Midtown East
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- Type: Quarter with 105,000 residents
- Description: central business district in New York City, USA
- Also known as: “Midtown” and “Midtown Manhattan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Empire State Building and Museum of Modern Art.
Empire State Building
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The Empire State Building is a 102-story, Art Deco-style supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States.
Museum of Modern Art
Museum
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media.
Madison Square Garden
Stadium
Photo: Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0.
Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as the Garden or by its initials MSG, is a multipurpose indoor arena in New York City. It is located in Midtown Manhattan between Seventh and Eighth avenues from 31st to 33rd streets above Pennsylvania Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New York City and Theater District.
New York City
Photo: Marco Cortese, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Theater District
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Broadway. Times Square. Madison Square Garden. The name says it all: the Theater District is the entertainment hub of the city, and possibly the entire nation.
Gramercy Flatiron
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0.
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.
Midtown East
- Categories: neighborhood of Manhattan and locality
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.75512° or 40° 45′ 18″ northLongitude
-73.98478° or 73° 59′ 5″ westPopulation
105,000Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)Open location code
87G8Q248+23OpenStreetMap ID
node 158858760OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
6930480Wikidata ID
Q11249
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Midtown East” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميدتاون مانهاتن”
- Armenian: “Միդթաուն”
- Asturian: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Azerbaijani: “Midtaun Manhetten”
- Balinese: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Basque: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Belarusian: “Мідтаўн”
- Bulgarian: “Мидтаун Манхатън”
- Catalan: “Midtown”
- Chinese: “中城”
- Chinese: “曼哈頓中城”
- Czech: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Danish: “Midtown”
- Dutch: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Esperanto: “Meza Manhatano”
- Estonian: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Finnish: “Midtown”
- French: “Midtown de Manhattan”
- French: “Midtown”
- Galician: “Midtown Manhattan”
- German: “Midtown Manhattan”
- German: “Midtown”
- Hebrew: “מזרח מידטאון מנהטן”
- Hebrew: “מידטאון מנהטן”
- Indonesian: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Italian: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Italian: “Midtown”
- Japanese: “ミッドタウン・マンハッタン”
- Japanese: “ミッドタウン”
- Korean: “미드타운맨해튼”
- Malay: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Midtown”
- Norwegian: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Midtown”
- Persian: “میدتاون منهتن”
- Polish: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Portuguese: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Russian: “Мидтаун”
- Serbian: “Srednji Menhetn”
- Serbian: “Средњи Менхетн”
- Slovak: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Slovenian: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Slovenian: “Midtown”
- South Azerbaijani: “میدتوون مانهاتان”
- Spanish: “Medio Manhattan”
- Spanish: “Midtown”
- Swedish: “Midtown, Manhattan”
- Swedish: “Midtown”
- Turkish: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Ukrainian: “Мідтаун”
- Vietnamese: “Midtown Manhattan”
- Western Panjabi: “مڈٹاؤن مینہیٹن”
- Yakut: “Мидтаун”
- Yiddish: “מידטאון מאנהעטן”
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