It was the first act of its kind, and led to more rigorous and positive legislation, which upgraded living conditions for apartment renters on the residential Lower East Side of Manhattan. Many of these dwellings doubled as sweatshops with families living and working in them. Highlights of the law provided that "each sleeping room have a window ventilator, a fire escape, and good and sufficient water-closets or privies" for every house.
Cesspools were banned, and each new tenement had to be graded for drainage and connected with the city sewer system. Relocating to Manhattan after the completion of the transcontinental railroad , Chinese immigrants set up housekeeping in what became Chinatown. Owing to the Chinese Exclusion Act of , the only Chinese immigrants to live in Chinatown were tradesmen and professionals.
During the early s, a large number of blacks entered Harlem so that by , Central Harlem was essentially African American. The African-American culture flowered there in the s, and the area went through what was called the "Harlem Renaissance.
Although romanticized, this was a tough time for Harlem blacks. Many suffered through extreme poverty, an increase in crime, and overpopulation in slum-like Tenements. During the s, the Apollo Club opened, and the Savoy Ballroom became a renowned place for swing dancing.
Over the next 70 years, crime in Harlem skyrocketed until Mayor Rudolph Guiliani introduced aggressive policing tactics to bring the problem under control. People all across the country come and visit this enchanting Governors Island. It joins the borough of Manhattan with different rivers. The Randall Island exists in conjugation with Wards Island. It is one of the largest Islands because it comprises more than one piece of land. The average area of a Randall Island is approximately up to — acres.
There is a water treatment plant on this Island. The Plant increases the significance of a Randall Island more than any other Island. The Island comprises hospital facilities with the best medical treatments. The surrounding of Randall Island comprises all the greenery and wood structures. There are bridges in Randall Island that helps to connect with other boroughs. There is one vast gate of Randall Island. The name of the specific gate is Hell Gate. It is a separation between Randall Island and Wards Island.
The sight of these Islands is eye captivating, and people visit them for their appealing faculties. The authorities provide security and all other recreational facilities. Three rivers surround and connect with Manhattan. The rivers enhance the beauty of this island with their beautiful appearance. The connections are fascinating in their zones. The east river is a separating river. It helps in the separation of Queens and Manhattan.
The East River carries out this function through a tidal process. It joins the upper side of Manhattan. The East river surrounds this place in the depth pattern. The East River connects with Manhattan in the downward direction.
It joins the three bottom levels with this island. The tidal waves increases in depth and intensity, and water travel in the East direction. The whole river flow in the same direction and the water keeps producing waves. The ranges differ from time to time, and it reaches its maximum rate. The average tidal and depth capacity is up to 23 — 24 feet deep down the ocean. The East River has one of the highest depths of rivers.
The river moves deep down up to — feet, and it is a dangerous depth. It is a harmful depth rate, and it surrounds the Hell Gate. The separation becomes significant due to the approach to Hell Gate. The water is crystal clear, and it is safe from toxic substances.
The surface and depth of water remain clear all the time, and authorities loom after the maintenance. The government allows the top swimmers to take a dip in the East River. The Hudson River surrounds Manhattan in the form of a cover.
The water source travels in the depth around the Island. It is approximately two feet above the level of the sea. The tides of the Hudson River are high. They can reach up to 3 — 4 feet in their tiding time. Few oceans are at the rare coast of Manhattan. These oceans allow the mixing of fresh and salty water together.
The Hudson River flows through a valley. The foot 62 m high pinnacle was later added bringing the total height of the building to 1, ft m. At 1, and 1, feet and m , the story buildings were the world's tallest from until they were surpassed by the construction of the Willis Tower in formerly known as the Sears Tower, located in Chicago.
In , the Pennsylvania Railroad unveiled plans to tear down the old Penn Station and replace it with a new Madison Square Garden and office building complex.
Despite these efforts, demolition of the structure began in October The loss of Penn Station—called "an act of irresponsible public vandalism" by historian Lewis Mumford —led directly to the enactment in of a local law establishing the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission , which is responsible for preserving the "city's historic, aesthetic, and cultural heritage".
The historic preservation movement triggered by Penn Station's demise has been credited with the retention of some one million structures nationwide, including nearly 1, in New York City.
The acre 3. The park is a popular oasis for migrating birds, and thus is popular with bird watchers. The 6-mile 9. While much of the park looks natural, it is almost entirely landscaped and contains several artificial lakes.
The construction of Central Park in the s was one of the era's most massive public works projects. Some 20, workers crafted the topography to create the English-style pastoral landscape Olmsted and Vaux sought to create.
Workers moved nearly 3,, cubic yards 2,, m 3 of soil and planted more than , trees and shrubs. The African Burial Ground National Monument at Duane Street preserves a site containing the remains of over Africans buried during the 17th and 18th centuries. The Chrysler Building was the tallest building in the city and the world from — The Empire State Building was the world's tallest building from to , and the city's tallest from to The former Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were the city's tallest from their opening in to their destruction in Manhattan has served as home to the headquarters of the United Nations since Manhattan is the borough most closely associated with New York City by non-residents; regionally, residents within the New York City metropolitan area , including natives of New York City's boroughs outside Manhattan, will often describe a trip to Manhattan as "going to the City".
Manhattan has been the scene of many important American cultural movements. In , about 20, workers, a quarter of them women, marched upon Washington Square Park to commemorate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed workers on March 25, Many of the women wore fitted tucked-front blouses like those manufactured by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, a clothing style that became the working woman's uniform and a symbol of women's liberation, reflecting the alliance of labor and suffrage movements.
Manhattan's vibrant visual art scene in the s and s was a center of the American pop art movement, which gave birth to such giants as Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein.
Perhaps no other artist is as associated with the downtown pop art movement of the late s as Andy Warhol , who socialized at clubs like Serendipity 3 and Studio Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. Plays and musicals are staged in one of the 39 larger professional theatres with at least seats, almost all in and around Times Square. Off-Broadway theatres feature productions in venues with — seats. The Upper East Side has many art galleries, and the downtown neighborhood of Chelsea is known for its more than art galleries that are home to modern art from both upcoming and established artists.
The borough has a place in several American idioms. The phrase New York minute is meant to convey an extremely short time such as an instant, sometimes in hyperbolic form, as in "perhaps faster than you would believe is possible".
This term refers to the rapid pace of life in Manhattan. The expression " melting pot " was first popularly coined to describe the densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side in Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot , which was an adaptation of William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet set by Zangwill in New York City in The iconic Flatiron Building is said to have been the source of the phrase "23 skidoo" or scram, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds created by the triangular building.
The " Big Apple " dates back to the s, when a reporter heard the term used by New Orleans stablehands to refer to New York City's horse racetracks and named his racing column "Around The Big Apple. Manhattan Municipal Building. James Farley Post Office. The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street , the world's largest stock exchange by total market capitalization of its listed companies. Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a major cultural venue in Manhattan.
It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million. Manhattan facts for kids Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Quick facts for kids. Borough of New York City. View from Midtown Manhattan , facing south toward Lower Manhattan.
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