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Yes.
Easiest city in America to navigate, at least Manhattan. I have not been to the other boroughs enough to know how easy they are to navigate.
absolutely not. NYC and Tokyo and El Paso are some of the most confusing places in America because of how the massive number of streets and building and how they are numbered. Chicago, in my opinion, is easy to navigate. But NYC and El Paso and Tokyo can be almost impossible unless you have lived their your entire lifes.
There are several good apps you can find for your phone that will help navigate the subways and such. I recommend getting 1 or 2 before your trip.
Would you have difficulty navigating a cartesian grid?
Avenue's run north south and are numbered 1-12 except on the lower east side where to the east of 1 are avenues A-D. Streets run east west and are numbered 1-160 (or something like that no need to go that far north). Lower Manhattan can be a bit more difficult because in SOHO, Lower East Side, Tribeca have some streets running diagonal but it is a small area and easy to walk around and find your way.
No one here calls it the big apple. Please stay home and do not visit, we hate tourists.
Yes in Manhattan streets run low to high south to north and avenues run low to high east to west with the name avenues (I'm told) following the Bible Luke-Lexington, Paul- Park, Mathew-Madison Aves. The name street in lower Manhattan are a jumble but every NYer likes to show off that they have mastered the riddle just ask. NYers are really very tourist friendly.
Signage on subways and busses are clear with color coded maps and schedules posted at every stop.
Plus
http://tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/TripPlanner.aspx
will get you everywhere you'd want to go.
Uptown an Midtown Manhattan are laid out in a grid. Very easy to navigate. Downtown is a little more confusing, but it is a tiny area.
Comedian asking how could you get lost in New York.
It feels racist--hell, it *is* racist--but years ago I was told that if you want good directions (and maybe this was just about NYC, I don't remember), you should ask a black guy.
Since I heard that I've mostly done so--not every time, but mostly--and I've gotta say that it was pretty good advice.
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While I use apps, I also like to look at a map to get a "big picture" and to see patterns (like how avenues or streets are laid out in terms of numbering or names).