[411] A small amount of trash processed at transfer sites in New Jersey is sometimes incinerated at waste-to-energy facilities. 3: Times Square, New York City Annual Visitors: 50,000,000", "Singapore transport minister says Suez block may disrupt supplies to region", "Massive coral reef taller than the Empire State Building found off Australian coast", "World's Largest Cruise Ship Is Size of Empire State Building", "Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562", "Obama inaugural speech references Stonewall gay-rights riots", "The Reporters of City Hall Return to Their Old Perch", "Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017", "The Origin and Meaning of the Name "Manhattan", "The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland", GovIsland Park-to-Tolerance: through Broad Awareness and Conscious Vigilance, "Peter Schaghen Letter with transcription", "Peter Schaghen Letter with transcription. In Central Park, outcrops of Manhattan schist occur and Rat Rock is one rather large example. Manhattan has ten City Council members, the third largest contingent among the five boroughs. "A chunk of ice twice the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland in the last two years", "An Iceberg 30 Times the Size of Manhattan Is About to Break Off Antarctica", "An iceberg 5 times bigger than Manhattan just broke off from Antarctica", "Hudson Park Draws Closer To Reality; Proponents Celebrate Approval by Albany", "A New $260 Million Park Floats on the Hudson. [122], On October 31, 2017, a terrorist took a rental pickup truck and deliberately drove down a bike path alongside the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan, killing eight people and injuring a dozen others before crashing into a school bus. [304] The New York Yankees began their franchise as the Highlanders, named for Hilltop Park, where they played from their creation in 1903 until 1912. [35] If each borough were ranked as a city, Manhattan would rank as the sixth-most populous in the U.S. [404] US Helicopter offered regularly scheduled helicopter service connecting the Downtown Manhattan Heliport with John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens and Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, before going out of business in 2009.[405]. [262] NY1, Time Warner Cable's local news channel, is known for its beat coverage of City Hall and state politics.

[316], The New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League played their home games at Downing Stadium for two seasons, starting in 1974. Most serious violent crime has been historically concentrated in Upper Manhattan and the Lower East Side, though robbery in particular was a major quality of life concern throughout the borough. Manhattan is the economic engine of New York City, with its 2.3million workers in 2007 drawn from the entire New York metropolitan area accounting for almost two-thirds of all jobs in New York City. Manhattan has various colleges and universities, including Columbia University (and its affiliate Barnard College), Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan College, New York Institute of Technology, New York University (NYU), The Juilliard School, Pace University, Berkeley College, The New School, Yeshiva University, and a campus of Fordham University. [27] The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to America by ship in the late 19th century[28] and is a world symbol of the United States and its ideals of liberty and peace. The Upper West Side is home to the Collegiate School and Trinity School. The City University of New York (CUNY), the municipal college system of New York City, is the largest urban university system in the United States, serving more than 226,000 degree students and a roughly equal number of adult, continuing and professional education students. [319] The centralized New York City government is responsible for public education, correctional institutions, libraries, public safety, recreational facilities, sanitation, water supply, and welfare services in Manhattan. The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the world's largest parade,[293] beginning alongside Central Park and processing southward to the flagship Macy's Herald Square store;[302] the parade is viewed on telecasts worldwide and draws millions of spectators in person. Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York City's five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, and is the smallest borough in terms of land area. Some have simple folkloric names, such as Hell's Kitchen, alongside their more official but lesser used title (in this case, Clinton). CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:Ability to obtain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire. After arriving in New York, many new arrivals ended up living in squalor in the slums of the Five Points neighborhood, an area between Broadway and the Bowery, northeast of New York City Hall. The downtown pop art movement of the late 1970s included artist Andy Warhol and clubs like Serendipity 3 and Studio 54, where he socialized. The Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s established the African-American literary canon in the United States and introduced writers Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. [249] In 2019, the most expensive home sale ever in the United States occurred in Manhattan, at a selling price of US$238million, for a 24,000 square feet (2,200m2) penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park,[250] while Central Park Tower, topped out at 1,550 feet (472m) in 2019, is the world's tallest residential building, followed globally in height by 111 West 57th Street and 432 Park Avenue, both also located in Midtown Manhattan. "Stuyvesant Town to Get Its First Tenants Today", The fact that the immediate layer of bedrock in the Bronx is Fordham gneiss, while that of Manhattan is schist has led to the expression: "The Bronx is gneiss (nice) but Manhattan is schist.". [73] The military center for the colonists was established in New Jersey. [36] According to The Broadway League, shows on Broadway sold approximately US$1.27billion worth of tickets in the 20132014 season, an increase of 11.4% from US$1.139billion in the 20122013 season; attendance in 20132014 stood at 12.21million, representing a 5.5% increase from the 20122013 season's 11.57million. [9] The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers along with several small adjacent islands, including Roosevelt, U Thant, and Randalls and Wards Islands. Many of the women wore fitted tucked-front blouses like those manufactured by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, a clothing style that became the working woman's uniform and a symbol of women's liberation, reflecting the alliance of labor and suffrage movements.[276]. [202], The Roaring Twenties saw a race to the sky, with three separate buildings pursuing the world's tallest title in the span of a year. As the stock market soared in the days before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, two developers publicly competed for the crown. [351][352] By 1929, stricter fire codes and the increased use of elevators in residential buildings, were the impetus behind a new housing code that effectively ended the tenement as a form of new construction, though many tenement buildings survive today on the East Side of the borough. [417] Water comes to Manhattan through the tunnels 1 and 2, completed in 1917 and 1935, and in future through Tunnel No. Ticker-tape parades celebrating championships won by sports teams as well as other heroic accomplishments march northward along the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway from Bowling Green to City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan. High technology startup companies and employment are growing in Manhattan and across New York City, bolstered by the city's emergence as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship,[234] social tolerance,[235] and environmental sustainability,[236][237] as well as New York's position as the leading Internet hub and telecommunications center in North America, including its vicinity to several transatlantic fiber optic trunk lines, the city's intellectual capital, and its extensive outdoor wireless connectivity. There are numerous bridges to the Bronx across the Harlem River, and five (listed north to south)the Triborough (known officially as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge), Ed Koch Queensboro (also known as the 59th Street Bridge), Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Bridgesthat cross the East River to connect Manhattan to Long Island. [313], Although both of New York City's football teams play today across the Hudson River in MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, both teams started out playing in the Polo Grounds. Plus, we've stepped up extra safety measures. [111] A memorial at the site was opened to the public on September 11, 2011, and the museum opened in 2014. [226] Manhattan contained over 500million square feet (46.5million m2) of office space in 2018,[227] making it the largest office market in the United States,[228] while Midtown Manhattan, with 400million square feet (37.2million m2) in 2018,[227] is the largest central business district in the world. New York City is home to the most corporate headquarters of any city in the United States, the overwhelming majority based in Manhattan. Central Park, which opened to the public in 1858, became the first landscaped public park in an American city. As of 2003[update], only 20.3% of Manhattan residents lived in owner-occupied housing, the second-lowest rate of all counties in the nation, behind the Bronx. [83] The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 laid out the island of Manhattan in its familiar grid plan. [322], The Democratic Party holds most public offices. [416] Manhattan, surrounded by two brackish rivers, had a limited supply of fresh water. The borough is widely acclaimed as the cradle of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, with its inception at the June 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement[101][287][288] and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States. Altogether, 44.0% of the population was claimed as members by religious congregations, although members of historically African-American denominations were underrepresented due to incomplete information. In much of Midtown Manhattan, Broadway runs at a diagonal to the grid, creating major named intersections at Union Square (Park Avenue South/Fourth Avenue and 14th Street), Madison Square (Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street), Herald Square (Sixth Avenue and 34th Street), Times Square (Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street), and Columbus Circle (Eighth Avenue/Central Park West and 59th Street). Whether you're looking for a job with flexible hours or a full-time career with excellent advancement potential, you'll find it all at VIOC. Despite the Great Depression, some of the world's tallest skyscrapers were completed in Manhattan during the 1930s, including numerous Art Deco masterpieces that are still part of the city's skyline, most notably the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the 30 Rockefeller Plaza. This page was last edited on 27 July 2022, at 03:55. Some notable New York City public high schools are located in Manhattan, including Beacon High School, Stuyvesant High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, High School of Fashion Industries, Eleanor Roosevelt High School, NYC Lab School, Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, Hunter College High School, and High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College. Alternative etymologies in folklore include "island of many hills",[49] "the island where we all became intoxicated" and simply "island", as well as a phrase descriptive of the whirlpool at Hell Gate. [23] Manhattan's apartments cost $1,773 per square foot ($19,080/m2), compared to San Francisco housing at $1,185 per square foot ($12,760/m2), Boston housing at $751 per square foot ($8,080/m2), and Los Angeles housing at $451 per square foot ($4,850/m2). New Netherland Institute (1626-11-07). Other daily newspapers include AM New York and The Villager. According to a Munsee tradition recorded by Albert Seqaqkind Anthony in the 19th century, the island was named so for a grove of hickory trees at its southern end that was considered ideal for the making of bows. [346] Manhattan retained the highest murder rate in the city until 1985 when it was surpassed by the Bronx. Organized protests were aimed at preserving the McKim, Mead & White-designed structure completed in 1910, widely considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the architectural jewels of New York City. [384][385] All of the system's routes have termini in Manhattan, and the Lower East Side and Soundview routes also have intermediate stops on the East River.[386].

The New York City Department of Sanitation is responsible for garbage removal. [133] Little Island opened on the Hudson River in May 2021, connected to the western termini of 13th and 14th Streets by footbridges. [81][82] By 1810, New York City, then confined to Manhattan, had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States. [293] Other notable parades including the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in March, the New York City Pride Parade in June, the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in October, and numerous parades commemorating the independence days of many nations. [47] It was first recorded in writing as Manna-hata, in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). [88][89] New York's growing immigrant population, which had earlier consisted mainly of German and Irish immigrants, began in the late 1800s to include waves of impoverished Italians and Central and Eastern European Jews flowing in en masse. They are the two busiest rail stations in the United States. The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and spawning the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide. The Statue of Liberty rests on a pedestal on Liberty Island, an exclave of Manhattan, and part of Ellis Island is also an exclave of Manhattan. To satisfy its growing population, the City of New York acquired land in adjacent Westchester County and constructed the old Croton Aqueduct system there, which went into service in 1842 and was superseded by the new Croton Aqueduct, which opened in 1890. Advise supervisor of any machine issues, crashes, or needed repairs. Chinatown has the highest concentration of people of Chinese descent outside of Asia. Fifth Avenue roughly bisects Manhattan Island and acts as the demarcation line for east/west designations (e.g., East 27th Street, West 42nd Street); street addresses start at Fifth Avenue and increase heading away from Fifth Avenue, at a rate of 100 per block on most streets. Official weather observations for Central Park were conducted at the Arsenal at Fifth Avenue and 64th Street from 1869 to 1919, and at Belvedere Castle since 1919. Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Manning, Susan. "Ah, Polo Grounds, The Game is Over; Wreckers Begin Demolition for Housing Project". Other schools include Bank Street College of Education, Boricua College, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Manhattan School of Music, Metropolitan College of New York, Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts, Touro College, and Union Theological Seminary. Like New York City, New Jersey and much of Greater New York relies on exporting its trash to far-flung areas. There are 151 subway stations in Manhattan, out of the 472 stations. [305] The New York Mets played in the Polo Grounds in 1962 and 1963, their first two seasons, before Shea Stadium was completed in 1964. The figure of 60 guilders comes from a letter by a representative of the Dutch Estates General and member of the board of the Dutch West India Company, Pieter Janszoon Schagen, to the Estates General in November 1626. Tammany Hall, a Democratic Party political machine, began to grow in influence with the support of many of the immigrant Irish, culminating in the election of the first Tammany mayor, Fernando Wood, in 1854. [274] Journalist Walt Whitman characterized the streets of Manhattan as being traversed by "hurrying, feverish, electric crowds". [203] At 927 feet (283m), 40 Wall Street, completed in May 1930 in only eleven months as the headquarters of the Bank of Manhattan, seemed to have secured the title. [394][395] A similar phenomenon occurs with the sunrise in January and December. [326][327], No Republican has won the presidential election in Manhattan since 1924, when Calvin Coolidge won a plurality of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 41.20%39.55%. The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 called for twelve numbered avenues running north and south roughly parallel to the shore of the Hudson River, each 100 feet (30m) wide, with First Avenue on the east side and Twelfth Avenue on the west side. Based on data from the 20112015 American Community Survey, 59.9% of Manhattan residents over age 25 have a bachelor's degree. [366] Commuter rail services operating to and from Manhattan are the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), which connects Manhattan and other New York City boroughs to Long Island; the Metro-North Railroad, which connects Manhattan to Upstate New York and Southwestern Connecticut; and NJ Transit trains, which run to various points in New Jersey. He entered the tidal strait now known as The Narrows and named the land around Upper New York Harbor New Angoulme, in reference to the family name of King Francis I that was derived from Angoulme in France; he sailed far enough into the harbor to sight the Hudson River, which he referred to in his report to the French king as a "very big river"; and he named the Bay of Santa Margarita what is now Upper New York Bay after Marguerite de Navarre, the elder sister of the king. [167] Nighttime conditions are often exacerbated by the urban heat island phenomenon, while daytime temperatures exceed 90F (32C) on average of 17 days each summer[169] and in some years exceed 100F (38C). [298] The "Big Apple" dates back to the 1920s, when a reporter heard the term used by New Orleans stablehands to refer to New York City's horse racetracks and named his racing column "Around The Big Apple". [21] The NYSE American (formerly the American Stock Exchange, AMEX), New York Board of Trade, and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) are also located downtown. [102][289] Brian Silverman, the author of Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day, wrote the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most powerful LGBT communities", and "Gay and lesbian culture is as much a part of New York's basic identity as yellow cabs, high-rise buildings, and Broadway theatre"[290] radiating from this central hub, as LGBT travel guide Queer in the World states, "The fabulosity of Gay New York is unrivaled on Earth, and queer culture seeps into every corner of its five boroughs".

[26] New York, based in present-day Manhattan, served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. [347][348][349], During Manhattan's early history, wood construction and poor access to water supplies left the city vulnerable to fires. [62] Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006 and $963 in 2020, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam. Phelps Stokes; The Iconography of Manhattan Island Vol 5. [199] The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, standing 700 feet (210m) at the foot of Madison Avenue, wrested the title in 1909, with a tower reminiscent of St Mark's Campanile in Venice. Drebinger, John. Others are acronyms, such as TriBeCa (for "TRIangle BElow CAnal Street") or SoHo ("SOuth of HOuston"), or the far more recent vintages NoLIta ("NOrth of Little ITAly"). [71], Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of major battles in the early American Revolutionary War. Since 2010, Manhattan's population was estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to have increased 2.7% to 1,628,706 as of 2018[update], representing 19.5% of New York City's population of 8,336,817 and 8.4% of New York State's population of 19,745,289. The 1980s saw a rebirth of Wall Street, and Manhattan reclaimed its role at the center of the worldwide financial industry. The term uptown also refers to the northern part of Manhattan above 72nd Street and downtown to the southern portion below 14th Street,[163] with Midtown covering the area in between, though definitions can be rather fluid depending on the situation. Manhattan traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. [379][380] The ferry has been fare-free since 1997, when the then-50-cent fare was eliminated. [107] Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley, emerged in Manhattan's economy. Branding the last unnamed neighborhood in Manhattan. To the north, the Harlem River divides Manhattan Island from the Bronx and the mainland United States. Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e. The rule of thumb is that odd-numbered streets run west, while even-numbered streets run east. [403] These ferries mainly serve midtown (at W. 39th St.), Battery Park City (WFC at Brookfield Place), and Wall Street (Pier 11). [135] Before World War I, the section of the original Harlem River channel separating Marble Hill from the Bronx was filled in, and Marble Hill became part of the mainland. Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each cutting across the borough's long axis: Lower, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan. Marble Hill at one time was part of Manhattan Island, but the Harlem River Ship Canal, dug in 1895 to improve navigation on the Harlem River, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan as an island between the Bronx and the remainder of Manhattan. [77] Federal Hall was also the site where the United States Supreme Court met for the first time,[78] the United States Bill of Rights were drafted and ratified,[79] and where the Northwest Ordinance was adopted, establishing measures for adding new states to the Union.[80]. [214] While much of the park looks natural, it is almost entirely landscaped, and the construction of Central Park in the 1850s was one of the era's most massive public works projects, with some 20,000 workers crafting the topography to create the English-style pastoral landscape Olmsted and Vaux sought to create. [212] In 2017, a multibillion-dollar rebuilding plan was unveiled to restore the historic grandeur of Penn Station, in the process of upgrading the landmark's status as a critical transportation hub. [213], Parkland composes 17.8% of the borough, covering a total of 2,686 acres (10.87km2). [297] The iconic Flatiron Building is said to have been the source of the phrase "23 skidoo" or scram, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds created by the triangular building. [350], The rise of immigration near the turn of the 20th century left major portions of Manhattan, especially the Lower East Side, densely packed with recent arrivals, crammed into unhealthy and unsanitary housing. [92] Manhattan's majority white ethnic group declined from 98.7% in 1900 to 58.3% by 1990. The annual NYC Pride March (or gay pride parade) traverses southward down Fifth Avenue and ends at Greenwich Village; the Manhattan parade is the largest pride parade in the world, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June. Murder rates that had reached 2,245 in 1990 plummeted to 537 by 2008, and the crack epidemic and its associated drug-related violence came under greater control.



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