a fairly major street who’s name I can’t immediately recall that goes through many of the little cities south of San Fran (Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, etc), which was there before they all grew together. Each city had their own numbering convention for addresses on the street.

Now that the cities have grown together, it seems that on arbitrary stretches of the road the numbers will reset to 100, or grow immediation by thousands of numbers, as the addresses come into alignment with which city controles the current stretch of the road. Which side of the street is ‘odd’ changes several times while driving down the street. There is even one short section where the numbers are odd on both sides of the street.

-lv

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**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-addresses/146316/22 "2003-01-03T22:14:50Z")

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> In NYC the even numbers are on the east and south sides of the streets, and odd numbers on the west and north sides.

I’m in NYC (Queens), on the west side of a north-south street, and my address is even. ( Or did you just mean Manhattan?)

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-addresses/146316/23 "2003-01-03T22:26:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by BobT \*  
> \*\*In Los Angeles, the even numbers are on the south side of the street or the east side of the street. Or at least they are in the principal section of street numbering for the city (there are parts of the city where the numbers start over) \*\*

But neighboring Santa Monica does the opposite for streets that run north and south. The odd numbers are on the east side.

You mentioned places where the numbering starts over, but I can’t think of any except Venice. Can you tell us of any others? Are there any other one and two-digit addresses in L.A., besides in Venice?

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