Only Manhattan and Staten Island are on their own land masses. The Bronx is the only borough that is attached to the New York State mainland.
When people refer to New York City, they are usually talking about Manhattan. Most of NYCs main attractions are located in this borough and the majority of visitors spend most of their vacation here.
Manhattan
Manhattan is located between the Hudson River on the west side and the East River on the east side. The island is 22.7 square miles , 13.4 miles long and 2.3 miles wide at its widest point. Manhattan can be roughly divided into four quadrants(四分之一圆,扇形体): the East Side, the West Side, Uptown and Downtown. The best way to understand how the geography of Manhattan is organized is in terms of the citys street layout.
Whether walking or using public transportation, New York is a pretty simple city to navigate. This is because the city, for the most part, is a grid of intersecting avenues and streets. A street map of Manhattan looks very much like a sheet of graph paper.
The avenues run North and South, beginning with 1st Avenue on the East Side and spanning westward all the way to 12th Avenue. Streets run East and West, beginning with 1st street downtown and going as far as 220th Street at the northern tip of uptown Manhattan. Locations north of 14th Street are generally considered Uptown and anything lying below 14th Street is considered Downtown. The East Side is separated from the West Side by Central Park and by Broadway, the street below 59th Street.
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