Island; population 1,346,659, area 121.12 square miles. Richmond (set-
tled about 1638) is in the southwest corner of New York Bay; population
176.683, area 57.15 square miles.

The metropolitan area of New York City is the district within a radius
of approximately 40 miles of City Hall and includes parts of New Jersey,
Westchester County (N.Y.), Connecticut, and Long Island. The population
of the area in 1930 was nearly 11,000,000.

The city is governed by a mayor and a city council, the latter elected by
a system of proportional representation. A president, with certain local
duties and powers, heads each of the five boroughs. The county affairs of
the various boroughs are conducted independently of the municipal gov-
ernment.

FREE INFORMATION FACILITIES

New York City Information Center, Park Ave. and 42d St., op-
posite Grand Central Terminal; Police Department Information
Booth, Broadway and 43d St. (Times Square); Daily News Informa-
tion Bureau, 220 E. 42d St.; Esso and Socony-Vacuum Travel In-
formation Services, RCA Building, Rockefeller Center; American
Automobile Association, Hotel Pennsylvania, 7th Ave. and 33d St.;
Hotel Association of New York City, 221 W. 57th St.; New
York Convention and Visitors Bureau, 233 Broadway; U.S. Travel
Bureau, 45 Broadway; Y.M.C.A. Headquarters, 420 Lexington Ave.;
Y.W.CA. Central Branch Information Desk, 610 Lexington Ave.;
Travelers Aid Society, Pennsylvania Station and Grand Central Ter-
minal.

STREETS

Manhattan streets are laid out on the gridiron plan, with avenues run-
ning north and south, and cross-town streets running east and west, from
river to river. (See map of Manhattan.) All cross-town streets are
numbered, except those south of Houston Street and some in Greenwich
Village, where the gridiron system was not applied. The avenues are also
numbered, but include a few with names: Lexington, Park, and Madison
Avenues, and Broadway. Fifth Avenue, which begins at Washington
Square, divides the cross-town streets into east and west sections and is the
starting point of house numbers on those streets.

The designation "downtown" refers to a direction south of a given
point; "uptown," north. These terms, together with "midtown," apply
also to approximate sections of Manhattan: downtown, from the Battery
to Fourteenth Street; midtown, from Fourteenth to Fifty-ninth Street; up-
town, north of Fifty-ninth Street.

HOUSE NUMBER KEY TO MANHATTAN. To find the numbered
cross-town street nearest a given house number on a north-south avenue,
cancel the last figure of the given number, divide the remainder by 2, and
then add the key number given below. (Example: For 500 Fifth Avenue,