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Neighborhoods in New York City. The five boroughs: 1: Manhattan, 2: Brooklyn, 3: Queens, 4: The Bronx, 5: Staten Island. The neighborhoods in New York City are located within the five boroughs of the City of New York. Their names and borders are not officially defined, and they change from time to time. [1]
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south.
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south. The Five Points gained ...
Hell's Kitchen, formerly also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is considered to be bordered by 34th Street (or 41st Street) to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west.
Throughout its history, New York City has been a major point of entry for immigrants; the term "melting pot" was coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York,[9][10][11][12]making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. [11][13][14]English remains the most widely spoken language, although ...
Crime rates in New York City have been recorded since at least the 1800s. [1] The highest crime totals were recorded in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the crack epidemic surged, [2] [3] and then declined continuously from around 1990 and throughout the 2000s. [4] As of 2023, New York City has significantly lower rates of gun violence than many other large cities. [5] Its 2022 homicide rate ...
This is a list of neighborhoods in Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, United States.
The Hole is a small neighborhood in New York City on the border between Brooklyn and Queens. [1] It is a low-lying area, with a ground level that is 30 feet (9.1 m) lower than the surrounding area. [2] [3] The area is run-down, and suffers from frequent flooding. [4] It has been described as a "lost neighborhood", [3] and as resembling a border town from the Wild West. [2] It is generally ...