Manhattan

Manhattan /mænˈhætən/ is the a lot of densely busy of the 5 boroughs of New York City. The apple is accessory with New York County, founded on November 1, 1683 as an aboriginal canton of the U.S. accompaniment of New York. The apple consists mostly of Manhattan Island, belted by the East, Hudson, and Harlem Rivers, but aswell includes several baby adjoining islands, as able-bodied as Marble Hill, a baby adjacency on the U.S. mainland.
Manhattan is generally said to be the bread-and-butter and cultural centermost of the United StateS and serves as home to the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Banking District of Lower Manhattan, New York City-limits has been alleged both the a lot of economically able city-limits and the arch banking centermost of the world, and Manhattan is home to the world's two better banal exchanges by absolute bazaar capitalization, the New York Banal Exchange and NASDAQ.[12][13] Abounding bunch media conglomerates are based in the borough. Historically accurate to accept been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for the agnate of US$1050,[14] Manhattan absolute acreage has back become a part of the a lot of big-ticket in the world, with the amount of Manhattan Island, including absolute estate, estimated to beat US$3 abundance in 2013.[15][16]
New York Canton is the a lot of densely busy canton in the United States, and is added close than any alone American city. It is one of the a lot of densely busy areas in the world, with a Census-estimated 2014 citizenry of 1,636,268[2] active in a acreage breadth of 22.83 aboveboard afar (59.13 km2), or 71,672 association per aboveboard mile (27,673/km²). On business days, the arrival of commuters increases that amount to over 3.9 million, or added than 170,000 humans per aboveboard mile. Manhattan has the third-largest citizenry of New York City's 5 boroughs, afterwards Brooklyn and Queens, and is the aboriginal apple in agreement of acreage area.
Many districts and landmarks in Manhattan accept become able-bodied known, as New York City-limits accustomed a almanac 56 actor tourists in 2014,[21] with Manhattan hosting three of the world's ten a lot of visited day-tripper attractions[which?] in 2013.[22] Times Square, iconified as "The Crossroads of the World" and "The Centermost of the Universe", is the blithely aflame hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest banal intersections, and a above centermost of the world's ball industry. The apple hosts abounding world-renowned bridges, skyscrapers,and parks. Manhattan's Chinatown incorporates the accomplished absorption of Chinese humans in the Western Hemisphere. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village is advised the birthplace of the avant-garde gay rights movement. Numerous colleges and universities are amid in Manhattan, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, which accept been ranked a part of the top 35 in the world. The city-limits of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan,[15] and the apple houses New York City-limits Hall, the bench of city-limits government and a National Historic Landmark that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Wall Street. Madison Avenue. 34th Street. Broadway. Manhattan is so able-bodied accepted that even the names of its streets accept become iconic and accepted the apple over. This long, attenuate island is alone one of New York City's 5 boroughs, but it's Manhattan that has the accurate canyons and the consummate skyline; Manhattan that has the world's brightest and a lot of acclaimed amphitheater district; Manhattan that has Central Park, Rockefeller Center, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Apple Trade Centermost site; and Manhattan that comprises iconic neighborhoods like Harlem, the Upper East Side, Times Square, and Greenwich Village.
The blow of New York City-limits has abundant to see and do, but it's Manhattan that represents the city—and sometimes the absolute United States—to the world. You could absorb a anniversary on this tiny island and still not see all there is to see. Grab a chicken taxi, hop on the subway, or just alpha walking, and you're abiding to activate to accept just what it is that makes Manhattan, Manhattan.
Districts


Manhattan Skyline
Manhattan is disconnected broadly into three sections: Downtown, Midtown, and Uptown. In accepted chat locally, to go "Downtown" in Manhattan agency to "go south", while traveling "Uptown" agency to "go north".
The districts amid south of 14th St are advised allotment of Downtown. Midtown, as the name suggests, occupies the almost average ability of Manhattan Island, sandwiched amid 14th St and 59th St / Central Park. Midtown is disconnected into a amount of neighborhoods, generally ambiguous with ample overlap amid them. The districts amid arctic of 59th St are advised allotment of Uptown.

Map of Manhattan Districts
Lower Manhattan
Long the centermost of the American economy, the Financial Commune is abounding of absorbing turn-of-the-century barrio and is a accumulate of action during the day. At night it clears out considerably, admitting it is acceptable an added residential area, giving it added acidity than it has had in the past. Wall Street, the Apple Trade Centermost site, South Artery Seaport, and Battery Park, a abandonment point for ferries to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, Staten Island, and Governors Island are all in this neighborhood.
TriBeCa
The "Triangle Below Canal Street". Home to contemporary restaurants and Robert DeNiro's anniversary blur festival, it is accepted with the flush contemporary army and abounding with contemporary restaurants. Unlike SoHo to the north, Tribeca is not over-filled with shoppers on weekends, and Greenwich Artery could be mistaken for the capital artery of a beautifully preserved baby town.
SoHo
"South of Houston Street" flows arctic from Canal St amid the Hudson River and Lafayette St. The ultimate burghal gentrification story, SoHo was a briefing automated breadth until the 1960s, if artists began inhabiting its ample and then-cheap lofts. After the artists came the galleries, again the celebrities, again the shoppers, and now the visitors. Filled with attractive cast-iron architectonics (Greene St, especially), SoHo is a abundant arcade and dining destination, even if abounding of the artists accept confused on.
Chinatown
Chinatown retains its ancient, alien atmosphere, abnormally about Mott and Canal Sts. The abbreviating Little Italy still exists on Mulberry St (and comes out in abounding force for Italian festivals such as the Feast of San Gennaro in September), but the surrounding blocks are morphing into fashionable Nolita ("North of Little Italy") or accept been annexed by Chinatown.
Lower East Side
Famous as the Jewish immigrant ghetto of the aboriginal 20th century, the adjacency today is adequate a renaissance, with dozens of confined and restaurants.
Greenwich Village
Coffee houses, wine bars, lowrise but top art and arcane connections, amid amid Houston and 14th Sts. The bohemian centermost of yore, today's Village is acerb upmarket but retains its assorted flavor, with its celebrated association about Christopher St and bags of acceptance who appear NYU.
East Village
Gritty and assorted but redeveloping, this breadth lies east of Broadway. Pockets of Ukrainians, Japanese, Indians and adolescent professionals accomplish it one of the a lot of active Manhattan areas. The once-shabby breadth aforetime accepted as Alphabet City, centered on Avenues A through D, is now advised allotment of the East Village.
Chelsea Garment Commune
Having abolished Greenwich Village as the primary centermost of New York's gay community, this ambrosial commune has a abundant mix of fashion, design, art, culture, confined and restaurants.
Gramercy Flatiron
A chic, beautiful commune of august residential areas, breadth and squares, contemporary restaurants and bars.
Theater Commune
34th-59th Sts, almost west of 6th Ave - the name says it all: Broadway, Times Square, 42nd St, Hell's Kitchen, Columbus Circle; generally overlapping in the breadth amid Fifth and Sixth Aves with Midtown East. The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is down on the Hudson River.
Midtown
Also termed "Midtown East", this all-encompassing breadth east of Sixth Ave includes a amount of New York icons: the Empire State Building, the United Nations, Grand Central Terminal and more.
Central Park
With its lawns, copse and lakes, it is accepted for amusement and concerts and is home to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park Zoo.
Upper East Side
Primarily a residential neighborhood, it charcoal New York City's wealthiest. Museums and restaurants abound.
Upper West Side
Often alleged the city's quintessential adjacency and fabricated acclaimed by TV's Seinfeld, it includes adorable residential streets, the twin-towered facades of the old accommodation hotels on Central Park West and Riverside Dr, Columbia University, ample and absorbing churches, two of the city's best-known markets (Zabar's and Fairway) and one of its above museums - the American Museum of Natural History.
Harlem and Upper Manhattan
Harlem, America's a lot of acclaimed atramentous community, is home to an added assorted mix of cultures. East Harlem (aka Spanish Harlem), the acceptable centermost of Latino ability in Manhattan, has been abutting by the lively, predominantly Dominican adjacency of West Harlem, and Washington Heights to the north. Washington Heights is notable for Fort Tryon Park, the home of The Cloisters (the Medieval addendum of the Metropolitan Museum). At the arctic tip of Manhattan, Inwood's affirmation to acclaim is Inwood Park, the endure actual abstinent backwoods on the island.