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City on a Grid How New York Became New York

Gerard Koeppel

You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring headstrong Founding Father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in...

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The hosts repeatedly highlighted the book as a wonderful source of information on the history and formation of New York City's grid, noting that it provided many of the facts used in the episode. Both Josh and Chuck expressed personal interest in obtaining it because they were obsessed with the topic. Their enthusiastic remarks indicated a strong recommendation for listeners interested in the subject.

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Episode: The Manhattan Grid

It was discussed as a great source of information for the episode about the Manhattan grid, and it's discussed as the source of a lot of the facts presented in the episode.

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And Dave is clearly annoyed about this whole thing. And I think it's hysterical how many times he gets annoyed by the laziness of the commission.

And we should also point out Dave got a lot of his information from a really wonderful book called City on a Grid, colon. How New York became New York by Gerald Keppel. Not Gerald McCraney. Different Gerald. Right. Or is it Koppel?

Yeah, I'm going to get this book though.

Episode: The Manhattan Grid

It was discussed as a source of information about the history of the Manhattan grid and how New York City became what it is today.

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Dave got a lot of his information from a really wonderful book called City on a Grid, colon, How New York Became New York by Gerald Keppel.

Yeah, I'm going to get this book though. This is right up my alley because I'm obsessed with the history and the formation of New York City as we know it today.

Episode: The Manhattan Grid

It was described as a 'wonderful' book about how New York became New York, and provided a lot of information about the grid plan that they discussed in the episode.

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And Dave is clearly annoyed about this whole thing. And I think it's hysterical how many times he gets annoyed by the laziness of the commission.

And we should also point out Dave got a lot of his information from a really wonderful book called City on a Grid, colon. How New York became New York by Gerald Keppel.

Yeah, I'm going to get this book though.

Episode: The Manhattan Grid

It was discussed as a source of information on the history of New York City's grid system, and the speaker expressed an interest in reading it, specifically concerning the history and formation of New York City.

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Dave got a lot of his information from a really wonderful book called City on a Grid, colon, How New York Became New York by Gerald Keppel.

I'm going to get this book though. This is right up my alley because I'm obsessed with the history and the formation of New York City as we know it today.

Episode: The Manhattan Grid

It was described as a 'wonderful' book that provided a lot of information for the episode, specifically about the history of the Manhattan grid and how it came to be.

"

And Dave is clearly annoyed about this whole thing. And I think it's hysterical how many times he gets annoyed by the laziness of the commission.

And we should also point out Dave got a lot of his information from a really wonderful book called City on a Grid, colon. How New York became New York by Gerald Keppel. Not Gerald McCraney. Different Gerald. Right. Or is it Koppel?

I think it's Keppel if it's K-O-E. That's what I was going with, was Keppel.

Yeah, I'm going to get this book though.

Episode: The Manhattan Grid

It was mentioned as a source of information for the episode, detailing the history and formation of the Manhattan grid layout, including the Commissioner's Plan of 1811.

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Dave got a lot of his information from a really wonderful book called City on a Grid, colon, How New York Became New York by Gerald Keppel.

Episode: The Manhattan Grid

It was discussed as a source of information about the Manhattan grid plan and the episode hosts expressed interest in reading it, in relation to the formation of Manhattan.

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And Dave is clearly annoyed about this whole thing.

And we should also point out Dave got a lot of his information from a really wonderful book called City on a Grid, colon. How New York became New York by Gerald Keppel.

Not Gerald McCraney. Different Gerald.

Or is it Koppel?

I think it's Keppel if it's K-O-E.

Episode: The Manhattan Grid

It was discussed as a source of information about the history of New York City's grid layout and the Commissioner's Plan of 1811. It was recommended by one of the podcast hosts due to their interest in the topic.

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Dave got a lot of his information from a really wonderful book called City on a Grid, colon, How New York Became New York by Gerald Keppel.

I'm going to get this book though. This is right up my alley because I'm obsessed with the history and the formation of New York City as we know it today.

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