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[VIDEO] 11 Richest Neighborhoods in New York City
If you only know New York City as the city that never sleeps, a place of towering skyscrapers, or as a popular tourist destination, then sadly you don’t know New York all that well.
Our topic today is on New York City, one of the most booming metropolitan areas on the east coast, as well as one of the most affluent.
Otherwise known as the Big Apple, this vast metropolis of 8.4 million people includes the 5 boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
Yes, there’s big money here. And what better way for us to showcase New York’s wealth than by zooming in on some of its big money neighborhoods.
So without further ado, here are the 11 richest neighborhoods in New York City.
This Vintage Illustrated Map Shows Birds-Eye View of Manhattan From Hoboken in 1876
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Digital Commonwealth
Created by T. Sulman and Robert Loudan in 1876, this vintage illustrated map shows a birds-eye view of Lower Manhattan as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey. Zooming in to the full version, you can see many pieces of the City that are still here today such as Trinity Church, Bellevue Hospital, and Union, Madison and Tomkins Square Parks.
New York : From Bergen Hill, Hoboken. Extra supplement to the Ilustrated London News, August 18, 1876. Bird's-eye view of New York, New York, showing Battery Park on the right and Central Park on the left; also visible are the foundations for the Brooklyn Bridge.
Check out the specimen page on Digital Commonwealth for more info on the map.