Downtown Manhattan is below 14th St at the top of the Village.
Iconic neighborhoods include the Financial District; Tribeca, SoHo, the Lower East Side; and Greenwich Village.
Downtown Manhattan Grew From a Lenape Trading Post
NYC’s first immigrant, Juan Rodríguez from what is now the Dominican Republic, set up the City’s first bodega (shop) there in 1613. 🇩🇴
The Dutch set up New Amsterdam as the capital of New Netherlands in 1624. They forced Africans to build the wall on Wall St to keep out the Lenape. 🇳🇱
The English took over in 1664 and renamed the town New York. They left in 1783. 🇬🇧
And here we are. The greatest city on earth is made up of all the people of the world. 🗽