2. The 200th year Anniversary of the NYC Grid
2. “The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011,”
The Times has a fascinating snip bit about the history of the grid system of Manhattan today. If you've ever wondered how NYC was built, go check out the amazing story. [NYT]
Streets were still “rough and ragged” tracks for a long while, as one diarist observed in 1867, describing a recently opened stretch around 40th Street and Madison Avenue as a mess of “mud holes, goats, pigs and geese.”
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