As of 2003[update], only 20.3% of Manhattan residents lived in owner-occupied housing, the second-lowest rate of all counties in the nation, behind the Bronx. The mayor's staff and thirteen municipal agencies are located in the nearby Manhattan Municipal Building, completed in 1914, one of the largest governmental buildings in the world. Manhattan has various colleges and universities, including Columbia University (and its affiliate Barnard College), Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan College, New York Institute of Technology, New York University (NYU), The Juilliard School, Pace University, Berkeley College, The New School, Yeshiva University, and a campus of Fordham University. New York Fashion Week, held at various locations in Manhattan, is a high-profile semiannual event featuring models displaying the latest wardrobes created by prominent fashion designers worldwide in advance of these fashions proceeding to the retail marketplace. [141][142] However, research has shown that economic factors played a bigger part in the locations of these skyscrapers. [68] In 1674, the English bought New Netherland, after Holland lost rentable sugar business in Brazil, and renamed it "New York" after the English Duke of York and Albany, the future King James II. [65] According to the writer Nathaniel Benchley, Minuit conducted the transaction with Seyseys, chief of the Canarsee, who were willing to accept valuable merchandise in exchange for the island that was mostly controlled by the Weckquaesgeeks, a band of the Wappinger. According to the original Commissioner's Plan, there were 155 numbered crosstown streets,[390] but later the grid was extended up to the northernmost corner of Manhattan, where the last numbered street is 220th Street. [229] New York City's role as the top global center for the advertising industry is metonymously reflected as "Madison Avenue". Silicon Alley, centered in Manhattan, has evolved into a metonym for the sphere encompassing the New York City metropolitan region's high tech industries,[231] including the Internet, new media, telecommunications, digital media, software development, biotechnology, game design, financial technology (fintech) and cryptocurrency blockchain technology, and other fields within information technology that are supported by the area's entrepreneurship ecosystem and venture capital investments. [304] The New York Yankees began their franchise as the Highlanders, named for Hilltop Park, where they played from their creation in 1903 until 1912. [366] Commuter rail services operating to and from Manhattan are the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), which connects Manhattan and other New York City boroughs to Long Island; the Metro-North Railroad, which connects Manhattan to Upstate New York and Southwestern Connecticut; and NJ Transit trains, which run to various points in New Jersey. [76], From January 11, 1785, to the fall of 1788, New York City was the fifth of five capitals of the United States under the Articles of Confederation, with the Continental Congress meeting at New York City Hall (then at Fraunces Tavern). Manhattan has ten City Council members, the third largest contingent among the five boroughs. The FDR Drive and Harlem River Drive, both designed by controversial New York master planner Robert Moses,[396] comprise a single, long limited-access parkway skirting the east side of Manhattan along the East River and Harlem River south of Dyckman Street. Receive the IamExpat Weekly and Special Offers from our Partners. In total, 40.0% of Manhattan's population, aged five and older, spoke a language other than English at home.[192]. The borough has seen substantial land reclamation along its waterfronts since Dutch colonial times, and much of the natural variation in its topography has been evened out.[49]. This, however, was interrupted in 2008 for the ongoing construction of a US$3.2billion water purification plant that can supply an estimated 290million gallons daily when completed, representing an almost 20% addition to the city's availability of water, with this addition going to Manhattan and the Bronx. Such activities may include the following as well as other duties as assigned; Principal Responsibilities:Integrates and configures a variety of PC hardware, operating system software and peripherals assembling PC electronic components, installing circuit boards, disk drives, mass storage devices and peripheral equipment and/or other related components. Retrieved on 2015-02-16", Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. [123], The borough consists of Manhattan Island, Marble Hill, and several small islands, including Randalls Island and Wards Island, and Roosevelt Island in the East River, and Governors Island and Liberty Island to the south in New York Harbor. [134], One neighborhood of New York County, Marble Hill, is contiguous with the U.S. mainland. [252] Midtown Manhattan is the largest central business district in the nation based on office space,[253] while Lower Manhattan is the third-largest (after Chicago's Loop). Manhattan has fixed highway connections with New Jersey to its west by way of the George Washington Bridge, the Holland Tunnel, and the Lincoln Tunnel, and to three of the four other New York City boroughsthe Bronx to the northeast, and Brooklyn and Queens (both on Long Island) to the east and south. The 1980s saw a rebirth of Wall Street, and Manhattan reclaimed its role at the center of the worldwide financial industry. [410] The bulk of the city's trash ultimately is disposed at mega-dumps in Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio (via transfer stations in New Jersey, Brooklyn and Queens) since the 2001 closure of the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island. In 1989, the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional because Brooklyn, the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island, the least populous borough, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 "one man, one vote" decision.[320]. [186] However, from 20112015 Census data of New York County, the per capita income was recorded in 2015 dollars as $64,993, with the median household income at $72,871, and poverty at 17.6%. [113], On October 29 and 30, 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused extensive destruction in the borough, ravaging portions of Lower Manhattan with record-high storm surge from New York Harbor,[114] severe flooding, and high winds, causing power outages for hundreds of thousands of city residents[115] and leading to gasoline shortages[116] and disruption of mass transit systems. Since 2010, Manhattan's population was estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to have increased 2.7% to 1,628,706 as of 2018[update], representing 19.5% of New York City's population of 8,336,817 and 8.4% of New York State's population of 19,745,289. The New York City Department of Sanitation is responsible for garbage removal. [345] The murder rate in Manhattan hit an all time high of 42 murders per 100,000 residents in 1979. [55], A permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624, with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. Financial technology (fintech) and cryptocurrency have emerged as more recent constituents of the financial sector as well as the tech sector. The Henry Hudson Parkway is the corresponding parkway on the West Side north of 57th Street. An extensive network of express bus routes serves commuters and other travelers heading into Manhattan. The commuter influx of 1.61million workers coming into Manhattan was the largest of any county or city in the country,[224] and was more than triple the 480,000 commuters who headed into second-ranked Washington, D.C.[225]. Manhattan has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world,[10][11][12][13] is considered a safe haven for global real estate investors,[14] and hosts the United Nations headquarters.[15].
Democrats accounted for 68.41% of those registered to vote, while 17.94% of voters were unaffiliated. Since New York City's consolidation in 1898, Manhattan has been governed by the New York City Charter, which has provided for a strong mayorcouncil system since its revision in 1989.
Job Description Under the direction of the IT Equipment Installation Technician II, the IT Equipment Installation Technician I sets up and tears down IT equipment in areas under renovation. Manhattan is the economic engine of New York City, with its 2.3million workers in 2007 drawn from the entire New York metropolitan area accounting for almost two-thirds of all jobs in New York City. [353], Manhattan offers a wide array of public and private housing options. [415] The Croton Watershed north of the city is undergoing construction of a US$3.2billion water purification plant to augment New York City's water supply by an estimated 290million gallons daily, representing a greater than 20% addition to the city's current availability of water. Rose Hill features a growing number of Indian restaurants and spice shops along a stretch of Lexington Avenue between 25th and 30th Streets which has become known as Curry Hill. WQHT, also known as Hot 97, claims to be the premier hip-hop station in the United States. Average winter snowfall between 1981 and 2010 has been 25.8 inches (66cm); this varies considerably from year to year.[169]. [367][368] Four multi-billion-dollar projects were completed in the mid-2010s: the $1.4billion Fulton Center in November 2014,[369] the $2.4billion 7 Subway Extension in September 2015,[370] the $4billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub in March 2016,[371][372] and Phase 1 of the $4.5billion Second Avenue Subway in January 2017. county. [152] Alphabet City comprises Avenues A, B, C, and D, to which its name refers. Extreme temperatures have ranged from 15F (26C), recorded on February 9, 1934, up to 106F (41C) on July 9, 1936. [97] In 19511952, the United Nations relocated to a new headquarters the East Side of Manhattan. Benchley, Nathaniel. Tenements were usually five stories high, constructed on the then-typical 25 by 100 feet (7.6 by 30.5m) lots, with "cockroach landlords" exploiting the new immigrants. The Order Processor is responsible for all domestic and international orders [96], Returning World War II veterans created a postwar economic boom, which led to the development of huge housing developments targeted at returning veterans, the largest being Peter Cooper Village-Stuyvesant Town, which opened in 1947. [107] Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley, emerged in Manhattan's economy. [71], Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of major battles in the early American Revolutionary War. )[377][378], The Staten Island Ferry, which runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, annually carries over 21million passengers on the 5.2-mile (8.4km) run between Manhattan and Staten Island. [376], The Roosevelt Island Tramway, one of two commuter cable car systems in North America, whisks commuters between Roosevelt Island and Manhattan in less than five minutes, and has been serving the island since 1978. "A chunk of ice twice the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland in the last two years", "An Iceberg 30 Times the Size of Manhattan Is About to Break Off Antarctica", "An iceberg 5 times bigger than Manhattan just broke off from Antarctica", "Hudson Park Draws Closer To Reality; Proponents Celebrate Approval by Albany", "A New $260 Million Park Floats on the Hudson. The Village Voice, historically the largest alternative newspaper in the United States, announced in 2017 that it would cease publication of its print edition and convert to a fully digital venture.[260]. They direct the IT Equipment Installation Technician I staff as to work priorities, and plan the assembly and disassembly of work areas. The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the world's largest parade,[293] beginning alongside Central Park and processing southward to the flagship Macy's Herald Square store;[302] the parade is viewed on telecasts worldwide and draws millions of spectators in person. [136], Marble Hill is one example of how Manhattan's land has been considerably altered by human intervention. Scheltema, Gajus and Westerhuijs, Heleen (eds.).
It is also possible to travel on land to Staten Island by way of Brooklyn, via the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. [388] Various private vehicle for hire companies provide significant competition for taxicab drivers in Manhattan.[389]. 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,[16][17][18][19] and Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization: the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.