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Yal · 03-29-08, 07:03

A block is the distance from one cross street to the next. It really has nothing to do with a fixed distance. Usually if someone says its x amount of "blocks" they mean that you can easily count the blocks as you go from one street to the next.

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Yal Registered User Yal is offline Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: NY, Long Island Posts: 832	Re: How big is a Block (geographic)? A block is the distance from one cross street to the next. It really has nothing to do with a fixed distance. Usually if someone says its x amount of "blocks" they mean that you can easily count the blocks as you go from one street to the next.