Street Grid for the City of Indianapolis

[Mr_Northside]

Are there any cities with a zero street? Or even fractional street names?

Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood has a 23-1/2 St.

[Alps]

Madison, WI has only 1st through 7th streets.  They are not located downtown, but the first seven blocks east of the Yahara River on the east side of the isthmus.  No idea on how they got numbered that way.

I learned the other day that Stewart Airport in NY has 1st and 2nd Streets, A and B Streets... and then Y and Z Streets. There's no room between B and Y, either.

[Takumi]

Williamsburg has 1st and 2nd Street, but that's it.

[NWI_Irish96]

Everything (except for a few main roads) in Cicero, IL, is numbered.  E-W streets are "Streets".  The "half" streets in between the streets are "Places".  So you have 22nd St, 22nd Pl, 23rd St, 23rd Pl, etc.

N-S streets are "Avenues" and the "half" streets in between are "Courts", so you have 49th Ave, 49th Ct, 50th Ave, 50th Ct.

[Brandon]

Everything (except for a few main roads) in Cicero, IL, is numbered.  E-W streets are "Streets".  The "half" streets in between the streets are "Places".  So you have 22nd St, 22nd Pl, 23rd St, 23rd Pl, etc.

N-S streets are "Avenues" and the "half" streets in between are "Courts", so you have 49th Ave, 49th Ct, 50th Ave, 50th Ct.

It's all based off the Chicago grid (State & Madison) which uses the same system of Avenues, Courts, Streets, and Places.

[Big John]

Everything (except for a few main roads) in Cicero, IL, is numbered.  E-W streets are "Streets".  The "half" streets in between the streets are "Places".  So you have 22nd St, 22nd Pl, 23rd St, 23rd Pl, etc.

N-S streets are "Avenues" and the "half" streets in between are "Courts", so you have 49th Ave, 49th Ct, 50th Ave, 50th Ct.

vSpeaking of Courts, that would now work in Wisconsin where a "Court" usually means it is a dead-end street.

[wphiii]

Are there any cities with a zero street? Or even fractional street names?

Chicago doesn't have fractional street names, but each half block is named Nth Court (North-South) or Nth Place (East-West) after the respective Nth Avenue or Nth Street i.e. 95th Place is one half block south of 95th Street; 80th Place is one half block west of 80th Avenue, south of Madison and west of State, respectively.

Long Island City in Queens has something similar for a few blocks; 45th, 46th, and 47th Aves also have a same-numbered "Rd" a block to the south, and 44th Ave has both a 44th Rd and a 44th Dr 

[tvketchum]

Bringing this topic back to the original source, how about street names with an ampersand in them, there is a 40 & 8 Avenue in Downtown Indianapolis. If the states names weren't used, this one-block road would fall in between 5th and 6th Streets. There IS a story behind this one I'm told but I don't remember exactly what is was at the moment.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Indianapolis,+IN&hl=en&ll=39.776344,-86.153653&spn=0.0033,0.005284&sll=38.672176,-87.517895&sspn=0.004708,0.014656&oq=Ind&t=h&hnear=Indianapolis,+Marion,+Indiana&z=18&layer=c&cbll=39.776346,-86.154678&panoid=akDfFbLHc2RC_wFeoFZpcw&cbp=12,243.27,,0,1.32

THe American Legion, from World War I days. 40 men and 8 horses would fit in the boxcars of the day used in Europe.

[tvketchum]

Are there any cities with a zero street? Or even fractional street names?

Terre Haute IN is loaded with half streets. 7th, 7 1/2th, etc. They are pronounced "Seventh and a half". I beleive when origninally laid out, the halfs were to be alleys behind the houses and businesses fronthing the 'whole' street, but, when people built homes facing these alleys, they had to be named for addressing purposes. Thus, the half streets, continuing the established practice, continuing the sequence, making them easier to find.

[sipes23]

I grew up in a town that has a First Street, but no other numbered street. http://goo.gl/maps/amCgN

Google Maps thinks it is 1st Street, but the street signs (if memory serves) say "First St". Of course that has nothing to do with Indy.

[silverback1065]

Apparently Indy used to have 1st - 6th streets way back in the day http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~23120~790100:Plan-of-Indianapolis-by-S-W--Durant

[Bickendan]

Are there any cities with a zero street? Or even fractional street names?

Hell, aside for N Williams Ave acting as 0 for N/NE, W-E Burnside St acting as 0 for NW/SW and NE/SE, NW/SW Naito Pkwy acting as 0 on the westside and SE Water Ave acting as 0 for SE in Portland, Portland also boasts negative address in SW Portland.

In downtown, the river is right along Naito Pkwy. South of downtown, the distance grows to allow the South Waterfront and the western portion of Terwilliger-Corbett-Lair Hill street grids between Naito and the river. In that space, addresses increase against the grid for the westside (which is the -x axis on an x/y grid). -(-x) is positive, but that's the eastside's turf. So these addresses get a 0 tacked in front. (500, 400, 300, 200, 100, 0/00, 0100, 0200, 0300, 0400, 0500, Willamette River, 900, 1000, 1100, etc).
Voila: A house with a 'negative' address! http://goo.gl/maps/3rTxY