Study Shows 40 Percent of Manhattan Buildings Don't Display Addresses

By Jon Schuppe

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Of the countless annoyances of everyday life in New York City, the lack of proper numbering on city buildings probably doesn’t rank as high as, say, noise or cheating cabbies.

But it is irritating.

And now Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has a study to show how widespread the problem is.

He sent researchers to 13 streets in Manhattan, and found that about 40 percent of buildings did not display their addresses.

The worst was Eighth Avenue between 42nd and 59^th streets in Midtown West, where 58.2 percent of buildings didn’t show their street numbers. Also among the worst offenders were buildings on Columbus Avenue between 67^th and 83^rd streets on the Upper West Side (with a 53.8 percent failure rate), and 42^nd Street between Sixth and First avenues in Midtown (54.7 percent).