re: #87 b.d.

looks like they coulda used a good do over fire like chicago, london, san francisco.

oh well, maybe Putin has one coming for us.

The London fire did not lead to a rational street grid, though. Too much tradition in the way.

That thread had some interesting historical tidbits about Manhattan that I never knew about till today, like the Hess Triangle, the intersection markers in Central Park, and the giant rocks still in place around 1903. My great-grandfather and his cousin had both moved to Manhattan from southern NJ by the 1850s, so they and my grandfather would have witnessed the evolution of the grid system.