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Manhattan was first mapped during a 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company. [15] Hudson came across Manhattan Island and the native people living there, and continued up the river that would later bear his name, the Hudson River, until he arrived at the site of present-day Albany. [16]
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 geographical area in the U.S. state of New York.
Coolidge, Kansas – Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) [156] Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President; Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner) [156]
One of the perks of being president of the United States is that many things are later named in your honor -- schools, libraries, even entire cities. And among the most common things to name after ...
Lincoln High School (disambiguation), includes some schools that may not be named after the president Lincoln Junior High School, Bentonville, Arkansas Lincoln Center Institute , the education division of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Manhattan's population density is 70,450.8 inhabitants per square mile (27,201.2/km 2), the highest of any county in the United States. [ 172 ] Based on data from the 2020 census, New York City comprises about 43.6% of the state's population of 20,202,320, [ 4 ] and about 39% of the population of the New York metropolitan area . [ 247 ]
Tamu Massif — Texas A&M University; large undersea volcano in the western Pacific named by scientist after the school he taught at; Ubyssey Glacier, Mount Garibaldi, British Columbia [96] — University of British Columbia [13] Veeocee Mountain, British Columbia [97] — Varsity Outdoor Club of the University of British Columbia [98]
The following is a list of borough presidents of the five boroughs of New York City. Manhattan Before 1874, when it annexed part of the Bronx, New York City was the same as the present Borough of Manhattan. For New York's mayors before 1898, see List of mayors of New York City. # Borough President Party Dates in office Notes 1 Augustus W. Peters (1844–1898) Democratic January 1, 1898 ...