Who designed the New York New York?

Answer 1

Manhattan as we know it today was mostly designed through the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. Three men, Gouvernour Morris (a statesman), John Rutherfurd (a lawyer), and Simeon De Witt (a surveryor), were picked to form a commission that would design the street plan of Manhattan. They designed the current grid plan from 14th street to Washington Heights. Since then, the basic structure of their plan was implemented, but with a multitude of changes. Some changes are the Columbia University campus, the Columbia Medical School campus, the addition of Lexington, Madison, Saint Nicholas, and Claremont avenues, the addition of Riverside Drive, West 125th and 126th streets go off at an angle to the north, numerous streets in the West Village which have varied from the plan, Lincoln Center, Morningside Park, Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Village, and the City University of New York. The main interruption to this plan is of course Central Park, designed in 1857 and 1858. Another change made to this was the removal of The Parade, a park from 23rd to 33rd streets, the only big park included in the plan. This grid plan was later extended into the Bronx.