Where is Manhattan located in New York Midtown or Upper East Side?

Answer 1

Manhattan is in New York. Midtown and the Upper East Side are in Manhattan. Midtown and the Upper East Side are neighborhoods in the borough of Manhattan. Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island). New York City is a city in New York State.

See the Related Link below for a New York City subway map, which shows you all the five boroughs. Except, only the top of Staten Island is visible on the map. At the bottom left corner of the map you can see the northern tip of Staten Island, but the entire island is not shown, since the subway doesn't go there.

Manhattan is the long skinny island on the left side of the map. It looks sort of like a hand pointing its finger.

See the big light brown square in the center of Manhattan? That's Central Park. The Upper East Side is the neighborhood directly east (right) of Central Park. Central Park runs south to north from 59th to 110th Street, and is bordered by Central Park West to the west and Fifth Avenue to the East. The Upper East Side runs from 59th to 96th Street, from Fifth Avenue to the East River.

Midtown is the neighborhood directly below the Upper East Side. It's the East Side (6th or 5th Avenue to the East River), from 42nd Street to 59th Street.

It's important to note that neighborhoods in New York City usually do not have precise boundaries. The Upper East Side is one of the few neighborhoods that does have precise boundaries. It's also the largest neighborhood in Manhattan, along with the Upper West Side (which is on the left side of Central Park).

Many neighborhoods overlap with each other. For example, Harlem overlaps heavily with Morningside Heights (the neighborhood directly above the Upper West Side), and the Upper West Side overlaps with Morningside Heights. Another example is Koreatown, which overlaps with Chelsea.

Some neighborhoods are sort of sub-neighborhoods of each other (for example, Alphabet City is sort of a sub-neighborhood of the East Village, and in turn, the East Village is sort of a sub-neighborhood of the Lower East Side).

Strictly speaking, Midtown is the East Side of Manhattan (from 6th or 5th Avenue to the East River), from East 42nd Street to East 59th Street. But some people go by a broader definition of Midtown. Some people consider Midtown to be from 34th to 59th on the East Side, instead of 42nd to 59th. But East 34th Street to East 42nd Street is made up of three other neighborhoods (The Flatiron District, Murray Hill, and Kips Bay). By this definition of Midtown, The Flatiron District, Murray Hill, and Kips Bay are sub-neighborhoods of Midtown. That's what I meant by "strictly speaking."

You could also say that Midtown ranges further west, to 7th or even 8th Avenue. But that area is made up of the Theatre District and the Garment District. Again, by this definition, the Theatre District and the Garment District are merely sub-neighborhoods of Midtown.

Also, "Midtown" technically refers only to midtown Manhattan on the East Side (East 42nd Street to East 59th Street). On the west side, the area from West 42nd to West 59th is known as Hell's Kitchen (it's also often referred to by its new, sanitized name, "Clinton").

Even though the term "Midtown" refers only to the East Side, a lot of people say "Midtown" when they really mean Hell's Kitchen or Clinton (or, they might call it "Midtown West").