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Picture this --You're on the Web and the address of the office you want to visit in New York City is given to you as 747 Third Avenue. You want to know if that's close to Rockefeller Center, or Wall Street, or Harlem. That's so you could plan your next move (or if you should even go at all). What to do? You could of course phone a travel agent or, perhaps, find and try out that complicated formula in an old NYC phone book you once took home for a souvenir...

Well, you're in luck! Below is a javascript program* that simplifies this procedure. 

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(NOTE: These programs works only with Javascript-enabled browser)

ON THE AVENUES

To get the nearest cross-street, enter the address number and select the name of the avenue, then click "Closest Street"

To find another address, just double-click the box and enter a new number. Then press "Closest Street" again. It's that simple. 

ON THE STREETS

Street addresses are specified as East or West, with Fifth Avenue as the dividing line. To find out which major Avenues are nearest to the address you have, enter the number in the box below, and click "East" or "West" as appropriate:

To locate another address, just double-click the box and enter a new number. Then press "East" or "West" again. It's that simple. 

 

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The above forms are Javascript programs I painstakingly created from scratch. Painstaking because of so many bugs that appeared during their creation and resulting in many stared-ceiling nights. The people who gave me suggestions on how to correct the bugs on the first form (On the Avenues) are: Mikie Jan, and two complete strangers who patiently corresponded with me through the Newsgroup - Bryn Waibel and Jason Olmsted. Thank you.

After that, the second form (On the Streets) was a bit easier to handle on my own, although it still took me a few weeks to finalize.

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