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Chicago had a grid system before the great fire, maybe NY is a good example of this but I do not know. See this[0] 1869 map which shows Chicago was already quite regularized

0: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/1869_Bla...

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It's not. The older parts of NYC are still not on a grid, there was no massive fire in NYC that needed to be rebuilt. They may have been thinking of London `¯\_(ツ)_/¯`

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