Manhattan Community Board 8

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Manhattan Community District 8
Community District

Country	United States
State	New York
City	New York City
Borough	Manhattan
Neighborhoods	Upper East Side including Carnegie Hill Lenox Hill Roosevelt Island Yorkville
Government
• Chairperson	Russell Squire
• District Manager	Will Brightbill
Area
• Land	2 sq mi (5 km²)
Population (2010)
• Total	219,920
Ethnicity
• Hispanic	9.7%
• African-American	2.3%
• White	75.3%
• Asian	10.2%
• Others	2.5%
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	10021, 10028, 10044, 10065, 10075, and 10128
Area code	212, 646, and 332, and 917
Police Precinct	19th (website)
Website	www.cb8m.com
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The Manhattan Community Board 8 is a New York City community board encompassing the Upper East Side, including the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Roosevelt Island in the borough of Manhattan. It is delimited by the East River on the east, 59th Street on the south, Central Park on the west and 96th Street on the north.

Its current Chair is Russell Squire and its District Manager is Will Brightbill.^[4]

Demographics

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As of 2000, the Community Board had a population of 217,063, up from 210,880 in 1990 and 204,305 in 1980. Of them (as of 2000), 179,355 (82.6%) were White non-Hispanic, 6,907 (3.2%) were African-American, 13,778 (6.3%) Asian or Pacific Islander, 126 (0.1%) American Indian or Native Alaskan, 618 (0.3%) of some other race, 3,952 (1.5%) of two or more races, 3,253 (6.0%) of Hispanic origins. 4.8% of the population benefitted from public assistance as of 2009, up from 2.8% in 2000.^[5]

The land area is 1,267 acres, or 2 square miles (5.2 km²).^[5]

References

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^ "NYC Community District Profiles". communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
^ "mn08_profile.pdf" (PDF). docs.google.com. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
^ "Manhattan Boards". Retrieved October 9, 2021.
^ "Board Members - New York, Manhattan, and Roosevelt Island".
^ ^a ^b "Manhattan Community Board 8 Profile" (PDF). The City of New York. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2011.

External links

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Community Board 8 - Official Website

v t e Community boards of New York City
The Bronx	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Brooklyn	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Manhattan	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Queens	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Staten Island	1 2 3

v t e Neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan
Lower Manhattan below 14th St (CB 1, 2, 3)	Alphabet City Battery Park City Bowery Chinatown Civic Center Cooperative Village Dimes Square East Village Essex Crossing Financial District Greenwich Village Hudson Square Little Australia Little Fuzhou Little Italy Loisaida Lower East Side Meatpacking District NoHo Nolita SoHo South Street Seaport South Village Tribeca Two Bridges West Village World Trade Center
Midtown Manhattan (CB 5)	Columbus Circle Diamond District Flatiron District Garment District Herald Square Koreatown Madison Square Midtown South NoMad Silicon Alley Theater District Times Square
West Side (CB 4, 7)	Chelsea Hell's Kitchen Hudson Yards development Lincoln Square Manhattan Valley Penn South Pomander Walk Riverside South Upper West Side
East Side (CB 6, 8)	Carnegie Hill Gramercy Park Kips Bay Lenox Hill Murray Hill Peter Cooper Village Rose Hill Stuyvesant Square Stuyvesant Town Sutton Place Tudor City Turtle Bay Union Square Upper East Side Waterside Plaza Yorkville
Upper Manhattan above 110th St (CB 9, 10, 11, 12)	Astor Row East Harlem Fort George Hamilton Heights Harlem Hudson Heights Inwood Le Petit Senegal Manhattanville Marble Hill (Bx CB 8) Mount Morris Park Morningside Heights Sugar Hill Sylvan Washington Heights
Islands	Ellis Island (CB 1) Governors Island (CB 1) Liberty Island (CB 1) Randalls Island (CB 11) Roosevelt Island (CB 8) Wards Island (CB 11)
Former	Five Points (CB 3) Gas House District (CB 6) Jones's Wood (CB 8) Ladies' Mile (CB 5) Little Germany (CB 3) Little Spain (CB 4) Little Syria (CB 1) Manhattantown (CB 7) Radio Row (CB 1) San Juan Hill (CB 7) Seneca Village Tenderloin (CB 4) Yiddish Theatre District (CB 3)
Community boards: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Joint interest area: 64 (Central Park)

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