W42ST Magazine
Street Smart
November/December 2014
Within a borough of wonders, Manhattan’s grid system is iconic in and of itself, a show of far-reaching forethought and elaborate city planning rarely seen since the Roman times. However, while the original grid system (spanning 1st-155th Street) envisioned the streets as vital thoroughfares leading to the riverside, it is instead the avenues that are the focus of commerce while the treasures of its side streets, just footsteps away, remain largely undiscovered. It was this that inspired Betsy Bober Polivy to being her project Manhattan Sideways: the roads less traveled.
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