Neighborhoods of New York City

The Neighborhoods of New York City are located within "The Five Boroughs".

Boroughs

New York City, officially the "City of New York", comprises "The Five Boroughs" and is divided into 59 community districts. Throughout the boroughs there are hundreds of distinct , many with a definable history and character all their own. If the boroughs were independent cities, each would be among the 50 most populous cities in the United States.

*Manhattan (New York County, pop. 1,593,200)cite web|author=U.S. Census Bureau|title=2005 American Community Survey|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/acs_pob_05.pdf|accessdate=2007-01-10] is the business center of the city, and the most superlatively urban of the boroughs. It is the most densely populated, and the home of most of the city's skyscrapers. It is loosely divided into downtown, midtown, and uptown regions.

*The Bronx (Bronx County, pop. 1,357,589) is known as the birthplace of hip hop culture [David Toop (1984/1991). "Rap Attack II: African Rap To Global Hip Hop". New York. New York: Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1-85242-243-2.] , as well as the home of the New York Yankees and the largest cooperatively owned housing complex in the United States, Co-op City. Excluding its minor islands, the Bronx is the only borough of the city that is on the mainland of the United States.

*Brooklyn (Kings County, pop. 2,486,235), the most populous borough, was until 1898 an independent city and has a strong native identity. It ranges from a modern business district downtown to large historic residential neighborhoods in the central and south-eastern areas. It also features a long beachfront and Coney Island, famous as one of the earliest amusement grounds in the country.

*Queens (Queens County, pop. 2,241,600) is geographically the largest borough and, according to the US census, the most ethnically diverse county in the United States.cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/nyregion/04fourth.html|first=Michelle|last=O'Donnell|title=In Queens, It's the Glorious 4th, and 6th, and 16th, and 25th...|publisher=New York Times|date=2006-07-04|accessdate= 2006-07-19] Prior to consolidation with New York City it was composed of small towns and villages founded by the Dutch. It is home to the New York Mets, two of the region's three major airports, and Flushing Meadows Corona Park, site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs.

*Staten Island (Richmond County, pop. 464,573) is the most suburban in character of the five boroughs, but has gradually integrated with the rest of the city since the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964, an event that caused controversy and even an attempt at secession. Until 2001, Staten Island was the home of the infamous Fresh Kills Landfill, which was the largest landfill in the world until construction began to make it into one of the largest urban parks in the United States.

ee also

*Commissioners' Plan of 1811

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