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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.
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 superlative demographics of NYC’s five boroughs have been freshly mapped. A free, interactive online tool managed by the Department of City Planning has been updated with 2020 Census data ...
Greenwood Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, named partially after the adjacent Green-Wood Cemetery by real estate developers. Greenwood Heights is a part of Brooklyn Community District 7 along with Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and South Slope.
Edgemere is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, extending from Beach 32nd to Beach 52nd Street on the Rockaway Peninsula. It contains Rockaway Community Park. [4] Arverne is to the west, and Far Rockaway to the east. Edgemere was founded in 1892 by Frederick J. Lancaster, who originally called it New Venice. [5] [3]
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.
The area is served by the New York City Subway's BMT Brighton Line (B and Q trains), IND Culver Line (F and <F> trains), and the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line (2 and 5 trains). [ 66 ] MTA New York City Transit routes serving the community include the B2 , B6 , B7 , B9 , B11 , B31 , B41 , B44 , B44 SBS , B49 , B68 , B82 , B82 SBS , B100 and B103 ...