Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace. Locally it is often referred to simply as "The City". The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1, 1683, as one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River.

Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization: the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, and the borough has been the for numerous books, films, and television shows. Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders, which equals US$ today. Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate, estimated to exceed US$3 trillion in 2013; median residential property sale prices in Manhattan exceeded US as of 2017, and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commands the highest retail rents in the world, at US in 2017.

1. What type of city is Manhattan considered to be?
2. What do the locals call it?
3. Is it close to any bodies of water?
4. Which ones?
5. Is it cheap to live there?
6. How is much Manhattan Island worth?
7. What does the world think of Manhattan?
8. Is the city used often by the media?
9. Which type of media outlets?
10. When was it purchased?
11. By who?
12. Who did they buy it from?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. a borough
2. The City
3. yes
4. the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers
5. no
6. over $3 trillion
7. it's the most economically powerful city
8. yes
9. books, films, and television shows
10. in 1626
11. Dutch colonists
12. Native Americans