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The borough of Manhattan in New York City contains 214 numbered east–west streets ranging from 1st to 228th, the majority of them designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. These streets do not run exactly east–west, because the grid plan is aligned with the Hudson River, rather than with the cardinal directions. Thus, the majority of ...
The highest-numbered street in all of New York City is 271st Street, in Glen Oaks, Queens. [7] 704th Street in Orangeburg, New York is the highest-numbered street in the Greater New York City area, and at one point was the highest-numbered street in the United States.
Gouverneur Street – Abraham Gouverneur, a 17th-century Dutch immigrant turned big-time New York political activist. Great Jones Street – Samuel Jones, "The Father of The New York Bar" Henry Street – Henry Rutgers, American Revolutionary War hero; Houston Street (pronounced / ˈ h aʊ s t ən / HOW-stən) – William Houstoun, Founding Father.
The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as "Striver's Row", [3] is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue), in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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.
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One of the perks of being president of the United States is that many things are later named in your honor -- schools, libraries, even entire cities. And among the most common things to name after ...
[67] [68] It is in the New York State Senate's 27th, 28th, and 29th districts, [69] [70] the New York State Assembly's 73rd and 76th districts, [71] [72] and the New York City Council's 4th and 5th districts. [73] The Upper East Side is one of few areas of Manhattan where Republicans constitute more than 20% of the electorate.