This is the New York everyone pictures: the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Times Square, and Central Park carved out of the middle of it all.
It's the most densely packed borough in the city and one of the densest places on earth. The neighborhoods shift block by block, from the Upper East Side to Greenwich Village, SoHo, and Chinatown.
The museums alone justify a trip. The Met, MoMA, and the American Museum of Natural History sit within a short subway ride of each other along Museum Mile and the park.
Heating oil is rare here. Fewer than 1% of Manhattan households used it as of 2015, since most buildings run on gas or steam.