All use curves or waves to set the site area off from the surrounding regularity of the Manhattan grid.

It's New York, I reckon, the thrust, the horsepower, the electrodynamics of the Manhattan grid.

The uniform Manhattan grid was laid out for the convenience of real-estate subdivision and traffic flow, just building lots and streets.

Or the 1811 Manhattan grid, with its strictly determined plots plus a let-it-rip agenda?

They disregard the Manhattan grid.

Away from the Manhattan grid, I cannot usually tell south from north.

The engineers who laid out the Manhattan grid believed the river would satisfy the city's need for open space.

Here, where the Manhattan grid takes over in earnest, there are only right angles as far as the eye can see.

West of Avenue of the Americas, the Manhattan grid remains happily scrambled.

But the Manhattan grid is angled 30 degrees east from geographic north, shifting the days.