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Cool. Out of curiosity, I ran the Jupyter notebook[1] on the five boroughs of NYC + Nassau County on Long Island, and got the following graphic: https://i.imgur.com/LyxP6yQ.png

I'm a bit surprised by the results, since Nassau in particular doesn't have anything resembling a county-wide grid system that I know of. I like the diagram for Queens, since it technically has a grid[2], although it shifts in places to be at a different angle, like Long Island City / Hunters Point, which were originally their own cities with their own design plans. The diagram for Brooklyn is really interesting as well.

[1]: https://github.com/gboeing/osmnx-examples/blob/master/notebo...

[2]: https://stevemorse.org/census/changes/QueensFormat.htm

EDIT: Perhaps scale is a bit deceiving here. The original had every graph on a different scale, so I modified it to have a fixed scale instead, which shows how disproportionately organized Manhattan is compared to the other boroughs / LI: https://i.imgur.com/l3yV1sY.png



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