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New York's Manhattan, the core of the big apple

Bound by the Hudson River in the west, the East River to the east and the Harlem River to the north, Manhattan Island is the commercial, financial and cultural centre of New York City, squashed in to a compact 22 square miles. Manhattan is loosely divided into the downtown, midtown and uptown regions, with the central 5th Avenue marking the divide between east and west side.

Some Manhattan neighbourhoods, such as SoHo (South of Houston), are commercial in nature and known for upscale shopping. Others, such as the Lower East Side and East Village, have long been associated with the city's Bohemian subculture. Chelsea is a neighbourhood with a large gay population and is also a centre of New York's art industry and nightlife.

There is much cultural diversity in Manhattan; Washington Heights is a vibrant neighbourhood of immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Chinatown supports the largest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. The Upper West Side is often characterized as more intellectual and creative in contrast to the old money and conservative values of the Upper East Side, which is one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the entire United States.

If you’re a lover of art, Manhattan offers some of the most extensive art collections in the world, both contemporary and historical, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum. For more off-beat and quirky art, the downtown neighborhood of Chelsea is the perfect place to visit. Widely known for its galleries and cultural events, there are more than 200 art galleries that display modern art from upcoming artists as well as more established favorites.

Manhattan's Broadway is often considered the highest form of professional theatre in the United States and stage plays and musicals can be seen in any one of the 39 professional theatres, almost all of which are located in and around Times Square. A little more than a mile from Times Square is the Lincoln Center, home to one of the world's most prestigious opera venues: the Metropolitan Opera House.

As the most popular part of the United States to visit, there are hundreds of hotels in New York, and plenty to choose from in Manhattan. Manhattan's exotic mix of neighbourhoods that include the Upper East Side, Chinatown, SoHo, Little Italy, Chelsea and Harlem, deliverer a diverse and pulsating mixture of history, culture and shopping, which will continue to attract visitors from all over the world for many years to come.

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Andrew Regan is a freelance online journalist.

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