Manhattan is the most densely populated of New York City’s 5 boroughs. It’s mostly made up of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East and Harlem rivers. Among the world’s major commercial, financial and cultural centers, it’s the heart of “the Big Apple.” Its iconic sites include skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building, neon-lit Times Square and the theaters of Broadway.
1. a room or a group of related rooms, among similar sets in one building, designed for use as a dwelling.
2. a building containing or made up of such rooms.
3. any separated room or group of rooms in a house or other dwelling:
We heard cries from an apartment at the back of the house.
4. apartments, British. a set of rooms used as a dwelling by one person or one family.
Origin of apartment:
< French appartement < Italian appartamento, equivalent to apparta (re) to separate, divide (verbal derivative of a parte apart, to one side) + -mento -ment