How already it has said, New York is divided administratively in 5 borough coinciding, to until legal, with as much county. Every borough is divided then in numerous districts, a lot of which with a quite definite identity. Here a strip (the data on the population are updated to the July 2002) :

Manhattan is an island on that rises the homonymous district (borough) of the town of New York, of whom constitutes the historical unit (the other districts are Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island). It corresponds to the " county of New York", with 1.547.000 livings. The name derives from the Indian and means " zone between the hills".

Even if alone 1,5 millions of the about 8 millions of newyorkers live at Manhattan, undoubtedly is remained the more well-known part of New York, seen that find it almost all of the places more mattering and well-known of the town: the town hall, the bag of Wall Street, the bridge of Brooklyn, Times Square, the theatres of Broadway, Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum and the Metropolitan Operas, the cathedral of San All of the most well-known districts (SoHo, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greenwich Village, Midtown, Harlem etc.) and above almost all of the skyscrapers for that the town is just note, particularly Empire State Building fill it and the palace of the ONU; until to the terrorist attacks of the 11 September 2001, the skyscrapers more highs of Manhattan were however the towers twins some World Trade Center.

 The Bronx is situated to north of Manhattan and is one of five borough in which the town of New York is divided and its territory corresponds with that of the homonymous county. It has a population of about 1.300.000 livings.
 The name derives from that of the swedish Jonas Bronck that was between the first to install it in the area in 1639. Between the other European that for first established in the zone there were Dutch, Frenchmen, English and Swedish. In orgine the Bronx did part of the county of Westchester County. Became a borough and not an island when it is united to the town of New York City in 1898. The Bronx continued to attract immigrants and at present is the residence of different ethnic minorities. Between the well-known buildings of this borough, the church of St. Jerome (on the 138a road) and the Yankee Stadium, site on the shore right hand of the Harlem river from the side of the Bronx. It is well-known, unfortunately, to be the zone more notorious than all New York.

 Brooklyn is the most populous one of five boroughs of the american town of New York. It has a population of about 2,6 in person millions and it was a town that had been the fourth town of the USA.

 Corresponds to the county of Kings.
 Until 1898 was an independent and developed town around the small unit been based on from Dutch immigrants called Breuckelen, in honour of the homonymous Dutch town, situated on the shores of the east River.
 Brooklyn is located on the west extremity of Long Island. It confines alone with Queens to north east.

 The Italian immigrants of origin have of it often maimed the name in Broccolino. Here it was born the well-known american actress Alyssa Milan, better note like Phoebe in Witches.

 Queens is the largest one of five boroughs of the american town of New York. It has a population of about 2,24 in person millions.
 Coexists, like political and geographic entity with the homonymous county, to whose territory corresponds. Queens is located on the island of Long Island. It confines with Brooklyn and Nassau. Before uniting to New York, was composed from small town and villages, been based on from the Dutch. Two of the greater airports of the town have seat to Queens: it is discussed of the The Guard Airport and of the John F. Kennedy International Airport.

 Staten Island (corresponding to the County of Richmond) is an island of 265 km² and is one of five borough (special political districts) of New York City, together to Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn. It is found to south-west of the island of Manhattan, to which is connected from the Staten Island Ferry. The close island of Long Island to east, where it is found Brooklyn, is connected from the Bridge Giovanni from Verrazzano, which go through the Narrows channel, carries of access to the bay of New York.
 The inhabitants of Staten Island are 463.000 (data of 2006), 44% of which of Italian origin. From an administrative point of view the territory of the island coincides with the County of Richmond, the county more to south of the state of New York. The founding of the borough goes back to the unification of New York City happened in 1898. Until 1975 officially borough of Richmond it was called.

 In the area of New York City, the island of Staten Island is that with the greater green percentage of areas. It is found the Staten Island Greenbelt, a public system of parks adjoining, and also the Fresh Kills Landfill, that until some year it makes was the greatest rubbish dump of the world (sluice in 2001), and that hour is destined to accommodate a public park.
 Between the most well-known characters native to Staten Island we remember Joan Baez, Christina Aguilera and the photographer Alice Austen, that lived in the island and whose house (well-known col name of "Clear Comfort") was declared in 1976 place of historical interest national (National Historic Landmark).