What is "crosstown"

Usage examples of "crosstown".

We can leave at Crosstown and then cut across country back toward the redoubt in Tennessee.

Means that we won't hit Crosstown on schedule unless we take in a tuck here and there.

He traveled crosstown until he got across Broadway, connected with the West Side Highway and rolled uptown.

I knew 40th and Twelfth was the closest car, and you wouldn’t be trying to go crosstown to Fifth with all that heat around.

Soon after arriving there, he left in different clothes than he'd worn out of the hotel-taking a side exit rather than the back door, the only detail not to meet Ricci's prediction to the letter -and was then chauffeured off in the passenger seat of an unmarked sedan that pulled into the crosstown avenue's westbound lanes and clanked along seemingly on two cylinders, an authentic touch that allowed it to blend nicely with the crumpled matchboxes driven by the average motorist in this land of plenty.

Personnel from other groups, either with a night off or taking a long break from somewhere crosstown or uptown, listened hard, trying to dig.

Chapter Four In which Esther gets a nose job Next evening, prim and nervous-thighed in a rear seat of the crosstown bus, Esther divided her attention between the delinquent wilderness outside and a paperback copy of The Search for Bridey Murphy.

Police sirens from uptown and crosstown started to converge on the rumble.

Go back way you came, to Four Two Square, Talk ta Subs, dey let ta walk crosstown unner.

Tramping crosstown through the slowly falling rain, he thought about Shirl and, without realizing it, began to whistle.

The rising sun cast long shadows down the crosstown streets, putting a golden sheen on the wet, black pavement.

Then we got in, and pulled away, heading west crosstown on 53rd Street.

We turned the corner and walked crosstown and downtown to the West 46th Street parking lot where we'd left the car.

Damage done to the payloaders and bulldozers was minor, according to Francis Lane, whose company got a substantial subcontracting bid on the crosstown extension, but the demolition crane, valued at $60,000, is expected to be out of service for as long as two weeks.

Protonix occupied a five-room suite in an office park on the south side of Corpus Christi, near the interchange between the Crosstown Expressway and South Padre Island Drive.