Adjacent counties
National protected areas
Neighborhoods
Manhattan's many neighborhoods are not named according to any particular convention. Some are geographical (the
Upper East Side), or ethnically descriptive (
Little Italy). Others are
acronyms, such as
TriBeCa (for "TRIangle BElow CAnal Street") or
SoHo ("SOuth of HOuston"), or the far more recent vintages
NoLIta ("NOrth of Little ITAly").
[122][123] and
NoMad ("NOrth of MADison Square Park").
[124][125][126] Harlem is a name from the Dutch colonial era after
Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands.
[127] Alphabet City comprises
Avenues A,
B,
C, and
D, to which its name refers. Some have simple
folkloric names, such as
Hell's Kitchen, alongside their more official but lesser used title (in this case, Clinton).
Some neighborhoods, such as
SoHo, are commercial and known for
upscale shopping. Others, such as
Greenwich Village, the
Lower East Side,
Alphabet City and the
East Village, have long been associated with the
Bohemian subculture.
[128] Chelsea is one of several Manhattan neighborhoods with large
gay populations, and along with SoHo, has become a center of both the international
art industry and New York's nightlife.
[129] Washington Heights is a primary destination for immigrants from the
Dominican Republic.
Chinatown has the highest concentration of people of
Chinese descent outside of
Asia.
[130][131] Koreatown is roughly bounded by 6th and Madison Avenues,
[132][133][134] between 31st and 33rd Streets, where
Hangul (한글) signage is ubiquitous.
Rose Hill features a growing number of
Indian restaurants and spice shops along a stretch of
Lexington Avenue between 25th and 30th Streets which has become known as
Curry Hill.
[135]
In Manhattan,
uptown means north (more precisely north-northeast, which is the direction the island and its street grid system are oriented) and
downtown means south (south-southwest).
[136] This usage differs from that of most American cities, where
downtown refers to the central business district. Manhattan has two central business districts, the
Financial District at the southern tip of the island, and
Midtown Manhattan. The term
uptown also refers to the northern part of Manhattan above
72nd Street and
downtown to the southern portion below
14th Street,
[137] with
Midtown covering the area in between, though definitions can be rather fluid depending on the situation.
Fifth Avenue
roughly bisects Manhattan Island and acts as the demarcation line for
east/west designations (e.g., East 27th Street, West 42nd Street);
street addresses start at Fifth Avenue and increase heading away from
Fifth Avenue, at a rate of 100 per block on most streets.
[137] South of
Waverly Place,
Fifth Avenue terminates and Broadway becomes the east/west demarcation
line. Though the grid does start with 1st Street, just north of
Houston Street
(the southernmost street divided in west and east portions; pronounced
HOW-stin), the grid does not fully take hold until north of
14th Street,
where nearly all east-west streets are numerically identified, which
increase from south to north to 220th Street, the highest numbered
street on the island. Streets in Midtown are usually one-way, with the
few exceptions generally being the busiest cross-town thoroughfares
(14th, 23rd, 34th, and 42nd Streets, for example), which are
bidirectional across the width of Manhattan Island. The rule of thumb is
that odd-numbered streets run west, while even-numbered streets run
east.
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