Manhattan
Manhattan is the central district of New York City, with a total area of 57.91 square kilometers, accounting for 70% of the total area of New York City, and a population of 1.5 million. New York's famous Broadway, Wall Street, the Empire State Building, Greenwich Village, Central Park, the United Nations Headquarters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Opera and other attractions are concentrated in Manhattan Island, so that part of the island to become New York's CBD. Manhattan is mainly distributed in the district on Manhattan Island in the Old Town (Downtown), Midtown (Midtown), the famous neighborhoods are Greenwich Street and Fifth Avenue. Here banks, insurance companies, exchanges and large corporate headquarters are concentrated, is the world's highest employment density area.
In New York City's boroughs, Manhattan is the most important, known as the "heart of New York City". It is located on the island of the same name, covers an area of 80 square kilometers, the smallest area in the five boroughs. Broadway Street is southeast of a northwest diagonal across the island, the island's famous hotels, restaurants, department stores, specialty stores, theaters, concert halls and museums are mostly concentrated here. The central part of this district has Rockefeller Center, gathered many skyscrapers. Located in the southern part of the district on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street at the mouth of the Empire State Building, completed in 1931, the building height of 381 meters, 102 floors. 1973 and built the "World Trade Center" building, and stand two square column-shaped building, 419 meters high, 110 floors, is currently New York's tallest building. Southwest of the Central District is the "Garment District". North neighbor for the commercial prosperity of Times Square. Central District in the west, the Isthmus River, is the seat of the United Nations Headquarters, stands 39 floors of the United Nations Secretariat Building (United Nations Building); its north is the United Nations Conference Hall, south of hundreds of thousands of books for the United Nations Library. Central Park to the north of the Central District, the west side of the park, "Lincoln Center", covers an area of about 6 hectares, is the United States of America's arts and cultural centers, the world's most famous symphony orchestra, opera and ballet troupes often to perform here. The southern tip of Manhattan Island is concentrated in the City Hall and the federal, state, city and county offices. Its southeast is Wall Street, east-west, and Broadway Street diagonal intersection. The northern end of Manhattan Island is the black neighborhood of Harlem, filled with dilapidated slums. To the south of the island lies the small island of Coney, separated only by a narrow waterway, one of the areas thought of for holiday trips.
Northeast of Manhattan across the narrow Harlem River is the Bronx, an area of about 140 square kilometers. Three sides of the water, west through the Haarlem River through the Hudson River, south across the East River with Long Island, east of the Long Island Sound. Only the north connected to the mainland, is the only district in New York on the mainland. There is a large-scale modern train passenger and freight stations, industry and commerce are very developed.