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Approximate locations of some past and present Manhattan neighborhoods. 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.
In Yorktown, the c.1890 Hungarian Baptist Church is located at 225 East 80th between Second and Third Avenues; and the City University of New York administration building, which was originally the Welfare Island Dispensary, and then the New York City Board of Higher Education, is at 535 East 80th Street at East End Avenue, built in 1940. [18]
The Wall Street Historic District in New York City includes part of Wall Street and parts of nearby streets in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan. It includes 65 contributing buildings and one contributing structure over a 63-acre (25 ha) listed area.
[2]: 28 Later, in 1819, Herman Melville was born in a house on or near 15 State Street. [3]: 12 One of the row of stately town houses lining the Battery on State Street was the James Watson House, built in 1793 at 7 State Street, which was 6 State Street at the time. The mansions had unobstructed views of New York Harbor.
Broadway (/ ˈ b r ɔː d w eɪ /) is a street and major thoroughfare in the U.S. state of New York.The street runs from Battery Place at Bowling Green in the south of Manhattan for 13 mi (20.9 km) through the borough, over the Broadway Bridge, and 2 mi (3.2 km) through the Bronx, exiting north from New York City to run an additional 18 mi (29.0 km) through the Westchester County ...
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 ...
Bogardus Plaza at the south end of Hudson Street Duane Park Hudson Street in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan Former New York Mercantile Exchange building. Hudson Street is a north–south oriented street in the New York City borough of Manhattan running from Tribeca to the south, through Hudson Square and Greenwich Village, to the Meatpacking District.
Elizabeth Street in 1908. Elizabeth Street is a street in Manhattan, New York City, which runs north-south parallel to and west of the Bowery. The street is a popular shopping strip in Lower Manhattan's Nolita neighborhood. [1] The southern part of Elizabeth Street was constructed in 1755. It was extended north to Bleecker Street in 1816. [2]