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In 2013, Hilary Ballon, the curator of The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan 1811–2011, an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, wrote about the Commissioners' Plan: [I]n our fast changing world where technology is outdated in a blink and future-proofing is the gold standard, the grid has demonstrated remarkable flexibility.
Of greatest importance, it sponsored the Erie Canal, which began operations in 1825, forming a continuous water route from New York north to Albany via the Hudson River, then west to Buffalo using the new canal to reach the Great Lakes. It opened a large new market in upstate New York and the Old Northwest. New York set up an auction system ...
Manhattan West is a 7-million-square-foot (650,000 m 2) mixed-use development by Brookfield Properties, built as part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment. [4] The project spans 8 acres and features four office towers, one boutique hotel, one residential building, 225,000 square feet (20,900 m 2) of retail space [3] and a 2.5-acre (1 hectare) public plaza.
The only known image [1] of John Randel Jr.; painted by an unknown artist, probably Ezra Ames. [2]John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an American surveyor, cartographer, civil engineer and inventor from Albany, New York who completed a full survey of Manhattan Island from 1808 to 1817, in service of the creation of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which determined that New York City – which ...
The street was designated by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 that established the Manhattan street grid as one of 15 east-west streets that would be 100 feet (30 m) in width (while other streets were designated as 60 feet (18 m) in width).
(3) Detail showing the Mandeville Farm in Blocks 713–717 overlaid on the modern grid of city streets, taken from a map by Jennie Macarthy called "Map of the Dutch Grants" found in The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498–1909 by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (vol. 6, following p. 64i, plates 84B-a-g, Robert H. Dodd, publisher, 1928)
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A grid plan from 1799 of Pori, Finland, by Isaac Tillberg. The city of Adelaide, South Australia was laid out in a grid, surrounded by gardens and parks. In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid. [1]