New York on Street View

How to recognise the city from a panorama

New York shows itself through traffic lights hung on wires across the street and fire hydrants at the kerb. On Manhattan the grid is almost perfectly regular, with house numbers counting outward from Fifth Avenue.

What the streets look like

The roadway is wider than the pavement, the centre line is yellow, and traffic lights hang on wires across the street. A hydrant sits at the kerb on almost every block, and older buildings carry external fire escapes.

How to tell it from lookalikes

Monolingual signage and yellow cabs separate it from Toronto, where signs repeat in French and have rounded corners. From Chicago it differs by density and the absence of an elevated railway over the street.

Useful details

The Manhattan grid is nearly perfect: avenues run north to south, streets across, and numbering grows outward from Fifth Avenue. A house number pins the block.

Geogessr drops you somewhere random in the world — sometimes in New York. Work out where you are and drop a pin on the map.

Country giveaways

A quick check when the panorama looks unfamiliar: these signs are visible almost anywhere in the city.

Country	United States
Driving side	right-hand
Licence plates	state-issued, the design changes from state to state
Script on signs	Latin
Currency	USD $
Time zone	UTC−5/−4
Domain	.us

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