Navigating D.C. streets
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In the District, it's easy to find your way around downtown if you understand the street system. Within each of the four quadrants -- Northeast, Southeast, Northwest and Southwest -- numbered streets run north and south. Alphabetical streets run east and west. If you want 500 K Street NW, you know to look between Fifth and Sixth streets along K Street northwest of the Capitol.
By the way, there isn't a J Street in the District. That's because it was originally thought that when people hand-addressed envelopes, "J" could be easily confused with "I" (eye).
You won't find an X, Y or Z Street in the city, either, but every state and U.S. territory has a street named for it, and those usually run diagonally.
