One of the nine commandments of fine arts survey: know Manhattan

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Manhattan's most famous sections. Commit to memory, please.

1. Harlem (center of jazz history and Afr-Amer culture).
2. Morningside Heights (Columbia Univ)
3. Upper West Side (Madonna, John Lennon, other rich & powerfuls)
4. Upper East Side (more of the wealthy class)
5. Midtown - Broadway, Carnegie Hall, etc
6. Chelsea - art, shopping, high-tech, gay life.
7. Greenwich Village - oldest historic neighborhood; once cheap housing for bohemians, today gentrified.
8. East Village - hip music & art scene - "Rent" was set here.
9. Lower East Side - center for impoverished immigrants; today undergoing gentrification.
10. SoHo - historic; art, shopping, restaurants, etc.
11. L'Italy, Chinatown - today dominated by Chinese immigrants.
12. Tribeca - fashionable historic warehouse district.
13. Lower Manhattan - original site of NYC; Wall St financial district, Battery Park, former site of WTC.

14. East R
15. Hudson R
16. Brooklyn
17. Bronx
18. New Jersey