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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.
In 2006, Forbes magazine ranked its 10013 zip code as New York City's most expensive (however, the adjacent, low-income neighborhood of Chinatown, also uses the 10013 zip code). [22] As of 2010, Tribeca was the safest neighborhood in New York City, according to NYPD and CompStat statistics. [23]
Approximate locations of some past and present Manhattan neighborhoods. 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.
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 New York City neighborhoods with the highest number of shootings also suffer from higher than average unemployment rates, a greater incidence of mental distress and excessive housing costs ...
Yorkville is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, United States.Its southern boundary is East 79th Street, its northern East 96th Street, its western Third Avenue, and its eastern the East River. [4]
So far this year, the NYPD’s 20th Precinct, which encompasses the neighborhood up to West 86th Street, has seen 31% more robberies, 14% more felony assaults, 31% more burglaries and 6% more ...
Alphabet City is a neighborhood located within the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan.Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names.