US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §  3-507  Numbers  in  certain  sections  in the borough of Manhattan.
  Whenever any street north of Ninth street, inclusive, in the borough  of
  Manhattan, shall be directed to be numbered or renumbered, the president
  of  such  borough  shall  cause the numbers to commence at Fifth avenue,
  numbering east and west, beginning with number one, on the west side  of
  Fifth  avenue;  number  one  hundred,  on the west side of Sixth avenue;
  number two hundred on the west side of Seventh avenue, and so  on,  east
  and  west  of Fifth avenue, through the whole series of streets north of
  Ninth street, and including Ninth street. Such streets  shall  hereafter
  be  called and known as East Ninth and West Ninth street, and so on, the
  dividing line to be Fifth avenue.