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Marguerite Holloway, director of science and environmental journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, recounts the life of surveyor John Randel Jr. (1787-1865) who created the city grid for Manhattan. Commissioned to survey the island in 1808, Randel utilized tools that he had invented to plot the unwieldy terrain that titled eastward and was spotted with rocks and marsh lands. Marguerite Holloway speaks at the Museum of the City of New York in New York City.