Manhattan Wikipedia. Coordinates 4. 04. N7. 35. 73. 5W 4. N 7. 3. 9. 59. 72W 4. Manhattan, is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace. Locally it is often referred to simply as The City. The borough is coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U. S. state of New York. Responses to Injured Worker Surevey Question 10 Would you like to say anything else about your workers compensation experience The comments have been edited for. Charlie Pierce on all this ESPN nonsense and newspapering and what not is so fantastic and Im bitter we didnt run it. Go check it out. SI. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers several small adjacent islands and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U. S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River. Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world,56789 and the borough hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world,1. Manhattan is home to the worlds two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. The Crack Team Albany Ny' title='The Crack Team Albany Ny' />Many multinationalmedia conglomerates are based in Manhattan, and the borough has been the setting for numerous books, films, and television shows. Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1. US1. 05. 0 today. Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate, estimated to exceed US3 trillion in 2. Manhattan exceeded US1,5. Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commands the highest retail rents in the world, at US3,0. New York County is the United States second smallest county by land area larger only than Kalawao County, Hawaii, and is also the most densely populated U. S. county. 2. 3 It is also one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a census estimated 2. U. S. city. 2. 5 On business days, the influx of commuters increases this number to over 3. Manhattan has the third largest population of New York Citys five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, and is the smallest borough in terms of land area. Many districts and landmarks in Manhattan are well known, as New York City received a record 6. Manhattan hosts three of the worlds 1. Times Square, Central Park, and Grand Central Terminal. The borough hosts many prominent bridges, such as the Brooklyn Bridge skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building 3. Central Park. Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere,3. Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, part of the Stonewall National Monument, is considered the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement. The City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan,4 and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the citys government. Numerous colleges and universities are located in Manhattan,3. Columbia University, New York University, Cornell Tech, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Rockefeller University, which have been ranked among the top 4. Jurisdiction. Population. Land area. Density. Borough. County. Estimate2. New York. 1,6. 43,7. Bronx. 1,4. 55,7. Kings. 2,6. 29,1. Queens. 2,3. 33,0. Richmond. 47. 6,0. Sources see individual borough articles. EtymologyeditThe name Manhattan derives from the word Manna hata, as written in the 1. Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudsons yacht Halve Maen Half Moon. A 1. 61. 0 map depicts the name as Manna hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River later named the Hudson River. The word Manhattan has been translated as island of many hills from the Lenape language. The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use New York, NY rather than Manhattan, NY,4. Cel Mai Bun Site De Download At Muzica Pentru. HistoryeditColonial eraedit. The Castello Plan showing the Dutch colonial city of New Amsterdam in 1. Manhattan Island. The area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape. Native Americans. In 1. 52. 4, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano  sailing in service of King Francis I of France  became the first documented European to visit the area that would become New York City. He entered the tidal strait now known as The Narrows and named the land around Upper New York HarborNew Angoulme, in reference to the family name of King Francis I that was derived from Angoulme in France he sailed far enough into the harbor to sight the Hudson River, which he referred to in his report to the French king as a very big river and he named the Bay of Santa Margarita what is now Upper New York Bay after Marguerite de Navarre, the elder sister of the king. It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, that the area was mapped. Hudson came across Manhattan Island and the native people living there in 1. Hudson River, until he arrived at the site of present day Albany. A permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1. Dutchfur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1. 62. 5, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam Nieuw Amsterdam, in what is now Lower Manhattan. The 1. 62. 5 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City. According to a letter by Pieter Janszoon Schagen, Peter Minuit and Dutch colonists acquired Manhattan on May 2. Native American people, which are believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Lenape,4. US2. 4. The figure of 6. Dutch Estates General and member of the board of the Dutch West India Company, Pieter Janszoon Schagen, to the Estates General in November 1. In 1. 84. 6, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 6. US2. 3. 5. 1 A variable rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty four dollars, as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York. Sixty guilders in 1. Institute for Social History of Amsterdam. Based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of 7. Historians James and Michelle Nevius revisited the issue in 2. Minuit paid would have the purchasing power of somewhere between 2,6. According to the writer Nathaniel Benchley, Minuit conducted the transaction with Seyseys, chief of the Canarsees, who were willing to accept valuable merchandise in exchange for the island that was mostly controlled by the Weckquaesgeeks. In 1. 64. 7, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony. New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2, 1. In 1. 66. 4, the English conquered New Netherland and renamed it New York after the English Duke of York and Albany, the future King James II. The Dutch, under Director General Stuyvesant, successfully negotiated with the English to produce 2. New Netherland their previously attained liberties including freedom of religion under new colonial English rulers. The Dutch Republic regained the city in August 1. New Orange. New Netherland was ceded permanently to the English in November 1. Treaty of Westminster,6. Run Island, which was the long coveted last link in the Dutch nutmeg trading monopoly in Indonesia.