Why this word is great
BYSTREET — [Noun] A secondary or lesser-known urban thoroughfare; a quiet lane overshadowed by grander avenues. From by- ("secondary, adjacent") + street ("public road in a city or town"), it speaks of adjacency without prominence. Unlike "alley" (a serviceable gap between buildings) or "byway" (a rustic detour), a bystreet is a proper street demoted to obscurity by circumstance. It is the cobbled lane that dead-ends at a shuttered bakery, the nameless cut-through where stray cats patrol at dusk, the forgotten artery that once led somewhere important—proof that even cities have their secrets, and solitude can be found in plain sight.