Template talk:Streets of Manhattan

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I'm not that familiar with Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood, but according to Google Maps these streets appear to be 2-way, which I've added: West 207, Dyckman, West 181, West 165, West 155, West 145, 135 Streets. Also, I've added Route 1/Route 95. I didn't add Route 9 since it splits off at Broadway. Additionally, these streets appear to be 2-way, but I haven't added pending further confirmation (they aren't highlighted on Google Maps): Academy, West 204, Isham, West 213, West 214, West 218 Streets. Wl219 05:04, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes to all except 214th and 213th Doodle77 23:29, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] old version preserved

NE2 did a complete reorganization of the template, but I think it looks a bit cluttered with too many abbreviations. I'm preserving the old version here:

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Bi-Directional Streets of Manhattan
West End
{{{West}}}		 Uptown
West 207th Street
Dyckman Street
West 181st Street
U.S. 1/I-95
West 165th Street
West 155th Street
West 145th Street
135th Street
125th Street
110th Street
Central Park North
96th Street
86th Street
79th Street
72nd Street		 Midtown/Downtown
Central Park South
59th Street
57th Street
42nd Street
34th Street
23rd Street
14th Street
Houston Street
Delancey Street
Canal Street
Worth Street
Chambers Street		 East End
{{{East}}}
WSH (12) | Riverside | 11 (West End) | 10 (Amsterdam) | Dyer | 9 (Columbus) | 8 or CPW | 7 | 6 or Lenox | 5 | Madison | Park (4) | Lexington | 3 | 2 | 1 | A or York | B or East End | C | D | FDR

Wl219 07:36, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] (100ft )?

What is this after all the street names? It is not explained and very messy. --Knulclunk 15:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

That's the width of the street. Most streets are only 60 feet wide. --NE2 18:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Couldn't that information be on the street's article itself? --Knulclunk 20:54, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template for other Manhattan Streets

I see this template applied to articles to which it does not link to it (e.g., 53rd Street (Manhattan)). That's a wiki no no. Ideally every street in Manhattan should have an article (particularly the midtown streets). Does anybody have any suggestions on a master template for this (e.g., "Numbered East West Streets in Manhattan" or "Numbered East West Streets from 1st to 59th Streets in Manhattan" --59th to 110, Above 110th). Americasroof 07:06, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] spacing on template

The only problem with the longer entires, 6th Av/Av of the Americas/Lenox Av/Malcolm X Blvd; Lenox and Malcolm X are outside the template box and cut off by the browser. This happens with most of the longer entries. --Knulclunk 13:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

When does this happen? What browser are you using and how wide is your screen? On Safari I can make the window extremely narrow and the spacing behavior works correctly... Any info regarding this would be helpful to fix bugs in the code... PaulC/T+ 20:54, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

It happens in Firefox on both Mac and PC. The text will not wrap around if there are not spaces between the links in the template box. --Knulclunk 02:04, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Hmm... that is odd. It seems that the "/"s mess with the outer box of the template on Firefox. The browser doesn't know that these lines don't break. I'm going to try and use pipes {{!}} instead and see if that helps... PaulC/T+ 16:17, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Okay, it took a few revisions, but I finally got something that renders correctly in Firefox without allowing wraps between names that share streets. The {{nowrap begin}} templates come in quite handy again... The code is slightly messier, but it works. Be sure to use {{·wrap}} instead of {{·}} for future additions. Thanks for pointing out the bug. Let me know if you see any more issues and I'll try to fix them. PaulC/T+ 16:54, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Looks great! It's a shame about all those wrap codes, but it displays great here! Thank you!--Knulclunk 03:18, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] cross streets

We needed to change the template to separate the cross streets into upper, mid and downtown as well. We can change the 14th-59th midtown designation. It just seemed like a good place to start.--Knulclunk 15:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] template size

This template has grown so large, it looks silly on the shorter articles and stubs. Does anyone know how to make a "hidden" version, so when a user comes to the page, the template is collapsed by default? Do we want it ALWAYS to be collapsed? Or can we build the template to be shown or hidden on a page by page basis? --Knulclunk (talk) 03:38, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Psantora! --Knulclunk 13:20, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
At the very least it should be broken into two parts. This template is way, way, way too big. Americasroof (talk) 16:52, 27 March 2008 (UTC)