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Villages of Lower Manhattan and Midtown Manhattan
TheOlympics posted a City Journal entry in New York City A City Journal
In this update i'll show my take on areas based on Midtown and the Villages and neighborhoods just north of Little Italy "NOLITA, SOHO, NOHO, Greenwich Village, West Village, Alphabet City" City Lights Spark a New York Night....Nighttime shots of Midtown and the Villages. Empire State Building the festive lights representing various seasons of the year. Electrical hours at Madison Square Garden as taxis bustle through the streets below. I wonder who pays the electric bill for this place A energetic and beautiful night around Washington Sq. Park. 240 Centre Street, formerly the New York City Police Headquarters building, between Broome and Grand Streets in the Nolita neighborhood Nighttime view of the Dyer Avenue access to the Lincoln Tunnel which links Manhattan and New Jersey. The Sun Rises on the East starting the beat of a New York Day. SoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan which refers to the area being "South of Houston Street. The neighborhood is full of historical Cast Iron building, artists' lofts and art galleries . The area is known for its variety of trendy upscale boutiques, national and international chain store outlets and shops. Greenwich Village and West Village Referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan. Its subsection West Village has one of the most expensive residential property sale prices among the country. In the 20th century, Greenwich Village was known as an artists' haven, the Bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and '60s counterculture movements. "The Village" is roughly centered on Washington Square Park. Greenwich Village contains Washington Square Park, as well as two of New York's private colleges, New York University (NYU) and the New School. Washington Square Park is a 9.75-acre (Approx 40,000 sq. Meters) public park with an open space, dominated by the Washington Square Arch at the northern gateway to the park. Washington Square Arch standing 77 feet (23 m) high was completed in 1892 over a hundred years ago. The arch is constructed of white Tuckahoe marble, and was conceived by Stanford White who imitated a Roman Trumphal Arch, iconic monuments Roman Emperors built throughout the empire to celebrate a victory or event. If you look north through the Arch down 5th ave, you'll see a portrait style view of the Empire State Building, looking south the World Trade Center. NYU is the largest independent research university in the United States. NYU is organized into 25 schools, including 10 undergraduate school and numerous graduate schools. NYU's campus includes more than 171 buildings spread between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Most of the school's buildings in Manhattan are located within the area bounded by Houston Street to the south, Broadway to the east, 14th Street to the north, and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the west. Hudson Square is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, approximately bounded by Clarkson Street to the north, Canal Street to the south, Varick Street to the east and the Hudson River to the west. To the north of the neighborhood is Greenwich Village, to the south is TriBeCa, and to the east are the South Village and SoHo. The area once was known as the Printing District, and modernly a center of media-related activity, including advertising, design, communications, and the arts. NOLITA is the acronym describing the area north of Little Italy, and is a neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. The neighborhood bounds east of SoHo, south of NoHo, west of the Lower East Side, and north of Little Italy and Chinatown. The neighborhood was long regarded as part of Little Italy, but the Italian immigrant population declined in recent decades due to increase in rents. Parts of the Movie Godfather III was filmed in the neighborhood in particular the Feast of San Gennaro, which in real-life is held in the neighborhood every year following Labor Day, on Mulberry Street between Houston and Grand Street. Below is the Old NYPD police headquarters and surrounding area in the daytime in the NoLita neighborhood. NoHo describes the area north of Houston Street and is a neighborhood full of primarily residential upper-class. It is bounded by Mercer Street to the west and the Bowery to the east, and from East 9th Street in the north to East Houston Street in the south. The East Village is a neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is roughly defined as the area east of the Bowery and Third Avenue, between 14th Street on the north and Houston Street on the south. The East Village contains three subsections: Alphabet City and Bowery located around the street of the same name. The Alphabet City neighborhood got its name from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names. It is bordered by Houston Street to the south and by 14th Street to the north, along the traditional northern border of the East Village and south of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. Moving north towards Midtown is the Flatiron District which is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, named after the Flatiron Building at 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue. The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-story, tall steel-framed landmarked building located at 175 5th Avenue. Its construction was completed in 1902 and it became one of the world's most iconic skyscrapers and a quintessential symbol of New York City. The Flatiron District is bounded by 14th Street, Union Square and Greenwich Village to the south; the Avenue of the Americas "6th Avenue" and Chelsea to the west; 23rd Street and Madison Square "or NoMad" to the north; and Park Avenue South and Gramercy Park to the east. Midtown Manhattan is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building. The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of the state of New York. The Empire State Building stood as New York City's tallest skyscraper until the construction of the World Trade Center in 1970. The area south of the Empire State Building is Koreatown or K-Town, and is an ethnic Korean enclave in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, centered on West 32nd Street between Madison Avenue and the intersection with Sixth Avenue and Broadway, which is known as Greeley Square. The greater area around is classified as the Garment District, also known as the Garment Center, the Fashion District, or the Fashion Center. The dense concentration of fashion-related uses give the neighborhood its name home to many of New York City's showrooms and to numerous major fashion labels. Madison Square Gardens known as The Garden or in initials as MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City. Located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station. Home to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), it is in close proximity to other midtown Manhattan landmarks, including the Empire State Building, Koreatown, and Macy's at Herald Square. The James A. Farley Building is located across the street on the westside, which serves as the main United States Postal Service building in New York City. One Penn Plaza is the tallest building in the Pennsylvania Plaza complex of office buildings, hotels, and entertainment facilities. It is the tallest building in the Pennsylvania Plaza complex of office buildings, hotels, and entertainment facilities. Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The district's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described as near the upper 20s or 34th Street, the next major crosstown street to the north. The neighborhood is primarily residential, with a mix of tenements, apartment blocks, city housing projects, townhouses, and renovated rowhouses, but its many retail businesses reflect the ethnic and social diversity of the population. North of Chelsea is the southern boarder of the Hell's Kitchen, sometimes known as Clinton. Hell's Kitchen is a neighborhood west of Midtown Manhattan. It is traditionally considered to be bordered by 34th Street to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. Until the 1970s, Hell's Kitchen was a bastion of poor and working-class Irish Americans. Though its gritty reputation had long held real-estate prices below those of most other areas of Manhattan, by 1969, the City Planning Commission's Plan for New York City reported that development pressures related to its Midtown location were driving people of modest means from the area. By the early 1990s into the 2000s the area began gentrifying, and rent was on the rise. Hudson Yards is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan, bounded roughly by 30th Street in the south, 43rd Street in the north, the West Side Highway in the west, and Eighth Avenue in the east. The term "Hudson Yards" is used to refer to the MTA rail yards along the Hudson River between 30th Street and 34th Street. "The West Side rail yard pre-development of the giant glass shard irregular space base Dubai looking condos and shopping center over the eastern portion of the yard." The Tunnels of Midtown: The Queens–Midtown Tunnel (also sometimes called the Midtown Tunnel) is one of the various passages that connect the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens. The west end of the tunnel is located on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, while the east end of the tunnel is located in Long Island City in Queens. The tunnel carries Interstate 495 (I-495), the Long Island Expressway, for its entire length; I-495's western terminus is at the Manhattan portal of the tunnel. It's development began in the 1920s and opened for traffic in the fall of 1940. The Lincoln Tunnel is an approximately 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey, to the west with Midtown Manhattan in New York City to the east. Named after Abraham Lincoln, the tunnel consists of three vehicular tubes of varying lengths, with two traffic lanes in each tube. The center tube contains reversible lanes, while the northern and southern tubes exclusively carry westbound and eastbound traffic, respectively. By the Spring of 1957 the construction of the tunnel was completely finished. " Manhattan 36th Street and Dyer Avenue Access"- 8 Comments
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