It has been described by so many writers in
so many ways that one is at a loss for a choice of quotations. Perhaps
the most whimsically descriptive is in O. Henry's "Last Leaf."
"In a little district west of Washington Square the streets
have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips
called 'places.' These 'places' make strange angles and
curves. One street crosses itself a time or two. An artist
once discovered a valuable possibility in this street.
Suppose a collector with a bill for paint, paper and canvas
should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet himself
coming back, without a cent having been paid on account!"
And Kate Jordan offers this concerning Waverly Place:
"Here Eleventh and Fourth streets, refusing to be separated
by arithmetical arrangements, meet at an unexpected point as
if to shake hands, and Waverly Place sticks its head in
where some other street ought to be, for all the world like
a village busybody who has to see what is happening around
the corner.
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