Streets

Back when the city was being rapidly built up, the powers that be realized that, due to the premium value of house frontage on the canals and streets, they should tax house size on the width of the front, or façade.

Three college students, down on their luck and in rent arrears, plotted, schemed, and grafted away night-after-night in an effort to avoid having their rental lease terminated and keep themselves off the streets.

They are arranged side-by-side in tight, unbroken rows along narrow pedestrian streets.

It comprises a grid of streets with one axis parallel to the river and the other axis of streets and alleys set at right angles to it.

Typically, the buildings front the streets for convenient customer access.

These dishes soon became so popular they were sold anywhere from river boat food vendors to the streets, enjoyed both by royalty and the common folk.

The vast area, known locally as Yaowarat, is full of streets and alleys that are in turn full of shops and restaurants and countless street food vendors.

The old harbor of the city, Damrak, is now one of the busiest streets in the city.

Manhattan is known for its tall skyscrapers and busy streets.