article_snippet: Boardwalk, for example, is Mayfair in Britain, Schlossallee in Germany, Kalverstraat in the Netherlands and Rue de la Paix in France, after major streets in London, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris.
article_snippet: Other streets have also drawn from local geography.
article_snippet: In the early '70s, a city commissioner proposed renaming Mediterranean and Baltic avenues, since both had other names in different parts of town.
article_snippet: Baltic and Mediterranean are the streets we know," wrote one commissioner.