A wild interactive map by Harold Cooper, called ExtendNY, imagines an entire globe laid out according to the New York City grid of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811. West of New York, the avenues ...

The map was drawn by Joseph Colton, who one of the most prominent map publishers in New York City, with a career spanning three decades from the 1830s to the 1850s.

See this New York Times article on all the grief the man endured, ultimately, for all of us who have been spoiled by the grid’s ease of use. Beholding these maps, there’s no way you can’t ...

After the publication of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811—which laid out the rectilinear street grid of Manhattan up to 145th Street—New York maps immediately began to depict every straight ...

A wild interactive map by Harold Cooper, called ExtendNY, imagines an entire globe laid out according to the New York City grid of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811.