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Manhattan is the name of an island alongside the lower Hudson River and also of one of the five boroughs that form the City of New York.
Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels to New Jersey to the west, and three New York City boroughs: the Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island to the east and south.
Manhattan is officially designated as the county seat of New York County.{{GR6}} This is meaningless for all practical purposes because there are no other towns or cities in New York County, which is wholly contained within the City of New York.
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  Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manhattan refers both to the Island of Manhattan which borders the lower Hudson River, and also to the Borough of Manhattan (one of The Five Boroughs of New York City), which includes the island of Manhattan itself, as well as several other smaller islands and a small portion of the mainland (see geography).
Manhattan Island is recorded as having 20 square miles (51.8 km²) of land, and measures 13 miles (21 km) long and 2.3 miles (3.7 km) wide (at its widest point).
Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels to New Jersey to the west, and three New York City boroughs: the Bronx to the northeast; Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island to the east and south.
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Manhattan is bound by the Hudson River to the west and East River to the east.
Manhattan Island is bound by the Hudson River to the west and the East River to the east.
Manhattan is loosely divided into downtown, midtown, and uptown regions, with Fifth Avenue demarcating Manhattan's east and west sides.
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 Manhattan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Manhattan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Manhattan Island is 21.5 km (13 miles) long and 3.7 km (2.3 miles) wide (at its widest point).
A less famous and hectic area, and given the distance from Midtown, Upper Manhattan is often thought of as an outer borough, given the similarities the region has to the adjacent western section of the South Bronx.
According to an estimation by the Census Bureau, the population of New York county increased to 1,564,798 in 2003.
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 New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The southern tip of New York State—New York City, its suburbs, and the southern portion of the Hudson Valley—can be considered to form the central core of a "megalopolis," a super-city stretching from the northern suburbs of Boston to the southern suburbs of Washington and therefore occasionally called "BosWash".
East of Manhattan extends the appropriately named Long Island, stretching approximately 120 miles (190 km) from Kings (Brooklyn) and Queens Counties (part of New York City) on the western end to Orient and Montauk Points in the rural "East End" of the Island.
At Chautauqua Lake in the southwestern portion of the state is the Chautauqua Institution, co-founded by Methodist Rev. John Vincent and devoted to adult continuing education in an uplifting setting, as that ambiance was understood in the last half of the Nineteenth Century.
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"Manhattan" is the name of an island alongside the lower Hudson River Hudson River and also of one of the five borough boroughs that form the City of New York City of New York.
Manhattan skyline (June 2003) Manhattan skyline (June 2003) "Manhattan skyline (June 2003)" New York County and the Borough of Manhattan are coextensive.
Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels to New Jersey New Jersey to the west, the Bronx Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn Brooklyn and Queens Queens on Long Island Long Island to the east and south.
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 Manhattan (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manhattan, Illinois, a village in the United States
Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY Manhattan Bridge, connects the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan in the New York City
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Manhattan (disambiguation)
The Manhattan Bridge - a bridge that connects the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan in the New York City, and is roughly parallel to the Brooklyn Bridge
The Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb.
Dr Manhattan, a character in the comic Watchmen.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> SoHo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For other meanings see Soho (disambiguation) SoHo is a neighborhood in Manhattan that is bounded roughly by Houston Street on the north, Lafayette Street on the east, Canal Street on the south, and Sixth Avenue on the west.
The highway was intended to create an automobile and truck through-route connecting the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges on the east with the Holland Tunnel on the west.
The young historic preservation movement and architectural critics, stung by the destruction of Pennsylvania Station and the threat to other historic structures, challenged the plans because of the threatened loss of a huge quantity of 19th century cast-iron structures, which were not then highly valued by the general public or contemporary business community.
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 Manhattan - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He thus confirmed that the island had been purchased in 1626 by Peter Minuit, the third director of New Netherland from the native Mannahatans for 60 guilders worth of trade goods (translated to about $24 which at a 4% annual inflation rate would be 71.3 million dollars today).
Image:LowerManhattanSunset.jpg Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels to New Jersey to the west, and three New York City boroughs: the Bronx to the northeast; Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island to the east and south.
On separate occasions in late May and early July (for 2006 the exact dates are May 25 and July 17), the sunset is aligned with the street grid lines, with the result that the sun is visible at or near the western horizon from street level.
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 City of New York - Gurupedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Prior to 1898, New York City consisted of Manhattan and the Bronx, which was annexed by the city from southern Westchester County in two separate actions: the western portion in 1874, and the remaining portion in 1895.
Manhattan and The Bronx covered the original city and the rest of New York County.
Yellow cabs patrol most of Manhattan and may be hailed with a raised hand and taken--depending on the driver--anywhere within the five boroughs and parts of New Jersey.
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 Harlem - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Harlem is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, long known as a major African American cultural and business center.
From Fifth Avenue to Eighth Avenue it is bounded on the south by Central Park at 110th Street, and by 125th Street west of Eighth Avenue where it meets Morningside Heights, a section of the Upper West Side.
Before living in Harlem, most of Manhattan's fls had lived in the neighborhoods called the Tenderloin, San Juan Hill in the Upper West Side, and Hell's Kitchen (today sometimes called Clinton) in the west 40s and 50s.
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Ma from Manhattan Community Board 10 to Mani Pulite
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 Wall Street - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Manhattan Financial District is one of the largest business districts in the United States, and second in New York City only to Midtown.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the corporate culture of New York was a primary center for the construction of skyscrapers (rivaled only by Chicago).
Frankfurt, nicknamed "Manhattan" or "Mainhattan" (for Manhattan on the river Main) because it is the center of the German Economy and has many highrise buildings
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Manhattan and the Bronx, though still one county, were established as two separate boroughs and joined together with three other boroughs created from parts of adjacent counties to form the new municipal government originally called "Greater New York".
Upper New York Bay is surrounded by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is connected by the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island to Lower New York Bay, which is partially surrounded by Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and opens to the Atlantic Ocean.
Manhattan's Madison Avenue is synonymous with the American advertising industry, while Seventh Avenue is nicknamed "fashion avenue" as it serves as an important center for the fashion industry.
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 Manhattan Engineering District - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Manhattan Project, or more formally the Manhattan Engineering District, was an effort by the United States, with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada, during World War II, to develop the capability to endow normal humans with superpowers — specifically the project aimed to grant these superpowers to the American President.
Robert Oppenheimer, and was begun after the nascent Central Intelligence Agency reported that the creation of superpowers was a technical possibility and that Nazi Germany was already pursuing this technology in order to create their own Übermensch.
For Bill Clinton, the Manhattan Project used its technology to create a special radioactive spider, which then bit Clinton, giving him all the powers of a spider, including proportionate strength, a sixth sense, and the ability to climb walls.
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 New York - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The southern tip of New York State – New York City, its suburbs, and the southern portion of the Hudson Valley – can be considered to form the central core of a "megalopolis", a super-city stretching from the northern suburbs of Boston to the southern suburbs of Washington and therefore occasionally called BosWash.
The five New York City boroughs (and their counties) are: The Bronx (Bronx) on the mainland north of Manhattan (New York) on Manhattan Island; the Hudson River is their western boundary.
Brooklyn (Kings) and Queens (Queens) are across the East River from Manhattan on the western end of Long Island and Staten Island (Richmond) is south of Manhattan.
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 Manhattan Project - Uncyclopedia
The Manhattan Project was a notoriously difficult assignment given to a class of first graders by one Ms.
An interesting note is, the city this particular school is located in is Birmingham, Alabama, so really, there should be no reason for the title "Manhattan Project".
The project was given extensive weight in the class, with the stipulation that if you didn't get an A, which you could only achieve by building a miniature, working nuclear reactor for the city, you would fail first grade, and therefore Life.
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Image:LOC Lower Manhattan New York City World Trade Center August 2001.jpg The 1980s was a period of modest boom and bust, followed by a major boom in the 1990s.
WBAI in Manhattan, with news and information programming, is one of the flagship stations of the leftist Pacifica Radio network.
Fordham University, which has campuses in Manhattan and the Bronx, was the first Catholic university in the northeast.
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 Brooklyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kings County was named in honor the King at the time that counties established in New York Charles II Brooklyn which was originally the Village Breuckelen on the shore of the East River near Lower Manhattan was named after the town of Breukelen in the Netherlands.
With a current population of 2 465 (2000 census) Brooklyn is the most populous borough in New York City and would the fourth largest city in the USA all by itself.
In 1898 Brooklyn joined with Richmond (Staten Island) Queens New York (Manhattan) and Bronx counties to form the five boroughs of modern New York City.
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 SoHo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This article is about an area of Manhattan, New York City.
SoHo is a neighborhood in Manhattan that is bounded roughly by Houston Street on the north, the Bowery on the east, Canal Street on the south, and Sixth Avenue on the west.
The neighborhood rose to fame as a neighborhood for artists during the 1960s and 1970s, when the cheap spaces vacated by departing factories were converted by artists into lofts and studios.
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 Real Estate Manhattan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Estate is a term used in common law to signify the total of a person's property,entitlements and obligations.
Manhattan is the name of an island alongside the lower HudsonRiver and also of one of the five boroughs that form the City of New York.
The borough is coterminous with New YorkCounty and includes the Island of Manhattan, as well as several other smaller islands and a small portion of the mainland(see geography).
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 WikiMiki.net - Moby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Manhattan (disambiguation) Manhattan refers both to the Island of Manhattan which borders the lower Hudson River, and also to the Borough of Manhattan (one of the five boroughs of New York City), which includes the Island of Manhattan itself, as well as several other smaller islands and a small portion of the mainland (see geography).
The first European discovery of Manhattan is generally credited to English explorer Henry Hudson sailing for the Dutch, who first entered Upper New York Bay on September 11, 1609, and sailing up the lower Hudson River, anchored off the tip of northern Manhattan that night.
Manhattan Island is 21 km (13 miles) long and 3.7 km (2.3 miles) wide (at its widest point).
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 The Manhattan Project - Uncyclopedia
The Manhattan Project, or more formally, the Manhattan Eatery And Lunch (or M.E.A.L) Project, was an effort during World War II to develop the first entree with meat, potatoes and gravy, while still having room for sides.
Though it involved over thirty different restaurants, the Manhattan Project was largely carried out in three secret kitchens: Chef Boyardee, Los Alamos New Mexican, and Cracker Barrel.
After the development of the Beef Manhattan, two variations of the meal were prepared.
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 New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The state includes everything from skyscrapers Manhattan to rivers mountains and lakes in New York.
The End: Montauk, N.Y. Sensuous, seductive and unbearably sexy in its effect, The End celebrates the beauty of a group of young "all-natural" surfers in a small obscure fishing village.Visually stunning and lavishly illustrated with duotone and color plates.
Up to now the preponderant view held by many historians is that Dutch contribution to American history and particularly to that of New York has been one of irrelevancy.
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 HBO - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In 1965, cable pioneer and visionary Charles Francis Dolan won the franchise to build a cable system in lower Manhattan.
Instead of stringing cable on telephone poles and using microwave antennas to receive the signals, Sterling laid underground cable beneath the streets of Manhattan because television signals were blocked by many tall buildings.
Sterling Manhattan Cable was rapidly losing money because the company had a small subscriber base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan.
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 New York City
The executive branch of New York City is headed by the Mayor, who is elected by direct popular vote.
Residents generally refer to New York City (or just Manhattan) as "New York" or "the city".
The most famous FAO Schwarz is located in Manhattan.
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In the first decade and a half of the colony, the island of Manhattan was used only sparingly by the Dutch.
The early settlement on Manhattan was confined to several plantations, as well as for the cattle that were released on the island.
This was the foundation of the legend that Minuit had "purchased" Manhattan from the Native Americans for 24 dollars worth of trinkets.
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 New York (disambiguation) - Simple English Wikipedia
A county called New York County in that state that is the same as the Borough of Manhattan of New York City (rarely used), or
This is a disambiguation (listing) page — a page which lists other pages with similar names.
If a page link brought you here, you might want to go back and fix it to go directly to the correct page.
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 Articles - New York City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For other meanings, see NYC (disambiguation) and New York, New York (disambiguation).
The city proper consists of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.
Each of these boroughs, except for Staten Island, is home to at least a million people and would each be among the nation´s largest cities if considered independently.
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