Museum of the City of New York

Two Museum of the City of New York exhibits stitch together multiple views of New York to create something like a god’s-eye-view of city and its evolution.

The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, answers many questions about the grid, while showing how difficult it was to impose it upon an island replete with farmland, hilly and rocky terrain, and resistant residents.

Futuristic ideas conceived on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the conception of Manhattan’s grid as part of The Unfinished Grid: Design Speculations for Manhattan, a new exhibit running at the Museum of City of New York.