City That Never Wakes:Map

New York City

New York City is divided into 5 boroughs - Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Manhattan is the smallest and most densely populated borough.
Manhattan is home to Central Park, a large dedicated green space designed such that from certain parts of the park the city - with all its skyscrapers - is not even visible. While on the surface, Central Park would be an excellent feeding ground, the werewolves of New York as fiercely protective of the park, and even meeting in the park is considered to be something done at great personal risk.
The Upper East Side of Manhattan, sometimes known as the Silk Stocking district, is the most affluent neighborhood in New York.
The Upper West Side of Manhattan is currently heavy in immigrants, primarily from Eastern Europe and especially Jews who were affluent enough to escape the Holocaust. The neighborhood is seeing significant economic and social growth, but is still far from the powerful commercial district it will become in the late 20th century.
Harlem's black population has peaked, as has its crime and poverty. The fact that it shares a borough with one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in New York stands as, perhaps, a bizarre paradox.
In the Turtle Bay neighborhood, one can find the United Nations headquarters, finished just a year ago in 1952. There are, to date, some 60 missions to the United States in and around the United Nations.

Staten Island is the least dense of the boroughs, and is largely suburban, with a population of less than 200,000.
Travel to and from the island can be accomplished by the Staten Island Ferry, a free commuter ferry that runs every 30 minutes during peak hours (and typically hourly even during low times).
Great Kills Park, a beach on the island's salt marshes, opened in 1950.
Fresh Kills Landfill, New York's largest landfill, is operated here. Originally meant to be a temporarily landfill, it is now the principal waste disposal location for the majority of the state, with no end in sight.

Brooklyn (Kings County) is, at this time, the most densely populated county in the United States.
Like Manhattan, Brooklyn has its own Chinatown. Unlike Manhattan, its Chinatown is less of a commercial endeavor and more of an ethnic enclave.
Brooklyn is home to numerous ethnic enclaves representing multiple cultures from every populated continent on the globe.
Orthodox and Hasidic Jews are found in great number in Brooklyn (as opposed to more secular Jewish enclaves of the Upper West Side)
The Navy Yard in Brooklyn launched the majority of ships used as transports in the Western Front during the Second World War.
Coney Island Amusement Park can be found in Brooklyn (and is rumored to be absolutely INFESTED with faeries).
Green-Wood Cemetery, where many notable New Yorkers have been buried, has a set of ornate gates that are said to have significant resonance with the underworld; local Dragons and Witches have been known to perform minor rituals there, to the begrudging tolerance of the Sanctum.
Brooklyn Law School has permitted both women and non-whites to enroll since 1901, and remains diverse to this day.

Yankee Stadium, opened in 1929, is home of the famous New York Yankees baseball team, and forms a central feature of the cityscape.
"White flight" from the West Bronx tenement halls to East Bronx hi-rises has left the neighborhood a shell of what it once was, reeling economically and socially from the exodus.
The majority religion in the Bronx is Roman Catholic; the Archdioceses of New York is located in the Bronx, and a large number of both primary schools and colleges in the Bronx are Roman Catholic (frequently of Jesuit heritage).
Edgar Allen Poe spent the last years of his life at Poe Cottage located in the Bronx. Ghost seekers of many persuasions are known to peek around the area in hopes of catching an errant specter still feeding on its resonance.
Ogden Nash wrote a famous two-line poem about the Bronx: "The Bronx / No Thonx"; pretty much how most New Yorkers still feel about the borough.
The Bronx Zoo is the world's largest metropolitan zoo.

Queens is not as rich in diversity among ethnic enclaves as Brooklyn, but still has several notable ethnic neighborhoods such as Little Egypt and its own Chinatown.
Rapid gentrification is rampant in the historic Long Island City neighborhood, bringing economic prosperity at the expense of livability.
The Clay Club, a not-for-profit arts exhibition center, is dedicated to experimentation and progress within the modern arts of sculpture.
Kennedy and LaGuardia Airports are both located in Queens

The Eisenhower Interstate Highway System has not yet been championed - it will be created in 1956.
Since the end of WWII, the Civil Rights Movement, focusing largely on women and black people, has been making general slow steady progress. Brown v. Board of Education is currently tabled in the Supreme Court, scheduled to be resolved in Autumn.