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Hidden New York: The 1811 street plan
A year or so ago my son and I were watching a History Channel show on how researchers had reconstructed the original topography of Manhattan, before developers flattened most of the hills south of 96th Street. One segment focused on a couple of geographers who used GPS to find original markers from the Commissioners’ Plan [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2009 under , New York.
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