Editing Lower Manhattan (section)

==Geography and neighborhoods==
Lower Manhattan is delineated on the north by [[14th Street (Manhattan)|14th Street]], on the west by the [[Hudson River]], on the east by the [[East River]], and on the south by [[New York Harbor]]. Its northern border is designated by thoroughfares about a mile-and-a-half south of [[14th Street (Manhattan)|14th Street]] and a mile north of [[Manhattan]]'s southern tip around [[Chambers Street (Manhattan)|Chambers Street]] near the [[Hudson River]] east of the entrances and overpass to the [[Brooklyn Bridge]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.downtownny.com/district-information |title=District Information |publisher=Downtown Alliance |access-date=August 16, 2017 |archive-date=January 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130103211/https://www.downtownny.com/district-information |url-status=dead }}</ref> Two other major arteries to Lower Manhattan are [[Canal Street (Manhattan)|Canal Street]], roughly half a mile north of Chambers Street, and [[23rd Street (Manhattan)|23rd Street]], roughly half a mile north of 14th Street.

Lower Manhattan's central business district forms the core of the area below Chambers Street and includes the [[The Financial District (Manhattan)|Financial District]], commonly known as [[Wall Street]] after the name of its primary artery, and the [[World Trade Center site]]. At the island's southern tip is [[Battery Park]], near the [[Bowling Green Park|Bowling Green]]; [[New York City Hall|City Hall]] is north of the Financial District. South of Chambers Street are [[Battery Park City]] and [[South Street Seaport]]. [[TriBeCa]] straddles Chambers Street on the west side; at the street's east end is the giant [[Manhattan Municipal Building]]. North of Chambers Street and the Brooklyn Bridge and south of Canal Street is the [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown neighborhood]], home to the largest concentration of [[Chinese people in New York City|Chinese people]] in the [[Western Hemisphere]].<ref name=ManhattanChinatownLargestConcentrationChineseWesternHemisphere>{{cite web |url=https://www.introducingnewyork.com/chinatown |title=Chinatown New York |publisher=Civitatis New York |quote=As its name suggests, Chinatown is where the largest population of Chinese people live in the Western Hemisphere. |access-date=March 23, 2024 |archive-date=April 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200404164227/https://www.introducingnewyork.com/chinatown |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="fact-sheet">* {{cite web |url=http://www.explorechinatown.com/PDF/FactSheet.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050528160253/http://www.explorechinatown.com/PDF/FactSheet.pdf |archive-date=May 28, 2005 |url-status=live |title=Chinatown New York City Fact Sheet |publisher=www.explorechinatown.com |access-date=March 23, 2024}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.ny.com/articles/chinatown.html |title=The History of New York's Chinatown |author=Sarah Waxman |publisher=Mediabridge Infosystems, Inc |access-date=March 23, 2024 |quote=Manhattan's Chinatown, the largest Chinatown in the United States and the site of the largest concentration of Chinese in the Western Hemisphere, is located on the Lower East Side. |archive-date=May 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525014333/https://www.ny.com/articles/chinatown.html |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NagJFMxtkAcC&q=Flushing+Chinatown+Little+Taiwan&pg=PA104 |title=Still the golden door: the Third ...&nbsp;– Google Books |author=David M. Reimers |access-date=April 11, 2016 |isbn=9780231076814 |year=1992 |publisher=Columbia University Press |archive-date=November 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103153044/https://books.google.com/books?id=NagJFMxtkAcC&q=Flushing+Chinatown+Little+Taiwan&pg=PA104#v=snippet&q=Flushing%20Chinatown%20Little%20Taiwan&f=false |url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |url=http://geographyplanning.buffalostate.edu/MSG%202002/13_McGlinn.pdf |title=Beyond Chinatown: Dual immigration and the Chinese population of metropolitan New York City, 2000, Page 4 |author=Lawrence A. McGlinn, Department of Geography SUNY-New Paltz |publisher=Middle States Geographer, 2002, 35: 110–119, Journal of the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers |access-date=March 23, 2024 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029075400/http://geographyplanning.buffalostate.edu/MSG%202002/13_McGlinn.pdf |archive-date=October 29, 2012}}
* {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NagJFMxtkAcC&q=Flushing+Chinatown+Little+Taiwan&pg=PA104 |title=Still the golden door: the Third ...&nbsp;– Google Books |author=David M. Reimers |access-date=March 23, 2024 |isbn=9780231076814 |year=1992 |publisher=Columbia University Press |archive-date=November 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103153044/https://books.google.com/books?id=NagJFMxtkAcC&q=Flushing+Chinatown+Little+Taiwan&pg=PA104#v=snippet&q=Flushing%20Chinatown%20Little%20Taiwan&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> Many [[New York City Courts|court buildings]] and [[Foley Square|other government offices]] are located in this area.

The [[Lower East Side, Manhattan|Lower East Side]] neighborhood straddles Canal Street. North of Canal Street and south of 14th Street are [[SoHo]], the [[Meatpacking District, Manhattan|Meatpacking District]], the [[West Village, Manhattan|West Village]], [[Greenwich Village]], [[Little Italy, Manhattan|Little Italy]], [[NoLIta, Manhattan|Nolita]], and the [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]]. Between 14th and [[23rd Street (Manhattan)|23rd]] Streets are lower [[Chelsea, Manhattan|Chelsea]], [[Union Square (New York City)|Union Square]], the [[Flatiron District]], [[Gramercy, Manhattan|Gramercy]], and [[Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village]].