New York City - NYC Street Map
WEBNYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records. Find the official mapped width, name, and status of specific streets. See how the street grid has changed over time.
Museum of the City of New York - Greatest Grid
WEBGo To Interactive Map. The street grid is a defining element of Manhattan. Established in 1811 to blanket the island when New York was a compact town at the southern tip, the grid was the city’s first great civic enterprise and a vision of brazen ambition.
How To Understand NYC Streets: The New York Grid System …
WEBFeb 26, 2023 · New York City’s street grid system features numbered streets that are 60 feet wide, with about 200 feet between each pair of streets, creating 2,000 long, narrow blocks. Each combined street and block is approximately 260 feet, with 20 blocks per mile.
New York City Streets and Avenue Grid Explained - Free Tours by …
WEBApr 25, 2024 · This post explains New York City’s grid system of streets and avenues so you can easily find your way around on foot or by car. The grid system makes New York one of the most walkable cities in the world.
NYC Street Map - Maps and Geography - DCP - NYC.gov
WEBNYC Street Map With this app, you can find the official mapped width, name, and status of specific streets and how they may relate to specific properties. You can also see how the street grid has changed over time in your area.
The Greatest Grid, an Interactive Map of the 1811 Master Plan of New …
WEBNov 10, 2015 · This Interactive Map Displays All Changes in New York City’s Street Grid Over Past Nine Decades
The Greatest Grid - Museum of the City of New York
WEBExplore New York City’s grid system, and its impact on city planning and the city itself. Learn with educational resources, interactive maps, and more. Explore the history of Manhattan’s famous grid of numbered streets and avenues—the largest feat of urban planning in the city's history.
The Manhattan Street Grid Plan: Misconceptions and Corrections
WEBDec 4, 2016 · The conventional wisdom is that the grid plan was created by John Randel, Jr., the chief surveyor for the commission charged with coming up with a future street plan, and who tirelessly trudged through the wilds of Manhattan in order to map it. But the truth is that Randel did not create the plan.
Map Overviews - Museum of the City of New York
WEBMap Overviews. These maps depict the gradual erasure of old weaving streets and their replacement by straight roads as the grid advanced up the island. Although there were departures from the 1811 plan, those new streets generally followed the system of the grid.
The Greatest Grid - Museum of the City of New York
WEBDec 6, 2011 · Featuring an original map of New York's planned streets and avenues prepared by the Commission in 1811, other rare maps, photographs, and prints of the city's streets, and original manuscripts and publications that document the city’s physical growth, the exhibition examines the grid’s initial design, implementation, and evolution as a ...