204 years ago today, the Manhattan Street Grid became official

Mar 22, 2017 |

Photo courtesy of the Greenwich Village Society of Historical Preservation Deemed by historians as the “single most important document in New York City’s development,” the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, which planned Manhattan’s famous grid system, turns 204 years old this month. As the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation tells us, the chief surveyor of the plan, John […more]

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