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Manhattan.
Manhattan is the name of an island in the mouth of the Hudson River in the north of the Port of New York and also one of the five boroughs that make up New York City.
The metropolitandistrict has the same boundaries as the county of New York and includes the island of Manhattan and several smaller islands, apart from a small portion of mainland Marble Hill, which is geographicallyin the Bronx, but politically belongs to the County New York. In 2008, the population was 1,634,795 people. New York County is the smallest area of the city.
The Empire State Building, the ChryslerBuilding, Rockefeller Center, the theater district around Broadway, Columbia University, the financial center around Wall Street, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Harlem, the American Museum ofNatural History, and also the World Trade Center, is very important since eleven years ago the Twin Towers were destroyed because of the September 11 attacks of 2001.Chinatown and Central Park are alllocated on this densely populated island.
Apart from Times Square, Fifth Avenue where much of the commercial activity, the Metropolitan Museum or the gold standard in modern art, the MOMA and theManhattan The name comes from the language of the original inhabitants of the area. The story features a popular interpretation that emphasizes how this island was purchased by Dutch settlers to thenatives for $ 24 on May 24, 1626 and the establishment of some 30 Jewish families Netherlands two years later, coming from Brazil, when Holland returned it Portugal's South American colony which had lostfive decades ago, and founded the town of New Amsterdam where now the downtown. This city became the capital of the territory of New Netherlands, Dutch colony of brief existence. In 1664 went to theBritish administration following a relatively weak strength of the Dutch, in part due to public discontent with Governor Peter Stuyvesant.adison Square Garden in Penn Plaza.
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