There are many, many maps of New York City. There are the decor maps, sold on Amazon, and tourist maps, which focus, erroneously, only on Manhattan. There’s the iconic subway map, as well as the MTA’s new version. There are the Eater and Grubhub maps, which tell us where to eat. 

And then there’s the map that really matters: the official legal map for the city, which quite literally rules the streets, complete with boundaries and widths. It’s also the map that doesn't currently exist, at least in one singular and easy-to-use form. 

That’s changing, though. On Nov. 4, New Yorkers appeared poised to approve Proposal 5, a measure that will push the city to create a unified official map representing its five boroughs for the first time. The effort should help officials finally catch up with unification efforts, which began more than a century ago in 1898, when areas throughout modern-day Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island, and were combined to form one city government. 

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