Manhattan Community Board 6
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The Manhattan Community Board 6 is a local government unit of the City of New York, encompassing the East Side of Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets. This includes the neighborhoods of Stuyvesant Town, Tudor City, Turtle Bay, Peter Cooper Village, Murray Hill, Gramercy Park, Kips Bay, and Sutton Place. The eastern and western borders are the East River and Lexington Avenue, except where it needs to go further west to includes an entire neighborhood.
Its current chairperson is Lyle Frank, and its district manager Toni Carlina.
[edit] Demographics
As of 2000, the Community Board has a population of 136,152, up from 133,748 in 1990 and 127,556 in 1980.
Of them (as of 2000), 103,884 (76.3%) are White non hispanic, 5,241 (3.8%) are African-American, 14,458 (10.6%) Asian or Pacific Islander, 123 (0.1%) American Indian or Native Alskan, 396 (0.3%) of some other race, 2,474 (1.8%) of two or more race, 9,576 (7.0%) of Hispanic origins.
5.7% of the population benefit from public assistance as of 2004, up from 3.2% in 2000.
The land area is 875.2 acres, or 1.37 square miles (3.54 km²).
