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4146 - Manhattan, New York, United States

The sender lives in uptown Manhattan which has a rich and cultured history. Harlem is found in uptown Manhattan and was the centre of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in uptown Manhattan is considered the birthplace of the modern gay-rights movement in 1969. Upper Manhattan.

Manhattan is home to almost 1.7 million people and is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City, with almost 29 000 people per km2 . 

The sender says their house supports the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (Manhattan is home to the New York Rangers), the San Antonio Spurs (Manhattan is home to the New York Knicks), and New York City Football Club (who will be playing at Etihad Park in Queens, New York, when the stadium is finished). 



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