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Manhattan

Wall Street. Madison Avenue. 34th Street. Broadway. Times Square. Manhattan is so well known that even the names of its streets have become iconic and understood the world over.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Central Park and Upper East Side.

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A vast green swath of open space in the heart of Manhattan, is a district in its own right, neatly separating the from the , stretching from Midtown at the southern end to at the north.

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The of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of , the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.

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Broadway. Times Square. Madison Square Garden. The name says it all: the is the entertainment hub of the city, and possibly the entire nation.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Upper West Side and Financial District.

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The covers a large area in upper Manhattan bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and and Morningside Park on the east.

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The comprises the southern tip of Manhattan, with the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and Barclay Street on the north.

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is a well-known, largely residential district in Manhattan, once famous for its vibrant art and literary community. Nowadays the neighborhood is so gentrified that the artists and poets who once lived here wouldn't be able to afford the rents, but the Village is still worth a visit for its lovely tree-lined streets and colorful history.

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The , east of the on Manhattan, was traditionally considered part of the , and constitutes the portion north of Houston St, south of 14th St, and east of Broadway.

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is the core retail and commercial neighborhood of Manhattan, containing the highest concentration of business and money this side of, well, the planet.

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Manhattan's famous is a lively neighborhood, full of good values in restaurants and food shopping. Also on sale are cheap knockoffs of designer labels made in , and all sorts of trinkets and toys.

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Upper Manhattan is a large, relatively under-visited area that ranges from 125th Street to Inwood Hill Park on the west and from 96th Street northward on the east.

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A former industrial district in Lower Manhattan, , short for "Triangle Below Canal Street", has transformed from artist community to upscale residential district in the 21st century.

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, short for "South of Houston Street" and a reference to its supposed similarities to the , is a diverse and increasingly upscale neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Sitting on the southwest side of Midtown Manhattan, has a huge concentration of art galleries and is a popular dining and nightlife district. The area along 8th Avenue is the center of gay social life in Manhattan.

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The of Manhattan is a mix of old and new, bohemian and upscale: you can find trendy bars and music venues, a venerable old no-nonsense place that just might serve up the best pastrami sandwich in the world, and great bialys.

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In the shadow of the skyscrapers of Midtown sit some of Manhattan's most colorful and vibrant neighborhoods. Busy Flatiron is one of the borough's most active shopping and entertainment districts, situated between Union Square and Madison Square Park, two of the most popular meeting places for Manhattanites.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include American Museum of Natural History and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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The is a natural history museum on the of Manhattan in . Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from , the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.

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The , often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 between 88th and 89th Streets on the of Manhattan in New York City.

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The is an art museum on the of Manhattan in . It was established in 1935 to preserve the collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New York City and Long Island City and Astoria.

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New York is a global center for media, entertainment, art, fashion, research, finance, and trade. The bustling, cosmopolitan heart of the 4th largest metropolis in the world and by far the most populous city in the United States, New York has long been a key entry point and a defining city for the nation.

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Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of . It is bordered by to the north; the to the west; to the east; and , which separates Queens from , to the south.

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or Greater New York, also called the Tri-State Area, is the massive metropolitan area around in the states of , , and . It is the biggest and wealthiest metro area in the .

Manhattan

Latitude
40.7896° or 40° 47′ 23″ north
Longitude
-73.9599° or 73° 57′ 36″ west
Population
1,690,000
Elevation
115 feet (35 metres)
Inception
1624
United Nations Location Code
US MNH
Open location code
87G8Q2QR+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 357644127
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
5125771
Wiki­data ID
Q11299
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Manhattan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Manhattan”
  • Albanian: “Manhattan”
  • Amharic: “ማንሀታን”
  • Arabic: “مانهاتن، نيويورك”
  • Arabic: “مانهاتن”
  • Armenian: “Մանհեթեն”
  • Armenian: “Նյու Յորք շրջան”
  • Assamese: “মানহাট্টান”
  • Asturian: “Manhattan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Manhetten”
  • Balinese: “Manhattan”
  • Basque: “Manhattan”
  • Bavarian: “Manhattan”
  • Belarusian: “Мангэтан”
  • Belarusian: “Манхэтэн”
  • Bengali: “ম্যানহাটন”
  • Bishnupriya: “নিউ ইয়র্ক কাউন্টি, নিউ ইয়র্ক”
  • Bishnupriya: “নিউ ইয়র্ক কাউন্টি”
  • Bosnian: “Manhattan”
  • Breton: “Manhattan”
  • Bulgarian: “Манхатън”
  • Catalan: “Manhattan”
  • Cebuano: “Manhattan (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, New York, New York County, lat 40,78, long -73,97)”
  • Cebuano: “Manhattan”
  • Central Kurdish: “مانھاتن”
  • Chechen: “Нью-Йорк (гуо, Нью-Йорк)”
  • Chechen: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Chinese: “Manhattan”
  • Chinese: “曼克頓”
  • Chinese: “曼哈頓”
  • Chinese: “曼哈顿”
  • Croatian: “Manhattan”
  • Czech: “Manhattan (New York)”
  • Czech: “Manhattan, New York”
  • Czech: “Manhattan”
  • Danish: “Manhattan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Manhattan”
  • Dutch: “Manhattan”
  • Dutch: “New York County”
  • Dutch: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مانهاتن”
  • Esperanto: “Manhatano”
  • Estonian: “Manhattan”
  • Faroese: “Manhattan”
  • Finnish: “Manhattan”
  • French: “Manhattan”
  • Galician: “Manhattan”
  • Georgian: “მანჰეტენი”
  • German: “Manhattan”
  • Gilaki: “منهتن (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “منهتن”
  • Greek: “Μανχάταν, Νέα Υόρκη”
  • Greek: “Μανχάταν”
  • Gujarati: “મેનહટન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Màn-hâ-tun”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Manhattan”
  • Hebrew: “מנהטן”
  • Hindi: “मैनहटन, न्यूयॉर्क”
  • Hindi: “मैनहटन”
  • Hindi: “मैनहट्टन, न्यूयॉर्क शहर”
  • Hindi: “मैनहट्टन, न्यूयॉर्क”
  • Hindi: “मैनहट्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Manhattan”
  • Icelandic: “Manhattan”
  • Ido: “Manhattan”
  • Indonesian: “Manhattan, New York”
  • Indonesian: “Manhattan”
  • Interlingua: “Manhattan”
  • Irish: “Manhattan”
  • Italian: “Manhattan”
  • Japanese: “マンハッタン”
  • Japanese: “マンハッタン区”
  • Kannada: “ಮ್ಯಾನ್ಹ್ಯಾಟನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮ್ಯಾನ್‍ಹ್ಯಾಟನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Manhetten”
  • Kashmiri: “مین ہَٹَن”
  • Kazakh: “Манхэттен”
  • Komi: “Манхэттен”
  • Korean: “뉴욕 시 맨해튼 구”
  • Korean: “뉴욕 시 맨해튼 자치구”
  • Korean: “뉴욕 주 뉴욕 시 맨해튼 구”
  • Korean: “뉴욕 주 뉴욕 시 맨해튼 자치구”
  • Korean: “맨해튼 구”
  • Korean: “맨해튼 자치구”
  • Korean: “맨해튼”
  • Korean: “미국 뉴욕 주 뉴욕 시 맨해튼 구”
  • Ladin: “Manhattan”
  • Latin: “Manhata”
  • Latvian: “Manhatana”
  • Latvian: “Manhetena”
  • Limburgan: “Manhattan”
  • Lithuanian: “Manhatanas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Manhattan”
  • Macedonian: “Менхетн”
  • Maithili: “म्यानह्याटन”
  • Malay: “Manhattan”
  • Malayalam: “മാൻഹാട്ടൻ”
  • Maltese: “Manhattan”
  • Manx: “Manhattan”
  • Marathi: “मॅनहॅटन, न्यू यॉर्क शहर”
  • Marathi: “मॅनहॅटन, न्यू यॉर्क”
  • Marathi: “मॅनहॅटन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Manhattan”
  • Mingrelian: “მანჰეთენი”
  • Mingrelian: “მანჰეტენი”
  • Moksha: “Мангэттэн”
  • Mongolian: “Манхэттен”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مانهاطن”
  • Nauru: “Manhattan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Manhattan”
  • Northern Frisian: “New York County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Manhattan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Manhattan”
  • Norwegian: “Manhattan”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Manhattan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Manhattan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Manhatten”
  • Ossetian: “Манхэттен”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੈਨਹੈਟਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Manhattan”
  • Persian: “منهتن”
  • Picard: “Manhattan”
  • Polish: “Manhattan”
  • Portuguese: “Manhattan”
  • Pushto: “منهټن”
  • Romanian: “Manhattan”
  • Russian: “Манхаттан”
  • Russian: “Манхеттан”
  • Russian: “Манхеттен”
  • Russian: “Манхэттен”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Manhattan”
  • Scots: “Manhattan”
  • Serbian: “Menhetn”
  • Serbian: “Менхетн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Manhattan”
  • Sicilian: “Manhattan”
  • Silesian: “Manhattan”
  • Slovak: “Manhattan”
  • Slovenian: “Manhattan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “منهتن”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Manhattan”
  • Spanish: “Manhattan (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Manhattan”
  • Swahili: “Manhattan”
  • Swedish: “Manhattan”
  • Tagalog: “Manhattan”
  • Tajik: “Манҳэттен”
  • Tamil: “மன்ஹாட்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Манхэттэн”
  • Tatar: “Мәнһәттан”
  • Tatar: “Мәнһәттен”
  • Telugu: “మాన్హాటన్”
  • Thai: “แมนฮัตตัน”
  • Thai: “แมนแฮตตัน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Manhattan”
  • Turkish: “Manhattan”
  • Uighur: “مانخاتتان ئارىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Мангаттан”
  • Ukrainian: “Мангеттен”
  • Ukrainian: “Манхеттен”
  • Urdu: “مینہیٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Manhattan”
  • Venetian: “Manhattan”
  • Vietnamese: “Mã Nhật Tân”
  • Vietnamese: “Manhattan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Manhattan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Manhattan”
  • Welsh: “Manhattan”
  • Western Armenian: “Մենհեթըն”
  • Western Frisian: “Manhattan”
  • Western Panjabi: “منہیٹن”
  • Western Panjabi: “مینہیٹن”
  • Wu Chinese: “曼哈顿”
  • Yakut: “Манһэттан”
  • Yiddish: “מאנהעטן”
  • Yoruba: “Manhattan”
  • Yue Chinese: “曼克頓”
  • “ma tomo Manatan”
  • “Manhattan”

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