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Manhattan

A borough in New York, coextensive with its county-equivalent — population 1,629,477 as of 2020.

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THE CITY September 21

Mamdani and Trump Advance Giant Housing Plan in Friendly Gracie Mansion Meeting

Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted President Donald Trump on Monday at Gracie Mansion, where they discussed funding for counterterrorism security and the planned Sunnyside Yard housing development, along with immigration enforcement. In a wide-ranging meeting convened by the mayor while…

Real Estate & Development
Bronx Times September 21

MTA cannot leave subway station booths empty when workers call out for emergencies, Manhattan judge rules

A Manhattan state judge handed the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 and a group of disability advocates a legal victory last week when it ruled that the MTA must no longer leave station booths empty when employees miss their eight-hour shifts due to an emergency. New York…

Government & Civic
THE CITY September 21

NYCHA Moves to Oust Die-Hards from Manhattan Building Slated for Destruction

The New York City Housing Authority has sent lease termination notices to a handful of public housing tenants who are refusing to relocate to make way for a $1.2 billion project to demolish and rebuild some deteriorating buildings in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Working with…

Real Estate & Development
Yonkers Times (Rising Media Group) September 19

Unreleased 2004 Horror Film THE WICKED to Have New York Premiere at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers Oct. 29

More than 20 years after its production, independent filmmaker Sal Ciavarello, from the Bronx, will have his film THE WICKED screened at the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers on October 29, at 8pm. THE WICKED (2004) is an unreleased horror film that was filmed locally in Yonkers, the…

Creatives & Arts
WBOI Northeast Indiana Public Radio September 19

Carnegie Deli, famous for its sandwiches piled high with meat, has reopened as a sit-down restaurant in New York City after a 10-year hiatus.

Local Business
Gothamist September 17

Swimming the Hudson River: It's a thing, but avoid the dead rats, other water hazards.

Keith Kirkpatrick, the Manhattan skyline behind him, participates in a recent URBANSWIM event, a nearly 29-mile swim around the island of Manhattan. Improving water quality has more swimmers looking to take the plunge. [ more › ]

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About Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated of New York City's five boroughs and is coextensive with New York County. Set on Manhattan Island between the Hudson and East Rivers, with Roosevelt Island and a small mainland section at Marble Hill, it is the city's historic core and its center of finance, government and culture. Wall Street, City Hall, Central Park, Times Square, Broadway's theatres and the museums of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile all sit here, alongside neighborhoods as distinct as Harlem, the Upper West Side, Greenwich Village, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Manhattan is the seat of the city government and hosts the headquarters of the United Nations.

Manhattan by the numbers

Population 1,629,477Population figure, 2020
Households & income
Area
22.66 sq mi (58.68 km²), 11.2 sq mi water
Median age
38.9
Households
778,281
Persons per household
2
Median household income
$103,931
Median house value
$1,090,500
2020–2024 ACS
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