Manhattan-When and how did it become an ISLAND?
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Borough (pop., 2000: 1,537,195) of New York City, southeastern New York, U.S. It includes all of Manhattan island and three smaller islands in the East River.Bounded by the Hudson River, Harlem River, East River, and Upper New York Bay, it is said to have been purchased by Peter Minuit in 1626 from the Manhattan Indians with trinkets valued at 60 guilders. Incorporated as New Amsterdam in 1653, it was obtained by Britain in 1664 and renamed New York City. In 1898 Manhattan was chartered as one of five boroughs making up Greater New York. It is one of the world's great commercial, financial, and cultural centres. Among its many points of interest are Central Park, the Empire State Building, the site of the former World Trade Center, the United Nations headquarters, Wall Street, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, Columbia University, the Juilliard School, and New York University. \n         Manhattan refers both to the Island of Manhattan which borders the lower Hudson River, and also to the Borough of Manhattan (one of the five boroughs of New York City), which includes the Island of Manhattan itself, as well as several other smaller islands and a small portion of the mainland (see geography). The borough is conterminous with New York County, and addresses within the borough of Manhattan are typically designated as New York, New York. As of 2000, the population comprised 1,537,195 people, but the county is geographically among the smallest in the United States with only 33 square miles (85 km²) of land. Thus, it is by far the most densely populated county in both the state and the entire United States.
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I don't know a book off the top of my head other than general NYC history, so you could try these:\n\nGotham : A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace\n\nThe Epic of New York City : A Narrative History by Edward Robb Ellis \n\nThere is this book, but I don't know it:\nThe Bronx (Columbia History of Urban Life) Evelyn Gonzalez\n\nBoth Columbia University and Lehman College might serve as good resources. Columbia has all sorts of info and documents pertaining to NYC. Go to the Columbia NYC Guide page and there are tons of resources there (link below). I don't know of any specific resources at Lehman, but call the library. The school is located in the Bronx and CUNY is a pretty good institution when it comes to New Yorkness. I'm sure they have some archive or the librarians are Bronx geniuses or something. I would give them a call. The homepage is listed below as well.
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Greenwich village IS in Manhattan. It's a district of the borough of Manhattan.
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I'm assuming you mean NYC\n\nHow big is Central Park?\n\n    843 acres or 6% of Manhattan's total acreage, including:\n       150 acres in 7 waterbodies\n       250 acres of lawns\n       136 acres of woodlands \n\nEven more info at link below:
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It was there before it was an island.
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Most of the immigrants that came through Ellis Island were European. It shifted from Northern Europeans (English, Irish, Germans) to Southern Europeans (Italians, Serbs, etc.) over time. \n\nAngel Island in San Francisco saw an influx of Asian immigrants.
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Nyc is the big apple not the big easy
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Ellis Island in New York?\nOr the Island with the Statue of LIberty; not sure if that is called Ellis Island.
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In 1867 William Seward negotiated Alaska's sale from the Russians to the U.S., and the subsequent discovery of gold stimulated American settlement. Alaska was a U.S. territory from 1912 until it was admitted as the 49th state in 1959.\n \nThe original Hawaiians were of Polynesian origin and came from the Marquesas Islands с AD 400. Capt. James Cook visited the islands in 1778 and called them the Sandwich Islands. In 1796 Kamehameha I united the group under his rule. American whalers began to stop there; they were followed in 1820 by New England missionaries, and Western influences changed the islands. While Kamehameha III in 1851 placed Hawaii under U.S. protection, a coup later fomented by U.S. sugar interests resulted in the monarchy's overthrow and the establishment of a Republic of Hawaii (1893). In 1898 the new republic and the U.S. agreed on annexation, and in 1900 Hawaii became a U.S. territory. The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941 led to U.S. involvement in World War II, and Hawaii became a major naval station. Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959.
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Coney Island as a recreation facility dates back to the 1800s.  In 1876, the first carousel was installed.\n\nDisneyland didn't open until 1955, almost 80 years later.  Walt Disney created the concept for Disneyland as an alternative to places like Coney Island which was known for being dirty and having an non-family-friendly atmosphere.
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They escaped to Cherry Hill, outer suburbs like Kennett Square, and Wilmington.\n\nThey turned into suburbanites.  Sorry.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York
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New York, but they also had large settlements in Southern Africa.\n\nChow!!
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What a ridiculous question!\n\nNo one will know that answer for certain.  \n\nIf you really really really wanted to ballpark a figure, then the first recognized city in human history was the city of Jericho, and it existed around 8,000 BC.  I really don't think they had apartments though!!!\n\nThe City of Ancient Rome had four to five-story buildings with apartments in them, but I do not know if they were the first.
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1893 - The monarchy is overthrown, and Hawaii asks America to help establish a new government.\n\n1898 - Hawaii becomes an American territory.\n\n1959 - Hawaii becomes a state.
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It was one of the original thirteen colonies, so it became a state in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was signed changing the name of the colonies to the states.  Or if you want to be technical, 1789 when the Constitution was adopted officially.
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Columbus didn't "discover" America. However, he first arrived in the Carribean islands (Cuba is not where he 1st landed though) in 1492. He didn't set foot onto what would become mainland American until around 1500.