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In AmE, on is idiomatic in two uses in which BrE uses a different preposition:

• My father…had a dry-goods store on Gesia Street —I. B. Singer, 1983

(BrE in)

• On weekends she would play disk jockey like that for hours —New Yorker, 1987

(BrE at).

Modern English usage. 2014.

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