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post #16 of 22
12/31/08 at 10:48pm
Fahgettaboudit!
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post #17 of 22
12/31/08 at 10:52pm
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Originally Posted by Stylish Tadeusz View Post
A true New Yorker doesn't try to prove they are true. I was not born in the USA and am thankful that I am not from cheddar cheese country which I guess is inspiring your playground debate.

You've obviously never had really good cheddar cheese. I had some amazing stuff the other day from whole foods. I wish i still had some left
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post #18 of 22
1/1/09 at 4:48am
no one says avenue of americas
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post #19 of 22
1/1/09 at 1:50pm
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who doesn't like cheddar?
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post #20 of 22
1/1/09 at 6:23pm
Not only are Noo Yorkers annoying for thinking that NYC is everything, but now we are debating a friggin street name.

Get over yourself, you are not the center of the universe.
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post #21 of 22
1/2/09 at 12:45pm
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Originally Posted by lee_44106 View Post
Not only are Noo Yorkers annoying for thinking that NYC is everything, but now we are debating a friggin street name.

Get over yourself, you are not the center of the universe.

Nothing like a little new york hate to perk me up on a friday morning

anyways: I say 6th, most New Yorkers say the numbers. I very really hear anyone saying Adam Clayton Powell blvd.
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post #22 of 22
1/2/09 at 1:05pm
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Originally Posted by lee_44106 View Post
Not only are Noo Yorkers annoying for thinking that NYC is everything, but now we are debating a friggin street name.

Get over yourself, you are not the center of the universe.

Oh come on Lee - how about a New Year's resolution to stop hating on and obsessing about NYC? There is rarely a question or topic about the city where you don't pop up your head to scream "FU New York!", even your location in your profile obsesses about NYC... Where is the trauma coming from? do you want to talk about it? We're good listeners.

Here's to start the year: http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2008/

To answer the OP: 6th Av of course. Half of the cabbies wouldn't even know what Ave of the Americas is.

Also, does anyone have a good answer as to why Houston Street is pronounced differently from Houston, TX ? My brother asked my last week and I had no idea.
EDIT: fuggedaboutit, found the answer in wikipedia
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The street name Houston confuses many people from outside of New York (invariably becoming one of the easiest signs of spotting tourists) because the letters "ou" are pronounced as in the word house (pronounced /ˈhaʊstən/), whereas the same letters in the name of the city of Houston, Texas are pronounced like the "u" in huge (pronounced /ˈhjuːstən/ or /ˈjuːstən/, "HYOO-stin"). This is because Houston Street was named for William Houstoun (note that the spelling is different), long before the fame of Sam Houston, for whom the city in Texas is named. Some people mistakenly believe that the pronunciation was popularized by the accents of local Jewish immigrants.
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