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This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
East end of Cherry Street, Vladeck Houses and Corlear's Hook Park Cherry and Catherine Streets, 1848. Cherry Street is a one-way street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It currently has two sections, mostly running along parks, public housing, co-op buildings, tenements, and crossing underneath the Manhattan Bridge.
A map showing major greenspaces in New York City: 1) Central Park, 2) Van Cortlandt Park, 3) Bronx Park, 4) Pelham Bay Park, 5) Flushing Meadows Park, 6) Forest Park, 7) Prospect Park, 8) Floyd Bennett Field, 9) Jamaica Bay, A) Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden, B) Fort Wadsworth, C) Miller Field, D) Great Kills Park Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States.
Above view of Adam Purple's "Urban Garden" on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1984. Nothing Yet Community Garden one day after announcing it was sold to a developer, May 22, 2013. In the 1960s and 1970s, New York City was experiencing a fiscal crisis and disinvestment resulting from white flight, bankruptcy, and corruption. Buildings ...
The land was transferred to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation in 1915, becoming a public park called the Thomas F. Smith Park, later the Chelsea Waterside Park. In 2000, the westernmost block of 23rd Street was demolished as part of a reorganization of traffic patterns and an expansion of the park. [ 13 ]
The razing of buildings for the construction of the complex began in 1950, and the buildings were completed on April 1, 1953. [3] [7]The key sponsor of the development was State assemblyman John J. Lamula and it was named after four-time New York Governor Al Smith (1873–1944), the first Catholic to win a Presidential nomination by a major political party and a social reformer who made ...
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.
Manhattan Avenue and 106th Street, looking north. Manhattan Avenue is a street in the Manhattan Valley neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City , extending from 100th Street to 124th Street. Not included in the original Commissioners' Plan of 1811 , it is parallel to Columbus Avenue to the west and Central Park West/Frederick Douglass ...