Used to drive me insane living in NYC. Funny that Google Maps even highlights both Gold street in Brooklyn and the Gold street in the financial district if you do a search and zoom out. I wonder if that’s intentional or not.
And speaking of Brooklyn, I really wonder what city planners were thinking with that thing in Williamsburg where numbered streets exist twice, once as “<j> North <i>th Street” and once as “South <i>th Street”, which completely clashes with Manhattan naming the Eastern/Western part of the same street (“<j> <E/W> <i>Th Street”). Not to mention the completely separate set of numbered streets (“<j> <i>th Street”, without cardinal direction indicators) in the south or Brooklyn…