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A portion of a map of the city from 1776; De Lancey Square and the grid around it can be seen on the right. The streets of lower Manhattan had, for the most part, developed organically as the colony of New Amsterdam – which became New York when the British took it over from the Dutch without firing a shot in 1664 – grew.
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.
Eleven Times Square is an office and retail tower located at 640 Eighth Avenue, at the intersection with West 42nd Street, in the Times Square and West Midtown neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. The 40-story, 1,100,000-square-foot (102,193 m 2) tower rises 601 feet (183 m), making it the 131st tallest building in New York City. The ...
News by Isamu Noguchi. 50 Rockefeller Plaza is located on the west side of Rockefeller Plaza between 50th and 51st Streets. [14] The only building in the Center built to the outer limits of its lot line, the 15-story building took its shape from Associated Press's need for a single, undivided, loft-like newsroom as large as the lot could accommodate—namely, a 200-by-187-foot (61 by 57 m ...
Manhattan contained over 500 million square feet (46.5 million m 2) of office space in 2018, [327] making New York City the largest office market in the world, [328] [329] while Midtown Manhattan, with 400 million square feet (37.2 million m 2) in 2018, [327] is the largest central business district in the world.
In the 20th century, the area was part of Manhattan's "Automobile Row", a stretch of Broadway extending mainly between Times Square at 42nd Street and Sherman Square at 72nd Street. [7] [8] Before the first decade of the 20th century, the area was occupied mostly by equestrian industries and was described by The New York Times as "thoroughly ...
4 Times Square (also known as 151 West 42nd Street or One Five One; formerly the Condé Nast Building) is a 48-story [1] skyscraper at Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
The five boroughs of New York City. New York City is located on the coast of the Northeastern United States at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York state. It is located in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the centerpiece of which is the New York Harbor, whose deep waters and sheltered bays helped the city grow in significance as a trading city.