Happy Birthday to Ya!

Check this out from the NYT: This marks the anniversary of the map that laid out the street grid system made Manhattan. But, of course, like no one tells us that 125th Street in Harlem is on an earthquake fault line, nothing on this 200-year-old map indicated that life was worth acknowledging up town. We didn't make it onto the map when"Nieuw Haarlem" was "a suburb for the wealthy." As Sam Roberts reported in the NYT about what was then "Nieuw Haarlem": "No streets were initially laid out on the Heights North of Harlem because planners thought no one would build there for 'centuries to come'. It now holds some of Manhattan's densest neighborhoods."