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.

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The georectification enables users to relate the 1811 plan to the city today by using the slide to transition between past and present, or by typing a modern address in the address finder. Hot spots explain several key features of the map and are searchable by the index.

Relief shown by hachures. Shows ward boundaries, selected buildingsm and landowner's names. "Entered according to act of Congress Novr. 16th 1811." Oriented with north toward the upper right.

"Map of the city of New York and island of Manhattan as laid out by the commissioners appointed by the Legislature, April 3, 1807" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1811. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f4dd-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library.

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The map was designed and surveyed by master surveyor John Randel Jr. who at the request of the New York City Commissioners spent over a decade measuring and placing posts and monuments on every corner of 12 Avenues and 155 blocks …

1811 Interactive Map The 1811 plan is a plainspoken but heroic statement. Undecorated, uncolored, unnaturalistic, it speaks to the mind and conveys the idea of comprehensive order.

Jul 30, 2010 · To see which aspects made the cut and which were thankfully ignored visit my Designing the City of New York: The Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 map blog in which I overlay some of the plan’s proposed plazas and avenues onto a contemporary map of NYC.

"This map of the city of New York and island of Manhattan, as laid out by the commissioners appointed by the legislature, April 3d, 1807 is respectfully dedicated to the mayor, aldermen and commonalty thereof." (larger prints available by request)