Talk:Houston Street

message: When one reads that the unusual pronunciation is in fact due to being named after William Houstoun, one wonders the reason for the difference in the spelling of the street and the person. Also, is there a particular reason why Houstoun should be pronounced differently than Houston?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.65.42.76 (talk) 08:35, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Houston County, Georgia is also named for William Houstoun.
Actually, according to the Georgia county's official website, it is named for Ga. governor John Houstoun. Are the two men related? Wish I had time to check... Ellsworth 21:40, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: The entry currently says this: "Houston Street is a large thoroughfare running east - west north of the downtown area of the borough of Manhattan..."
Aside from the fact that the sequence of words "east west north" is inherently difficult, would anyone like to defend the assertion that "downtown" in New York City begins at Houston Street?  My personal downtown starts somewhere between 14th and 23rd.
:I agree with you.  I'm not sure I'd describe anything higher than 14th st as being a "downtown" neighborhood, but Greenwich Village is unarguably downtown, even though it's north of Houston.  By the way, the Lower Manhattan article states that "'Lower Manhattan' and 'Downtown' are often roughly synonymous," but I don't buy this at all.  To me, Lower Manhattan means below Canal--and especially the Financial District.  Downtown much more generally refers to the southern portion of the island.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 13:09, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, downtown has never meant above 14th to anyone I know.  Although I don't have anything to back me up off-the-cuff, In my five years living here Dowtown signified below 14th Street. --DavidShankBone 13:27, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I'm going to work up a useful rephrasing for the lead sentence there. - Corporal Tunnel 14:58, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Come to think of it, it's not even true that it's one block south of First Street, except for that little bit of it between First Avenue and Bowery.  - Corporal Tunnel 15:02, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Downtown? 

message: I've entered a proposed new intro paragraph, which I think is more accurate and concise, and which solves the "east-west north" word sequence problem.  Speaking of which, is there a compelling reason to Wiki-link to "east" and "west" in this context?  Isn't that a bit silly?  I'm leaving it for now because that's the way it was when I came to it, but there are plenty of links in there already - it may be more distracting than useful. - Corporal Tunnel 17:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article's first paragraph is much better and more accurate now.  I like it.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 17:08, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: First Paragraph

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replies: text: I've swapped the image for another. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:54, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: File:Keith Haring homage on Houston Street 3.JPG Nominated for Deletion

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message: Regardless of the outcome of this overall mass rename request, I would like to propose that any street names that are disambiguated be written as name, Manhattan rather than name (Manhattan). The comma method is more natural and is suggested by similar examples in Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names), under disambiguation.  I hope this will be less controversial and if there is general agreement on using commas, i believe it could clarify the bigger question of when the street names should be disambiguated, by default or only when an actual conflict with a Wikipedia article exists. --agr (talk) 17:46, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Would support this proposal, which would be in line with the naming conventions anyway.  The conventions suggest using the comma form of disambiguation when the disambiguator is a geographical entity.  Unless a street (or other entity such as a theatre, cinema, park) is so well known as to immediately spring to mind worldwide as being the obvious location (and in the north of England, unless the context is given Central Park means the former rugby ground in Wigan, while Hyde Park is could mean numerous places), the borough/city/town should always be given.  Skinsmoke (talk) 02:05, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose this proposal.  Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) mentions using commas for populated places.  However, other geo articles such as those on hydroforms, landforms, and buildings, and streets typically use parentheticals for title disambiguators.  —  AjaxSmack  03:22, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I largely agree, but that rule can be ambiguous for street names that also designate a neighborhood.  Powers T 19:13, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

text: I agree with this opposition. It seems that the convention for disambiguators of numbered streets are largely parenthetic. Z22 (talk) 20:56, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This whole proposal was a rotten idea. Not just the use of the comma, but the elimination of the qualifiers. I agree with BeoyndMyKen and Z22 about this issue, but I'd like to point out that there's an Avenue C not only in Manhattan, but in Brooklyn. Dyer Avenue is in Manhattan and the Bronx. Mott Avenue is in the Bronx and Queens. Neither of the streets in each borough are connected in any way shape or form. -------User:DanTD (talk)  16:10, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Side proposal: use comma disambiguation

message: Is the street map broken or something? Cause I get can't get it to work. NintendoTTTEfan2005 (talk) 05:26, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map