The blogosphere caught wind of a plan from 1912 that would have completely altered the geography of New York City as we know it. Make no little plans, indeed.
Jen Carlson shares the historic oddity of a 1912 plan called "A Really Greater New York," proposed by engineer T. Kennard Thomson. In addition to paving the East River, Carlson reports, the plan included the following: "The Brooklyn Navy Yard would have been moved to Newark Bay, a new Harlem River would have run through part of Manhattan, and a new East River would have been placed between Brooklyn and Queens. Also? Grand Central Terminal would have built on top of the newly paved East River."
In a separate post, Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghen notes that the plan would have added 50 square miles to the city's current footprint of 469 square miles. Campbell-Dollaghen also notes that the plan isn't too much of stretch to imagine, given Manhattan's historic expansion
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