Manhattan

« manufacturer, stood 612 feet (187 m) high until 1967, when it became the tallest building ever demolished.

[135] The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower , standing 700 feet (213 m) at the foot of Madison Avenue , wrested the title in 1909, with a tower reminiscent of St Mark's Campanile in Venice.

[136] The Woolworth Building , and its distinctive Gothic architecture , took the title in 1913, topping off at 792 feet (241 m).

From 1890–1973, the world's tallest building was in Manhattan, with nine different buildings holding the title.

During the Roaring Twenties, the same years, three skyscrapers compete under tallest building.

Currently, the Empire State Building is the tallest building in the city, and was the highest in the world between nineteen thirty one to nineteen seventy two.

The former Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were located in Lower Manhattan .

These buildings were the world's tallest from 1972, until they were surpassed by the construction of the Willis Tower in 1974.

The city is a leader in energy-efficient green office buildings, such as Hearst Tower, owned by Englishman Samuel Fox. Culture: Manhattan has been the scene of many important American cultural movements.

The Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s established the African-American literary canon in the United States.

Manhattan's vibrant visual art scene in the 1950s and 1960s was a center of the American pop art movement.

A popular haven for art, the downtown neighborhood of Chelsea is widely known for its galleries and cultural events.

Manhattan is also home to some of the most extensive art collections, both contemporary and historical, in the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Guggenheim Museum .

Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States.

Plays and musicals are staged in one of the 39 larger professional theatres with at least 500 seats, almost all in and around Times Square.

Manhattan is served by the major New York City dailies, including The New York Times , New York Daily News , and New York Post , which are all headquartered in the city.

The nation's largest financial newspaper, The Wall Street Journal , is also based there.

The four major American broadcast networks, ABC , CBS , Fox , and NBC are all headquartered in Manhattan, as are many cable channels, including MTV , Fox News , HBO and Comedy Central . The " Big Apple " dates back to the 1920s, when a reporter heard the term used by New Orleans stable hands to refer to New York City's racetracks and named his racing column "Around The Big Apple." Jazz musicians adopted the term to refer to the city as the world's jazz capital, and a 1970s ad campaign by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau helped popularize the term. Transportation: Manhattan is unique in the United States of America for intense use of public transportation and lack of private car ownership.

While 88% of Americans nationwide drive to their jobs and only 5% use public transportation, mass transit is the dominant form of travel for residents of Manhattan, with 72% of borough residents using public transportation and only 18% driving to work.

The New York City Subway , the largest subway system in the world by track mileage and the largest by number of stations, is the primary means of travel within the city.

There are 147 subway stations in Manhattan .

The MTA New York City Bus offers a wide variety of local buses within Manhattan.

An extensive network of express bus routes serves commuters and other travelers heading into Manhattan.

The bus system served 740 million passengers in 2004, the highest in the nation.. »