New York City guides, New York City, NY (45)

Peter Stuyvesant founded Stuyvesant, Peter the settlement Nieuw Haarlem (named after the Dutch city) in a hilly area in 1658, and it kept its rural ... more

A Chinatown is a section of an urban area with a large number of Chinese outside the majority-Chinese countries of Greater China. Chinatowns occur ... more

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Brooklyn Heights (subway: High St.) stretches out at the mouth of the East River, between Brooklyn Bridge and Atlantic Avenue. This neighbourhood ... more

For decades, the Lower East Side was a kind of immigrant ghetto, ground zero for poor and working-class families trying to achieve their American ... more

Though mullets and neon clothing are things of the past in other parts of the world, they are alive and well in this little hipster heaven in Brooklyn ... more

When the village of Greenwich was founded in 1696, it lay far outside the city. By 1811, when the chessboard-like street grid of Manhattan was adopted ... more