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The word "Manhattan" has been translated as island of many hills. [7] The Encyclopedia of New York City offers other derivations, including from the Munsee dialect of Lenape: manahachtanienk ("place of general inebriation"), manahatouh ("place where timber is procured for bows and arrows"), or menatay ("island"). [8]
In 1898, when New York City consolidated with three neighboring counties to form "the City of Greater New York", Manhattan and the Bronx, though still one county, were established as two separate boroughs. On January 1, 1914, the New York State Legislature created Bronx County and New York County was reduced to its present boundaries. [47]
The New York City historic district includes all of Tudor City's apartment buildings, [259] as well as six structures which predate Tudor City: the Church of the Covenant at 310 East 42nd Street, [260] the Prospect Hill Apartments at 333 East 41st Street, [261] and four brownstones, typical of the dozens on the site before Tudor City, at 337 ...
Tribeca is one of a number of neighborhoods in New York City whose names are syllabic abbreviations or acronyms, including SoHo (South of Houston Street), NoHo (North of Houston Street), Nolita (North of Little Italy), NoMad (North of Madison Square), DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), and BoCoCa, the last of which is actually a collection of neighborhoods (Boerum Hill, Cobble ...
As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 6 was $112,383, [31] though the median income in Turtle Bay individually was $135,360 [2] In 2018, an estimated 10% of Turtle Bay and Stuyvesant Town residents lived in poverty, compared to 14% in all of Manhattan and 20% in all of New York City. One in twenty-five residents (4% ...
Everybody hurts, sometimes. But you'd probably hurt a lot less if you could afford to buy former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe's New York City pad. For $10.95 million you can own his duplex ...
Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, or Midtown West on real estate listings is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.It is considered to be bordered by 34th Street (or 41st Street) to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west.
New York City rents experienced an annual double-digit climb the last three years with 17% in 2023, 20% in 2022, and 14% in 2021. The recent decelerated growth can be attributed to a slight rise ...