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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
All the "boring New York grid" commenters mustn't be very familiar with the outer boroughs...
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This is something that I also thought about including in this thread since it’s the next best thing to the winding streets seen in Europe. Brooklyn, Queens, and I think even the Bronx did not start out as cities that encompassed the full land area of the current boroughs/counties.
Kings County, for instance, had six cities within its borders which all eventually combined to form Brooklyn. Each of those cities are now distinct neighborhoods with the same name which all have their own grid pattern.
There are US cities that have multiple grid patterns within them. NYC and SF are two I can think of.