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[was_tansu_now_badhedgehog]

I don't get US street numbering. How can a street with 15 houses on it have numbering that runs from 8100 to 8182? It starts in the wrong place and finishes in the wrong place. It is incorrect not only in startpoint, but in range.

Why aren't the houses numbered from 1 to 15?

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[luckimunki.livejournal.com]

Frequently, at least here in Brooklyn, the first two or three digits of a four or five digit address refer to the street the house is on.

For instance, my address is 7715. The building is on 4th avenue, between 77th and 78th street, so it begins with 77. The second two numbers have to do with where on the block it is, not how many total buildings there are there.
If you went around the corner, to 77th street between 4th and 5th avenue, you would see that the houses are numbered 4##. Between 3rd and 4th, 3##, and between 5th and 6th, 5##. Etc.