blockversewordysbillionaire.aiyourlistWhiteboardAppquizieunschool

News

Home
Popular
Elections

Genius — OpenServe

Sponsored

Commissioners' Plan of 1811 — latest news, discussion & facts — IJR

Commissioners' Plan of 1811

Place

Commissioners' Plan of 1811

Historic New York City street plan

0members1here now

Ask Genius Site

Feed Discussions About

Sort by

Content type

Loading

Latest Commissioners' Plan of 1811 news and discussion

Sort by

Content type

Nothing published yet

The conversation starts anyway — post the first discussion above.

About Commissioners' Plan of 1811

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 rectangular grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan on its march uptown until the current day. It has been called "the single most important document in New York City's development," and the plan has been described as encompassing the "republican predilection for control and balance ... [and] distrust of nature". It was described by the Commission that created it as combining "beauty, order and convenience."

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Jleon via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

0

members

1

here now

Country: United States
Inception: 1811

Everything about Commissioners' Plan of 1811 →

Live room · 1 here

Be the first in the room — members see you arrive.

Related journals

Connected

United States New York City

Commissioners' Plan of 1811 across IJR

Ask Genius by OpenServe about Commissioners' Plan of 1811 Create in Studio Build a game Watch videos