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Midtown Manhattan viewed from the World Trade Center.

Midtown Manhattan viewed from the Brooklyn Bridge.

Midtown is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial buildings as Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, and the Empire State Building.

Midtown, along with "Uptown" and "Downtown", is one of the three major subdivisions of Manhattan (though "Uptown" and "Downtown" can also be used as adjectives and can take on completely different meanings in the other boroughs, whereas the term "Midtown" does not) and can be understood as those parts of Manhattan in neither of these two other regions - that is, all areas between 14th Street and 59th Street, from the Hudson River to the East River. The core of Midtown Manhattan is from about 31st Street to 59th Street between Third and Ninth avenues (this is the area most commonly referred to as "Midtown.") The "Plaza District", a term used by Manhattan real estate professionals to denote the most expensive area of midtown from a commercial real estate perspective, lies between 42nd Street to 59th Street and between Third Avenue to Seventh Avenue.

Midtown encompasses many neighborhoods including Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea on the West Side, and Murray Hill, Kips Bay, Turtle Bay, and Gramercy on the East Side. It is also sometimes broken into "Midtown East" and "Midtown West", and often "Midtown South."

Midtown Manhattan is indisputably the busiest single commercial district in the United States. The great majority of the city's skyscrapers, including most of its hotels and many apartment towers, lie within Midtown. More than 700,000 commuters work in its offices, hotels, and retail establishments; the area also hosts many tourists, visiting residents, and students. Some areas, especially Times Square and Fifth Avenue, have massive clusters of retail establishments. Times Square is also the epicenter of American theatre.

A simplistic and by no means comprehensive but general list of the neighborhoods in the greater Midtown Manhattan is as follows:

Between 59th Street to the north and 42nd Street to the south, from west to east:
Hell's Kitchen from the Hudson River to 8th Avenue, including
Theatre Row on West 42nd Street between 11th Avenue and 9th Avenue.
where Hell's Kitchen meets Central Park and the Upper West Side at West 59th Street and 8th Avenue, Columbus Circle
Times Square and the Theatre District from West 42nd Street to around West 53rd Street (according to some until Central Park at Central Park South/59th Street), and from 8th Avenue to Sixth Avenue
Midtown East from around 6th Avenue to the East River, including (going from west to east, and north to south):
The Diamond District on West 47th Street between 6th Avenue and 5th Avenue
Sutton Place near the East River between East 53rd Street and East 59th Street
Turtle Bay from 53rd Street to 42nd Street and from Lexington Avenue to the East River
Tudor City from 1st Avenue to 2nd Avenue and East 40th Street to East 43rd Street
Between 42nd Street north and around 34th Street, from west to east, and north to south:
Hell's Kitchen from the Hudson River to 8th Avenue
The Garment District from West 42nd Street and West 34th Street and 9th Avenue to 5th Avenue
Herald Square around the intersection of Broadway, 6th Avenue and West 34th Street
Murray Hill from East 42nd Street to East 34th Street and 5th Avenue to 2nd Avenue
Between 34th Street and 23rd Street, from west to east:
Chelsea between the Hudson River and anywhere between 8th Avenue and Broadway
Koreatown from 36th Street to 31st Street and 5th and 6th Avenues, centered around Korea Way on 32nd Street between 5th Avenue and Broadway
Rose Hill or Curry Hill between Madison Avenue and 1st Avenue
Kips Bay from 3rd Avenue to the East River
Between 23rd Street and 14th Street, going west to east and north to south:
Chelsea between the Hudson River and anywehere between 8th Avenue and Broadway
The Meatpacking District in the southwesternmost corner of Midtown, to the south of West 15th Street
Madison Square and the Flatiron District, the area surround the intersection of Broadway, 5th Avenue and 23rd Street.
Union Square, to the northeast of the intersection of Broadway, East 14th Street and Park Avenue South
Gramercy from East 23rd Street to East 14th Street and Broadway to 1st Avenue
Peter Cooper Village from East 23rd Street to East 20th Street and 1st Avenue to Avenue C (parallel the East River)
Stuyvesant Town from East 20th street to East 14th Street and 1st Avenue to Avenue C

Midtown also contains historical but defunct neighborhoods, such as the Ladie's Mile, along Fifth Avenue from 14th Street to 23rd Street and the Tenderloin, from 23rd Street to 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue to Seventh Avenue.

View of Midtown from Empire State Building.

Other important sights in Midtown:

Important streets and thoroughfares in Midtown:

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Air visit of 'Midtown Manhattan' in Photographs

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Neighborhoods in the New York City Borough of Manhattan

Alphabet City Battery Park City Bowery Carnegie Hill Chelsea Chinatown Civic Center Columbus Circle Cooperative Village Diamond District East Village Ellis Island Financial District Five Points Flatiron District Garment District Governors Island Gramercy Gramercy Park Greenwich Village Hamilton Heights Harlem Hell's Kitchen Herald Square Hudson Heights Hudson Yards Inwood Kips Bay Koreatown Lenox Hill Le Petit Senegal Liberty Island Lincoln Square Little Germany Little Italy Loisaida Lower East Side Lower Manhattan Madison Square Manhattan Valley Manhattanville Marble Hill Meatpacking District Midtown Morningside Heights Mount Morris Park Murray Hill NoHo NoLIta Peter Cooper Village Polo Grounds Radio Row Randall's Island Roosevelt Island Rose Hill San Juan Hill SoHo South Street Seaport Spanish Harlem Stuyvesant Town Sugar Hill Sutton Place Tenderloin Theatre District Times Square TriBeCa Tudor City Turtle Bay Two Bridges Union Square Upper East Side Upper Manhattan Upper West Side Ward's Island Washington Heights West Village Yorkville

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Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, with New York County. With a 2000 population of 1,537,195^[2] living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.
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Location: Midtown Manhattan, New York City, NY

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Nickname(s) Radio City, Showplace of the Nation
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The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, New York on the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street.
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14th Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The street rivals the size of some of the well-known avenues of the city and is an important business location.
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59th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs east-west, from York Avenue to the West Side Highway, with a discontinuity between Ninth Avenue/Columbus Avenue and Eighth Avenue/Central Park West for the Time Warner Center.
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Hudson River (Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk or Muhheakantuck)

Looking upriver from the Bear Mountain Bridge

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East River is a tidal strait in New York City in the United States. It connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island (including the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn) from the island of Manhattan and the Bronx on the
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This article covers streets in Manhattan, New York City, USA between and including 23rd Street and 42nd Street. Major streets have their own linked articles; minor streets are discussed here.
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42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theaters, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square. It is also the name of the region of the theater district (and, at times, the red-light district) near that
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Third Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from Cooper Square north for over 120 blocks. Third Avenue continues into The Bronx across the Harlem River over the Third Avenue Bridge north of East 129th Street to West
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Seventh Avenue/Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It carries traffic downtown (southbound) south of Central Park but both ways north of it.
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Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton and Midtown West, is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City that includes roughly the area between 34th Street and 57th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River.
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Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located to the south of Hell's Kitchen and the Garment District, and north of Greenwich Village, and the Meatpacking District that centers on West 14th Street.
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Murray Hill is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan that extends south from 42nd Street to meet the neighborhood of Gramercy (or Rose Hill as the northern half of Gramercy is often referred to) at 29th Street.
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The Kips Bay is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Like other neighborhoods in New York City, the boundaries of Kip's Bay are somewhat vague, but it is often considered to be the area between 23rd Street and 34th Street extending from the East River to Third
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Turtle Bay is a neighborhood in New York City, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan. It extends between 42nd and 53rd Streets, and eastward from Lexington Avenue to the East River, across from Roosevelt Island.
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Gramercy, also called Gramercy Park, is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, focused around Gramercy Park, a private park between East 20th and 21st Streets at the foot of Lexington Avenue.
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Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The Times Square area consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and
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Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Lined with expensive park-view real estate and historical mansions, it is a symbol of wealthy New York.
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Broadway theatre^[1] is the most well known form of professional theatre to the American general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows.
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Hudson River (Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk or Muhheakantuck)

Looking upriver from the Bear Mountain Bridge

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Eighth Avenue / Frederick Douglass Boulevard is a north-south avenue on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic. Eighth Avenue begins in the West Village neighborhood at Abingdon Square (where Hudson Street becoms 8th Avenue at a confusing
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Theatre Row is the popular name for a section of 42nd Street in New York City, New York. Located in Midtown Manhattan between Ninth and Eleventh Avenues, the name comes from the numerous Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theatres that line the street.

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Eleventh Avenue / West End Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the far West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, not far from the Hudson River. It carries downtown (south-bound) traffic only south of West 43rd Street, and two-way traffic north of it.
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