[IIAOPSW]

Ironically, the author could have found a far more intricate mesh of stitched together street grids if they never left New York.

Here are all the numbered streets of New York City, colored by the number of the street.

https://i.redd.it/p48mipyctk5d1.png

The New York street grid can really suck you in because its just organized enough to not be randomness, but not organized enough to instantly fit it to a simple pattern and move on with your life.

[tomcam]

The New York street grid patterns were covered tersely but sufficiently about 60 years ago by legendary cartographer Saul Steinberg:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/kft9cz/a_view_of_t...

[rufus_foreman]

Wow, it used to be way easier to park on the street in NYC.

[SllX]

Everything used to be closer together too. The world felt smaller. You could swim to Japan from where Vegas meets the Sea. Life was just better, except for the fact that Hawaii hadn’t been invented yet.

[tomcam]

As if Hawaii were real