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Manhattan's workforce is overwhelmingly focused on white collar professions. In 2010, Manhattan's daytime population was swelling to 3.94 million, with commuters adding a net 1.48 million people to the population, along with visitors, tourists, and commuting students. The commuter influx of 1.61 million workers coming into Manhattan was the ...
Population: 8,008,288. First time population officially reaches this mark, and marks reversal of suburban flight of the 1970s and 1980s with an increase of nearly one million residents over two decades. Over 1.2 million foreign-born residents arrive in New York between 1990 and 2000. [171] Polish Cultural Institute in New York founded. [172] 2001
The name Manhattan originated from the Lenapes language, Munsee, manaháhtaan (where manah-means "gather", -aht-means "bow", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we get bows" or "place for gathering the (wood to make) bows".
Manhattan contained over 500 million square feet (46.5 million m 2) of office space in 2018, [325] making New York City the largest office market in the world, [326] [327] while Midtown Manhattan, with 400 million square feet (37.2 million m 2) in 2018, [325] is the largest central business district in the world. [328]
Broadway runs diagonally, crossing through the horizontal and vertical street grid of Manhattan laid down by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, and that intersection creates the "bowtie" shape of Times Square. [20] [21] Times Square is the official name of the southern triangle, below 45th Street. [22]
Gramercy Park [note 1] (/ ˈ ɡ r æ m ər s i /) is the name of both a small, fenced-in private park, [5] and the surrounding neighborhood (which is also referred to as Gramercy), [6] in Manhattan in New York City.
By 1980, there were nearly two million annual visitors, [272] although a building official had previously estimated between 1.5 million and 1.75 million annual visitors. [112] The building received its own ZIP code in May 1980 in a roll out of 63 new postal codes in Manhattan.
The skyscraper, which has shaped Manhattan's distinctive skyline, has been closely associated with New York City's identity since the end of the 19th century.From 1890 to 1973, the title of world's tallest building resided continually in Manhattan (with a gap between 1894 and 1908, when the title was held by Philadelphia City Hall), with eight different buildings holding the title. [15]