cross street vs across street

Both 'cross street' and 'across street' are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Cross street' is used to refer to a street that intersects with another street, while 'across street' is used to indicate a location on the opposite side of a street.

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cross street

This phrase is correct and commonly used to refer to a street that intersects with another street.

Use 'cross street' when you want to talk about a street that intersects with another street. For example, 'The store is located at the corner of Main Street and Elm Street, across the cross street.'

Examples:

The restaurant is on the cross street.
Turn right at the cross street.
The park is across the cross street.
The school is located near the cross street.
The cross street is busy during rush hour.

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The signal's converging at the next cross street.
Quiet at this cross street, while the tram near Prenzlauer Allee on the drive.
The Center of Anacapri Lulù Capri is located along a quiet cross street of Anacapri's main road, in a central but peaceful neighborhood.
After the integration with Boffi, De Padova, starting from the 28th of October 2015, has a new address: via Santa Cecilia 7, a cross street of Corso Monforte. A domestic place to be re-discovered.
In Italy, a cross street was followed, focused on the scientific selection of building materials and the application of this method to traditional building techniques.
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Main to 61, correction on the cross street.
We seemed to be cut off from locations south of that cross street.
Broadway: walk a few steps to this cross street and you will find everything from restaurants, grocery stores, pharmacies, as well as many fashion boutiques and name brand stores.
cross street at first traffic light to Andrije Hebranga follow this street to Pizeria La Luna
Situated in a cross street of the lively Langstrasse, guests can find many stores, clubs and restaurants in the vicinity of the Guesthouse Brauerstrasse. Helvetia Square is only a 5-minute walk away.
Starting October 28th, 2015, De Padova has a new address: via Santa Cecilia 7, a cross street of Corso Monforte.
A cross street, a location, a warning?
After that, right side you will find ARKAD shopping center, keep going, at 3th cross street turn to left (Szabadsag u.) after 100 m. right side you find no.
Kerns, you see a cross street?
What's the cross street again?
The sixth cross street is Wilcza.
More precisely, the two streets of the intersection are not treated symmetrically: one names the street that the address is on, then gives a nearby cross street, and then specifies the address relative to the cross street.
Medic 78, respond to 2300 oak, cross street schrader for an abdominal laceration.
Placed inside a cross street with little traffic and therefore very silent.

Alternatives:

intersection street
corner street
intersecting street
crossing street
junction street

across street

This phrase is correct and commonly used to indicate a location on the opposite side of a street.

Use 'across street' when you want to describe a location that is on the opposite side of a street. For example, 'The grocery store is across the street from the bank.'