Once when I was on a boat tour around New York harbour, the tour guide condescendingly remarked, "You can tell the English parts of this city because they gave very unimaginative names to streets - Bank Street was where the bank was, Wall Street had a wall running down it, et cetera." Now, without getting drawn into what determines an imaginative street name and what doesn't (I hardly think 33rd Street or 10th Avenue are more colourful than the English examples given), I saw this alley close to Bank Station and thought it was a delightfully descriptive name, although I am a little surprised that the PC-brigade haven't forced the name to be changed.
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