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  2. New York City Subway map - Wikipedia

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    The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. [79] Besides showing the New York City Subway, the map also includes the MTA's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit lines, and Amtrak lines in the consistent visual language of the Vignelli map.

  3. Commissioners' Plan of 1811 - Wikipedia

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    A portion of a map of the city from 1776; De Lancey Square and the grid around it can be seen on the right. The streets of lower Manhattan had, for the most part, developed organically as the colony of New Amsterdam – which became New York when the British took it over from the Dutch without firing a shot in 1664 – grew.

  4. Grid plan - Wikipedia

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    Block sizes and street length In a numbered grid system, adding an extra street can cause confusion. Street width, or right of way (ROW), influences the amount of land that is devoted to streets, which becomes unavailable for development and therefore represents an opportunity cost. The wider the street, the higher the opportunity cost.

  5. Hagstrom Map - Wikipedia

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    Hagstrom Map, based in Maspeth, Queens, was the best-selling brand of road maps in the New York City metropolitan area from the mid-20th to early 21st century. The New York Times in 2002 described Hagstrom's Five Borough Atlas as New York City's "map of record" for the previous 60 years.

  6. Transportation in New York City - Wikipedia

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    An 1807 grid plan of Manhattan. The history of New York City's transportation system began with the Dutch port of New Amsterdam.The port had maintained several roads; some were built atop former Lenape trails, others as "commuter" links to surrounding cities, and one was even paved by 1658 from orders of Petrus Stuyvesant, according to Burrow, et al. [1] The 19th century brought changes to the ...

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  8. Category:Maps of New York City - Wikipedia

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  9. Belle Harbor, Queens - Wikipedia

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    The community also has Italian-American and Jewish American populations, and is home to a large number of New York City police officers and firefighters, both active and retired. [13] A commercial center is located on Beach 129th Street. A larger shopping area used by some residents of Belle Harbor is located on Beach 116th Street in Rockaway ...