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New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.Each borough has the same boundaries as a county of the state. The county governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county.
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.
Manhattan Community Board 2 Block and Neighborhood Associations [9] Manhattan Community Board 3 Block and Neighborhood Associations [10] Manhattan Community Board 4 Block and Neighborhood Associations [11] 10th and Stuyvesant Streets Block Association; West80s Neighborhood Association [12] Avenue A Block Association; United Block Association
The original ZIP Codes themselves are still used by the USPS for mail delivery purposes. [1] [2] [3] Queens neighborhoods may have one of the following ZIP Code prefixes, which are classified under the following main post offices: [4] 111: Long Island City; 113: Flushing; 114: Jamaica; 116: Rockaway
The modern neighborhoods bearing these names are located roughly in the center of each of these original towns. Certain portions of the original six towns were also independent municipalities for a time, before being reabsorbed. Following an 1894 referendum, the entire consolidated City of Brooklyn became a borough of New York City in 1898.
Port Morris is a mixed use, primarily industrial neighborhood geographically located in the southwest Bronx, New York City. [4] The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 1 . [ 5 ] Its boundaries are the Major Deegan Expressway and Bruckner Expressway to the north, East 149th Street to the east, the East River to the southeast, the Bronx ...
Maspeth is a residential and commercial community in the borough of Queens in New York City.It was founded in the early 17th century by Dutch and English settlers. Neighborhoods sharing borders with Maspeth are Woodside to the north; Sunnyside to the northwest; Greenpoint, Brooklyn to the west; East Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the southwest; Fresh Pond and Ridgewood to the south; and Middle ...
[19] [22] On August 16, 1939, New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia announced plans to allocate $20 million towards five planned public housing projects, including the South Jamaica Houses, and the two-part Vladeck Houses in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. [23] The South Jamaica development itself would cost $2.5 million. [24]