General Information

(All addresses in the General Information section are in Manhattan, unless
otherwise indicated. See map for location of boroughs, water-
ways, harbor, main thoroughfares, bridges, tunnels, and parks; also see
map for general vicinity of New York.)

The city of New York is the largest in the Western Hemisphere and the
second largest in the world, with a population in 1938 of 7,505,068 and
an area of 322.83 square miles. It is exceeded in area and population only
by London. The metropolis is situated on the Atlantic seaboard in the
southeastern corner of New York State, at the mouth of the Hudson River.
Its extreme length, north and south, is 36 miles; extreme breadth, 16I/2
miles.

New York City, chartered in 1898, consists of five boroughs, each also
a county: Manhattan (New York County), the Bronx (Bronx County),
Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County), and Richmond, or
Staten Island (Richmond County). Manhattan, the original New York
City, founded 1626, is an island; population 1,684,543, area 22.20 square
miles. Brooklyn (settled 1636), on Long Island, was formerly an inde-
pendent city; population 2,798,093, area 80.95 square miles. The Bronx
(settled 1641) is on the mainland north of Manhattan; population 1,499,-
090, area 41.41 square miles. Queens (settled about 1635) is on Long