New York City
New York City Boroughs
New York City is made up of five boroughs, each of which is also a county: Manhattan (New York County), Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County), the Bronx (Bronx County) and Staten Island (Richmond County). Choose a borough for its neighborhoods, dining, housing, parks and transit.
New York County
Manhattan
The borough at the center of New York City. Manhattan occupies the island between the Hudson and East rivers, the most densely developed borough in New York City and the borough visitors usually picture first. It runs roughly 13 miles from Battery Park to Inwood, and its street grid, subway lines and office towers support the largest concentration of jobs in the United States.
Borough guide
Kings County
Brooklyn
Brownstone blocks, waterfront parks and a borough of neighborhoods. Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, covering the western end of Long Island and stretching from the East River waterfront south to Coney Island and east toward Jamaica Bay. It is coterminous with Kings County and is made up of dozens of distinct neighborhoods rather than one center.
Borough guide
Queens County
Queens
The most linguistically diverse place in the city. Queens covers the northwestern end of Long Island, stretching from Astoria and Long Island City across to Flushing, Jamaica and the Rockaway peninsula. It is coterminous with Queens County, the most ethnically and linguistically diverse county in the United States, and it includes both dense urban corridors and low-scale residential blocks.
Borough guide
Bronx County
The Bronx
Yankee Stadium, the Grand Concourse and the city's greenest borough. The Bronx is New York City's northernmost borough and the only one on the mainland, coterminous with Bronx County. It runs from the Harlem River north to the Westchester line, with the Grand Concourse, Yankee Stadium and large parks shaping its identity.
Borough guide
Richmond County
Staten Island
The borough of parks, waterfront and ferry commutes. Staten Island sits at the mouth of New York Harbor, south of Manhattan and west of Brooklyn, and is coterminous with Richmond County. It is the least densely populated borough, with a suburban feel, a large park system and a shoreline that runs from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to Tottenville.
Borough guide