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Broadway, Bowery and Park Avenue are some of New York City’s most famous roadways, but you won’t find them on this website. Manhattan Sideways is a project dedicated to chronicling The Big Apple’s side streets and what’s off their beaten paths.
Their goal is to document the city’s grid from 1st Street in the East Village all the way up to Harlem’s 155th. Each non-residential structure is recorded from east to west, and so far they’ve explored everything from Israeli bakeries to cozy bookstores to obscure museums and everything in between. It is the intention of project founder Betsy Polivy to bring attention and, hopefully, business to these diamonds in the rough before the whale of New York real estate swallows them.