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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.
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.
New York City: Manhattan only; overlays with 212, 332, and 917 680: 2017: Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; overlay of 315 716: 1947 Buffalo, Dunkirk-Fredonia, Olean, Jamestown, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and western New York; will be overlaid by 624 in 2024 718: 1984 New York City: all except Manhattan; overlays with 347 ...
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.
The New York Public Library (NYPL) operates two branches near Yorkville. The Yorkville branch is located at 222 East 79th Street. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1902 and was renovated in 1986–1987. The three-story space is listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places. [46]
The neighborhood is named for the hill that "stood at what became 70th Street and Park Avenue." [3] The name "Lenox" is that of the immigrant Scottish merchant Robert Lenox (1759-1839), [11] who owned about 30 acres (120,000 m 2) of land "at the five-mile (8 km) stone", reaching from Fifth to Fourth (now Park) Avenues and from East 74th to 68th Streets. [12]
Carnegie Hill is a neighborhood within the Upper East Side, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Its boundaries are 86th Street on the south, Fifth Avenue ( Central Park ) on the west, with a northern boundary at 98th Street that continues just past Park Avenue and turns south to 96th Street and proceeds east up to, but not including ...
The earliest source found by The New York Times using the term Sutton Place dates to 1883. At that time, the New York City Board of Aldermen approved a petition to change the name from "Avenue A" to "Sutton Place", covering the blocks between 57th and 60th Streets. [5] [6] The block between 59th and 60th Streets is now considered a part of York ...