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Seattle’s street naming system is really easy once you know the basic rules (which have their exceptions). Streets generally run east-west; in greater downtown (including Belltown and west Capitol Hill), they run northeast-southwest. Avenues generally run north-south; in greater downtown, they run northwest-southeast. Ways, drives, places, boulevards, etc. can run in any direction.

Downtown’s not the only place where the city’s geography inspired digressions from an orderly street grid. Just about every part of town has them. These walks routinely cross the city’s directional prefix and suffix zones (NW, N., NE, etc.). Don’t worry about it.

Central downtown’s streets were given alliterative pairs of names for easier remembering—Jefferson and James, Columbia and Cherry, Marion and Madison, Spring and Seneca, University and Union, and Pike and Pine. These are expressed in an old-time local phrase, “Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest.”

CONNECTING THE WALKS

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