I Cinque Boroughs New York

Marble Hill. In origin it is treated some northern end of the island of Manhattan, while the excavation of the Harlem River Ship Canal in 1895 the separator from the remainder of the island and in 1914 the collimator of the old one run some river Harlem connected it physically with the Bronx. Nevertheless administratively still it is bound to the district of Manhattan (district 12). It includes the roads from the 225a to the 228a to W of Broadway.
Inwood. It is discussed of a residential district above all to the northern actual Inwood end of the island of Manhattan (between about the 220a road and Fairview Avenue, to the height to the overall of the 191a road). In origin it above all had inhabited from Irishmen, while at present the population is mainly of origin Dominican. The Inwood Hill Park the place is retained in which avenged the legendary purchase of the island of Manhattan from the Indian tribe of the Lenape.
Washington Heights. It occupies the blocks included between the Fairview Avenue, to the height about of the 190a road, and the 155a road. It takes the name from Fort Washington that developed an important role in the American War of independence (was taken from the English November 16 1776).
Harlem. The present inhabitants are mainly of Dominican origin, but exists also an Israeli community being derived from the first livings of the district, of origin German. Harlem. It groups the districts between the 155a road to north and the 96a road (verse east) or the 125a (verse west) to south. The original village of Nieves Harlem had been based on in 1658 from the Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant. It began its development like suburb after the creation of the first railroad connections to leave from 1831 and the building boom itself was between 1870 and 1910.
Upper West Side. To west of the Central Park, between the 125a and the 59a road, the southern limit of Central Park (in more limited sense between the 110a, you limit northern of Central Park and the 65a). It is crossed from south to north from Broadway. It am gone through from south to north from Broadway. Here it rose the village of Harsenville and the zone, with farms and residences of country taken the name of Bloomingdale (from the Dutch native Bloemendal).
Upper East Side. To east of the Central Park, between the 96a and the 59a road, accommodates numerous museums and cultural founding, among which the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the seat of the mayor of New York. We can find also luxurious and expensive residences. It includes Carnegie Hill, Yorkville and Lenox Hill.
Roosvelt Island. Long and tight island in the east River between Manhattan and Queens (on the island of Long Island). The original Indian name was Minnahanock. In 1637 it was gained from the Dutch and taken in succession the names of Varckens, Manning' s, Blackwell and Welfare, until to take the present name in 1973 in honor of the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It accommodated for long time hospitals and a prison and only recently has developed like residential district of high level.
Midtown. Manhattan is the center of city, occupied mainly from offices, towers of apartments and large hotels, above all built like skyscrapers. The heart of the commercial zone is extended between the 59a and the 40a road and between the Third Avenue to east and the Ninth Avenue to west, but the name comes often stretched until river Hudson (district of Hell' s Kitchen or Clinton, between the 59a and the 34a road) and to the east River, where it is extended besides verse south the district of Murray Hill, between 39a and 33a. Here you can find the Times Square, the Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the new cathedral of San Patrick, the Carnegie Hallway and the Radio City Music Hall.
Chelsea. To west of Broadway, between the 34a and the 15a road. The district is arisen from the residence of this name of Clement Clarke Moore, of the XIX century, then occupied from homes to rank for the high class. To the beginnings of the XX century it had inhabited mainly from Irishmen, that worked in the close harbor paths on the river Hudson. It is discussed of a residential district above all, with numerous arcades of art, and it accommodates an important gay community. You can find here the Madison Square Garden.
Gramecy, a calm residential district around a private park, between the 27a and the 14a road, to east of Broadway, the zone of Union Square and the Flatiron District (a well-known time like Photo District), occupy the zone between the east River, Midtown, Chelsea and the Greenwich Village.
Greenwich Village. New York west of Broadway, between the 14a road to north and the Houston street to south; the part to west comes considered a separate district, the West Village. Known also like The Village and, in the XIX century like the zone of Washington Square. It is treated in origin of a swampy area, that it had the Indian name of Sapokanikan and it was pontificated around 1630 from the Dutch, that gave them the name of Noortwyck. Becomes officially a separate village with the present name in 1713. To the moment of the perpendicular subdivision of the town in 1811 maintains in part its original polarimetry. Famous becomes like district of artists and alternate culture center, above all in the years 1950 and 1960. In 1969 taken motion of liberation gay movement.
East Village. To east of Broadway, between the 14a road to north and the Houston street to south, in cautious priority part of the Lower East Side, but more rapidly become a residential district of high level comes now often retained similar to the Greenwich Village to west of Broadway. It was inhabited in origin from Poles and Ukraines, recently replaced from Japaneses and from Asian of other countries.
SoHo. Abbreviation of South of Houston Street ("to south of Houston Street"), that takes again the name of the suburb of Soho to London. It is found between Greenwich Village and NoHo to north and the Lower East Side with Little Italy and NoLIta to east and with Chinatown to south. In this ancient industrial area the buildings were restored like loft and studies of artists.
Little Italy. Traditionally the district of the Italo-Americans between the east Village to nord SoHo to west, the Lower East Side (of whom to times cautious part comes) to east and Chinatown to south, to leave from the half of the years 1950 gradually was left from its original livings and alone a small area stays today recognizable.
TriBeCa. Abbreviation of Triangle Below Canal Street ("triangle under Canal Street"). Also in this case is discussed of an ancient industrial district, to south of SoHo, in which the industrial buildings were re given like seats of offices or residences, with roads bordered from shops to the fashion, arcades of art and local.
Chinatown. District with inhabitants of prevailing origin China, between Little Chinatown Italy to north, TriBeCa to west, the Financial district to south and the Lower East Side to east, of whom to times comes considered a part. The district was for big ruling time from the Tongs, a mixed one between familiar connections, political associations bound to the Kuomintang or to the Divided Chinese communist, and secretly criticized some crime, among which exploded periodically open wars and that favored an economy in big underground part.
Lower East Side. To south of the 14a road and to east of long Broadway the east River, if of it progressively the districts are detached strong characterized in ethnic sense of Little Italy and of west verse Chinatown and the east Village to north of Houston Street. It preserved to long a character of district populate and in origin had inhabited mainly from Jewish from the eastern Europe . Traditionally seat of anarchic and radical motion. It preserved to long a character of district populate and in origin had inhabited mainly from Jewish from the eastern Europe. Traditionally seat of anarchic and radical motion.
Financial District ("financial District"), on the southern point of the island of Manhattan, that includes the seat of the Bag of New York (New York Stock Exchange) to Wall Street and of the greater financial founding.