Civic Center
The Civic Center is an area and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, that encompasses New York City Hall, One Police Plaza, the courthouses in Foley Square, the Metropolitan Correctional Center, and the surrounding area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, United States
- Also known as: “Civic Center, Manhattan” and “Civic Center, New York City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Metropolitan Correctional Center and New York City Hall.
Metropolitan Correctional Center
Prison
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York is a temporarily-closed United States federal administrative detention facility in the Civic Center of Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.
New York City Hall
Town hall
Photo: Momos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
New York City Hall is the seat of New York City government, located at the center of City Hall Park in the Civic Center area of Lower Manhattan, between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street.
Woolworth Building
Photo: Aude, Public domain.
The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown Manhattan and Chinatown.
Downtown Manhattan
Quarter
Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan, is the southernmost part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The area is the historical birthplace of New York City and in the 17th and 18th centuries composed the entirety of the city.
Chinatown
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Manhattan's famous Chinatown is a lively neighborhood, full of good values in restaurants and food shopping. Also on sale are cheap knockoffs of designer labels made in China, and all sorts of trinkets and toys.
TriBeCa
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A former industrial district in Lower Manhattan, TriBeCa, short for "Triangle Below Canal Street", has transformed from artist community to upscale residential district in the 21st century.
Civic Center
- Categories: neighborhood of Manhattan and locality
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.71368° or 40° 42′ 49″ northLongitude
-74.0024° or 74° 0′ 9″ westElevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
87G7PX7X+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 5706568346OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Civic Center” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Civic Center”
- Chinese: “市政中心”
- Dutch: “Civic Center”
- Estonian: “Civic Center”
- French: “Civic Center”
- German: “Civic Center”
- Hebrew: “המרכז האזרחי”
- Indonesian: “Civic center, manhattan”
- Indonesian: “Civic Center, Manhattan”
- Indonesian: “Civic Center”
- Italian: “Civic Center”
- Japanese: “シヴィック・センター”
- Japanese: “シヴィックセンター”
- Korean: “시빅센터 (맨해튼)”
- Korean: “시빅센터”
- Polish: “Civic Center”
- Portuguese: “Civic Center (Manhattan)”
- Portuguese: “Civic Center”
- Russian: “Сивик-сентр”
- Russian: “Цивик-центр (Манхэттен)”
- Russian: “Цивик-центр”
- Serbian: “Sivik sentr”
- Serbian: “Сивик сентр”
- Slovenian: “Civic Center”
- Spanish: “Civic Center”
- Swedish: “Civic Center, Manhattan”
- Swedish: “Civic Center”
- Turkish: “Civic Center”
- Ukrainian: “Цивік-центр (Мангеттен)”
- Ukrainian: “Цивік-центр”
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Notable Places Nearby
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