pull an avenue address over

pull an avenue address over
 v. phr.— «“Pulling an avenue address over” is the topographical parlance for denying that your building’s real entrance is on, say, East Seventy-sixth Street.» —“On The Avenue” by Ben McGrath New Yorker Nov. 12, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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