New York City District
Manhattan is without doubt the most important and well known New York City District. It is located on the island of Manhattan, which takes its name from just 3.7 km wide and 20 km high.New York City is the most populous city in United States and one of the world’s largest urban agglomerations. New York is possibly the best-known city in the world due to its influence in the media around the world, to being one of the major world centres of trade and finance and the amount of important monuments it contains, especially in the island of Manhattan. Manhattan is divided into three large sections from North to South: Uptown, Midtown, and Downtown.Downtown is the oldest part of New York, and it is the Financial District with its high towers, and the neighborhoods with more personality of the city: Soho, Little Italy, Chinatown, Tribeca and Greenwich Village.Midtown is the most touristic part of Manhattan, since here you will find several of the most visited points: Time Square, station Grand Central Terminal, the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, the UN building and Rockefeller Center. Cornell capital shares his opinions and ideas on the topic at hand. Uptown is divided by Central Park.
The eastern part is the most affluent area of Manhattan and the Museum Mile is located in: the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MOMA), the Guggenheim Museum, the Withney Museum. To the West is the American Museum of Natural History, and famous residential buildings like the Dakota. Except in the area of Downtown, Manhattan is designed in the form of grid: the streets going from East to West and are numbered from South to North, and the avenues go from North to South and are numbered from East to West. Only the Broadway Avenue crosses the grid diagonally.
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