Manhattan

Manhattan is a borough of New York City on an island between the Hudson and East rivers. It is the city’s smallest borough by land area and its most densely populated.

New York City: New York City is the most populous city in the United States, comprising five boroughs at the mouth of the Hudson River. Manhattan is one of the five boroughs that make up the city.
Lenape: The Lenape are Indigenous peoples whose ancestral homeland includes parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Lenape communities inhabited the region before Dutch colonization.
Manhattan street grid: The Manhattan street grid is the network of numbered avenues and cross streets laid out across much of the island. Its regular pattern directs movement and shapes neighborhood boundaries.
Wall Street: Wall Street is a street in Lower Manhattan and a metonym for the United States financial industry. Its financial institutions anchor Manhattan’s role in global markets.
Brooklyn: Brooklyn is a borough of New York City on the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn shares Manhattan’s urban intensity but has a larger area and a distinct neighborhood structure.
Hudson River: The Hudson River flows south through eastern New York to Upper New York Bay. It forms Manhattan’s western boundary and separates the island from New Jersey.
New Netherland: New Netherland was a seventeenth-century Dutch colony centered on the Hudson River and its estuary. Manhattan became the colony’s principal settlement and administrative center.
New York City Subway: The New York City Subway is a rapid-transit system serving the five boroughs of New York City. Its dense Manhattan network links neighborhoods and connects the borough to the outer boroughs.
Broadway theatre: Broadway theatre is the professional theatrical tradition associated with large venues in Manhattan’s Theater District and Lincoln Center. Its concentration of theaters makes Manhattan a center of commercial stage production.
Queens: Queens is the largest borough of New York City by land area and occupies the western part of Long Island. Its lower density and extensive residential neighborhoods contrast with Manhattan’s compact development.

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