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The song describes, in several choruses, the simple delights of Manhattan for a young couple in love. The joke is that these "delights" are really some of the worst, or cheapest, sights that New York has to offer; for example, the stifling, humid stench of the subway in summertime is described as "balmy breezes", while the noisy, grating pushcarts on Mott Street are "gently gliding by".
"Manhattan Vibes" by Made in Sweden "Manhattan Walk" by Herbert Stothart, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby "Manhattan Woman" by Kansas Hook, Tin Tin "Manhattan Woman" by Village People "Manhattan-Zigeuner" by Herbert Rehbein "A Map of New York" (from the musical "If/Then") "Marching Bands of Manhattan" by Death Cab For Cutie "Marching Down Broadway ...
Manhattan is derived from Manna-hata, a Dutch version of a Lenape place name, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). [4] A 1610 map depicts the name Manahata twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the North River , and now called the Hudson ...
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 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".
Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), [1] [2] known as Odetta, was an American singer, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". [3] Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals.
Edna met her future husband, William Cintrón, in 1987 during a visit to his brother's girlfriend's home in Upper Manhattan. Unlike Edna, William, two years her junior, had already been married and had two children. [4] Two months after meeting, they moved to an apartment in Brooklyn, marrying two years later.
"First We Take Manhattan" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was originally recorded by American singer Jennifer Warnes on her 1986 Cohen tribute album Famous Blue Raincoat , which consisted entirely of songs written or co-written by Cohen.