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The name Manhattan originated from the Lenapes language, Munsee, manaháhtaan (where manah-means "gather", -aht-means "bow", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we get bows" or "place for gathering the (wood to make) bows".
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.
The City So Nice They Named It Twice – a reference to "New York, New York" as both the city and state, spoken by Jon Hendricks in 1959 on a jazz cover of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers' song "Manhattan" on George Russell's album New York, N.Y., [16] and popularized by New York-based late night talk show host David Letterman, who also used ...
December 2: 25-year-old aspiring dancer Laura Garza disappears after leaving a Manhattan nightclub with a sex offender named Michael Mele. Her remains are found in Olyphant, Pennsylvania in April 2010. On the first day of his trial in January 2012, Mele admits to killing Garza and pleads guilty to first-degree manslaughter. [198]
There is certainty it was a place, at the very tip of Manhattan Island, so referred to by the Dutch, [1] [2] who evidently inherited the Native American name for the spot they chose to place their settlement (rather than named it after a people already living there, as the island was not permanently inhabited at the time of their 1609 arrival ...
One of the first films to depict the Flatiron Building was created by Robert Bonine, who used a kinetograph to film the building on October 8, 1902, a week after the building opened. [117] In the 1958 comedy film Bell, Book and Candle , James Stewart and Kim Novak were filmed on top of the Flatiron Building in a romantic clinch.
The typical Manhattan consists of two parts rye whiskey, one part sweet vermouth, bitters, and a cherry. It’s stirred—not shaken—and strained. It’s stirred—not shaken—and strained. But ...
Times Square is the official name of the southern triangle, below 45th Street. [22] The northern triangle is officially known as Duffy Square and was dedicated in June 1939 to honor World War I chaplain Father Francis P. Duffy of the 69th New York Infantry Regiment . [ 23 ]