The map of Brooklyn is kind of hard to wrap your head around. It's the second largest of New York City's five boroughs, making it three times bigger than Manhattan. Brooklyn is huge. Brooklyn is huge thanks to the grid pattern covering most of it. Manhattan is pretty easy to make sense of, but Brooklyn does not have that same luxury. The streets here are not regular. Brooklyn is basically what Manhattan would have been had there been no 1811 Commissioners Plan. As I started looking at Old maps of Brooklyn, I realized that there's actually a bigger story here and it's about the growth of New York City so I want to look at several features on this map that tell that story.
via Daniel Steiner
Matt Coneybeare
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Matt enjoys exploring the City's with his partner and son. He is an avid marathon runner, and spends most of his time eating, running, and working on cool stuff.
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