Manhattan’s Grid - EXPLAINED
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2020
- Learn how to navigate Manhattan with this compact grid explanation.
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Manhattan is one of the most intriguing cities in the world, but its street grid often confuses visitors. This short video lays out how the map of Manhattan NYC works, and will get you oriented to the key regions of the city, like lower Manhattan, the Upper East Side, or the Financial District.
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===== KEY MOMENTS =====
0:47 - Map Orientation
1:50 - Financial District
1:58 - Midtown Manhattan
2:09 - Upper East & Upper West Sides
2:19 - Harlem
2:28 - Avenues
3:38 - Lettered Avenues (Alphabet City)
3:54 - Streets
5:11 - Exceptions
6:58 - Broadway
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A New Yorker of 43 years, great job, simple and to the point.
Thanks!
As a New Yorker for 0 years and 0 days. He did ok
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2 26th
43 years? You must be incredibly rich to live so long in the most expensive city!
Always thought Houston was pronounced Houston. Now I know Houston is pronounced Houston and not Houston.
Can you believe we read Houston and Houston differently? We totally get you!
I also think it’s crazy Houston is actually Houston cause it looks like Houston, I always assumed it was Houston. Lol
huh? i- all the 'houstons' are the same . i think i lost braincells reading this
@@chicoblackly3119 nah, you’re just not from NY, you wouldn’t get it lol
@@metro-sn but how do you differentiate its all spell the same
Union Square: Am I a joke to you?
RIP Union Square
New Yorker here! This is a really helpful and concise video for those who don’t know the city. The one thing I would point out is that you referred to everything south of midtown at one point as the financial district, which I think could be a bit misleading as it is only the bottom tip of the island. Otherwise great video
Thank you for the feedback!
Are you a real New Yorker or an incomer hypster who pretends to be a new Yorker
@Bruno Lora which part
@Bruno Lora which part do you live? I'm from London pretty much like NYC but I've always dreamed about swapping cities and living in New York.
I've always referred to the area south of 14th as "Lower Manhattan" as a general name including the Financial District, East and West Villages, SoHo, Tribeca, etc. I call the Financial District "Downtown", and usually when I say Downtown, that's what I mean, but I also just use the word downtown when say I am going south, regardless of where I am above 14th street.
A helpful hint from a local: within the grid there are 20 streets to a mile. This means you can cover about a block per minute.
An avenue block is the length of *three* street blocks, so it'll take you about three minutes per avenue.
That means (for instance) a trip from the Flatiron Building at 23rd & 5th to Times Square at 42nd & 7th will take you:
- 19 streets = 19 minutes
- plus 2 avenues = 2x3 or 6 minutes
So you'll be in Times Square in 25 minutes if you hike it.
I used this all the time before map apps took all the adventure out of life.
PS - why isn't it pronounced SowHow?
Dang, this is super cool!
Now, is that a street per minute or a street per New York minute? 😉
I refuse to live in NOHO, can't live without 'em 'hos.
SoHo is much more fun. Who doesn't like to go south with some hos?
😂😂😂
*BRO'S BEFORE HO'S!*
This beautiful😂🙏
@@tylerdurden639 Join us in BROHO
Manhattan's grid is amazing. About 30 years ago, my boyfriend and I were driving from Boston to a convention in NYC, held at a hotel near Madison Square Garden. We set off in the general direction of NY without a map, just following the signs. We figured that when we got closer to NYC, we'd stop and buy a map of the city. We ended up driving right into Manhattan from the highway, like, oh crap, there's nowhere to stop, we're in it now. We navigated right to the hotel using just the address. The street numbers were counting down to the street that our hotel was on, then we just found the cross street and we were there. I was astonished, as this is very much not possible to do in gridless Boston. We never did buy a map. We had our weekend at the convention and just drove out the same way we drove in. I loved it.
I have been to New York City numerous times and I can say I know my way around Manhattan. Yet, getting out of a subway station and walking in the opposite direction to where I'm going still happens to me. Don't get me wrong, getting lost in NYC can be a magical experience since you get to "find" gems along the way that otherwise you'll never get to know, but learning that even streets runs East would be a time-saver on my next visits. Thank you for a very informative video!
just don't take the A train to the empire State bldg if you are looking for it. thake the B train. the 6 train to to the Chrysler bldg if you want that. when you get out it is to your left. also if you are getting out of Gran central past th Hyatt hotel walk another block east. right on your left side , .
@@timafiggy thank you! I stay in Central Harlem, close to Lennox Ave., so the No. 3 is my usual mean of transportation, quite convenient being an express train and running on 7th ave., I might add. Although, if I'm heading East, to the museums or any of the parks or shops on 5th Ave., I would frequently use one of the the buses lines that runs on 5th, since I enjoy the sightseeing opportunity, provided it is before noon, otherwise it will take forever to get anywhere.
I couldn't believe how well designed NYC was when I visited before google map was a thing in the 2000s. It was impossible to get lost as long as you knew the street and the avenue of your destination
I'm not from Manhattan but I live in Brooklyn and everytime I look out my apartment window I see our beautiful Manhattan Skyline.
Proud New Yorker here 😘
Lucky you 😍
The Jersey side of the Hudson and Brooklyn have spectacular views of Manhattan at night, especially.
Those couple of miles away from the island provide a nice wide perspective.
Just came across this...a RUclips recommendation. A few points: for orientation and navigation purposes, it's good for visitors to know that streets are pretty close to each other but avenues are pretty far apart. So, it someone tells you to walk from 28th to 29th Streets on 5th Ave, that will take you at the most a minute, but walking from 28th and 5th to 28th and 6th is a longer trek. I agree with other posters about your over-simplification of the neighborhoods. I realize you were just trying to not clutter the map, but everything north of Central Park is NOT Harlem, and there are tons of very unique and distinct neighborhoods below Midtown. It's not all just the financial district! It also would have been helpful to explain why Broadway doesn't follow the grid pattern (it was an original trail used by the indigenous population prior to the arrival of the Europeans).
Super cool!!! As someone who has not been to and has only known NY through movies and videos and stories and literature, this is suuuuuuuper cool to see on an actual map! More of this please! :)
Coming right up ;)
I lived in NYC my whole life and never connected the dots that even streets go east and odd streets go west. Wow.
Mindblowing!
Not very bright, are you?
no same learned so much and i lived here my whole life
@@markfox1545 Not very nice, are you?
Learned it when I was a bike messenger
the trick about orienting yourself out of the subway is much more useful when thinking about the avenues because of exactly what you said - the main streets that the subway stops stop at are two-way, like 23rd, 34th, 42nd, etc. Even avenues go north and odds go south - much more helpful when orienting yourself than 2-way streets!
And I thought I knew NYC. Wow, so informative.
So glad it was helpful for you!
Informative video but for those watching this before visiting nyc for the first time, there are a few inaccuracies that are worth pointing out:
1:30 - No one in their right mind refers to the entire area from Union Square down as the Financial District (FiDi). FiDi is essentially the southern tip of the island. If you're trying to go to union square or Houston street, etc. and ask for directions to the Financial District, you will be sent very far out of your way.
Along that same vein, I would also argue that Midtown does not go nearly as far south as Union Square, but that's not as egregious.
You can actually see this in the photo at 2:00. The tall buildings in the foreground are FiDi, and the tall buildings in the background are Midtown. That entire huge area of more low-lying buildings in the middle are almost entirely residential neighborhoods that are completely glossed over in this video.
2:24 - "The further uptown you get the more residential it becomes" statement isn't accurate. Yes, the neighborhoods uptown are mainly residential, but so is the massive area between Fidi and Midtown. In fact, many downtown neighborhoods are some of the most densely populated in the city.
3:03 - 4th Avenue is called Park Avenue for literally its entire length except for a small stretch between Union Square (14th Street) and Astor Place (8th Street), not because it's just in a particularly fancy part of town.
3:10 - Both Madison and Lexington Avenues span far longer than just the Upper East Side (UES). Both avenues pass through the entirety of Midtown and Harlem, as well as some downtown.
3:50 - The area circled is not all Alphabet City. Alphabet is only the upper half or so of the circled area. Lower East Side is the lower half of the circled area and is a distinct neighborhood.
4:20 - SoHo and NoHo are small neighborhoods that, yes, are located below and above Houston Street, respectively. But absolutely neither one covers the entire area below or above Houston. For example, nobody from New York would call the Lower East Side SoHo or the West Village NoHo.
4:58 - Yes, the two-way streets are exceptions to this rule, but there are also a few special case exceptions even with specifically 1-way streets. For example, both 60th and 61st streets on the east side flow West.
6:25 - Forgetting the pretty significant Union Square here on the intersection of Broadway and Park.
Thank you for clarifying these things, we appreciate it 🙌
Yes to everything here. The only one I didn't catch was the 4th Ave. point.
81st between Columbus and Amsterdam also flows east to aid the flow of traffic around the Museum of Natural History and to the 79th St. Transverse.
@@BrightTripTravel haha taking this like a champ, W
Would love to see these breakdowns for more cities around the world!
Stay tuned, it might happen 😉
Yes please 🥺
Thank you for your video. It's very helpful.
amazing video thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
The area you called Financial District should have been called downtown. Same with Harlem because Harlem is uptown, The Financial District and Harlem are specific neighborhoods. Dyckman isn't in Harlem
It was simplified for the tourists who will never go north of 110th Street.
Yeah, he lost me at the generalization of Harlem and “Financial District”. Uptown and Downtown are the appropriate references and terms that are completely relatable to most tourists.
Dykman is considered Washington Heights
@@determineddylan8793 dyckman is in between the heights and inwood but considered more inwood than the heights
I thought the same. The financial district should have been referred to downtown manhattan. That’s the way us locals calls it anyway
Great video! Thank you!
This was amazing! As a visual learner and someone who loves understand map I'm in love with y'all and these videos!!!
Thank you!
Cheers mate, looking forward to using your tips on our next visit !
Amazing! Can’t wait to be there! ✨
Very well explained, thanks for sharing! 👍🏻
That was absoluty brilliant, man! Thank you so much!!
Fantastic video
I love it
I learned a lot
Thank you very much
Have a wonderful day
Oh man this was so interesting! Thank you!
It's funny that Broadway in this video is "the little exception I have to mention at the end" - when in reality it's literally the oldest of all the roads they talk about :D It follows the path of the old trail native americans carved into the manhattan brush, later made wider by the dutch (which is where it gets it's name from: when the british took over New Amsterdam, they saw the unusually wide path through the brush and called it: "the broad way")
Wow, that's so interesting!
Tbh I love how Manhattan's street layout was designed, main, long avenues with smaller roads cutting them into grid sections, with the FDR Drive outlining most of the island, everything well thought out and improved for centuries, amazing
The FDR Drive is only on the east side. The Westside Highway is on the, well, west side.
@@yutubetom ah, I mistook it with its equivalent from GTA, my bad
Excellent video man! Actually the best and only one i needed to watch to understand whats going on!
Even flows to the East, never knew that before, helpful tip.
Brilliant video, very informative and helpful.
Great video, so excited to see more from you all!
Can't wait to show you even more cool stuff :)
Great video, clear and informative
I watched a video last year about the history of settlement and growth of New York and it showed the implementation of the grid system quite well, but this gave me an education on how it actually works! Thank you!
You're so welcome 🙌
An excellent concise, entertaining and informative presentation. Love the format!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your amazing!! Love the detail orientation in your work!
This was sooooo helpful! I dream of living in nyc and watch lord of youtubers from the city and now I’ll feel way more oriented to the locations they discuss.
Yay!
Super cool! I’ve lived in Brooklyn for years and definitely just learned some things today. ☺️
Thanks! Great explanation!
this is really helpful, thank you
Thank you. I have been to the city several times, but this helped clear things up.
Useful. Thank you.
Great job! Easy to understand!
thank you for this great video
I'm not even planning to go to NY but I thought this was amazing. Fantastic job guys. I'd be interested to see New Zealand travel guides! It's a wonderful place
Noted! 😉
Nicely explained for a Los Angeleno to understand…central, upper East/west, mid city, 5th, NOHO, SOHo, Broadway etc. I’ll probably watch this video again.
Another great video, nice.
I cant see how this would ever be useful to me but you do a bloody good job of explaining thank you👏
Glad you enjoyed it
very interesting and insightful video esp the even and east thing
Awesome! Thank you!
Wowww, I learned so much in 7 minutes! Thank you so much!
Thank You! Helpful.
this video is brilliant 👏🏻
Great video. Direct and concise. Heard all these terms my whole life and now I know what they mean.
Outstanding breakdown…provided me a lot of new understanding of Manhattan. Very helpful.
Great explanation
Great video. Thanks! I actually think I can navigate the city the next time I visit.
that was awesome, and so helpful for someone planning to visit and/or move to NY, NY! Thank you 😎
Beautiful and wonderful thank you!
Loved this video
I love this so much! Please do this for other cities, it pleases me so much seeing people equally interested in maps as me
We LOVE maps 😍
EXCELLENT VIDEO! I have been to NYC atleast a dozen times and learned so much! I wish I had watched this sooner!!
Soooo helpful! Thank you for the easy breakdown!!!
Anytime 😊
I love to watch such videos and understand more about this beautiful world.
This video was SUPER informative! Thank you!
So glad! You're welcome 🙌
I was always curious about this, great explanation!
I’m so glad u liked it! Thanks for watching!
Thanks it’s really helpful.
Woah. That was so helpful! Thank you so much, I’ll definitely have to rewatch before my next visit!
We're happy to help!
One of the best videos, it was really good, I thought he’s gonna miss something (as i live here) but it was almost perfect…
Super helpful, thanks! I'm debating moving there and getting this kind of layout breakdown is really great
This is fantastic. You are one of the reasons I started a channel myself Johnny, and i look forward to be able to make videos as flawless as yours. The level of detail to make it as best as possible is inspiring, as always. Best of vibes for your new adventure with this channel.
Wow! Best of luck! And thank you
Brilliant video
Tremendous job. AGAIN. Thank you. So interesting, fun, and well thought out.
Wow, thank you!
for a foreigner who loves NYC this was insightful and fun!
Thank you for the best and most illustrative video on the NYC street grid.
Wow, thanks!
Brilliant info, great channel
Wow, thanks 😊
Interesting. Thanks for making this!
Glad you liked it!
I love watching these map videos. Can't wait to see more.
Yay, we're glad 😊
That was wonderful ♥
Excellent 👍. I am going to NY 2 weeks from now. This video will surely help me a lot.
Since you mention Broadway and the various Squares, it's interesting to point out that Madison Square Garden is not, in fact, located on Madison Square. How it came to be built above Penn Station (at West 34th Street) is a whole other story.
Loved it.
I am so glad I came across this!
Great video, thanks!
You're so welcome!
Excellent!
Been living in NY for 49 years and I learned a few things from your video. Great explanation.
Yay, we're so glad!
Thank you for breaking that down to Barney level. Awesome video.
Thank you for orienting me re: Rent, Hamilton, Gossip Girl, hundreds of songs, etc etc etc
This was excellent. Going there next week. Hope we don't get lost but this will surely help. Thank you
Really well done/explained!
Yay, we're glad!
“Orient yourself by finding Central Park”.
In Jersey City we “orient” ourselves throughout the area by if we can see the financial district
That's so cool!
Very Informative 👍
Glad you think so!
Very nice!
Best explanation! Most helpful for my tlc exam
This is one of those hidden gem channels on RUclips, akin to SmarterEveryDay and Two Minute Papers
😊😍
Bro this was the most useful video I have ever watched, thanks so much and it will help me on my next trip to NYC.
Have fun!
This was really helpful
Thank you!!!
You're welcome!
Thank you so much. This was wonderful.
Glad you enjoyed it!