The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-17
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York-Considering it's size, New York probably doesn't offer many more geographical difficult ties to the address seeking strang- CT than does the average city.
 But now and then police do come upon some wild-eyed fellow babbling of looking for three days for some such spot as Milligan place, which must be entered through a wooden gate, or Little West Broadway, which is nowhere near Broadway, or Theater Alley, miles from the theater section.
 There are several street mys- teries down in the financial sec tion. Pearl street, for example, starts on Broadway near the Bat tery, changes direction five times and ends on Broadway 20 blocks north. In that region, too, the East Side subway runs west of the West Side subway, and the same things happens up in the Bronx ....E. Eleventh avenue runs through City Plaza into Thirteenth avenue, which in turns becomes Twelfth avenue with no warning at all :. Buildings on opposite corners of Twenty first street are both num- UcIcu IOU HUI dNcHuc. AHu tlIel U are two Empire State buildings, mile apart.
 East Side, West Side
 If a visitor in Greenwich village walks west on West Fourth street he passes Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth streets, but doesn't see Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth or Ninth streets. In the same locality is a triangular building bounded on two sides by one street and on side side by two streets - Waverly Place, Grove and Christopher Republican park, until recently a democratic spot if there ever was one. @ Outlying boroughs are just as confusing. Up in the Bronx the One Hundred and Sixty-seventh street trolley runs on One Hun dred and Eighty-first street, and the Williamsbridge road car never comes near Williamsbridge road . In Brooklyn, West Fourth street and Sixty-fifth street meet. Whats In the Names &,
 Name origins are interesting, if you don't mind little history. The aforementioned Theater Alley is relic of the days when Little Old New York was huddled on the southern tip of Manhattan. The entrance to the Park theater was through this alley, and there walked celebrities such as Ed mund Kean, the eccentric Junius Brutus Booth, father of Edwin and John Wilkes, John and Henry Wallack, the great Mrs Siddons, and Ellen Tree. That was more than a century ago Stone street dates back to Dutch times, when a resident heckled the au- thorities about the dust until they finally paved it with big stone blocks.
 When the English occupied tlie town during the RevOIu- ton they changed the name of "Ihe Street That Leads by the Pye Woman's' to Nassau :. street.
 Chinatown History s
 Mott and Pell streets, which form the famous Bloody Corner in Chinatown, are not derivatives of Chinese names, as most people believe. Joseph Mott was a pros porous butcher, John Pell a cloth ing merchant, and the streets are memorials to them.
 Robert Fulton had street named after him and that's about all he did get Murray Hill, a smart residential section on lower Park avenue. was the place where General Howe was detained long enough to allow American troops to escape from the island A Rob- ert Murray owned a farm there, and it was his wife who held up the British, single-handed. Piled the officers with cake and liquor.