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The word "Manhattan" has been translated as island of many hills. [7] The Encyclopedia of New York City offers other derivations, including from the Munsee dialect of Lenape: manahachtanienk ("place of general inebriation"), manahatouh ("place where timber is procured for bows and arrows"), or menatay ("island"). [8]
The project was proposed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944, [1] and largely served an African American population, [2] in contrast to Met Life's Parkchester in the Bronx (1940), Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, Park La Brea in Los Angeles, Parkmerced in San Francisco, and Parkfairfax in Alexandria, Virginia, which were restricted to a whites-only tenancy at ...
The Dorilton is a luxury residential housing cooperative at 171 West 71st Street, at the northeast corner with Broadway, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The 12-story building, designed by local firm Janes & Leo in the Beaux-Arts style, was built between 1900 and 1902 for real estate developer Hamilton M. Weed.
In 1898, when New York City consolidated with three neighboring counties to form "the City of Greater New York", Manhattan and the Bronx, though still one county, were established as two separate boroughs. On January 1, 1914, the New York State Legislature created Bronx County and New York County was reduced to its present boundaries. [47]
The New York City historic district includes all of Tudor City's apartment buildings, [259] as well as six structures which predate Tudor City: the Church of the Covenant at 310 East 42nd Street, [260] the Prospect Hill Apartments at 333 East 41st Street, [261] and four brownstones, typical of the dozens on the site before Tudor City, at 337 ...
Everybody hurts, sometimes. But you'd probably hurt a lot less if you could afford to buy former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe's New York City pad. For $10.95 million you can own his duplex ...
New York City rents experienced an annual double-digit climb the last three years with 17% in 2023, 20% in 2022, and 14% in 2021. The recent decelerated growth can be attributed to a slight rise ...
Manhattan (/ m æ n ˈ h æ t ən, m ə n-/ ⓘ man-HAT-ən, mən-) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York.