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	Manhattan Elsewhere
		On complete map of the New York City area, Manhattan is dwarfed in size by the other four boroughs and surrounding megopolis.
		But for someone on the ground in Manhattan, the population density, the height of the buildings, the endless number of things to do, and the fact that many people don't often leave their neighborhoods, much less the island, for weeks/months on end makes it seem a very large place indeed.
		Manhattan clogs up Boston Harbor, displacing some small islands.
	www.kottke.org /plus/manhattan-elsewhere (704 words)

	Manhattan - MSN Encarta
		Manhattan is a great financial centre, with some of the world's largest banks and brokerage houses and such institutions as the New York and American stock exchanges.
		Manhattan is the main hub of the rapid-transit system of the New York metropolitan area and is connected to national rail and road systems.
		Manhattan Island is largely laid out in a grid pattern, with mostly numbered east and west streets intersecting with named or numbered north and south avenues.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569999/Manhattan.html (538 words)

	Manhattan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Manhattan is bounded 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 connected by a bridge as well as vehicular and train 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.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Manhattan.htm (6325 words)

	Manhattan
		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.
		The island was settled by the Dutch in 1624.
	en.mcfly.org /Manhattan (1426 words)

	Wikinfo \| Manhattan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marble Hill was originally part of Manhattan Island; but the Harlem Ship Canal, dug in the late 19th century to improve navigation on the Harlem River, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan, and eventually the part of the original Harlem River channel separating Marble Hill from the Bronx was filled in.
		Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels to New Jersey to the west, the Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island to the east and south.
		The island was settled by the Dutch in 1624.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Manhattan (1194 words)

	Manhattan (New York) - MSN Encarta
		Manhattan (New York), borough of New York City, coextensive with New York County, southeastern New York, at the head of Upper New York Bay.
		The main economic hub of New York City, Manhattan is one of the world’s leading commercial, financial, cultural, manufacturing, medical, and tourist centers.
		One of the most socially select sections of Manhattan is the Upper East Side, which borders Central Park on the east and includes portions of Park and Fifth avenues.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569999/Manhattan.html (526 words)

	Manhattan New York Neighborhoods - USA Tourist
		Manhattan Island, the commercial and business heart of New York City, is about 12 miles long by 3 miles wide.
		This Village extends across Manhattan between 14th and Houston Street with Broadway dividing it into two distinct districts known as the East Village and the West Village.
		The upper part of Manhattan Island between 96th Street east of the park and 125th street west of the park and extending to 165th Street is known as Harlem.
	www.usatourist.com /english/places/newyork/neighborhoods.html (674 words)

	II. The Dutch Town under the First Three Directors. 1626-1647.. Roosevelt, Theodore. 1906. New York
		He bought Manhattan Island from its Indian owners for the sum of sixty guilders, or about twenty-four dollars, and during the summer founded thereon a little town, christened New Amsterdam.
		The settlers staked out a fort on the southernmost point, and huddled near it in their squalid huts; while they closely watched their cattle, which were in imminent danger from wolves, bears, and panthers whenever they strayed into the woodland.
		The Dutch colonists, though stubborn and resolute, were somewhat sluggish and heavy tempered, without the restless energy of their far more numerous and ever-encroaching neighbors on the east (the New Englanders), and lacking the intense desire for what was almost mere adventure, which drove the French hither and thither through the far-off wilderness.
	www.bartleby.com /171/2.html (3062 words)

	Manhattan, New York City, neighborhood profile
		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.
		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).
		From the latter half of the 1960s through most of the 1970s, Manhattan suffered from urban flight as the middle-class fled to the outer boroughs and suburbs due to an increase in crime.
	www.newyorkcity-realestate.com /citytour/NY/Manhattan.php (1190 words)

	L.H. Conklin - Kingsbridge Quarrying District
		The original upper boundary of Manhattan island was an east-west creek that ran somewhat to the north of the northern slope of present-day Marble Hill and is now entirely filled in.
		The marble extends two or three miles into the county of New-York [Manhattan], and is the termination of a range of primitive granular limestone [that at Kingsbridge] is stratified presenting an inclination to the south-east of from sixty to seventy degrees.
		Dyckman's farm and runs through the middle of the Island to Spuytenduyvel creek; the same rock runs through Westchester County, and is seen on the other side of Kingsbridge, and thence along the river toward Yonkers…[where it is known as the Tuckahoe/Inwood B marble]…A quarry was opened at Kingsbridge, some years ago, which proved unprofitable.
	www.lhconklin.com /bio/publications/kingsbridge.htm (7219 words)

	Beyond Manhattan \| Ellis Island \| History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ellis Island, which housed an immigration screening center, was the gatekeeper, where all the would-be immigrants disembarked, showing their documents and completed medical evaluations before they were allowed to enter the country.
		The decision to house the immigration center on Ellis Island coincided with a conscious effort to enlarge the island.
		New York that nearly 90 percent of the present-day island, or 24 acres of landfill, belongs to New Jersey.
	www.nyc24.org /2003/islands/zone6/ellishistory.html (1272 words)

	Manhattan Island Foundation, Inc. - v2.0
		We continue to be thrilled to have RCN Corporation, as the presenting sponsor and the Preferred Cable, Phone and Internet Provider, of the Manhattan Island Foundation’s New York City Swim Series.
		The season's premier contest is the annual Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, which draws an international roster of swimmers.
		The Manhattan Island Foundation has two goals: to support and expand public Learn-to-Swim programs throughout New York City, particularly those that serve at-risk youth; and to raise public awareness of the waters that surround New York by supporting efforts to clean and protect them.
	www.nycswim.org (499 words)

	Recent Events, Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation
		The setting of historic Governors Island provides a perfect backdrop for William's lecture on the role of rum in the American Revolution and Prohibition, when Governors Island as Coast Guard Headquarters was in the vanguard of the attempt to stop the rum-runners from restocking the speakeasies of New York.
		Until recently, Governors Island, the last of three small islands that lie south of Manhattan, was the largest Coast Guard installation in the world, housing some 5,000 service personnel and their families.
		Her photographic exhibition, along with excerpts from oral histories of Governors Island residents, is designed to capture the memories and the history of a community and culture that once flourished on the island, now mostly abandoned.
	www.gipec.com /Visit_the_Island/recent.asp (2957 words)

	New York City's Staten Island Ferry pictures and panorama
		Leaving Manhattan from the Whitehall Terminal at Whitehall St. and South St. near Battery Park the ferry soon glides past Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty on the starboard, or right, side of the boat.
		The Staten Island Terminal is served by the Staten Island Railway and numerous bus routes.
		The first of the new Staten Island Ferry boats — all of which were constructed at the Marinette Marine Corporation shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin — was named after former Staten Island Borough President, member of the house of Representatives and State Assemblyman Guy V. Molinari.
	www.inetours.com /New_York/Pages/Staten_Island_Ferry.html (814 words)

	Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the Dutch arrived on the shores of Manhattan, calling it New Netherland, the island was already inhabited by a Native American tribe called the Manates.
		Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer recently released the results of Manhattan’s first ever survey of vacant properties finding that there is a significant number of vacancies in the borough representing potential for thousands of new affordable housing units.
		Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer today made public a comprehensive rezoning proposal for much of West Harlem that would preserve the neighborhood and ensure its stability as plans for Columbia University’s massive expansion move forward.
	www.mbpo.org /manhattan/history (618 words)

	Curbed: Governors Island Revamp: Four Visions of Paradise
		Furthermore, the statement does not cover Governors Island’s importance as the staging area for shipping operations from 1610 onward and past the construction of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in 1625 and the creation of a title deed to Manhattan in 1626.
		It was those colonists who had constructed on the island the region’s first fort and windmill and had planted North-America’s vital legal-cultural tradition of tolerance―codified in the settlers’ first instructions**―which to this day is the foundation of American pluralism and defines American liberty as well as signifies New York State’s identity and image.
		A Symbolic Island or Tolerance Island―to be created by the proposed tolerance park Historic New Amsterdam―was conspicuously absent from the four options presented; (1) an Iconic Island, (2) a Destination Island; (3) a Minimum Build Island; and (4) an Innovation Island―none of which have any meaning to the American nation or New York State.
	www.curbed.com /archives/2005/11/07/governors_island_revamp_four_visions_of_paradise.php (1503 words)

	New York (city)/Roosevelt Island - Wikitravel
		Roosevelt Island [1] is an elongated strip of land in the East River between Manhattan Island and Queens.
		Known until 1921 as Blackwell's Island, after the Englishman Robert Blackwell, who purchased it from Dutch colonists in 1676 (the island, of course, had earlier been "liberated" from the indigeneous inhabitants), it was later known as Welfare Island.
		The F train makes a single stop on the island before continuing on to destinations in Queens or Manhattan (depending on which borough you took the train from).
	wikitravel.org /en/New_York_(city)/Roosevelt_Island (378 words)

	Manhattan, NewYork Apartments for rent Manhattan apartment rentals, Manhattan furnished apartments to rent.
		Manhattan apartment rentals and houses for rent are posted daily by Manhattan owners, property managers and roommates.
		Manhattan apartment rentals, sublets, rooms and potential Manhattan renters have not been screened, verified or evaluated.
		Individuals utilizing this rental service to rent Manhattan rentals take full responsibility for their actions & understand that the owners of the site take no responsibility for any consequences of using this Manhattan rental service.
	www.sublet.com /city_rentals/Manhattan_Rentals.asp (185 words)

	Manhattan Borough, New York
		The island was originally owned by the Wappingers, but they did not contest the sale of it between Peter Minuit, Hudson's associate, and the Canarsies, in 1626.
		The original Dutch settlement on the island was named "New Amsterdam." With a population of 270, the town occupied the tip of Lower Manhattan with forts, homes, farms, and government buildings.
		During the late 1960s through most of the 1970s, Manhattan Island suffered from urban flight, as the middle-class fled to the outer boroughs and suburbs due to an increase in crime.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3895.html (1200 words)

	Beyond Manhattan \| Rikers Island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It costs New Yorkers $860 million a year to run an island that is only half the size of Central Park.
		With schools, medical clinics, ball fields, chapels, gyms, grocery stores, barbershops, a power plant, a tailor, a bus depot and even a car wash, Rikers is virtually a city of its own.
		There are as many tales about Rikers Island as there are visitors to it.
	www.nyc24.org /2003/islands/zone2/rikers-index.html (137 words)

	Manhattan Mineral Collecting: recently collected mineral specimens found on Manhattan Island, NY.
		Manhattan Mineral Collecting: recently collected mineral specimens found on Manhattan Island, NY.
		It is interesting to note that the part of Manhattan separated from the island by the canal is still part of the Borough of Manhattan, even though the tidal creeks are filled and the land is now physically part of the Bronx (Figure 1).
		These boulders are scattered around Manhattan Island and are still available for the adventurous.
	www.johnbetts-fineminerals.com /jhbnyc/articles/inwood.htm (1612 words)

	NYC Regional Geology
		On Manhattan Island the weathering character of each of the metamorphic rock units also influences the local topography.
		On the south side of the highway in Highlands Park, massive exposures of schist and gneiss of the Manhattan Formation reveal the complex faulted and contorted structure of the bedrock.
		In addition, the rocks of the Manhattan Formation to the west, and the Hartland Formation to the east are essentially of similar age and mineralogical composition.
	3dparks.wr.usgs.gov /nyc/highlands/manhattan.htm (883 words)

	New York (city)/Manhattan - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Manhattan is actually an elongated island and includes most of the best known and most popularly visited neighborhoods, including the Financial District downtown.
		Manhattan being an island, access (whether by car, taxi, bus or by foot) has generally to be made by means of either a bridge or a tunnel.
		Manhattan is in certain ways a pedestrian's paradise, but beware that traffic regulations are not always obeyed to the letter.
	wikitravel.org /en/New_York_(city)/Manhattan (4316 words)

	About New York City (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The name Manhattan is derived from an Algonquian term for "island of hills." In 1524 the island, then inhabited by Native Americans, was probably seen by the Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano.
		In 1609 the English navigator Henry Hudson made an extensive exploration of the area, to which the Dutch laid claim on that basis; in 1624 a Dutch trading post, called New Amsterdam, was established on southern Manhattan Island.
		The Battery, situated at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, was heavily fortified, and the settlement expanded northward.
	www.nyvacationapartments.com /aboutnewyork.htm (665 words)

	Manhattan Island — KCRW \| 89.9FM
		The first man to swim the English Channel, Matthew Webb, accomplished that feat in 1875, earlier than most people guess, and even though he subsequently died trying to plummet over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel, Webb had made distance swimming popular in the day and circling Manhattan was a must on any marathoner's resume.
		She was born and bred on the island, her father a butcher on the Upper West Side.
		The ticker tape parade for Ederle, when she returned from England, was a gala event and if she had become the first woman to circle her own New York, it would have been touted as a stellar accomplishment.
	www.kcrw.com /etc/programs/ts/ts070621manhattan_island (731 words)

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