The Manhattan Grid

# Summary

Josh and Chuck dive into how the legendary Commissioner's Plan of 1811 transformed Manhattan from a wild, organic landscape of marshes and hills into the orderly grid we navigate today. The episode explores how three commissioners—including Founding Father Gouverneur Morris and a surprising amount of nepotism—essentially copied an earlier surveyor's map, added some numbered avenues and streets, and handed it to New York as an unquestionable law that would reshape the entire island, complete with some hilariously lazy decision-making that affected millions of New Yorkers for centuries to come.