A large neighborhood that sits in Manhattan's northernmost section, it became a major hub of African-American residences, businesses, and significant cultural development as a result of the Great Migration. Despite decades of economic struggle and a history of crime, it has begun to experience an upturn of new wealth from the effects of gentrification.
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An affluent residential area that serves as a hub for cultural and intellectual activity, especially for university students. A great many landmarks and famous locations can be found here, resulting in a market for tourism that flourishes so well it contributes to the area's reputation as one of New York City's wealthiest neighborhoods.
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An enormous park that sits squarely in the middle of Upper and Midtown Manhattan, Central Park holds the prestige of being the most visited urban park in the United States and also appears in a great number of movies, making it one of the most filmed locations as well. Many nonprofit organizations and sanctioned government institutions alike contribute to Central Park's care year-round.
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Once called the Silk Stocking District, the Upper East Side of Manhattan is the commercial counterpart to the Upper West Side's mostly upper-crust residential territory, acting as a nexus for dozens of world-class museums, art galleries and hotels. Like its western parallel, this section of the city has also been a favorite location in popular culture.
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Formally called Clinton, Hell's Kitchen has roots as a community of poor, working class Irish Americans until its distinctive urban personality begun to take sharp changes at the turn of the 1970s. Its gritty reputation gives way to consistently low property rates, and its close proximity to Broadway makes it a great home for aspiring actors.
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The largest central business district in the world, Midtown is home to many iconic buildings and landmarks and ranks as one of the most expensive pieces of real estate money can afford, with Fifth Avenue alone commanding the highest retail rates for average annual rent. An important communications and entertainment hub for the country, Midtown plays host to four major television networks.
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A somewhat upscale residential area primarily consistent of tenements, apartment blocks, townhouses, city housing projects, and renovated rowhouses whose population of people are just as diverse as the styles of architecture. Unfortunately, recent attempts to gentrify the area have caused the gap between the wealthy and the poor to grow even wider, driving a wedge of animosity deep inside what was supposed to be a rich, colorful community.
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A district of truly avant-garde flavor, Greenwich Village serves as the "Bohemian Mecca" for alternative culture, artists, musicians, writers, and socialites. It continues to be an important center of activity for many cultural movements that challenge the wider whole of American society to this day, considering its storied background with defying the grip of oppressive resistance.
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Beginning as a neighborhood of working class immigrants with prominently European ancestry, the Lower East Side is home to a strong Jewish religious presence as a result. At one point it was notorious for being a haven for radical-minded political values and increased crime rates, but the recent economic lift has stabilized the social atmosphere to a position where it is safe to engage in its rapidly-growing nightlife scene.
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At the southernmost tip of Manhattan Island sits the global seat of financial power itself, a collection of the world's most prominent corporate offices and economic institutions such as the New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank. Anchored on Wall Street, it is arguably the biggest sinkhole of money and power in the world — one will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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