This diagonal slicing through the block bounded by 2nd and 3rd avenues and East 9th and 10th streets is unique in Manhattan: it's the oldest street laid out precisely along an east-west axis. (This grid never caught on, and instead a street grid following the island's geographic orientation was adopted.) Among the handsome redbrick row houses are the federal-style Stuyvesant-Fish House (21 Stuyvesant St., East Village, New York, NY, USA; Subway: 6 to Astor Pl.), which was built in 1804 as a wedding gift for a great-great-granddaughter of the Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant, and Renwick Triangle, an attractive group of carefully restored one- and two-story brick and brownstone residences originally constructed in 1861.