Manhattan is one of New York's five boroughs and is what people most often think of when they picture New York. Manhattan is actually an elongated island and includes most of the best known and most popularly visited neighborhoods, including the Financial District downtown.
Manhattan is divided by three districts: Downtown Manhattan, Midtown Manhattan, and Uptown or Upper Manhattan. Downtown Manhattan has many world renowned places such as TriBeCa, the "Triangle Below Canal Street", which is home to trendy restaurants and Robert DeNiro's annual film festival, and popular with the affluent trendy crowd; SoHo, short for "South of Houston Street", which flows north from Spring Street between 6th Avenue and Broadway and has largely evolved from 1980s urban artist colony to a fashionable, high-end shopping and entertainment district; and Greenwich Village with its coffee houses, wine bars, low-rise but high art and literary connections. The bohemian center of yore, today's Village is strongly up market (especially west of 7th Avenue) but retains its diverse flavor, with its historic community around Christopher Street and thousands of students who attend NYU. Downtown Manhattan is also home to the Financial District of New York, the financial bastion of America that is Wall Street, the World Trade Center site, and the Seaport and Battery Park. It is also a departure point for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
Downtown Manhattan is the most diverse district in Manhattan with places like East Village and Chinatown sheltering people and families of all nationalities and culture. Pockets of Ukrainians, Japanese, Indians and young professionals make it one of the most vibrant Manhattan areas. Chinatown retains its scruffy, exotic atmosphere, especially around Mott and Canal Streets. The diminishing Little Italy still exists on Mulberry Street (and comes out in full force for Italian festivals such as the Feast of San Gennaro in September), but the surrounding blocks are morphing into fashionable Nolita (NOrth of LIttle ITaly) or have been annexed by Chinatown.
Midtown Manhattan has also popular places in its midst such as Broadway, Times Square, 42nd Street, Hell's Kitchen, and New York icons such as the Empire State Building, the United Nations, and Grand Central Station.
It is Uptown or Upper Manhattan, however, that serves as home to the rich and famous. Here one can find Central Park with its lawns, trees and lakes is popular for recreation and concerts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Central Park Zoo. The Upper East Side, primarily a residential neighborhood, it remains New York City's most desired address. Museums and restaurants also abound.
Manhattan being an island, it can be accessed by limousine service, taxi, bus or by foot by means of either a bridge or a tunnel. Probably the most famous of these is the Brooklyn Bridge. If you're coming from LaGuardia Airport (LGA) by a limousine service in Manhattan, consider asking the driver to take the Queensboro or Williamsburg Bridges into Manhattan if you're going to Midtown or Downtown, respectively, and save yourself the bridge toll.
The best ways to get around Manhattan are on foot, by limousine service, by cab, or by taking the subway or bus. Driving is strongly discouraged; most New Yorkers do not own cars and the infrastructure of the city are designed for people, rather than for automobiles.
When traveling by limousine, it is best to ensure that you are using a licensed limousine service; the easiest way is to ask at the concierge at your hotel or contact one of hundreds of limousine services in Manhattan.
Maps of the New York subway system and Manhattan buses, schedules of subway and bus lines, and information about temporary service changes due to construction can be found at http://www.mta.info. Bus schedules and route maps are also usually posted on poles at bus stops.
Source: Wikitravel.org - Manhattan, New York
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