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Name of the neighborhood Limits south to north and east to west Upper Manhattan: Above 96th Street Marble Hill MN01 [a]: The neighborhood is located across the Harlem River from Manhattan Island and has been connected to The Bronx and the rest of the North American mainland since 1914, when the former course of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in. [2]
Fifth Avenue, Central Park from 59th to 110th streets, and Broadway below 8th Street separate it from the West Side. The major neighborhoods on the East Side include (from north to south) East Harlem, [1] Yorkville, [2] the Upper East Side, Turtle Bay, Murray Hill, Kips Bay, Gramercy, East Village, and the Lower East Side.
New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.Each borough has the same boundaries as a county of the state. The county governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county.
New York City's real estate prices are going up. The median sale price is now $770,000, a 3% increase year over year. Though The Big Apple isn't known for low prices, some neighborhoods are...
A map of Upper Manhattan, with Harlem in red. Upper Manhattan is the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.Its southern boundary has been variously defined, but some of the most common usages are 96th Street, 110th Street (the northern boundary of Central Park), 125th Street, or 155th Street.
The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
Hagstrom Map, based in Maspeth, Queens, was the best-selling brand of road maps in the New York City metropolitan area from the mid-20th to early 21st century. The New York Times in 2002 described Hagstrom's Five Borough Atlas as New York City's "map of record" for the previous 60 years.
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