Looking at maps

I looked at manhattan for two reasons.
The first being It's designed the way I want to design my city (grid style)
So i looked at this for inspiration on how to map my own city.
I also used it to look at the distance between Manhattan and The Bronx.
It's relevant because I'll have a large city and a run down area, so in looking at the distance between
those two I can judge a decent distance between my rundown town and the city.


I'm looking into route 66, research on that+reasoning will be posted later.