Street facts for kids
- See also Street (town)
A street is a piece of land, made flat or prepared in another way, so that people can travel on it better. We often use the words "street" and "road" for the same thing, but really a street is in a town.
Many streets are the centre of local culture and people make groups there. New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, for example, is famous for its active nightlife and also for its role as the center of the city’s French Quarter. The Bowery in New York was, for many years, the nation’s center of underground punk culture.
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The Porta Rosa was the main street of Elea, connecting the northern quarter with the southern quarter. The street is 5 meters wide and has an incline of 18 % in the steepest part. It is paved with limestone blocks, griders cut in square blocks, and on one side a small gutter for the drainage of rain water. The building is dated during the time of the reorganization of the city during the Hellenistic age (4th–3rd centuries BC).
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A street full of vehicles in Shanghai
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Kitano Street in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
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An empty street in Misasa, Tottori, Japan.
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Pedestrians walking along Elfreth's Alley, Philadelphia
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Nevsky Prospekt, is the main street in the city of St. Petersburg, 1901.
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Typical service street ("mews") in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Mews are typically found at the back of older housing terraces (rows of townhouses) in the UK, with a more elegant street in front of the terrace.
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Abbey Road, London
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Rue Saint-Jacques, a street in Montreal, 1910
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An avenue in São Paulo.
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In Spanish: Calle para niños
