Dave Mandl on Nostr: The word to measure distances in NYC was always "blocks" ("She lives two blocks from ...

The word to measure distances in NYC was always "blocks" ("She lives two blocks from here"). In the UK they use "streets" because "blocks" means something else. But I've been seeing "streets" used in some US papers and magazines (NYT, NY'er) recently. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/realestate/pink-building-brooklyn-fort-greene.html #copyediting