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Located on a large natural harbor on the Atlantic coast of the Northeastern United States, New York City consists of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. With a population of 8.4 million distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States.
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THE BRONXThe Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. Located north of Manhattan and Queens, and south of Westchester County, the Bronx is the only borough located primarily on the mainland. The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a hillier section in the west, closer to Manhattan, and the flatter East Bronx, closer to Long Island ... |
BROOKLYNBrooklyn contains dozens of distinct neighborhoods, representing many of the major ethnic groups found within the New York City area. The borough is home to a large African-American community. Bedford Stuyvesant is home to one of the most famous African-American communities in the city, along with Brownsville and East New York ... |
CENTRAL PARKCentral Park is a public greenspace and park in the heart of Manhattan, with approximately twenty-five million visitors each year, it is the most visited urban park in the United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 770 acres of city-owned land, then in 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition ... |
CONEY ISLANDConey Island is a peninsula in southernmost Brooklyn, New York City, USA, with a famous beach on the Atlantic Ocean. As the name implies, it is a former island and is partially connected by landfill to the mainland. The area was a major resort and site of amusement parks that reached its peak during the first half of the 20th century ... |
ELLIS ISLANDEllis Island in New York Harbor was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the site of the nation's busiest immigration station from 1892 to 1954. Prior to that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was greatly expanded with landfill between 1892 and 1934 ... |
MANHATTANManhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York. It consists of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island ... |
MANHATTAN CHINATOWNManhattan's Chinatown - a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City - is an ethnic Chinese enclave located near Little Italy on Manhattan island in New York City. Manhattan's Chinatown is one of the largest and oldest ethnic Chinese communities outside of Asia. Chinese green-grocers and fishmongers are clustered around Mott Street, Mulberry Street ... |
QUEENSLocated on the western portion of Long Island, Queens is home to two of the three major New York City area airports, JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport. It is also the location of the New York Mets baseball team, Flushing Meadows Park and Aqueduct Racetrack. The borough is a patchwork of dozens of unique neighborhoods, each with its own distinct identity ... |
SOHOSoHo is a neighborhood in Manhattan in New York City in the United States. In the early 19th century, it was an area of some farms, rolling hills, streams and even a swamp at its southern end, with Federal and Greek-Revival style housing. By mid-19th century these were replaced by more solid structures of masonry and cast iron ... |
STATEN ISLANDStaten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay. Staten Island is overall the most suburban of the five boroughs of New York City ... |
TIMES SQUARETimes Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Formerly named Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after the New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building ... |
UNION SQUAREUnion Square is an important and historic intersection in New York City, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road - now 4th Avenue - came together in the early 19th century; its name celebrates neither the Federal union of the United States nor labor unions but rather denotes the fact that 'here was the union of the two principal thoroughfares of the island ... |
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