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A modern redrawing of the 1807 version of the Commissioner's Grid plan for Manhattan, a few years before it wa ...

In Manhattan, uptown means north (more precisely north-northeast, which is the direction the island and its st ...

New York County as a whole covers a total area of 33.77 square miles (87.5 km2), of which 22.96 square miles (59.5 ...

On the topic of alignment, it should be noted that users can choose from the options of None, Left, Right, and Cent ...

To the north, the Harlem River divides Manhattan Island from Bronx and the mainland United States. Several small is ...