New York area questions?

Best Answer: Okay. Time for another geography lesson:

There are many cities in NY State - New York City (also written as NYC) is one of them.

NYC is made up of 5 political units called "boroughs". The 5 boroughs that make up NYC are:

Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens
The Bronx
Staten Island


Each borough contains many informal divisions called "neighborhoods". The Upper East Side and the Upper a West Side are two neighborhoods in Manhattan. They are called this because the are on either side of Central Park. There is also a neighborhood called the Lower East Side, but there is no Lower West Side. The terms "Upper" and "Lower" come from the fact that, in Manhattan, we use "Uptown" to indicate "north" and Downtown" to indicate "south". In other words, it's a direction.

And there are many other neighborhoods in Manhattan as well, like Chelsea or Gramercy Park or Harlem or Washington Heights. There are several others I haven't mentioned here. Since the concept of "neighborhood" is an informal concept, not a political designation, people disagree about the boundaries or the names of neighborhoods sometimes.

And the other boroughs each have many neighborhoods as well. In Brooklyn, a few of the neighborhoods are: Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg, Bed-Stuy (short for Bedford-Stuyvesant,) and Crown Heights. In Queens a few neighborhoods are: Astoria, Long Island City, Elmhurst, and Flushing. In the Bronx, some neighborhoods are: Mott Haven, Riverdale, Fieldstone. In Staten Island some neighborhoods are: St. George, Todt Hill, Stapleton Heights.

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It is quite obvious that you do not like or do not use your computer. Using Wikipedia or google or yahoo, you could have found the answers to all your questions in less than 15 minutes. For your information, as already stated Manhattan is an island, surrounded by two rivers and as indicated is one of the five boroughs (districts) that make up the city of New York. It is very narrow and runs from north to south. So the left side is called the west side and the right side is the east side. The upper part is called either upper west side or upper east side. It is so easy to learn.

New York City consists of 5 sections. Each section is called a "borough". Manhattan is one of these boroughs. Lower Manhattan is the south end of Manhattan. Upper is the north end.

As for a map, just go to maps.yahoo.com and type in "New York City"

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