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    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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    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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    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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    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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    neighborhoods of Sutton Place, Midtown Manhattan, and Hell's Kitchen from east to west. 57th Street was created under the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. It 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    corner of Amsterdam Avenue. The street was designated by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 as one of 15 east-west streets that would be 100 feet (30 m) in width...
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    Malcolm X Boulevard in 1987. Sixth Avenue was laid out in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. As originally designed, Sixth Avenue's southern terminus was...
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    other avenues drawn up in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. From 14th Street to 17th Street, it forms the eastern boundary of Union Square and is known as...
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    neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, extending from 100th Street to 124th Street. Not included in the original Commissioners' Plan of 1811, it is parallel...
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