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Originally Posted by iheartthed
But the grid isn't really "broken" at those places. The grid was deliberately designed that way. I also forgot to mention before, but Washington Square Park has a very deliberate position as the originating point of Fifth Avenue.
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I think you and I have a different understanding of what “grid” means.
Few cities have many winding, curved roads (unless they are deliberately designed to be, and called something-or-other Crescent). Paris has avenues that are straight lines, but is not a grid, and like the aforementioned places in NYC its avenues are deliberately designed to originate or terminate at certain points.
Broadway “breaks” the grid in NYC.