I have a large print of a "Johnson's New York and Brooklyn" map from 1866 and noticed that on it, the street grid in East Williamsburg is pretty well-developed but notably missing what is currently Woodpoint Road (northern extension of Bushwick Ave heading north, eventually merging with Kingsland).

Here's that map:
https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/65634

I started digging and found this old tax map from, at the earliest, 1884 where _part_ of Woodpoint Road is shown, but it stops a few blocks short of its current route.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/345c23f0-c5fe-012f-d0fa-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

I live nearby and had always assumed that Woodpoint had its odd curved arrangement because it predated the modern street grid, but it interestingly seems to have been pretty much carved through the street grid after the area was already developed.

There's lots written online about this being an ancient trade route predating development in the area but not a lot explaining where the modern road came from and why it cuts up the grid like this, seemingly even having buildings removed to make way for it.

Does anyone have any leads or related reading?