New York City consists of five boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and, Staten Island. Usually, cities are within counties and there may be several cities in a county. New York is such a large city that each of the five boroughs is a county, so that there are five counties within the city.
You may be seeing three rivers in our scenery. The broad river, over a km wide, is the Hudson River. It separates New York State from New Jersey. The medium river, in some places with an elongated island down the middle of it, is the East River. It separates the boroughs of Manhattan on one side from Brooklyn and Queens on the other side. If you see a very narrow river, it is the Harlem River that separates Manhattan from the Bronx.
The only two of the five boroughs that are not separated by water are Brooklyn and Queens. There are some famous bridges crossing the water in New York City. The George Washington Bridge links Manhattan with New Jersey, across the Hudson River. Also across the Hudson River, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge links Brooklyn with Staten Island.
Across the East River, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn are three old and venerable bridges. There is the Williamsburg Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge and, the oldest and best-known of all, the Brooklyn Bridge. Further north across the east River, the Queensboro Bridge joins Manhattan and Queens.
The following scenes begin on Wall Street, in front of Federal Hall. The statue is of George Washington, America's first president. When New York was briefly the country's capital, the Federal Hall is where he was sworn in as president. Next to Federal Hall is the Trump Building. Just around the corner, the building with the pillars is the New York Stock Exchange. In the general scenes of Lower Manhattan, the tallest building is One World Trade Center.
This is the New York Stock Exchange.
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There are multiple scenes following. To see the scenes, after the first one, you must first click the up arrow, ^, before you can move on to the next scene by clicking the right or forward arrow, >, After clicking the up arrow, you can then hide the previews of successive scenes, if you wish.
These views begin at the arch on Washington Square. What is so significant about this arch is that it is where Fifth Avenue begins. Fifth Avenue runs the length of Manhattan from here and is the most important street in New York. Fifth Avenue is like the equator, except that it runs north-south, or the meridian of New York. Fifth Avenue separates streets that are east or west. For example, East 34th St. is east of Fifth Avenue and West 34th St. is west of Fifth Avenue. The address numbers get higher as you move away from Fifth Avenue. Fifth Avenue also defines the east side of Central Park, which is the large rectangular park on Manhattan.
One of the most famous intersections is Fifth Avenue and 33rd St. This is the address of the Empire State Building, and formerly "The Waldorf Astoria", as we saw in the posting by that name.
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Here is another arch. It is the entrance from the Manhattan side to the Manhattan Bridge, the bridge to Brooklyn. The Manhattan Bridge has steel towers supporting the suspension bridge. The older bridge nearby, with stone towers, is the Brooklyn Bridge. Almost all of the bridges in New York City are suspension bridges.
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Much of the East Village, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan looks like it did a hundred years ago. The first of the following scenes is where the 2015 natural gas explosion took place. With property prices as they are in New York, vacant lots don't last long and the two-story modern concrete building has since been put on the site.
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These scenes begin on what is known as the Park Avenue Viaduct. Park Avenue is an important north-south street in New York. Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue and, Lexington Avenue are adjacent and parallel to one another. The Park Avenue Viaduct takes Park Avenue around Grand Central Station. or Grand Central Terminal. The other great rail station in the area is Penn Station, but that is underground beneath Madison Square Garden. This is near the Chrysler Building, which was briefly the tallest building in the world, after the Trump Building that we have seen, and before the Empire State Building.
Remember that avenues run the long north-south length of Manhattan and the much-shorter streets run the east-west width. All are numbered but there are naturally many more streets than avenues. Some of what would be the numbered avenues running north-south have been given names, and some were added later. Park Avenue is really Fourth Avenue, and Madison Avenue is between Park and Fifth Avenues. Lexington Avenue is between Park Avenue and Third Avenue. The Avenue of the Americas is really Sixth Avenue.
This area is known as Midtown Manhattan. It is further north than Lower Manhattan, which we have already seen, but not as far north as Central Park.
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Many people would say that the real heart of New York City is Times Square. The streets of Manhattan are set up as a grid pattern. But Broadway runs diagonally across Manhattan, from southeast to northwest. The Theater District of Broadway, sometimes called "The Great White Way", is along the part of Broadway that runs through Midtown Manhattan.
Important squares and parks are located where Broadway crosses the numbered avenues that run north-south. Times Square is where Broadway meets Seventh Avenue. Madison Square is where Broadway meets Fifth Avenue. The original Madison Square Garden, an arena and sports stadium, was there but the current one is not. The current Madison Square Garden is atop Penn Station which, along with Grand Central Station, are the two most important transportation hubs on Manhattan.
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Just a short distance from Times Square, but very different, is Rockefeller Plaza. It is known for the very wealthy family by that name. This is also not far from the Empire State Building. If you see a view with people on an observation deck on the roof of a building, that is "The Top of the Rock", the roof of Rockefeller Center.
We could say that the Empire State Building represents "The Roaring Twenties", when the economy was booming and when it's building began, and the complex of buildings known as Rockefeller Center was built after the economy had crashed. The building style of this complex, as well as the Empire State Building, is known as Art Deco. Another famous place nearby that you can see is Radio City Music Hall.
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There are not only bridges spanning the water in New York City, there are also tunnels. The following scenes begin in the Queens Midtown Tunnel. As the name implies, it connects the borough of Queens to Midtown Manhattan by going under the East River. Just on the Manhattan side of the tunnel is the Headquarters of the United Nations.
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The area adjacent to Central Park, but to the east of the park, is known as the Upper East Side. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is actually right in Central Park, on Fifth Avenue which forms the eastern boundary of the vast rectangular park. There are other museums on this stretch of Fifth Avenue and it is known as Museum Mile. The following scenes begin inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or simply "The Met".
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If the area of Manhattan adjacent to Central Park, but to the east of it, is called the Upper East Side, you will never guess what the area to the west of Central Park is called.
It is called the Upper West Side. Whenever you see "Upper" in Manhattan, it means on either side of Central Park. The following scenes begin in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. You may notice that, as we go further north in Manhattan, the average height of the buildings gets lower. That means that the price of land is lower. If someone cannot afford to live in Midtown or Lower Manhattan, maybe they could afford to live here.
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The northern part of Manhattan is known as Harlem. Between the Upper West Side and Harlem is Columbia University. The most famous location in Harlem is the Apollo Theater. The reason that it is so famous is that so many famous entertainers got their start there. So many stars have gotten their start in the Apollo that maybe it should be renamed "The Galaxy". I think that Motown, during the 1960s, was trying to copy this in Detroit. I cannot control the ads that get mixed in with the scenes.
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