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City of New York, are located here. History and art buffs, this is your paradise.

Places that you really shouldn't go without seeing while you're in Midtown Manhattan include Grand Central Station, the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Center, the UN Headquarters, Carnegie Hall, the New York Public Library, Madison Square Garden, the Plaza Hotel, and the Museum of Modern Art. Midtown is where you really experience the enormity of New York; you could spend weeks there without exhausting all the great locations to visit.

UPTOWN

Finally, Uptown Manhattan is the northernmost section of the borough bordering the Bronx. There is not much here for a visiting tourist; it is largely a residential area that includes parts of the well-to-do Upper West Side. The most famous part of Uptown is Harlem, a historic center of African American culture and business. Though popular culture still paints Harlem as a low-income area, the area has gentrified slightly since the mid-90s and is becoming a safe, successful neighborhood still occupied for the most part by African Americans.

THE BRONX

Found north of Manhattan, the Bronx has a population of 1.3 million people. This ethnically diverse borough is known as the origin of hip-hop culture and has a diverse set of neighborhoods with varying socioeconomic status.

One notable neighborhood in the Bronx is known as Co-op City. This neighborhood is actually a single housing development, the largest in the world with almost 16,000 residential units. Built in the late 1960s at the location of an abandoned amusement park, the 320-acre site has its own parks, three shopping centers, six schools, and utility generators. A visit to Co-op City will let you have a window into a very unique way of life that can only be found in this part of the Bronx. With a relatively small population of 55,000 people, this tight-knit neighborhood has the feeling of a small town in the big city.

In the South Bronx neighborhood, construction crews are working on the new $1.6 billion Yankee Stadium. Being the home of the Yankees, the South Bronx is one of the most visited parts of New York City. This neighborhood once had a crime rate among the worst in the city, but significant improvements have been made across the entire borough of the Bronx. Still, about half of South Bronx residents live below the poverty line.

BROOKLYN

Brooklyn is the most populated borough with 2.5 million residents. Even if you took away the rest of New York, Brooklyn would

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