Manhattan street grid

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city planning system transportation infrastructure urban street grid

The Manhattan street grid is the iconic, rectilinear network of numbered streets and avenues that organizes most of the borough of Manhattan into uniform city blocks.

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All labels observed (13)

Label	Occurrences
Manhattan street grid canonical	78
Manhattan numbered streets system	3
Midtown Manhattan street network	2
New York City street grid	2
East–West Manhattan street grid	1
East–West numbered streets of Manhattan	1
Manhattan numbered avenues system	1
Manhattan numbered streets	1
Manhattan street grid system	1
Manhattan street network	1
Manhattan street numbering	1
Manhattan streets	1
Midtown street grid of Manhattan	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city planning system ⓘ transportation infrastructure ⓘ urban street grid ⓘ
appliesToArea	most of Manhattan ⓘ
blockPattern	repeating pattern ⓘ
blockShape	rectangular blocks ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
criticizedFor	limited adaptation to topography ⓘ monotony of urban form ⓘ
culturalSignificance	symbol of New York City urban form ⓘ
enables	ease of navigation ⓘ
extendsFrom	Houston Street ⓘ surface form: Houston Street area
extendsTo	Inwood neighborhood ⓘ
featuredIn	cartography of New York City ⓘ urban planning literature ⓘ
hasComponent	numbered avenues ⓘ numbered streets ⓘ
hasDesignFeature	numbered cross streets ⓘ orthogonal intersections ⓘ parallel avenues ⓘ
hasPlanningPrinciple	predictable circulation pattern ⓘ regularity over topographic adaptation ⓘ standardized lot sizes ⓘ
hasShape	rectilinear network ⓘ
historicalContext	early 19th-century urban expansion ⓘ
influenced	other American city grids ⓘ
influencedBy	Enlightenment planning ideals ⓘ
inspiredTerm	Manhattanization ⓘ
knownFor	iconic regularity ⓘ uniform city blocks ⓘ
locatedIn	Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York ⓘ surface form: New York State
notableExceptionArea	Financial District ⓘ Greenwich Village ⓘ Lower Manhattan ⓘ
organizes	Manhattan city blocks ⓘ
orientation	roughly east–west streets ⓘ roughly north–south avenues ⓘ
planningAuthority	New York City Commissioners ⓘ
planningDocument	Commissioners' Plan of 1811 ⓘ
planningYear	1811 ⓘ
praisedFor	clarity of layout ⓘ efficiency of land division ⓘ
primaryPurpose	land subdivision ⓘ transportation circulation ⓘ urban organization ⓘ
usedFor	addressing system in Manhattan ⓘ

Referenced by (94)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

West 42nd Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 47th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 33rd Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 33rd Street → coordinateSystem → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: Manhattan street numbering

West 34th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 34th Street → isPartOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: Manhattan numbered streets system

New York Street backlot set → canRepresent → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: Manhattan streets

Kips Bay → locatedOnStreetGrid → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Broadway (Manhattan street) → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

York Avenue → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

42nd Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

First Avenue → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: Manhattan numbered avenues system

West 32nd Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: Midtown street grid of Manhattan

West 32nd Street → gridSystem → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Eighth Avenue → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 31st Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

110th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

59th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: New York City street grid

Fashion Avenue → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Eleventh Avenue → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Tenth Avenue → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 14th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 23rd Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Delancey Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

53rd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Ninth Avenue → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

East 47th Street, Manhattan → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

125th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Lenox Avenue → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

East 47th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: Midtown Manhattan street network

East 42nd Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

First Avenue in Manhattan → follows → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

subject surface form: First Avenue (Manhattan)

Riverside Drive Viaduct → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: Manhattan street network

Lexington Avenue → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Trinity Place → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 45th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 45th Street → hasGridSystem → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: Manhattan numbered streets system

33rd Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

33rd Street → formsPartOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: Midtown Manhattan street network

Varick Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 48th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 10th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Sixth Avenue → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

145th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Battery Place → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Third Avenue → isPartOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

West 46th Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

92nd Street → partOf → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

Fifth Avenue and 105th Street → coordinateSystem → Manhattan street grid ⓘ

this entity surface form: New York City street grid