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Downtown Manhattan

Downtown Manhattan is below 14th St at the top of the Village.

Iconic neighborhoods include the Financial District; Tribeca, SoHo, the Lower East Side; and Greenwich Village.

Winter Garden in Battery Park City, NYC (Jon Bilous/Dreamstime)

Battery Park City

Manhattan Chinatown (RR/Adobe)

Chinatown Manhattan

"Triumph of the Human Spirit" in Foley Square in New York City's Civic Center (Sean Pavone/Dreamstime)

Civic Center

East Village Spring on Stuyvesant St (Ryan Deberardinis/Dreamstime)

East Village NYC

Wall Street Financial District NYC (Antonius Surjadi/Dreamstime)

Financial District

Greenwich Village NYC (Tomasz Wozniak/Dreamstime)

Greenwich Village

Holland Tunnel in Hudson Square NYC (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

Hudson Square

Little Italy, NYC (Patrid Poendl/Dreamstime)

Little Italy NYC

Lower East Side NYC (Deberarr/Adobe)

Lower East Side NYC

Meatpacking District, New York City (Alpegor/Dreamstime)

Meatpacking District NYC

Bond St in NoHo, NYC (Pikappa/Dreamstime)

NoHo

SoHo, New York City (Robert Crum/Dreamstime)

SoHo NYC

Tribeca, Downtown NYC (Alena Kravchenko/Dreamstime)

Tribeca NYC

Two Bridges, New York City (Mykhailo Scherbyna-Dreamstime)

Two Bridges

Union Square, New York City (Sean Pavone/Dreamstime)

Union Square

West Village, New York City (Travnikovstudio/Dreamstime)

West Village


Downtown Manhattan Grew From a Lenape Trading Post

Downtown Manhattan NYC (Said Tavar Segundo/Dreamstime)
Downtown Manhattan NYC (Said Tavar Segundo/Dreamstime)

Downtown Manhattan, one of the most powerful neighborhoods on Earth, grew out of an Indigenous Lenape trading post where the National Museum of the American Indian is today.

NYC’s first immigrant, Juan Rodríguez from what is now the Dominican Republic, set up the City’s first bodega (shop) there in 1613. 🇩🇴

The Dutch set up New Amsterdam as the capital of New Netherlands in 1624. They forced Africans to build the wall on Wall St to keep out the Lenape. 🇳🇱

The English took over in 1664 and renamed the town New York. They left in 1783. 🇬🇧

And here we are. The greatest city on earth is made up of all the people of the world. 🗽


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