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Originally Posted by 2oh1
Compare the distance just based on the number of city blocks... NW 23rd is obviously 23 blocks from the river, most of them small. Mt. Tabor is SIXTY blocks from the river, and they're much larger blocks.
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Actually, that's incorrect. The blocks throughout Portland, east and west, are the same size. Twenty blocks in Portland is equal to 1 mile, the smallest blocks of any major city in the country. Of course, there are fewer gridded neighborhoods on the westside outside of the central city. And the further out you go into NE and SE, the more superblocks and grid interruptions you encounter. But 42nd is
exactly 2 miles from 82nd, 82nd is
exactly 2 miles from 122nd, etc. all the way out to Gresham.
Also, in NW, the numbering system changes after 19th. So 19th is actually
2 blocks from 20th, and 23rd is a total of
8 blocks from 19th. I don't know why they did that, just an anomoly, but in this case, NW 23rd is actually
31 blocks from the river (measuring from the Burnside Bridge) while NE/SE 23rd is 23 blocks from the river. Mt Tabor (or more precisely, SE 60th in the Mt Tabor neighborhood) is exactly 3 miles from the river.