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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 area in the U.S. state of New York.
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In addition to the three principal islands of New York City—Manhattan Island, Staten Island and part of Long Island—each borough contains several smaller islands. New York City contains about 36 to 42 islands in total. [1]
The first map to extensively depict New York City's transit lines is a United States Geological Survey map of southern Brooklyn drafted in 1888. The first subway focused map was published in 1904-1905 when several maps were published alongside the opening of the IRT subway. [ 11 ]
New York City was originally confined to Manhattan Island and the smaller surrounding islands that formed New York County. As the city grew northward, it began annexing areas on the mainland, absorbing territory from Westchester County into New York County in 1874 and 1895 . During the 1898 consolidation, this territory was organized as the ...
At the time of the 2010 United States Census, [1] the state of New York had 555 villages. [2] Since then, one village was created ( Mastic Beach in Suffolk County ) and 25 villages were dissolved [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] (including Mastic Beach, after only seven years of incorporation [ 6 ] [ 7 ] ).
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An 1865 map of Lower Manhattan below 14th Street showing land reclamation along the shoreline. [1]The expansion of the land area of Lower Manhattan in New York City by land reclamation has, over time, greatly altered Manhattan Island's shorelines on the Hudson and East rivers as well as those of the Upper New York Bay.