The Upper West Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by Central Park on the east, the Hudson River on the west, West 59th Street to the south, and West 110
The Upper West Side and Central Park as seen from the Top of the Rock observatory at Rockefeller Center. In the background to the west are the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge.
Verdi Square at the intersection of Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. The 72nd Street subway station on the 1, 2, and 3 trains is in the center of the square.
A typical midblock view on the Upper West Side consisting of 4- and 5-story brownstones
A 1907 drawing of how the Apthorpe Mansion looked in 1790...
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state
New Amsterdam, centered in what eventually became Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it New York
Statue of George Washington in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street, where in 1789 he was sworn in as the first U.S. president.
Manhattan's Little Italy on the Lower East Side, c. 1900