200th STREET, Manhattan-Bronx

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I’ll say right off the bat: there’s no such thing as a 200th Street, East or West, in Manhattan or the Bronx, but I hope here to indicate why there isn’t, or at least what’s in 200th Street’s place. When the triumvirate of commissioners drew up the grid plan for Manhattan streets in 1807 (described [...]

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