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Originally Posted by eschaton
In Pittsburgh, these are known as "breezeways." Sometimes there are breezeways between rowhouses, where the second story is connected but there is an arched passageway on the ground floor (or occasionally, one with steps downward where the breezeway is actually close to basement level.
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interesting, so for narrow exterior passageways between buidlings we have:
chicago - "gangways"
cincy - "alleys"
pittsburgh - "breeezeways"
what about others? does your city have a specific name for these odd little passageways in between tightly packed urban buildings?
and for the record, i'm not talking about "side yards", but narrow little exterior passageways only several feet wide like the one picture below.
gangway chicago by
crowbert, on Flickr
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Originally Posted by eschaton
Alleys in Pittsburgh almost invariably are named, and have the term "Way" added to the end of them. Some of them have delightfully odd names (Asteroid Way, Hyena Way, Samoa Way, etc.) The reason the alleys have names is because in a lot of the older neighborhoods there's actually a ton of houses which front directly on the alley, meaning you need to have mail delivery and the like.
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also interesting. chicago doesn't name its uniquitous alleys, but for mail and fire dept. address purposes for coach houses and the like, the suffix "R" for "rear" is applied to the main address of the property.