A Map of Private Streets in Manhattan Some of the private streets in Manhattan are well known, like the Washington Mews, part of New York University’s Greenwich Village campus. Others are more ...

From Racontrs: The map dates from 1660, but it remained lost to history for hundreds of years. Around 1667, a Dutch map maker sold it to Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

With several hundred miles of paved streets in Manhattan—even a day of walking can add up to only 2% of the entire NYC map. "If that's really what you want to do, you have to do it.

In this 1776 map, Great Queen Street is shown running diagonally, over modern-day Pearl Street. (via Library of Congress) At the southern tip of Manhattan, the oldest part, the streets have names ...

The 2024 Summer Streets program returns for its third weekend this Saturday – just in time for comfortable temperatures and ...

4 Extra Debut. An exploration of the evolution, and lasting impact, of a visionary urban design: the Manhattan street grid. From 2014. Show more Over two hundred years since the beginning of its ...

Manhattan’s iconic rectilinear street grid has been called “the most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization.” So said architect Rem Koolhaas in 1978.

NYC Summer Streets kicked off the 2024 season on Saturday, July 27 in Queens and Staten Island. The program comes to Manhattan on August 3, 10 and 17, and to Brooklyn and the Bronx on August 24.

The Manhattan location is at the north side of Pier 17 and the lower portion of Pier 16. The access point is at John and Water streets, and bag screening will be at South Street between the piers.

To accommodate a fast-growing New York City, John Randel, Jr., began to lay out the city’s streets in 1808—an impressive endeavor that holds lessons for today’s information infrastructure ...