Manhattan
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Manhattan is one of the five boroughs that form the City of New York. It consists mainly of a small island (Manhattan Island) between the Hudson River to the west, the East River to the east, and the Harlem River to the northeast, connected by bridges and tunnels to New Jersey to the west, the Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island to the east and south.
In addition to the island of Manhattan, the borough includes a few much smaller islands, notably Roosevelt Island, and a small piece of the mainland (Marble Hill), which is geographically part of the Bronx but legally belongs to Manhattan. This area was originally part of Manhattan Island; a canal was dug in the late 19th century separating it from the remainder of Manhattan, to improve navigation on the Harlem River, and eventually the part of the original Harlem River channel separating Marble Hill from the Bronx was filled in.
The Empire State Building, the theater district around Broadway, 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. When one refers to a New York minute, one refers to the extremely rapid pace of living in Manhattan.
Neighborhoods of Manhattan
As with all large cities, Manhattan consists of many distinct neighborhoods, each with its own character. The following is a partial list (in alphabetical order):
- Battery Park City
- Chelsea
- Chinatown
- Civic Center (formerly Five Points)
- East Village (including Alphabet City)
- Financial District
- Flatiron District
- Fort George
- Gramercy Park
- Greenwich Village
- Hell's Kitchen (Clinton)
- Harlem
- Inwood
- Koreatown
- Little Italy
- Lower East Side
- Marble Hill
- Midtown
- Morningside Heights
- Murray Hill
- NoHo
- NoLIta
- Roosevelt Island
- SoHo
- Spanish Harlem (East Harlem)
- TriBeCa
- Upper East Side
- Upper West Side
Entertainment
- Manhattan (film), directed in 1979 by Woody Allen
- Ciao! Manhattan, a 1972 movie