This word is frequently omitted. In London, no one would say, “Go along Oxford till you come to North Audley,” but in an American city, “Go along Fifth till you come to Market” is familiar enough.
1794. Joseph Claypoole, from the north side of Walnut to the south side of High-Street…. Nicholas Hicks, from the north side of Mulberry to the north side of Vine Street.—Gazette of the U.S., Phila., Feb. 15.
1798. An inhabitant of Cherry near Fifth Street.—The Aurora, Phila., Aug. 14.
1798. Thomas Gray, Front near Spruce Street, John Cassidy, Second near Catharine Street.—Id., Aug. 17. [City Hospital Report.]
1799. Oct. 2, Mary Cassidy, a child, Plumb, between 4th and 5th Streets. Oct. 3, Polly Mills, German, above 3rd Street. Oct. 4, Richd. McGee, Catharine, between Front and 2d. Street. Oct. 9, Rachael Dail, Callowhill, near 2d. Street.—Id. [the same.]
1800. An afternoon’s hard rain will so far overcome the water-course, that often you might heve a good sailing frolic on Cedar near Fourth Street.—Id., Oct. 10.
1834. Crossing Chatham, she turned abruptly down one of the narrowest streets.—Caruthers, ‘The Kentuckian in New-York,’ i. 153 (N.Y.).
1837. A small negro hut on Spring St., near Gough.—Balt. Comml. Transcript, Nov. 16, p. 2/1.
1838. But few buildings were saved in the range of the fire on Fourth, between Market and Chesnut Streets.—The Jeffersonian, Albany, Nov. 3, p. 304.
1911. Stroll down to the corner of William Street and Beaver some day next week. Wait there long enough to get your bearings, then mount the steps of that building from which comes a sound like the roar of surf in the midst of a storm. That is the New York Cotton Exchange.—N.Y. Evening Post, Oct. 30.
