Commissioners' Plan of 1811 and Related Topics

Manhattan

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Most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

Pieter Schaghen's 1626 letter saying Manhattan was purchased for 60 guilders.

The Castello Plan showing the Dutch city of New Amsterdam in 1660, at the southern tip of Manhattan

Washington's statue in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street, where in 1789 he was sworn in as first U.S. president

Manhattan in 1873. The Brooklyn Bridge was under construction from 1870 until 1883

The "Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York", commonly known as the Viele Map, was created by Egbert Ludovicus Viele in 1865

Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900

Manhattan personified, early 20th century

V-J Day in Times Square in Times Square, 1945

Flooding on Avenue C caused by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012

Satellite image of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson River to the west, the Harlem River to the north, the East River to the east, and New York Harbor to the south, with rectangular Central Park prominently visible. Roosevelt Island, in the East River, belongs to Manhattan.

Location of Manhattan (red) within New York City (remainder yellow)

Manhattan schist outcropping in Central Park

Liberty Island is an exclave of Manhattan, of New York City, and of New York State, that is surrounded by New Jersey waters

The Empire State Building in the foreground looking southward from the top of Rockefeller Center, with One World Trade Center in the background, at sunset. The Midtown South Community Council acts as a civic caretaker for much of the neighborhood between the skyscrapers of Midtown and Lower Manhattan.

The Estonian House, the main center of Estonian culture amongst Estonian Americans

A. T. Stewart in 1870, 9th Street, Manhattan

Many tall buildings have setbacks on their facade due to the 1916 Zoning Resolution. This is exemplified at Park Avenue and 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018.

The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, seen from Brooklyn

The Flatiron District is the center and birthplace of Silicon Alley

Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a major cultural venue in Manhattan, it also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million

The New York Times headquarters, 620 Eighth Avenue

Butler Library at Columbia University, with its notable architectural design

New York Public Library Main Branch at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue

The scene at Manhattan's 2015 LGBT Pride March. The annual event rivals the sister São Paulo event as the world's largest pride parade, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June.

Madison Square Garden is home to the Rangers and Knicks, and hosts some Liberty games

A slum tour through the Five Points in an 1885 sketch

At the time of its construction, London Terrace in Chelsea was the largest apartment building in the world

Grand Central Terminal is a National Historic Landmark.

Ferries departing Battery Park City and helicopters flying above Manhattan

The Staten Island Ferry, seen from the Battery, crosses Upper New York Bay, providing free public transportation between Staten Island and Manhattan.

The Brooklyn Bridge to the right and the Manhattan Bridge towards the left, are two of the three bridges that connect Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn over the East River.

Eighth Avenue, looking northward ("Uptown"), in the rain; most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration

Tourists looking westward at sunset to observe the July 12, 2016 Manhattanhenge

Ferry service departing Battery Park City towards New Jersey, see from Paulus Hook

The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 laid out the island of Manhattan in its familiar grid plan.

Peretz Square, Houston Street on left; 1st Street on right

List of numbered streets in Manhattan

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Little West 12th Street as viewed from the rooftop of The Standard, High Line

Irving Place Theatre, from Northeast corner of Irving Place and East 15th Street

The Center for Jewish History at 15 West 16th Street

Korea Way in Koreatown, as seen on 32nd Street, with ubiquitous street signage in Hangul (한글)

A view of the Empire State Building from 33rd Street and Park Avenue Subway Station

Mount Vernon Hotel Museum on East 61st Street

Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity

120-130 East 80th Street, with three of the four East 80th Street Houses; the Astor House is on the left, the Whitney House on the right, and the Dillon House is between them.

West 187th Street stairs to Ft. Washington Avenue

The New York City 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.

Looking northward from the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 81st Street

Fifth Avenue

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Major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

Robert L. Bracklow (1849–1919), from his Glimpses through the Camera series, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, USA, September 1, 1888, albumen print cabinet card, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC

Members of Naval Reserve Center Bronx's color guard march up Fifth Avenue at the 244th Annual NYC St. Patrick's Day parade

1026–1028 Fifth Avenue, one of the few extant mansions on Millionaire's Row

Fifth Avenue looking north from 51st Street. This section of the street contains numerous boutiques and flagship stores.

Bird's-eye view looking north from 51st St. c. 1893

Street view looking north from 51st St. c. 1895

Fifth Avenue begins at the Washington Square Arch in Washington Square Park

Memorial to New York architect Richard Morris Hunt, Fifth Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets

The Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which prescribed the street plan for Manhattan, was heavily inspired from Goerck's two surveys.

Central Park

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Urban park in New York City, between the Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan.

Map of the former Seneca Village from Viele's survey for Central Park

The Lake, one of the first features of Central Park to be completed

Bethesda Terrace and Fountain under construction in 1862

Gentry in the new park, c. undefined 1870

Female northern cardinal, one of the bird species found in Central Park

Angel of the Waters (1873) in Bethesda Fountain

Cleopatra's Needle, the park's oldest man-made structure

Summerstage features free musical concerts throughout the summer.

Entrance to the Fifth Avenue–59th Street subway station just outside Central Park

North Woods, one of several places where crimes were reported during the 1989 Central Park jogger case

Sheep Meadow, a common place for gatherings

Skyscrapers abut the southern border of Central Park.

The Commissioners' Plan of 1811, the outline for Manhattan's modern street grid, included several smaller open spaces but not Central Park.

Daytime scene on Broadway Broadway.png Broadway through Manhattan, the Bronx and lower Westchester County is highlighted in red

Broadway (Manhattan)

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Road in the U.S. state of New York.

Somerindyke House, Bloomingdale Road, middle 19th century

Looking north from Broome Street (circa 1853–55)

In 1885, the Broadway commercial district was overrun with telephone, telegraph, and electrical lines. This view was north from Cortlandt and Maiden Lane.

A view up Broadway from Bowling Green, with the Chrysler Building visible in the background

Broadway looking north from 48th Street in the Theater District

X-shaped intersection of Broadway (from lower right to upper left) and Amsterdam Avenue (lower left to upper right), looking north from Sherman Square to West 72nd Street and the treetops of Verdi Square

The Washington Irving Memorial on North Broadway in Irvington, not far from Irving's home, Sunnyside

Canyon of Heroes during a ticker-tape parade for the Apollo 11 astronauts on August 13, 1969

Broadway under the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line's elevated structure in the Bronx

International Mercantile Marine Company Building

Because Broadway preceded the grid that the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway crosses midtown Manhattan diagonally, intersecting with both the east–west streets and north–south avenues.

West 23rd Street from the High Line
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23rd Street (Manhattan)

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The HL23 building overhanging the High Line park

The famous Flatiron Building sits on the intersection of 23rd Street (front), Broadway (left), and 5th Avenue (right)

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower

The 23rd Street Ferry Terminal at the western end of the street in 1900

The former building of the National Academy Museum and School at the intersection of Park Avenue and 23rd Street in 1894

The New York Public Library's Epiphany branch on East 23rd Street

The east end of the street, the East River. The New York Skyports Seaplane Base is the last building on the east end of 23rd.

Street staircase to the 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue station

23rd Street is a broad thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan, one of the major two-way, east-west streets in the borough's grid.

Houston Street

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Major east–west thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan in New York City.

East Houston Street between Clinton and Suffolk Streets in the 1920s

Houston Street at Lafayette Street in 1974

The numeric 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.

14th Street looking west from Fifth Avenue

14th Street (Manhattan)

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Major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, traveling between Eleventh Avenue on Manhattan's West Side and Avenue C on Manhattan's East Side.