By 1832, when David Burr included this map in his landmark An Atlas of the State of New York, New York City was in a period of dramatic population growth, and with the 1825 opening of the Erie Canal, the city was poised to become the leading center of economic activity in the Unites States. Charting an orderly pattern of growth, the grid is juxtaposed with the fluid lines of hydrographic features such as streams, ponds, and existing roads. With names like Middle Road and Bloomingdale Road, these paths at times taper into what appear to be country lanes, passing by cemeteries, armories, asylums, and gardens. According to the visual language of this map, these features were not intended to remain part of the streetscape. Some did persist, though; what is now Broadway joined together sections of Old Broadway in the southern part of the city with uptown’s Bloomingdale Road. This often-diagonal road had never been part of the rectilinear plan but was integrated nevertheless, with systematic street widenings and straightenings along its course. The full grid is depicted, projecting an image of future growth, but it stops at 155th Street, in accordance with the 1811 plan. MK