17 January 2015 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, New York City
Reading Time: 11 minutesMidtown and Lower Manhattan © flickr.com – Eneas De Troya/cc-by-2.0
Manhattan is the most densely populated of the
five boroughs of
New York City. The borough is coterminous with New York County. The borough mostly consists of Manhattan Island, bounded by the
East,
Hudson and
Harlem Rivers, but also includes
several small adjacent islands and
a small area on the mainland. Manhattan has been described as the economic and cultural center of the United States, and is home to the United Nations Headquarters.
Wall Street in
Lower Manhattan has been called the financial capital of the world, has an estimated GDP of over $1.2 trillion, and is home of both the
New York Stock Exchange and
NASDAQ. Manhattan’s real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, and many
multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough.
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