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DID YOU KNOW Herald Square and Times Square are named after the Herald and Times newspapers that located their headquarters there at the turn of the century. The New York Herald newspaper was the first to move in the 1890s, previously the newspapers such as the World, Times, Tribune and Herald occupied a block of today's Park Row across from City Hall known as Newspaper Row. When the Herald moved to 34th Street, they chose architect Stanford White to design their new headquarters at the intersection of Broadway and Sixth Avenue. The New York Times followed, moving north to the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue to an area known as Longacre Square. When the New York Times Tower opened in 1904 the city renamed the area Times Square. #TimesSquare #HeraldSquare #nychistory #midtown #manhattanhistory #nyherald #nytimes #longacresquare #greatestgrid #architecture #urbanism #nycurbanism #historicphotography (at Herald Square) https://www.instagram.com/p/COoLU8nHm-q/?igshid=lqnc5ju1valx

DID YOU KNOW Herald Square and Times Square are named after the Herald and Times newspapers that located their headquarters there at the turn of the century. The New York Herald newspaper was the first to move in the 1890s, previously the newspapers such as the World, Times, Tribune and Herald occupied a block of today's Park Row across from City Hall known as Newspaper Row. When the Herald moved to 34th Street, they chose architect Stanford White to design their new headquarters at the intersection of Broadway and Sixth Avenue. The New York Times followed, moving north to the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue to an area known as Longacre Square. When the New York Times Tower opened in 1904 the city renamed the area Times Square. Photos: Herald Square, 1903: Times Square, 1904. Tap screen to purchase print or view high resolution. #TimesSquare #HeraldSquare #nychistory #midtown #manhattanhistory #nyherald #nytimes #longacresquare #greatestgrid #architecture #urbanism #nycurbanism #historicphotography (at Herald Square)

#MapMondays! The Magnin-Goerck Plan of 1803. Architect and surveyor and protoge of #AlexanderHamilton, Joseph-François Mangin Mangin worked for the Federal Government under #Hamilton designing fortifications for New York Harbor, the state's first prison (in the village of Greenwich) and the city's first theater. As the city's growth exploded at the turn of the century, Mangin was hired by the Common Council to create a survey of the streets with Casimir Goerck. Goerck would die of yellow fever, and Mangin delivered the Mangin-Goerck Plan to the Council in 1799. Mangin had incorporated his idea of “not the plan of the city, the city such as it is, but such as it is to be" advising where future streets and squares should be laid out. He even inserted Mangin Street and Goerck Street into the grid! He also created South Street which would appear years later! For the next four years, the Mangin-Goerck Plan was the Council's official plan and widely published until its accuracy was questioned by Joseph Browne, brother-in-law of Aaron Burr (and political enemy of Mangin's mentor Alexander Hamilton). But in the process, the city realized the development plan was a great idea and recruited John Randel to survey what would become the Commissioner's Plan of 1811. Mangin would go on to design New York City Hall, the First Presbyterian Church on Wall Street and the first St. Patricks Old Cathedral on Mulberry Street. #MapMonday #GreatestGrid (at South Street (Manhattan))

Amazing early photographs showing the NYC street grid taking over the rural landscape of the Upper East Side. Taken from a rooftop on 94th Street and Park Avenue, the top view is looking south on Park Ave and the bottom view looks north towards the NY Central Railroad elevated tracks and Central Park to the west. Credit MCNY. #UpperEastSide #GreatestGrid #NYChistory #urbanism #urbanplanning #streetgrid #parkave #parkavenue (at Park Avenue)

Last night's #manhattenhedge! Thanks to the NYC Commissioners Plan of 1811 that implemented this wonderful grid! #manhattanhenge2016 #manhattanhenge #greatestgrid #thegrid #urbanplanning (at New York, New York)