List of Manhattan neighborhoods

This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south.

The following approximate definitions are used:

Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street.
Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street.
Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
West Side is the area west of Fifth Avenue; East Side is the area east of Fifth Avenue.

Neighborhood names and boundaries are not officially defined. They may vary or change from time to time due to demographic and economic variables.

Uptown neighborhoods

Name of the neighborhood	Limits south to north and east to west
Upper Manhattan	Above 96th Street
Marble Hill MN01^[a]	The neighborhood is located across the Harlem River from Manhattan Island and has been connected to The Bronx and the rest of the North American mainland since 1914, when the former course of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in.^[2]
Inwood MN02	Above Dyckman Street
Fort George (part of Washington Heights)	East of Broadway between 181st Street and Dyckman Street
Washington Heights MN35 & 36	155th Street to Dyckman Street
Hudson Heights (part of Washington Heights)	181st Street to Fort Tryon Park west of Broadway
West Harlem	125th to 155th Streets; St. Nicholas Avenue to Broadway
Hamilton Heights (part of Harlem) (MN04	135th to 155th Streets; Broadway to the Hudson River
Manhattanville MN06	125th to 135th Streets; St. Nicholas Avenue to the Hudson River
Morningside Heights MN09	110th to 125th Streets; Morningside to Riverside Drive
Central Harlem MN03 & 11	110th to 155th Streets; Park to St. Nicholas Avenues
Harlem	96th to 141st Streets (east), 110th to 155th Streets (central), 125th to 155th Streets (west)
St. Nicholas Historic District, aka Strivers' Row (Central Harlem)	137th to 138th Streets; 7th to 8th Avenues
Astor Row (Central Harlem)	Centered at West 130th Street
Sugar Hill (Central Harlem)	145th to 155th Streets; Edgecombe to Amsterdam Avenues
Marcus Garvey Park, Mount Morris Historical District	120th to 124th Streets; Madison to 5th Avenues
Le Petit Senegal (Little Senegal)	116th Street east of Morningside Park
East Harlem (Spanish Harlem) MN33 & 34	96th to 141st Streets; the East River to 5th Avenue
Upper East Side MN40	East 59th to 96th Streets; the East River to 5th Avenue (and 96th to 110th Streets along 5th Avenue)
Lenox Hill MN31	60th to 77th Streets; the East River to Park Avenue
Carnegie Hill	86th to 98th Streets; 3rd to 5th Avenues (centered at East 91st Street and Park Avenue)
Yorkville MN32	79th to 96th Street; the East River to 3rd Avenue (centered at East 86th Street and 3rd Avenue)
Upper West Side MN12	59th to 110th Streets; Central Park West to the Hudson River
Manhattan Valley, Bloomingdale District	96th to 110th Streets; Central Park West to Broadway
Lincoln Square MN14 (once San Juan Hill)	59th to 66th Streets; Columbus Avenue to Broadway

^ MN = Manhattan Neighborhood Number^[1]

Midtown neighborhoods

Name of the neighborhood	Limits south to north and east to west
Columbus Circle	59th Street and 8th Avenue
Sutton Place	53rd to 59th Streets; 1st Avenue to Sutton Place
Rockefeller Center	49th to 51st Streets; 5th to 6th Avenues
Diamond District	47th Street from 5th to 6th Avenues
Theater District	42nd to 53rd Streets; 6th to 8th Avenues
Turtle Bay MN19	42nd to 53rd Streets; East River to Lexington Avenue
Midtown East	42nd to 59th Streets; East River to 5th Avenue
Midtown MN17	40th to 59th Streets; 3rd to 9th Avenues
Tudor City	40th to 43rd Streets; 1st to 2nd Avenues
Little Brazil	46th Street from 5th to 6th Avenues
Times Square	39th to 52nd Streets; 7th to 9th Avenues
Hudson Yards	28th to 40th Streets; 9th Avenue to the Hudson River
Midtown West	34th to 59th Streets; 5th Avenue to the Hudson River
Hell's Kitchen (Clinton) MN15	34th to 59th Streets; 8th to the Hudson River
Garment District	34th to 42nd Streets and 5th to 9th Avenues
Herald Square	34th Street and 6th Avenue
Koreatown	31st to 36th Streets; 5th to 6th Avenues
Murray Hill aka Curry Hill aka Little India MN20 (former Little Armenia)^[3]^[4]	34th to 40th Streets; 3rd to Madison Avenues
Tenderloin	23rd Street to 42nd Streets; 5th to 7th Avenues
Madison Square	23rd to 26th Streets; 5th Avenue to Broadway

Between Midtown and Lower Manhattan

Name of the neighborhood	Limits south to north and east to west
Flower District^[5]^[6]^[7]	26th to 28th Streets; 6th to 7th Avenues
Brookdale	25th Street from FDR Drive to 1st Avenue
Hudson Yards MN13	30th to 34th Streets; the Hudson River to Tenth Avenue
Kips Bay	23rd to 34th Streets; the East River to 3rd Avenue
Rose Hill	Between Murray Hill to the north and Gramercy Park to the south
NoMad	East 25th Street to East 29th Street; Madison Avenue to Sixth Avenue^[8]
Peter Cooper Village^† (former Gas House district)	20th to 23rd Streets; Avenue C to 1st Avenue
Chelsea	14th to 34th Streets; 6th Avenue to the Hudson River
Flatiron District, Toy District, Photo District	16th to 27th Streets; Park Avenue South to 6th Avenue
Gramercy Park MN21	14th to 23rd Streets; 1st Avenue to Park Avenue South
Stuyvesant Square	15th to 18th Streets; 1st to 3rd Avenues
Union Square	14th to 17th Streets; 4th Avenue to University Place
Stuyvesant Town^† MN50 (former Gas House district)	14th to 20th Streets; Avenue C to 1st Avenue
Meatpacking District	Horatio to 15th Streets; Hudson Street to the Hudson River
Waterside Plaza	25th to 29th Streets; the East River to FDR Drive

^† Large scale developments

Lower Manhattan neighborhoods

Name of the neighborhood	Limits south to north and east to west
Lower Manhattan	Below 14th Street
Little Germany (historic)	7th to 10th Streets; Avenues A to B
Alphabet City and Loisaida	Houston to 14th Streets; the Hudson River to Avenue A
East Village MN22	Houston to 14th Streets; the East River to the Bowery
Greenwich Village	Houston to 14th Streets; Broadway to the Hudson River
NoHo	Houston Street to Astor Place; the Bowery to Broadway
Bowery	Canal to 4th Streets; the Bowery
West Village MN23	Houston to 14th Streets; 6th Avenue (or 7th Avenue) to the Hudson River
Lower East Side MN28	Canal to Houston Streets; the East River to the Bowery
SoHo MN24	Canal to Houston Streets; Lafayette to Varick Streets
Nolita (NoLIta)	Broome to Houston Streets; the Bowery to Lafayette Street
Little Australia	Mulberry Street and Mott Street in Nolita
Little Italy	Mulberry Street from Canal to Broome Streets
Chinatown MN27	Chambers to Delancey Streets; East Broadway to Broadway
Financial District	Below Chambers Street
Five Points (historic)	Worth and Baxter Streets
Cooperative Village^†	Frankfort to Grand Streets; FDR Drive to East Broadway
Two Bridges	Brooklyn Bridge to Montgomery Street; St. James Place to the East River
Tribeca (TriBeCa)	Vesey Street to Canal Street; Broadway to the Hudson River
Civic Center	Vesey to Chambers Streets; the East River to Broadway
Radio Row (historic)	Greenwich Street from Cortlandt to Dey Streets (World Trade Center site)
South Street Seaport Historical District	South of Fulton Street and along the FDR Drive
Battery Park City MN25^†	West of West Street
Little Syria (historic)	Washington Street from Battery Park to above Rector Street

^† Large scale developments

Islands

References

^ City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas – Manhattan (PDF), New York City Department of City Planning, Population Division, p. 4, retrieved July 23, 2024
^ Steinhauer, Jennifer. "F.Y.I.", The New York Times, October 10, 1993. Accessed August 23, 2021. "Marble Hill's Exile Q. Why is there a small piece of Manhattan in the Bronx?.... A. Marble Hill was originally attached to the northern part of Manhattan, but was severed in 1895 when the city deepened and straightened the waterway that connected the Hudson River to what was known as Spuyten Duyvil Creek (Dutch for "in Spite of the Devil," thought to be a reference to the trouble it took to cross it).... Around 1914, Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in and the area became physically a part of the Bronx, but it remained politically part of Manhattan."
^ "Murray Hill – the Peopling of New York City: Indian Communities".
^ "Little Armenia, New York". March 17, 2014.
^ Erika Kinetz (April 11, 2004). "War of the Roses". The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2024.
^ Buckley, Cara (June 25, 2009). "Midtown's Lush Passage". The New York Times.
^ Akel, Joseph (March 1, 2016). "A Spin Through the Flower District with Susan Orlean". The New York Times (with author Susan Orlean).
^ Satow, Julie. "'Historic' Doesn't Rule Out 'New'", The New York Times, May 9, 2013. Accessed August 1, 2016. "But although the character of the tenants has shifted, the historic neighborhood, which some call NoMad (for North of Madison Square Park) and which is bounded by 25th and 29th Streets, between Madison Avenue and Avenue of the Americas, has seen very little new construction since the Great Depression."

External links

Media related to Neighborhoods in Manhattan, New York City at Wikimedia Commons
"Manhattan Development Maps", New York City Housing Authority
"New York: A City of Neighborhoods" (map), New York City Department of City Planning (archived March 6, 2009)

[2] MN = Manhattan Neighborhood Number^[1]

[1] City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas – Manhattan (PDF), New York City Department of City Planning, Population Division, p. 4, retrieved July 23, 2024

[3] Steinhauer, Jennifer. "F.Y.I.", The New York Times, October 10, 1993. Accessed August 23, 2021. "Marble Hill's Exile Q. Why is there a small piece of Manhattan in the Bronx?.... A. Marble Hill was originally attached to the northern part of Manhattan, but was severed in 1895 when the city deepened and straightened the waterway that connected the Hudson River to what was known as Spuyten Duyvil Creek (Dutch for "in Spite of the Devil," thought to be a reference to the trouble it took to cross it).... Around 1914, Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in and the area became physically a part of the Bronx, but it remained politically part of Manhattan."

[4] "Murray Hill – the Peopling of New York City: Indian Communities".

[5] "Little Armenia, New York". March 17, 2014.

[6] Erika Kinetz (April 11, 2004). "War of the Roses". The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2024.

[7] Buckley, Cara (June 25, 2009). "Midtown's Lush Passage". The New York Times.

[8] Akel, Joseph (March 1, 2016). "A Spin Through the Flower District with Susan Orlean". The New York Times (with author Susan Orlean).

[9] Satow, Julie. "'Historic' Doesn't Rule Out 'New'", The New York Times, May 9, 2013. Accessed August 1, 2016. "But although the character of the tenants has shifted, the historic neighborhood, which some call NoMad (for North of Madison Square Park) and which is bounded by 25th and 29th Streets, between Madison Avenue and Avenue of the Americas, has seen very little new construction since the Great Depression."

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