Never Built: The 1912 Plan to Expand Manhattan, Fill the East River

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