page_title: Lower Manhattan
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Lower Manhattan / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Gezicht op Nieuw Amsterdam by Johannes Vingboons (1664), an early picture of Nieuw Amsterdam made in the year when it was conquered by the English under Richard Nicolls. Français&#160;: Gezicht op Nieuw Amsterdam par Johannes Vingboons (1664), une représentation de la Nouvelle-Amsterdam dressée en 1664, année de la conquête anglaise menée par le colonel Richard Nicolls.
context_page_description: Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in New York City. Lower Manhattan is defined most commonly as the area delineated on the north by 14th Street, on the west by the Hudson River, on the east by the East River, and on the south by New York Harbor. The Lower Manhattan business district, known as the Financial District, forms the core of the area below Chambers Street.
  The city had itself originated at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1624, at a point that now constitutes the present-day Financial District. The population of the Financial District alone has grown to an estimated 61,000 residents as of 2018, up from 43,000 as of 2014, which in turn was nearly double the 23,000 recorded at the 2000 Census.
caption: New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York".
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