MANHATTAN, BOROUGH OF

richest and most important of the five boroughs that compose New York City, N. Y. It comprises Manhattan Island, on which the city of New York was originally founded, together with Black well’s, Randall’sand Ward’s Islands in the East River; Governor’s, Bedloe’s and Ellis Islands in the Upper Bay and Marble Hill north of the Ship Canal. The area of the Borough is 21.9 square miles. The length is about 13 miles and the width varies from 4% mile to 244 miles. No other district within equivalent boundaries has so large a population, controls so much wealth, sells so many products or handles such an amount of foreign commerce. Pop. 2,284,103. See New York Ciry.