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| Geography |
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| New York County and the Borough of Manhattan are
coextensive. As a part of New York City, New York County contains
no other political subdivisions. It occupies the whole of Manhattan
Island, surrounded by the East River, the Harlem River, and
the Hudson River. It also includes some smaller islands, including
Roosevelt Island (formerly Welfare Island, and even earlier
Blackwell's Island), U Thant Island (officially known as Belmont
Island), and a small portion of the North American mainland
(Marble Hill) contiguous with The Bronx. Marble Hill was originally
part of Manhattan Island; but the Harlem River Ship Canal, dug
in the late 19th century to improve navigation on the Harlem
River, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan, and eventually
the part of the original Harlem River channel separating Marble
Hill from the Bronx was filled in. |
| Manhattan Island is 21.5 km (13 miles) long and
3.7 km (2.3 miles) wide (at its widest point). |
| According to the United States Census Bureau,
New York County (the Borough of Manhattan) has a total area
of 87.5 km² (33.8 mi²). 59.5 km² (23.0 mi²)
of it is land and 28.0 km² (10.8 mi²) of it is water.
The total area is 32.01% water. |
| Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels
to New Jersey to the west, and three New York City boroughs:
the Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island
to the east and south. Its only direct connection with the fifth
New York City borough is the Staten Island Ferry, whose terminal
is at Battery Park at its southern tip. |
| On May 28 and July 12 the sunrise and sunset are
aligned with the street gridlines, so that the Sun is visible
at the horizon from street level. |
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| Manhattan landmarks |
| The Empire State Building, the theater district
around Broadway, New York University, Columbia University, the
financial center around Wall Street, Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts, Harlem, the American Museum of Natural History,
Chinatown, and Central Park are all located on this densely
populated island. (See also New York City.) The phrase "a
New York minute" refers to the extremely rapid pace of
living in Manhattan. |
| East Side and West Side |
| Fifth Avenue bisects Manhattan Island, dividing
it into the East and West Sides. These east-west designations
are used in latitudinal (east-west) streets (e.g. East 27th
Street, West Houston Street). The Manhattan numbering system
extends into the western Bronx, using Jerome Avenue as the east-west
divider. |
| Uptown and downtown |
| In Manhattan, uptown means north and downtown
means south, either in direction of motion or in relative location.
For example, an uptown train means a subway train heading north,
while a restaurant located three blocks downtown would be three
city blocks south of the person who is speaking. North of Houston
Street, nearly all east-west streets use numeric designations
- which increase from south to north (reflecting the city's
original growth in that direction). The terms uptown and downtown
are most often used in the relative sense of north and south;
however, uptown can also refer to the northern part of Manhattan
(above 59th Street) and downtown to the southern part (below
23rd Street or 14th Street). The area in the middle, between
23rd and 59th Streets, is Midtown. |
| This usage differs from that of most American
cities, where downtown refers to the central business district.
Manhattan has two central business districts, namely the Financial
District downtown and the newer business district in Midtown. |
| Within "downtown" is Lower Manhattan,
a neighborhood defined as everything approximately south of
Barclay Street and the Brooklyn Bridge; it is perhaps one of
the most well-known parts of the city, home to City Hall, Wall
Street, the South Street Seaport, the site of the World Trade
Center, as well as a number of other significant landmarks. |
| The northernmost area of "uptown" is
Upper Manhattan, encompassing the neighborhoods of Washington
Heights and Inwood, and often Harlem. A less famous and hectic
area, and given the distance from Midtown, Upper Manhattan is
often thought of as an outer borough, given the similarities
the region has to the adjacent western section of the South
Bronx. In fact, Manhattan stretches so far northward from Midtown
that some in the southern parts of Manhattan jokingly refer
to the Inwood neighborhood as "Upstate Manhattan,"
"Arctic Manhattan," or "NoFair" (short for
"North of Fairway," Fairway being a popular supermarket
at 132nd St. and the Hudson River). |
| Traditionally, many New Yorkers have used the
phrase The City when referring only to Manhattan, while referring
to the other four boroughs as "outer boroughs". These
terms are becoming less common, however, as more transplants
from Manhattan continue to move into the other boroughs. |
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