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Taco bell. 3rd Avenue. Gone, Early 2007.

Taco Bell was a great institution to have on this part of 3rd Avenue (between 10th street and 11th Street). It provided valuable fast food resources at a great price to the local community and I was sad to see it go. Things are going the wrong way on 3rd avenue. 3rd Avenue used to be the one you could rely on for cheap, suburban type crap mixed in with regular NYC stuff. Not quite the same anymore, it's a little too fake now.

Fast, a car-centric street - but there are some great mexican places and a Taco-Bell if you want Amerkinized type eats while you're traveling here. Overall, I think Queens Boulevard is underrated. People are scared of it because it's, well, scary. But there are places to ride or walk safely here, and there are good places to eat. What more can you ask for (except, well, a safer avenue.. ) ?

I'm going to ditto the guy who mentioned pizza on this block. That's the only reason I end up on it. It's kind of an odd street, and naturally through getting to work or school you're less likely to end up on it than a lot of other streets - but it's worth patronizing some businesses here, a little less cheezy than those on Bleecker around the corner. Nice bike lane too!

MacDougal is all good, but recently the NYC DOT performed one of the worst bike lane implementations ever. The bike lane could make the street safer for cyclists to ride on, but there was no enforcement and no signage put up when the bike lane was painted, and cyclists suffer because of it - now drivers clog up both sides of the street even though there is enough room to just park on one side.

That's the main way to describe this street besides "really nice" and "pretty".

It's a great little street. The schools around the corner are good, the park is good, the area is safe. Overall, one of the best tiny streets in the city. Low traffic, low human density. Good stuff. No where to eat or sit down though besides the park, really. But overall a good spot to relax for 5 or 10 minutes. Not ideal to end up driving down 16th to here, you'll just end up having to turn around and go back up 15h or 17th.

Union Square defines the characteristics of this street - the one block of East 15th between 5th Avenue and Union Square is different from the west - distinctly more midtown and business oriented. The 'real' east 15th was the one many of my friends went to High School on. Right next to the park on 2nd Avenue, which is also a nice spot. Be careful crossing 2nd Avenue. One year I saw a guy get hit by a car on 2nd avenue when he was crossing while it was his turn. Gory.

Warren Street. Easy to digest and great for a walk from the West side to City Hall, or the other way around. A great bike lane too, buffered for most of it's length. You've got Whole Foods, an AT&T Official service center, and some great market type groceries places. Higher end, but with amazing beverage selections to choose from. Worth a ride or walk - I recommend West > East.

Not terrible. But not great either. Bay Street is like a box of chocolates. Not good, but not terrible. You might feel sick if you take it all in at once. It's big. It's cheesy, but real at the same time. Closer to the ferry terminal, things get a little more interesting. The White Castle is one of the few in the city and worth checking out. There are sharrows on the street to make life for cyclists a little easier. Overall, worth a trek out to Staten Island every once in a while to check out the changes (or not).

The title says it all. East 18th is a great street to walk down if you're heading west. Sidewalks aren't terribly wide closer to Stuyvesant Town, and once you hit first avenue, things aren't as nice, especially in the winter months. Home to a bike shop and a good sushi place on Irving place, half a block from where they intersect. Safe to bike or drive on as traffic speeds aren't high, but not the ideal Street for heading west on a bike or in a car.

East 11th Street has retained more from the 90's than other parallel east-west thoroughfares. It's calmer year round, and the block between 1st and 2nd avenue is nice to walk on because of the large school yard that affords views through the block to East 12th. Part of the street was renamed for a woman who was electrocuted to death near the corner of 1st avenue in the early 2000's. Overall, a good walking street, with generally low traffic speeds.

Chrystie is a great connection to 2nd Avenue if you're heading downtown (and an obvious one). It's fast moving but usually the traffic isn't bad at all, which makes things better for the hundreds of cyclists who use it to get to the Manhattan Bridge in the summertime. Chrystie is known for nightlife, which is a more recent development. Further downtown it still serves as a commuter hub for those boarding charter or Chinatown buses and commuter vans. Avoid these areas late friday night if you're driving.

Prince street is full of shoppers. It's home to the first Apple store in New York City, and one of the first bright green bike lanes that borders the sidewalk on the North side of the Street. Prince starts in earnest around Lafayette, commercially at least. Rays Pizza (one of the good ones) has it's home just off the Bowery, and some great coffee shops are on Mott just south of Prince. Overall, a great, pretty street in the Summer.

Spring is on the of the busiest streets in SoHo. There are great hardware and other supply stores on the West Side, as well as a great Pizza place and public park - popular with families. Spring is a quick way to get over to the Bowery if you're walking or riding, but best to avoid if you have the misfortune of driving in SoHo. Definitely check out some of the better pizza shops near Broadway.

Lafayette Street is a major thoroughfare, in Both directions. The section down by Leroy Square is especially interesting, and really nice to stop in. It bottoms out around City Hall. A new public space was just finished below Spring Street, which is just another addition to Lafayette street's bevy of public spaces it straddles. Lafayette also has a great bike lane which is only occasionally blocked by FedEx.

This is a great connection between the Waterfront Greenway, Owl's head, and the rest of Brooklyn. Nothing wrong with a nice, calm street to enjoy as you travel between the park and other parts of Brooklyn. The expressway is on your left as you head up the (slight) uphill grade. If you make a right from here, there are a bunch of reasonably priced places to eat or refuel. Overall, a pretty good little street.

East 10th Street, especially below Avenue A, can be noisy as it is one of the only two way East-West streets in the neighborhood, between Houston and 14th Street. Trucks, buses, and emergency vehicles make heavy use of it. Some parts of East 10th are mostly residential, and pleasant to walk down. However, traffic remains an issue and there are better blocks to walk east or west on nearby.

W 63rd (both parts of it) are dead ends in more ways than one. The park views aren't great, there isn't much to see or do, and 64th or 59th are more interesting to travel west on - by bike or by foot. West 63rd actually deserves some credit for keeping up it's appearance despite being bordered by so many high traffic areas - problem is (except for residents), those are more fun to walk on or even live on.

Duane Street is a pleasant stretch of one lane road that runs east-west through Tribeca in Manhattan. It runs the gamut from hardware stores to printers, copiers, and grocers. The Duane Reade chain use this street as half their namesake with nearby Reade filling the other half. Reade also has a nice bike lane to make westward commutes easier for cyclists, as Chambers is usually a mess.

Mosco street is known for it's short distance and steep angles. In fact, it's one of the steepest streets in lower Manhattan. It's formally been the home of pizza parlors, and other delis. It's currently home to an excellent dumpling parlor and grocery store specializing in sauces and condiments. Careful on wet days.

Szold Place is an almost totally unknown street in the East Village / Avenue D Projects border of Manhattan. It's a small, historically named street near the Dry Dock swimming pool. It's a great street to stop and take five minutes to rest and enjoy the day wether you live in the neighborhood or are just stopping by.