The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 was the original design for the streets of Manhattan above Houston Street and below 155th Street, which put in place the...
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well-known grid plan is the plan for New York City formulated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, a proposal by the state legislature of New York for the...
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City borough of Manhattan. The route, which follows a course that is much older than the grid pattern of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, passes through...
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street-naming grid in Manhattan, created as part of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, begins immediately north of Houston Street with 1st Street at Avenue A...
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Manhattan (redirect from Borough of Manhattan)
city in the United States. The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 laid out the island of Manhattan in its familiar grid plan. The city's role as an economic...
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Eighth Avenue (Manhattan) (section Points of interest)
side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic below 59th Street. It is one of the original avenues of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 to...
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Plan (1944) L'Enfant Plan (1791) Commissioners' Plan of 1811 Waller Plan (1839) McMillan Plan (1902) City Plan for Cincinnati (1907) Burnham Plan of Chicago...
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borough of Manhattan contains 214 numbered east–west streets ranging from 1st to 228th, the majority of them designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. These...
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of the New York City Police Department. The Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which laid out the grid scheme of Manhattan above Houston Street, designated 16...
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President of the United States. Madison Avenue was not part of the original Manhattan street grid established in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, and was...
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East 14th Street. Lexington Avenue was not one of the streets included in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 street grid, so the addresses for cross streets...
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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...
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The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 determines the grid plan of Manhattan. John Nash prepares his plan of the Regent Street and Regent's Park areas of London...
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Street. It is the eastern border of Tompkins Square Park. The street was created by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 as one of 16 north-south streets specified...
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Eleventh Avenue in the west. 23rd Street was created under the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. The street hosts several famous hotels, including the Fifth...
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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...
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neighborhoods of Sutton Place, Billionaire's Row, and Hell's Kitchen from east to west. 57th Street was created according to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 and...
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cartographers. The first official map of New York City under independence was likely the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. Columbus Circle serves as a geographic...
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feet facing Amsterdam. The name of squares for triangular pieces of land reflected the original Commissioners' Plan of 1811 which called for the area to...
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March uptown (category Cultural history of New York City)
tip, European colonial and later American settlement under the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 expanded continually in a common direction. Former agricultural...
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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...
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Manhattanhenge (category Astronomical events of the Solar System)
we might build." In accordance with the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, the street grid for most of Manhattan is rotated 29° clockwise from true east-west...
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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...
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that actual New Yorkers think that they're all around us". The Commissioners' Plan of 1811, regarded as the single most important document in New York City's...
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the lower level of West 155th Street. Seventh Avenue was originally laid out in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. The southern terminus of Seventh Avenue...
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Queensboro Bridge just east of the intersection with Second Avenue. 59th Street was created under the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 as one of the minor east-west...
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Simeon De Witt (category Erie Canal Commissioners)
his Sundays in New York City. The result of the work of the commission was the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which laid out Manhattan's streets above...
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of the name of the section of the East Village neighborhood through which they run, Alphabet City. The street was created by the Commissioners' Plan of...
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west of Broadway to the Hudson River. The street was designated by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 that established the Manhattan street grid as one of 15...
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situated to the east of Third Avenue, where 105th and 106th streets now cross First Avenue (as laid out in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811). Red House hosted...
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